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Ford Foundation Annual Report 1973







INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
Research and conferences
International Council of Scientific Unions [$79,000—1971] (17,787) (17,787)
International Institute for Environment and Development (London) 300,000
International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources [$650,000—1970] 300,000 165,000
League of Red Cross Societies 20,000
Massachusetts Institute of Technology [$15,000—1972] 15,000
Sierra Club Foundation 10,000 10,000
Smithsonian Institution [$20,000—1971] 20,000
United Nations
Information program for the UN's Environment Programme 39,500 39,500
UN Conference on the Human Environment—staff support and project specialist 103,600 103,597
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
Training, research, and legal services
Environmental Defense Fund 300,000 80,000
Environmental Law Institute [$152,000—1970] 22,335
George Washington University [$251,000—1970] 45,631
Natural Resources Defense Council [$765,000—1972] 400,000
Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund 143,000 100,892
Southern California Center for Law in the Public Interest 309,000 150,000
CITIZEN ORGANIZATIONS AND CONSERVATION
Citizen organization and public information
Arkansas Ecology Center 75,400 18,850
Conservation Foundation [$605,000—1970, 1971] 141,620
Lake Michigan Federation 100,000 41,666
National Audubon Society [$388,000—1969, 1971] 111,037
Student Conservation Association [$180,000—1970] 45,000
Preservation of natural areas and open space
California, University of (Berkeley) [$500,000—1968] 72,550 750
Nature Conservancy [$600,000—1971] 214,055
Nature Conservancy of Canada 100,000 100,000
Parks Council (New York) [$90,000—1971] 15,000
Trust for Public Land 250,000 62,500
ASSISTANCE TO STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
Technical Assistance
Arkansas, State of 198,500 73,183
Institute of Ecology 220,000 54,664
Maine, University of (Orono) [$100,000—1972] 3,000 53,000
Massachusetts Audubon Society 52,430 26,965


develops informed public participation in efforts to protect water quality in Lake Michigan.


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Research on the destruction of hardwood forests and wetland areas in eastern Arkansas, caused by drainage and dam construction projects, and on ways to guide future development of the regions, was supported with grants to the Arkansas Ecology Center and the state. Both studies aim to formulate a delta land-use policy consonant with long-range environmental stability.

To strengthen the technical capacity of states to deal with environmental problems, grants went to Connecticut, Montana, and Vermont.

Connecticut's 1972 Inland Wetland and Watercourses Act assigned to localities the responsibility for protecting the state's wetlands, but most local agencies lack the expertise to assume regulation and control. With Foundation assistance the Midstate Regional Planning Agency, a state body, is providing scientific and legal assistance to a model region of eight towns.

Plans to strip-mine Montana's vast