A. Earl Wood

Green stated that A. Earl Wood, Engineer for Roadside Development, was looking for a landscape architect who supported the use of native as opposed to "exotic" plants.
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Chase applied for the job, and Wood hired him.
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In 1972, his former supervisor, A. Earl Wood, now Commissioner of the Department of Transportation, asked him to serve as a Special Assistant to the Commissioner to set up the agency's Environmental Division.