| United States - 1933 - 566 pages
...preservation and protection in their natural condition, it is hereby declared to be the policy of the Congress to secure for the American people of present and future generations the benefit of an enduring resource of wilderness. For this purpose there is hereby established a National... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1957 - 466 pages
...legislation under consideration is justified by its proponents on the grounds that it would "* * * secure for the American people of present and future...the benefits of an enduring resource of wilderness * * *." We can agree that certain carefully delimited areas of outstanding wilderness attraction within... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1959 - 880 pages
...establish a National Wilderness Preservation Council, and for other purposes. "Be it enacted, etc.. That, in order to secure for the American people of present and future generations the benelits of an enduring resource of wilderness, there Is hereby established a national wilderness preservation... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1961 - 462 pages
...PEOPLE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES This bill, to be known as the Wilderness Act, for the purpose of "securing for the American people of present and future generations...the benefits of an enduring resource of wilderness," would establish a national wilderness preservation system comprised of such federally owned lands (subject... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1961 - 1320 pages
...The act simply declares certain wilderness areas should be preserved. As stated in the act, it is — to secure for the American people of present and future generations the benefit of an enduring resource of wilderness. It is this philosophy of conversation that is difficult... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1962 - 1206 pages
...for preservation and protection in their natural condition." this bill declares a policy of securing "for the American people of present and future generations the benefits of an enduring resource." For this purpose the bill would establish "a national wilderness preservation system to be composed... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1962 - 1146 pages
...ranges, and such additional pill lands as may be included under procedures set forth in the bills, in order to secure for the American people of present and future generations the benefi an enduring resource of wilderness. The wilderness system would be devi to the public purposes... | |
| United States. Department of the Interior - 1980 - 984 pages
...are designated for the purpose of "prcservntlon and protection In their natural condition * • • to secure for the American people of present and future generations the benefllK of an enduring resource of wilderness." Wilderness Is defined by 16 USC 5 1131(c) to be "an... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Interior and Insular Affairs - 1963 - 290 pages
...natural condition. It is accordingly declared to be the policy of the Congress of the United States to secure for the American people of present and future...the benefits of an enduring resource of wilderness. For this purpose there is hereby established a National Wilderness Preservation System to be composed... | |
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