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... values . This is not an idle question . What would happen to the thousands of acres of snags left by last summer's fires in the Selway - Bitterroot and Salmon Primitive Areas of Idaho if this bill were enacted ? In section 6 ( b ) who ...
... values . This is not an idle question . What would happen to the thousands of acres of snags left by last summer's fires in the Selway - Bitterroot and Salmon Primitive Areas of Idaho if this bill were enacted ? In section 6 ( b ) who ...
Page 745
... values of each resource present and of the effects of utilizing one resource upon the stability value , and appre- ciation of the others . Within the framework of these principles , the Puget Sound section recognizes the importance and ...
... values of each resource present and of the effects of utilizing one resource upon the stability value , and appre- ciation of the others . Within the framework of these principles , the Puget Sound section recognizes the importance and ...
Page 748
... values in these millions of acres of public lands from the Nation's economic arsenal . It does this without making any provision whatever for studying or evaluating these lands in order to make sure that devoting the areas to the single ...
... values in these millions of acres of public lands from the Nation's economic arsenal . It does this without making any provision whatever for studying or evaluating these lands in order to make sure that devoting the areas to the single ...
Page 749
... values . This is not an idle question . What would happen to the thousands of acres of snags left by last summer's fires in the Selway - Bitterroot and Salmon Primitive Areas of Idaho if this bill were enacted ? In section 6 ( b ) who ...
... values . This is not an idle question . What would happen to the thousands of acres of snags left by last summer's fires in the Selway - Bitterroot and Salmon Primitive Areas of Idaho if this bill were enacted ? In section 6 ( b ) who ...
Page 750
... values without closing large areas of our public lands to the search for and development of new oil and gas supplies . Oil and gas exploration and development are not essentially despoiling activi- ties . The oil industry has ...
... values without closing large areas of our public lands to the search for and development of new oil and gas supplies . Oil and gas exploration and development are not essentially despoiling activi- ties . The oil industry has ...
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acreage administration Alaska amendment Area National Forest areas of wilderness ASPINALL believe Calif California Commission Committee on Interior Congress congressional conservation D.C. DEAR enactment established favor Federal Power Federal Power Act future game ranges gentleman GRACIE PFOST grazing hearings House Office Building Idaho included industry interest Interior and Insular KAUPANGER Madam Chairman million acres mineral mining Modoc County multiple multiple-use National Monument national park system National Wilderness Preservation natural resources November November 14 OLSEN percent population present President primitive areas Prost protection purposes question recommendation record RIVERS roads Sacramento SAYLOR Secretary FREEMAN Secretary of Agriculture Secretary UDALL Senate Ski Club statement Subcommittee on Public Thank timber tion U.S. Forest Service United values Washington WAYNE ASPINALL WESTLAND wild areas Wilderness Act wilderness areas wilderness bill wilderness legislation Wilderness Preservation System wilderness system wilderness-type areas ZAHNISER
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Page 932 - A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.
Page 836 - ... conditions and which (1) generally appears to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature, with the imprint of man's work substantially unnoticeable ; (2) has outstanding opportunities for solitude or a primitive and unconfined type of recreation ; (3) has at least five thousand acres of land or is of sufficient size as to make practicable its preservation and use in an unimpaired condition; and (4) may also contain ecological, geological, or other features of scientific, educational,...
Page 1038 - Act, an area of undeveloped Federal land retaining its primeval character and influence, without permanent improvements or human habitation, which is protected and managed so as to preserve its natural conditions and which ( 1 ) generally appears to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature, with the imprint of man's work substantially unnoticeable...
Page 1050 - Rivers; thence east to the place of beginning, is hereby reserved and withdrawn from settlement, occupancy, or sale under the laws of the United States, and dedicated and set apart as a public park or pleasuring ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people...
Page 1050 - O beautiful for pilgrim feet, Whose stern, impassioned stress A thoroughfare for freedom beat Across the wilderness! America! America! God mend thine every flaw, Confirm thy soul in self-control, Thy liberty in law!
Page 1189 - ... to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.
Page 1042 - EMPLOYMENT ACT OF 1946, AS AMENDED, WITH RELATED LAWS (60 Stat. 23) [PUBLIC LAW 304— 79TH CONGRESS] AN ACT To declare a national policy on employment, production, and purchasing power, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SHORT TITLE SECTION 1 . This Act may be cited as the "Employment Act of 1946".
Page 1050 - wilderness areas", and these shall be administered for the use and enjoyment of the American people in such manner as will leave them unimpaired for future use and enjoyment as wilderness...
Page 1070 - Who hath smelt wood-smoke at twilight ? Who hath heard the birch-log burning? Who is quick to read the noises of the night ? Let him follow with the others, for the Young Men's feet are turning To the camps of proved desire and known delight ! Let him go — go, etc.
Page 1071 - Do you know the world's white roof-tree — do you know that windy rift Where the baffling mountain-eddies chop and change ? Do you know the long day's patience, bellydown on frozen drift, While the head of heads is feeding out of range ? It is there that I am going, where the boulders and the snow lie, With a trusty, nimble tracker that I know.