Our Public Lands, Volumes 26-28U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, 1976 |
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... soon became the mother lode for a host of small prospectors , miners and geologists . Those same metals , radium , vanadium and uranium still spark the economy of the west slope of Colorado . Individuals and cor- porations are working ...
... soon became the mother lode for a host of small prospectors , miners and geologists . Those same metals , radium , vanadium and uranium still spark the economy of the west slope of Colorado . Individuals and cor- porations are working ...
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... soon as each man had his own par- ticular allotment of range and could manage it as he saw fit . The process was completed by the mid 1960's and now the Bureau started to think in terms of more intensive management of the individual ...
... soon as each man had his own par- ticular allotment of range and could manage it as he saw fit . The process was completed by the mid 1960's and now the Bureau started to think in terms of more intensive management of the individual ...
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... Soon after they killed their guards and broke out of the barracks where they were being confined . They fled from Fort Richardson , but twelve days later were surrounded in a ravine about 50 miles from the fort . When the commanding ...
... Soon after they killed their guards and broke out of the barracks where they were being confined . They fled from Fort Richardson , but twelve days later were surrounded in a ravine about 50 miles from the fort . When the commanding ...
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... soon there arose all the misunderstandings that would so often frustrate the white man who tried to buy land from the Indians . To the European , land was a commodity to be bought and sold in the same way a man would buy or sell a pair ...
... soon there arose all the misunderstandings that would so often frustrate the white man who tried to buy land from the Indians . To the European , land was a commodity to be bought and sold in the same way a man would buy or sell a pair ...
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... soon was called , survived Boone and the Tran- sylvania Company . By 1800 more than twenty thousand persons had traveled it in search of virgin land . Boone and his men did not have to find their way unaided . For the most part the road ...
... soon was called , survived Boone and the Tran- sylvania Company . By 1800 more than twenty thousand persons had traveled it in search of virgin land . Boone and his men did not have to find their way unaided . For the most part the road ...
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Page 11 - I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; he does not get his living honestly...
Page 14 - 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 18 - And that we might go out with every help that could serve to make the result of our voyage entertaining to the generality of readers, as well as instructive to the sailor and scholar, Mr Webber was pitched upon, and engaged to embark with me, for the express purpose of supplying the unavoidable imperfections of written accounts...
Page 2 - As the nation's principal conservation agency, the Department of the Interior has basic responsibilities to protect and conserve our land and water, energy and minerals, fish and wildlife, parks and recreation areas, and to ensure the wise use of all these resources.
Page 14 - ... 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, educational, scenic, or historical value.
Page 2 - US Department of the Interior, 18th and C Streets NW., Washington, DC 20240...
Page 14 - An area of wilderness is further defined to mean in this 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 4 - The department also has major responsibility for American Indian reservation communities and for people who live in island territories under...
Page 14 - 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 20 - West," suddenly arrived in the city, arrayed and equipped in all their classic beauty, — with shield and helmet, — with tunic and manteau, — tinted and tasselled off, exactly for the painter's palette...