Wilderness Preservation System: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Public Lands of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress, First[-second] Session, on S. 174 [and Other] Bills to Establish a National Wilderness Preservation System for the Permanent Good of the Whole People, and for Other Purposes ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1962 - 1762 pages |
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... deposit , valuable to his country as well as himself , on this public land and develop a mine there and , above all , put in a road . This is industry - but this is bad . Industry is anathema . The mine is a scar ? How big a scar is a ...
... deposit , valuable to his country as well as himself , on this public land and develop a mine there and , above all , put in a road . This is industry - but this is bad . Industry is anathema . The mine is a scar ? How big a scar is a ...
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... deposits exist there . How could he ever acquire such knowledge if prospecting is prohibited in the first instance ? Great as our need is today for timber , water , meat , and minerals , the need will be far greater tomorrow , for the ...
... deposits exist there . How could he ever acquire such knowledge if prospecting is prohibited in the first instance ? Great as our need is today for timber , water , meat , and minerals , the need will be far greater tomorrow , for the ...
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... deposits and in testing those areas by those methods currently available to us . In the short time allotted to me , I will try to express the viewpoint of those of us who are trained and experienced in evaluating land from the ...
... deposits and in testing those areas by those methods currently available to us . In the short time allotted to me , I will try to express the viewpoint of those of us who are trained and experienced in evaluating land from the ...
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... deposits of critical importance to the Nation . In our view , the public is the beneficiary of a trust , and has a right to insist that not one but all values which exist in his property shall accrue to him . In these few minutes I ...
... deposits of critical importance to the Nation . In our view , the public is the beneficiary of a trust , and has a right to insist that not one but all values which exist in his property shall accrue to him . In these few minutes I ...
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... deposits . There are 27 wilderness units in California , and 17 in Arizona , total- ing over 9 million acres or 14,000 square miles . To the professional geologist there are 44 areas each of which has to be carefully evaluated for each ...
... deposits . There are 27 wilderness units in California , and 17 in Arizona , total- ing over 9 million acres or 14,000 square miles . To the professional geologist there are 44 areas each of which has to be carefully evaluated for each ...
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acreage administration Alaska amendments American Calif California Club Committee on Interior Congress congressional conservation County D.C. DEAR economic enactment established favor forest lands future game ranges GRACIE PFOST grazing hearings House Committee House Interior House Office Building Idaho igneous rocks included industry Insular Affairs Committee interests Interior and Insular JOHNSON lumber Madam Chairman Madera County metallic deposits million acres mineral mining MONO COUNTY multiple multiple-use national forests National Monument National Wilderness Preservation natural resources Nevada November November 15 Oreg Outdoor Recreation percent population present President primitive areas Prost protection Public Lands Subcommittee purpose recommendations record Riverside County roads Sacramento Secretary FREEMAN Secretary UDALL Senate Sierra Sincerely statement Subcommittee on Public Thank timber tion U.S. Forest Service values Washington WAYNE ASPINALL Western Westfir wild areas Wilderness Act wilderness areas wilderness bill wilderness legislation Wilderness Preservation System wilderness system wilderness-type areas wildlife refuges
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Page 1051 - ... to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.
Page 846 - ... 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 ; (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,...
Page 902 - 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 1033 - 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 846 - 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 838 - wilderness areas", and these shall be administered for the use and enjoyment of the American people in such manner as will leave them unimpaired for future use and enjoyment as wilderness, and so as to provide for the protection of these areas, the preservation of their wilderness character, and for the gathering and dissemination of information regarding their use and enjoyment as wilderness ; and no Federal lands shall be designated as "wilderness areas" except as provided for in this Act or by...
Page 1050 - That licenses shall be issued within any reservation only after a finding by the commission that the license will not interfere or be inconsistent with the purpose for which such reservation was created or acquired...
Page 952 - They who know of no purer sources of truth, who have traced up its stream no higher, stand, and wisely stand, by the Bible and the Constitution, and drink at it there with reverence and humility; but they who behold where it comes trickling into this lake or that pool, gird up their loins once more, and continue their pilgrimage toward its fountain-head.
Page 1312 - The Congress shall have the power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the Territory or other property belonging to the United States...
Page 855 - Resolved', That certified copies of this resolution be forwarded...