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The second task is to administer line-item funds for State and local 

 surveys. Special funds would be allocated to State agencies to con- 

 duct inventories and investigations of their country and urban 

 natural resources. Because there is a lack of trained ecologists in 

 the scientific community, special funds would be awarded to colleges 

 and universities for the training of specialists in ecological, land use, 

 city and urban planning. Funds would also be awarded to colleges 

 and universities for scientists to study local ecological problems that 

 would help to fill in the information in the total picture of the natural 

 resources of the United States. 



Since the beauty of our land is considered a natural resource, we 

 must develop a new dynamic conservation program that relies on 

 basic ecological data. We must not only think in terms of scientific 

 study of a wilderness area, of a grassland, or of a forest area, but also 

 we must think in terms of ecological study in our communities and 

 cities. 



In order to arrive at wise and practicable steps in the preservation 

 and management of our natural resources, including natural beauty, 

 knowledge must be obtained not only of the actual resources them- 

 selves such as plants, animals and their distribution, but also knowl- 

 edge must be obtained of the basic, fundamental mechanisms and 

 relationships of these components to each other, to their environment 

 and to man. There is no Federal agency dedicated to studying or 

 coordinating the study of the total environment including plants, 

 animals, soil, water, air, and man. An Office of Ecological Research 

 in the Department of the Interior should be established before the 

 basic patterns of our natural resources become obliterated by tin cans, 

 water and air pollution, and man's eternal neglect of his land. 



WILLIAM L. RUTHERFORD. The beautiful white oak trees of Illi- 

 nois are being ruthlessly eliminated to make kegs for whiskey pro- 

 jduction. This is only because of U.S. Government rules that 

 forbid the use of a keg more than once. Europeans use theirs 

 many times for hundreds of years. Our rule is a depression-born 

 rule to make work and has no place in today's world. The few 

 places these fine stands still exist are the few places remaining for 

 park sites. It will take over 100 years at best to regrow such trees. 



We know the extent of this problem as we have bought 4,600 

 acres of such for our Peoria Park System since August 1963. We 

 are working on much more, but the woodcutters with modern saws 



