| United States - 1933 - 566 pages
...lands designated for preservation and protection in their natural condition, it is hereby declared to be the policy of the Congress to secure for the...American people of present and future generations the benefit of an enduring resource of wilderness. For this purpose there is hereby established a National... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1957 - 466 pages
...and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in order to secure for the American people of present and future...the benefits of an enduring resource of wilderness, there is hereby established a National Wilderness Preservation System. As hereinafter provided, this... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1959 - 518 pages
...House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a), in order to secure for the American people of present and future...the benefits of an enduring resource of wilderness, there is hereby established a National Wilderness Preservation System. As hereinafter provided, this... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1961 - 462 pages
...bill 4013 for study and discussion.20 The bill stated its basic purpose as follows : "[T]hat, in order to secure for the American people of present and future...the benefits of an enduring resource of wilderness, there is hereby established a national wilderness preservation system * * * composed of areas * * *... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1961 - 1320 pages
...continually strive in the State and Nation. The statement of policy section of S. 174 defines policy as "to secure for the American people of present and...the benefits of an enduring resource of wilderness," from which no economic resource may be removed. Purpose is defined as the establishment of a — national... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1962 - 1206 pages
...for preservation and protection in their natural condition." this bill declares a policy of securing "for the American people of present and future generations the benefits of an enduring resource." For this purpose the bill would establish "a national wilderness preservation system to be composed... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Interior and Insular Affairs - 1963 - 290 pages
...spelling out policy : "It is accordingly declared to be the policy of the Congress of the United States to secure for the American people of present and future...the benefits of an enduring resource of wilderness." And by defining wilderness : "A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1963 - 294 pages
...people, and for other purposes This bill, to be known as the Wilderness Act, for the purpose of securing "for the American people of present and future generations...the benefits of an enduring resource of wilderness," would establish, in accordance with certain procedures prescribed in the bill, a National Wilderness... | |
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