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different states, for they should develop their 

 internal resources. The whole work should be 

 coordinated, however, by federal agencies acting 

 with the states, and some of the larger relations 

 will need to be studied directly by the federal 

 government itself. We must come to a thoroughly 

 nationalized movement to understand what prop- 

 erty we have and what uses may best be made 

 of it. This in time will call for large appropria- 

 tions by state and nation. 



In estimating our natural resources, we must 

 not forget the value of scenery. This is a dis- 

 tinct asset, and it will be more recognized as 

 time goes on. It will be impossible to develop a 

 satisfactory country life without conserving all 

 the beauty of landscape, and developing the 

 people to the point of appreciating it. In parts 

 of the East, a regular system of parking the open 

 country of the entire state is already begun, con- 

 structing the roads, preserving the natural feat- 

 ures and developing the latent beauty in such a 

 way that the whole country becomes part of one 

 continuing landscape treatment. This in no way 

 interferes with the agricultural utilization of the 

 land, but rather increases it. The scenery is in 



