Buffalo National River, Arkansas: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, First Session ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1972 - 204 pages |
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... Citizens Environmental Council , Kansas City , Mo. , to Hon . Roy A. Taylor , dated October 22 , 1971___ Additional information : Batesville Area Chamber of Commerce resolution , dated October 20 , 1971__ 195 76 202 176 134 178 103 173 ...
... Citizens Environmental Council , Kansas City , Mo. , to Hon . Roy A. Taylor , dated October 22 , 1971___ Additional information : Batesville Area Chamber of Commerce resolution , dated October 20 , 1971__ 195 76 202 176 134 178 103 173 ...
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... citizen of the United States . Here , there is no dispute concerning flood control or drainage for agricultural purposes . The only question is whether or not the Buffalo shall be controlled for the benefit of everyone or whether it ...
... citizen of the United States . Here , there is no dispute concerning flood control or drainage for agricultural purposes . The only question is whether or not the Buffalo shall be controlled for the benefit of everyone or whether it ...
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... citizens and our visitors . The 1971 General Assembly , at my request , accomplished the following : 1. Established the Department of Parks and Tourism as one of 13 major departments of state government in the reorganization of the ...
... citizens and our visitors . The 1971 General Assembly , at my request , accomplished the following : 1. Established the Department of Parks and Tourism as one of 13 major departments of state government in the reorganization of the ...
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... citizens , natural areas of high quality be available for outdoor recreational activities , such as hunting and fishing , photography , camping , fishing , floating , hiking , birdwatching and nature study . We feel that the Buffalo ...
... citizens , natural areas of high quality be available for outdoor recreational activities , such as hunting and fishing , photography , camping , fishing , floating , hiking , birdwatching and nature study . We feel that the Buffalo ...
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... citizens and organizations who are dedicated to the preservation of this great natural resource . Mr. HENDERSON . Thank you , sir . The opening of the Governor's statement he says that he appreciates the opportunity of presenting his ...
... citizens and organizations who are dedicated to the preservation of this great natural resource . Mr. HENDERSON . Thank you , sir . The opening of the Governor's statement he says that he appreciates the opportunity of presenting his ...
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Page 133 - The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively, the land. * * * In short, a land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it. It implies respect for his...
Page 21 - ... no department or agency of the United States shall assist by loan, grant, license, or otherwise in the construction of any water resources project that would have a direct and adverse effect on the values for which such river was established, as determined by the Secretary charged with its administration.
Page 39 - The Advisory Board on National Parks, Historic Sites, Buildings, and Monuments has recommended national seashore status for Oregon Dunes.
Page 133 - Troy. he hanged all on one rope a dozen slave,girls of his household whom he suspected of misbehavior during his absence. This hanging involved no question of propriety. The girls were property. The disposal of property was then. as now. a matter of expediency. not of right and wrong. Concepts of right and wrong were not lacking from Odysseus...
Page 133 - All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts. His instincts prompt him to compete for his place in the community, but his ethics prompt him also to co-operate (perhaps in order that there may be a place to compete for). The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively : the land.
Page 133 - Odysseus' slave-girls, is still property. The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations. The extension of ethics to this third element in human environment is, if I read the evidence correctly, an evolutionary possibility and an ecological necessity.
Page 133 - The thing has its origin in the tendency of interdependent individuals or groups to evolve modes of cooperation. The ecologist calls these symbioses. Politics and economics are advanced symbioses in which the original free-for-all competition has been replaced, in part, by cooperative mechanisms with an ethical content.
Page 38 - The bill authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire by donation, purchase with donated or appropriated funds, or exchange, the former home of Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois.
Page 67 - Such action may, in the long run, save the people of the United States as well as the people of the State of New York millions of dollars.
Page 8 - Act, as amended, on or directly affecting any river which is listed in section 5, subsection (a), of this Act, and no department or agency of the United States shall assist by loan, grant, license, or otherwise in the construction of any water resources project that would have a direct and adverse effect on the values for which such river...