Final Environmental Statement: John Day Planning Unit : Malheur National Forest

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Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Region 6, 1976 - 343 pages

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Page F-8 - ... 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, scenic, or historical value.
Page F-7 - 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 F-7 - 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 78 - Historical and archaeological sites will be inventoried and evaluated to assure compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 and Executive Order 11593, May 13. 1971, "Protection and Enhancement of the Cultural Environment.
Page H-21 - Deferred Forest Land - Productive forest land that has been administratively identified for study as possible additions to the Wilderness System or other withdrawal from timber utilization under authority granted in the Federal Code of Regulations.
Page A-66 - That it is the policy of the Congress that the national forests are established and shall be administered for outdoor recreation, range, timber, watershed, and wildlife and fish purposes.
Page H-23 - Planning - The process of organizing the development and use of lands and their resources in a manner that will best meet the needs of people over time, while maintaining flexibility for a dynamic combination of resources for the future.
Page 61 - Section 1(11) of Executive Order No. 11593, the proposed action will not affect, either favorably or adversely, the preservation and enhancement of nonfederally owned districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects of historical, archaeological, architectural, or cultural sign!
Page F-4 - S. 424, of course, deals only with those lands under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management in the Department of the Interior.
Page 1 - To do this it has adopted the following objectives and policies : ( 1 ) promote and achieve a pattern of natural resource uses that will best meet the needs of people now and in the future...

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