THE SEVENTIES will be remembered as the decade in which urban and rural areas did an about-face—when they woke from torpor and neglect, and got busy trying to repair and protect the landscape.
BOB'S WORDS show the transformation in attitude that takes place within a few weeks after retarded young people start their training at the Melwood Horticultural Training Center which is in Upper Marlboro, Md.
WE DO NOT usually associate agriculture with the depressed central city areas, and yet it is here that a new role has emerged for a specific agricultural discipline: horticulture.
A GOOD SOIL is one that encourages good plant root and top growth by providing the right amount of nutrients, water, and air throughout the growing season.
ARID AND SEMIARID regions comprising the Great Plains west of the 100th meridian, the intermountain region between the Rockies and the west coastal ranges, and the Desert Southwest are problem areas when it comes to growing ornamental plants.
IN A SURVEY to find out which of 26 items people consider most important to their happiness, 59 percent of those answering checked "green grass and trees around me."
The Forest Service, in employing new personnel, seeks to hire men and women who are properly trained for the work and have high ideals and a strong desire to serve the public.
More and more colleges, teacher-training institutions, and elementary schools and high schools are offering nontechnical instruction in problems and practices of forest conservation and the methods of teaching them.
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