Oregon Omnibus Wilderness Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the Environment and Land Resources of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-fourth Congress, Second Session -, Part 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977 |
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allowable cut Backcountry Boulder Creek Wilderness boundaries CONGRESS THE LIBRARY costs D.C. DEAR Dispersed Recreation Douglas County drainage economic estimated existing fish Grants Pass habitat Hidden Wilderness Illinois River included increase Kalmiopsis Addition Kalmiopsis Wilderness land use planning LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Little North logging miles million acres million board feet Mining Law Mount Hood National Forest lands Omnibus Wilderness Bill OREG Oregon Omnibus Wilderness Oregon Resources Alliance percent Planning Unit potential preserve production proposed wilderness public lands reforestation Region road construction roadless areas Rock Santiam scenic Senator HATFIELD Siskiyou National Forest slopes soils Southern Oregon Resources species Strawberry Mountain Tield timber harvest timber management trail Tucannon U.S. Forest Service Umpqua National Forest values visitor days Wallowa County Washington watershed Wenaha River Wenaha-Tucannon Wilderness wild Wilderness Act Wilderness Additions wilderness areas wilderness classification Wilderness designation wilderness proposal Wilderness Study wildlife withdrawals
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Page 186 - ... 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 240 - Multiple use" means: The management of all the various renewable surface resources of the national forests so that they are utilized in the combination that will best meet the needs of the American people; making the most judicious use of the land for some or all of these resources or related services over areas large enough to provide sufficient latitude for periodic adjustments in use to conform to changing needs and conditions...
Page 80 - ... for permanent forest production, and the timber thereon shall be sold, cut and removed in conformity with the principle of sustained yield for the purpose of providing a permanent source of timber supply, protecting watersheds, regulating stream flow, and contributing to the economic stability of local communities and industries, and providing recreational facilities...
Page 239 - ... 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; (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,...
Page 355 - wilderness areas"; subject, however, to such reasonable regulations governing ingress and egress as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture consistent with the use of the land for mineral location and development and exploration, drilling, and production, and use of land for transmission lines...
Page 8 - Forest management plans under the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 and the National Forest Management Act of 1976...
Page 322 - ... of the resources; and harmonious and coordinated management of the various resources, each with the other, without impairment of the productivity of the land, with consideration being given to the relative values of the various resources, and not necessarily the combination of uses that will give the greatest dollar return of the greatest unit output.
Page 336 - Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.
Page 355 - Act shall contain such reasonable stipulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture for the protection of the wilderness character of the land consistent with the use of the land for the purposes for which they are leased, permitted, or licensed.
Page 9 - This is a comprehensive framework and primary source of direction to the Forest Service to fulfill its mandate to manage the National Forest System (NFS) . The central element of the Act is the institution of land and resource management...