Our Public Lands, Volumes 26-28U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, 1976 |
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... tracts totaling 10.9 million acres they would like to see offered if a proposed sale is held for the Georges Bank Trough off the coasts of Rhode Island , Massachusetts , New Hampshire and Maine . The proposed sale is tentatively ...
... tracts totaling 10.9 million acres they would like to see offered if a proposed sale is held for the Georges Bank Trough off the coasts of Rhode Island , Massachusetts , New Hampshire and Maine . The proposed sale is tentatively ...
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... tract of range , and it provides a specific management program that considers livestock grazing in relation to other possi- ble uses of the range . It sets seasons of use , the number of domestic animals that will be allowed on the ...
... tract of range , and it provides a specific management program that considers livestock grazing in relation to other possi- ble uses of the range . It sets seasons of use , the number of domestic animals that will be allowed on the ...
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... tract from the Cherokee Indians . Lying in an approximate triangle formed by the Ohio , Kentucky and Cumberland Rivers , the tract com- prised more than half of the present State of Kentucky . Henderson paid approximately $ 10,000 in ...
... tract from the Cherokee Indians . Lying in an approximate triangle formed by the Ohio , Kentucky and Cumberland Rivers , the tract com- prised more than half of the present State of Kentucky . Henderson paid approximately $ 10,000 in ...
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... tract . Rainfall about 14 inches . Snowfall averages 50 inches . No legal access . Sale February 26. Refer to M 25912 . Write Montana State Office for additional details . Alaska Public lands in Alaska are not available for sale at this ...
... tract . Rainfall about 14 inches . Snowfall averages 50 inches . No legal access . Sale February 26. Refer to M 25912 . Write Montana State Office for additional details . Alaska Public lands in Alaska are not available for sale at this ...
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... tracts off the coast of southern California . The four sales brought a total of $ 1.08 billion for lease rights on 321 tracts totaling 1.7 million acres . Action involving other Outer Continental Shelf areas include : A final ...
... tracts off the coast of southern California . The four sales brought a total of $ 1.08 billion for lease rights on 321 tracts totaling 1.7 million acres . Action involving other Outer Continental Shelf areas include : A final ...
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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.
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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...