Designation of Wilderness Areas: Hearings Before the Subcommittees on Public Lands and National Parks and Recreation of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-first Congress ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1970 - 534 pages Considers (91) H.R. 486, (91) H.R. 850, (91) H.R. 4275, (91) H.R. 987, (91) H.R. 3687, (91) H.R. 12081, (91) H.R. 12240, (91) H.R. 149, (91) H.R. 585, (91) H.R. 9545, (91) H.R. 16258, (91) H.R. 12732, (91) H.R. 13153, (91) H.R. 12444, (91) H.R. 18044, (91) H.R. 16212, (91) H.R. 13103, (91) H.R. 13232, (91) H.R. 16821, (91) H.R. 16822, (91) S. 713, (91) S. 714, (91) S. 126, (91) S. 826, (91) S. 3222, (91) S. 3014, (91) S. 1732. |
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acres addition administrative Arizona ASPINALL BARING Big Cinder Butte birds boundary Bureau of Sport CAMP Chairman CONGRESS THE LIBRARY conservation D.C. DEAR designate certain lands designated as wilderness Desolation Wilderness DICKERMAN established Federal FISH AND WILDLIFE Fisheries and Wildlife Florida Forest Service gentleman GLASGOW GOTTSCHALK GREELEY habitat Huron Islands included Indian River Indian River County Insular Affairs Interior and Insular Island National Wildlife Islands Wilderness Lake legislation map entitled Monomoy Island Moosehorn Mount Baldy Mount Baldy Wilderness National Forest National Wilderness Preservation National Wildlife Refuge ness Park Service Pelican Island Pine Mountain Primitive Area proposed wilderness protection Public Lands question recommend recreation road Secretary Senate Seney Sierra Club Sport Fisheries statement STEIGER Sycamore Canyon Wilderness TAYLOR Thank tion TOTAL U.S. DEPARTMENT United Ventana Wilderness Washington wild Wilderness Act wilderness area wilderness designation Wilderness Preservation System wilderness proposal Wilderness Society wilderness system Wilderness-Proposed WOLD
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Page 13 - 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 500 - ... 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 243 - 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...
Page 179 - ... 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, scenic, or historical value.
Page 108 - Resources. (4) within wilderness areas In the national forests designated by this Act, (1) the President may, within a specific area and In accordance with such regulations as he may deem desirable...
Page 464 - Act (including measures required in emergencies involving the health and safety of persons within the area), there shall be no temporary road, no use of motor vehicles, motorized equipment or motorboats, no landing of aircraft, no other form of mechanical transport, and no structure or installation within any such area.
Page 150 - It is also further agreed that no Member of or Delegate to Congress, or Resident Commissioner, after his election or appointment, or either before or after he has qualified, and during his continuance in office, and...
Page 448 - US DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE, BUREAU OF SPORT FISHERIES AND WILDLIFE, Washington, DC, January 22, 1973.
Page 150 - Government, shall be admitted to any share or part of this contract or agreement or to any benefit to arise thereupon. Nothing, however, herein contained shall be construed to extend to any incorporated company, where such contract or agreement is made for the general benefit of such incorporation or company, as provided in section 116 of the act of Congress approved March 4, 1909 (35 Stat.
Page 328 - Chairman, if you have any questions I will be glad to try to answer them, or Mr.