reception accorded Managing the Environment, a Foundation-financed survey conducted at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. It describes reorganization by nine state governments to combine agencies concerned with environmental management.

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Building on last year's assistance to the Washington State Legislature in creating a consolidated environmental department, the Foundation made grants in 1971 to promote better resource management in Florida and Vermont. The Vermont Natural Resources Council, for example, received $120,000 to help the state put into effect its new Land Use and Development Act—perhaps the most advanced state program of its kind. The council, a group of volunteers, will provide state planners with data collected by Dartmouth College and the University of Vermont, and will seek to enlist wide participation in the planning process.

The Foundation in 1971 entered the search for means to cope with the leftovers of man's production and consumption without fouling his living space. Grants to San Diego County (California), Erie County (Pennsylvania), and Hawaii helped initiate experiments in treating waste as a single system, whether generated by industry or household and whether disposed of by air, land, or water. The object is to improve the capacity of local and regional governments to deal with environmental management. Erie County's multiple problems, for example, are highlighted by the well-publicized pollution of Lake Erie, the county's primary source of drinking water. The experiments, after computerizing all pertinent data, will devise mathematical models to clarify environmental consequences of alternate land-use and waste-disposal plans.

Studies aimed at power production policies that take into account shifting priorities of consumer need and environmental effect were assisted. The American