Buffalo National River, Arkansas: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, First Session ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1972 - 204 pages |
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... hope we can do most of our work this morning and tomorrow . I hope that the witnesses will summarize their statements as best they can and not spend a great amount of time repeating what someone has already said . I yield to the ...
... hope we can do most of our work this morning and tomorrow . I hope that the witnesses will summarize their statements as best they can and not spend a great amount of time repeating what someone has already said . I yield to the ...
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... hope that as a result of this hearing the committee will report favorably on H.R. 8382 . And Mr. Chairman , I want to thank my colleagues in the House from Arkansas for supporting this . I think two plan to testify this morning , and of ...
... hope that as a result of this hearing the committee will report favorably on H.R. 8382 . And Mr. Chairman , I want to thank my colleagues in the House from Arkansas for supporting this . I think two plan to testify this morning , and of ...
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... hope we can get something done on that . Mr. ALEXNDER . We're going to join hands at the confluence of the Ohio and the Mississippi . Mr. TAYLOR . The Honorable Nathaniel P. Reed , Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks ...
... hope we can get something done on that . Mr. ALEXNDER . We're going to join hands at the confluence of the Ohio and the Mississippi . Mr. TAYLOR . The Honorable Nathaniel P. Reed , Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks ...
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... hope is that his constituents are not overly critical of him if the develop- ment work which is framed in this paper is not undertaken in the next several years , because there is very little likelihood of it being under- taken in spite ...
... hope is that his constituents are not overly critical of him if the develop- ment work which is framed in this paper is not undertaken in the next several years , because there is very little likelihood of it being under- taken in spite ...
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... hope that these other statements will not repeat what you say , and then we're going to direct questions to you . STATEMENT OF HON . WILLIAM E. HENDERSON , DIRECTOR OF THE ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND TOURISM , ACCOMPA- NIED BY ...
... hope that these other statements will not repeat what you say , and then we're going to direct questions to you . STATEMENT OF HON . WILLIAM E. HENDERSON , DIRECTOR OF THE ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND TOURISM , ACCOMPA- NIED BY ...
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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...