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Mr. Sheeks (cont.)

provide important basic information to advance agricultural, economic and technological growth. It is needless to say that basic information on the Korean natural resources (particularly related indigineous Korean problems) plays very important roles in planning and executing the program for a self-sufficient food supply and a well-balanced upgrading of the economy. It is also essential to accomplish the goals of the U.S. assistance program to Korea. The lack of accurate basic information on natural resources and indigineous problems of Korea has been strongly felt in almost all Korean projects since the U.S. aid programs started. Accordingly, many of short term programs in the past had to be based on "old" inaccurate data or even on the basis of plain guess work with experience obtained from American examples. The necessity of establishing the "Korean Institute of Natural Resources" for collecting and disseminating basic information needs no further justification and enumeration at this time. 

The Institute I suggest would be a center of multidisciplinary, scientific excellence to survey, to store, to utilize and to disseminate basic information of natural resources related to agriculture, conservation, economy, fisheries, science and technology of Korea. At the same time it would provide foundations for Korean science and technology in coorperation with the science of the world. The Institute would be concerned with these neglected areas, having the following functions:

1. Biological Resources.

The Institute would conduct surveys and research on aquatic, terrestrial and subterranean biota (fauna and flora). Information obtained from these studies would be invaluable for planning and conducting research projects in agriculture, fisheries, conservation and pollution control. The programs would include surveys and research on plant and animal life of forests for conservation and forestry, on aquatic organisms including fish and plankton of inland and boundary waters for fisheries and pollution biology, and on soil biota for ecosystem ecology and conservation. The service of identifying living organisms would ^[[be]] a part of the program.            

Transcription Notes:
author uses "indigineous" for "indigenous"