Buffalo National River, Arkansas: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, First Session ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1972 - 204 pages |
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... opportunity to visit this area earlier this year , in the first part of June , I can see why so many people want to make it a part of the national park system . On the other hand , I can also under- stand why the people who live in this ...
... opportunity to visit this area earlier this year , in the first part of June , I can see why so many people want to make it a part of the national park system . On the other hand , I can also under- stand why the people who live in this ...
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... opportunity for preservation since its headwaters lie within the Ozark National Forest . The House bills differ from S. 7 , as passed by the Senate , in three major sub- stantive respects : 1. In allowing owners of improved property ...
... opportunity for preservation since its headwaters lie within the Ozark National Forest . The House bills differ from S. 7 , as passed by the Senate , in three major sub- stantive respects : 1. In allowing owners of improved property ...
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... opportunity to congratulate you for the presentation you've made this morning . I would like to say that for the record that both you and Mr. Mills have talked to me innumerable times with regard to this piece of leg- islation . I ...
... opportunity to congratulate you for the presentation you've made this morning . I would like to say that for the record that both you and Mr. Mills have talked to me innumerable times with regard to this piece of leg- islation . I ...
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... opportunity to present a statement on H.R. 8382 , which would provide for the establishment of the Buffalo National River in the State of Arkansas . Ten years ago , the distinguished Junior Senator from Arkansas , The Honorable J. W. ...
... opportunity to present a statement on H.R. 8382 , which would provide for the establishment of the Buffalo National River in the State of Arkansas . Ten years ago , the distinguished Junior Senator from Arkansas , The Honorable J. W. ...
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... opportunity for pleasurable boating and swimming . Its scenery is interesting and often spectacular . It is unspoiled by development and free of pollution . It has a remarkable collection of features illustrating its geology , botany ...
... opportunity for pleasurable boating and swimming . Its scenery is interesting and often spectacular . It is unspoiled by development and free of pollution . It has a remarkable collection of features illustrating its geology , botany ...
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acquisition acres Arabian horse ASPINALL Baxter County beauty Blanchard Springs Caverns bluffs boundaries Buffalo National River Buffalo River area Building camping canoe canoeist Chairman Club Commission Committee on Interior CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Congressman conservation D.C. DEAR dams Department donate economic environment Environmental establish the Buffalo favor Federal Government feel fishing float free-flowing stream Hammerschmidt House Bill 8382 improvements Insular Affairs Interior and Insular John Paul Hammerschmidt land landowners legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Longworth McCLURE ment miles million National Park Service Newton County October October 28 operation opportunity owner Ozark Mountains Ozark National Forest Ozark Society Parks and Recreation pollution preservation proposed Buffalo National Pruitt record REED region represent residents River in Arkansas River State Park scenic Searcy County Secretary Senate statement Subcommittee on National TAYLOR Thank tourist unique University of Arkansas Washington wilderness
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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...