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Every human population, at all times, has needed to evaluate the economic potential of its inhabited area, to organize its life about its natural environment in terms of the skills available to it and the values which it accepted. The cultural mise en valeur of the environment, a deformation of the pristine, or prehuman, landscape has been initiated that has increased with length of occupation, growth in population, and addition of skills. Wherever men live, they have operated to alter the aspect of the Earth, both animate and inanimate, be it to their boon or bane. 1