San Rafael Wilderness: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Public Lands of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, Ninetieth Congress, First Session, on S. 889, a Bill to Designate the San Rafael Wilderness, Los Padres National Forest in the State of California, April 11, 1967U.S. Government Printing Office, 1967 - 128 pages Considers S. 889, to designate the San Rafael Wilderness in the Los Padres Natl Forest, Calif. |
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Page 127 - ... printers and these averments regarding the methods of the printers' board of trade. The latter are made upon Information and belief, and are substantially as follows: That said board now Is and for more than three years last past has been engaged in "a combined scheme and effort to violate the laws of the state of California and of the United States of America in such case made and provided, by causing the prices of articles and services made and furnished by various members of the said Printers...
Page 23 - Congress to secure for the American people of present and future generations the benefits of an enduring resource of wilderness.
Page 13 - In addition, such measures may be taken as may be necessary in the control of fire, insects, and diseases, subject to such conditions as the Secretary deems desirable.
Page 87 - The governments of the American Republics, wishing to protect and preserve in their natural habitat representatives of all species and genera of their native flora and fauna, including migratory birds, in sufficient numbers and over areas extensive enough to assure them from becoming extinct through any agency within man's control...
Page 17 - primitive" on the effective date of this Act shall continue to be administered under the rules and regulations affecting such areas on the effective date of this Act until Congress has determined otherwise. Any such area may be increased in size by the President at the time he submits his recommendations to the Congress by not more than five thousand acres with no more than one thousand two hundred and eighty acres of such increase in any one compact unit : if it is proposed to increase the size...
Page 2 - NATURE We must not only resist the spread of pollution in our environment — but we must also preserve what remains of the natural 'beauty and tranquility that was here long before man came.
Page 23 - ... sins and cobweb cares of the devil's spinning in all-day storms on mountains" (Muir 1898:483; see also Grove 1992; Nash 1982; Pepper 1984). Both examples envision nature as spiritually beneficial to human society. A few treaties are framed by edenic models. For example, the Convention on Nature Protection and Wildlife Preservation in the Western Hemisphere, signed in Washington, DC, in 1940, endeavors to preserve areas of extraordinary beauty, striking formation, and aesthetic value. Its provisions...
Page 2 - In 1964, the Congress authorized a Wilderness System, to preserve for future generations of Americans large areas of undeveloped lands in their natural state. The enabling legislation called upon the President to make recommendations for the inclusion of certain additional areas within the system. In accord with that law, I recommend legislation to authorize the first addition to the Wilderness System since its establishment — an area to be known as the San Rafael Wilderness, Los Padres National...
Page 29 - Services, more than any other forces, are responsible for this (unwise) land-use picture. What they have done, however innocently, is to encourage and advise toward maximum, immediate, economic exploitation of the land, without regard for end results. They have demonstrated and advocated only that which is most profitable economically. I have never noted any real concern for conservation of the future. Through their influence and tutelage we have, on the local level, a leadership of prosperous ignoramuses.
Page 2 - In the State of California. Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the United States...