Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Interior and Insular AffairsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1974 |
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acres birds Blackbeard BOHLEN boundary Brigantine National Wildlife Brigantine Wilderness Brigantine Wildlife Refuge Bureau of Sport cabins CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY Chairman Chassahowitzka Congress Conservation County D.C. DEAR SENATOR DEAR SENATOR HASKELL designate certain lands designated as wilderness Emigrant Basin Emigrant Wilderness established exclusion fish Fisheries and Wildlife Florida FLOYD HASKELL FLOYD K Forest Service grazing habitat hearing record Holgate Hoover Wilderness impoundments included Interior and Insular Jersey legislation Lone Peak Wilderness Lostwood miles mineral mosquito ditches National Forest National Park National Wilderness Preservation National Wildlife Refuge natural ness Primitive Area protection Public Lands recommend Refuge as wilderness road salt marsh Senate Interior Committee Senate Office Building Senator MCCLURE Shad Island Sierra Club Simeonof species Sport Fisheries statement Subcommittee on Public TACTITE TUNGSTEN U.S. Senate Washington waterfowl Wilderness Act wilderness area wilderness designation Wilderness Preservation System wilderness proposal Wilderness Society wilderness status Wilderness System Yosemite
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Page 227 - 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 55 - 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 hot remain.
Page 127 - ... 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 109 - States is due largely to the abundance of available water, and the rivers with their great water power have been in the past, and will continue to be in the future, a perpetual source of wealth.
Page 128 - ... except as necessary to meet minimum requirements for the administration of the area for the purpose of this chapter (including measures required in emergencies involving the health and safety of persons within the area...
Page 128 - Act, each agency administering any area designated as wilderness shall be responsible for preserving the wilderness character of the area and shall so administer such area for such other purposes for which it may have been established as also to preserve its wilderness character.
Page 153 - Wildlife at the National Parks and Conservation Association, 1701 18th Street, NW. Washington, DC 20009.
Page 57 - There is just one hope of repulsing the tyrannical ambition of civilization to conquer every niche on the whole earth. That hope is the organization of spirited people who will fight for the freedom of the wilderness.
Page 259 - 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 141 - At this point I would like to insert for the record a statement of Senator Montoya in relation to S.