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-~ 6 - I.A.S. Newsletter, April 1966 

PESTICIDES MEETING REPORTED (Continued) 
During the meeting the word ecology was used again and again. 
Ecology is the study of the interrelationships of living things with 
their environment. In pest control, ecologists advocate the 
manipulation of pest populations, using several types of control, if 
necessary, and combined with agricultural and forest diversity. 
There is an increased emphasis on long range problems, as 
well as immediate ones, There is a greater awareness that we must not 
damage the good done by beneficial insects, that routine treatments 
should be avoided, equipment must be more efficient, and application of 
pesticides more precise, We must shake ourselves out of the "apathy," 
as one speaker called it, which has prevailed in the chemical control 
approach, 
All in all, the whole picture looks vastly improved. It is 
my opinion that ecology is becoming the most important word in the 
concept of pest control, and this is as it should have been all along. 
-- Mrs, Arthur M, Jens, Jr., Chm., Pesticides Committee. 
Ho te ee OH 
The November, 1965 Report of the Environmental Pollution 
Panel of the President's Science Advisory Committee, entitled "Restoring 
the Quality of Our Environment," may be obtained from the Government 
Printing Office, Washington, D.C., for $1.25, A remarkable document 
of importance to all conservationists, 
~~ Mrs. A.M.d., Jr. 

