Designation of Wilderness Areas: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, First Session ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1972 |
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acres addition Al Ullman ASPINALL Benchmark Bob Marshall Wilderness buffer zone Cap Wilderness Area Chairman Colorado CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Congressman Creek DELLENBACK dude ranches Eagle Cap Wilderness economic fish Fork going Grand County grizzly included Indian Peaks area inholdings Insular Affairs Committee Interior and Insular Lake legislation Lincoln Back Country Lincoln-Scapegoat area Little Minam logging Lolo National Forests Lower Minam MCGUIRE MELCHER miles Minam drainage Minam River Canyon Minam River drainage mineral mining Montana Mountain ness Oreg Oregon present primitive areas proposed wilderness protection Public Lands recommend recreation Representative WALTER BARING roadless roads RUPPE SAYLOR Scapegoat Wilderness Secretary of Agriculture Senator PACKWOOD Sincerely statement Subcommittee on Public Thank timber trail bike trout U.S. Forest Service U.S. Geological Survey UDALL ULLMAN Ullman's bill values Wallowa Wallowa-Whitman National Forest Washington watershed Wilderness Act wilderness classification wilderness designation Wilderness Preservation System wildlife
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Page 272 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Vnited States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the Bank Holding Company Act of 1947.
Page 187 - Act, and subject to existing private rights, there shall be no commercial enterprise and no permanent road within any wilderness area designated by this Act and, except as necessary to meet minimum requirements for the administration of the area for the purpose of this Act (including measures required in emergencies involving the health and safety of persons within the area), there shall be no temporary road, no use of motor vehicles, motorized equipment or motorboats, no landing of aircraft, no...
Page 223 - Agriculture, such areas shall be surveyed on a planned, recurring basis consistent with the concept of wilderness preservation by the Geological Survey and the Bureau of Mines to determine the mineral values, if any, that may be present; and the results of such surveys shall be made available to the public and submitted to the President and Congress.
Page 179 - 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 221 - Secretary after public notice of such proposal and public hearing or hearings as provided in subsection (d) of this section. The proposed modification or adjustment shall then be recommended with map and description thereof to the President. The President shall advise the United States Senate and the House of Representatives of his recommendations with respect to such modification or adjustment and such recommendations shall become effective only in the same manner as provided for in subsections...
Page 186 - primitive" and report his findings to the President. The President shall advise the United States Senate and House of Representatives of his recommendations with respect to the designation as "wilderness...
Page 223 - wilderness" shall become effective only if so provided by an Act of Congress. Areas classified as "primitive...
Page 271 - Representatives, and such descriptions shall have the same force and effect as if included in this Act: Provided, however, That correction of clerical and typographical errors in such legal descriptions and maps may be made.
Page 187 - ... except as necessary to meet minimum requirements for the administration of the area for the purpose of this chapter (including measures required in emergencies involving the health and safety of persons within the area...
Page 2 - ... and for other purposes.. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized and directed to...