National Wilderness Preservation Act: Hearings Before the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, Eighty-fifth Congress, Second Session, on S. 4028, a Bill to Establish a National Wilderness Preservation System for the Permanent Good of the Whole People, and for Other Purposes ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1958 - 1060 pages |
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... regarding their use and enjoyment as wilderness . Pursuant to this policy the Congress gives sanction to the continued preservation as wilderness of those areas federally owned or controlled that are within na- 1 tional parks , national ...
... regarding their use and enjoyment as wilderness . Pursuant to this policy the Congress gives sanction to the continued preservation as wilderness of those areas federally owned or controlled that are within na- 1 tional parks , national ...
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... regarding national forest areas classified as primitive shall be made within ten years after the date of this Act , and any such area regarding which such determinations have not been made shall , with the exception of any roads , motor ...
... regarding national forest areas classified as primitive shall be made within ten years after the date of this Act , and any such area regarding which such determinations have not been made shall , with the exception of any roads , motor ...
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... regarding , and inter- ested in the preservation of , wilderness ; one of them shall be appointed initially for a term of two years , one for a term of four years , and one for a term of six years . After the expiration of these initial ...
... regarding , and inter- ested in the preservation of , wilderness ; one of them shall be appointed initially for a term of two years , one for a term of four years , and one for a term of six years . After the expiration of these initial ...
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... regarding use and preserva- tion of the wilderness system , to advise with Government officials , and to report annually to the Congress . S. 4028 is a revision of S. 1176. This Department expressed its views on S. 1176 in its report to ...
... regarding use and preserva- tion of the wilderness system , to advise with Government officials , and to report annually to the Congress . S. 4028 is a revision of S. 1176. This Department expressed its views on S. 1176 in its report to ...
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... regarding their use and enjoyment as wilderness . Pursuant to this policy the Congress gives sanction to the continued preservation as wilderness of such areas Federally owned or con- trolled that are within national forests . SEC . 3 ...
... regarding their use and enjoyment as wilderness . Pursuant to this policy the Congress gives sanction to the continued preservation as wilderness of such areas Federally owned or con- trolled that are within national forests . SEC . 3 ...
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85th Congress ABBOTT administration amendments American Forestry Association Chairman citizens Committee on Interior Congress conservation County CRAFTS D. C. DEAR SENATOR DEAR SENATOR MURRAY Department designated enactment establish a national Federal lands Forest Service grazing hearings Howard Zahniser included Indian industry Insular Affairs interest Interior and Insular JAMES E July 18 July 23 legislation ment million acres multiple-use National Outdoor Recreation National Park Service national wilderness preservation national-forest natural resources ness objections Outdoor Recreation Resources percent present President primitive areas proposed protection public lands purposes recommendations record Recreation Resources Review resolution Resources Review Commission revised wilderness bill roadless areas Secretary of Agriculture Senate Office Building Senator BIBLE Senator JAMES Senator NEUBERGER statement STONG Superior National Forest timber tion United States Senate Washington West Western wild areas wilderness areas Wilderness Preservation Council wilderness preservation system wilderness system wilderness value wildlife refuges
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Page 5 - One of the original members shall be appointed for a term of one year, one for a term of two years, one for a term of three years, one for a term of...
Page 1 - ... 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, and so as to provide for the protection of these areas, the preservation of their wilderness character, and for the gathering and dissemination of information regarding their use and enjoyment as wilderness ; and no Federal lands shall be designated as "wilderness areas" except as provided for in this Act or...
Page 91 - March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and which may be continued; and he may make such rules and regulations and establish such service as will insure the objects of such reservations, namely, to regulate their occupancy and use and to preserve the forests thereon from destruction...
Page 98 - 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 35 - In the administration of the forest reserves it must be clearly borne in mind that all land is to be devoted to its most productive use for the permanent good of the whole people, and not for the temporary benefit of individuals or companies.
Page 1 - Congress to secure for the American people of present and future generations the benefits of an enduring resource of wilderness.
Page 3 - An Act To establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes," approved August 25, 1916 (39 Stat.
Page 154 - AN ACT To establish a National Wilderness Preservation System for the permanent good of the whole people, and for other purposes.
Page 5 - ... works, power projects, transmission lines, and other facilities needed in the public interest, including the road construction and maintenance essential to development and use thereof, upon his determination that such use or uses in the specific area will better serve the interests of the United States and the people thereof than will its denial...