Buffalo National River, Arkansas: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, First Session ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1972 - 204 pages |
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... region , presented by A. T. Wright .. Diggs , Jack , for Sierra Club members , State of Arkansas . Driftwood , Jimmy , chairman , State Parks , Recreation and Travel Commission ... 148 104 54 Dumas , Bethany K. , of Baton Rouge , La ...
... region , presented by A. T. Wright .. Diggs , Jack , for Sierra Club members , State of Arkansas . Driftwood , Jimmy , chairman , State Parks , Recreation and Travel Commission ... 148 104 54 Dumas , Bethany K. , of Baton Rouge , La ...
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... region ( map ) _ . 75 Tax revenue and assessed valuation , 1970 - Buffalo National River area , April 12 , 1971 ( table ) _ 30 U.S. Department of the Interior , National Park Service - proposed Buffalo National River , estimated man ...
... region ( map ) _ . 75 Tax revenue and assessed valuation , 1970 - Buffalo National River area , April 12 , 1971 ( table ) _ 30 U.S. Department of the Interior , National Park Service - proposed Buffalo National River , estimated man ...
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... region , and enable it to be classed among the most outstandingly scenic of the free - flowing streams in the eastern United States . With little residential or commercial development on its banks , and with no municipal or industrial ...
... region , and enable it to be classed among the most outstandingly scenic of the free - flowing streams in the eastern United States . With little residential or commercial development on its banks , and with no municipal or industrial ...
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... region . Many organizations , public and private , and many institutions of government , have endorsed the proposal to establish the Buffalo Na- tional River . I would like to call attention to one which I consider especially meaningful ...
... region . Many organizations , public and private , and many institutions of government , have endorsed the proposal to establish the Buffalo Na- tional River . I would like to call attention to one which I consider especially meaningful ...
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... region is a natural area for outdoor recreation . Residents of the many urban areas of the South and Midwest would have easy access to this magnificent river and park area . The establishment of the Buffalo National River would also ...
... region is a natural area for outdoor recreation . Residents of the many urban areas of the South and Midwest would have easy access to this magnificent river and park area . The establishment of the Buffalo National River would also ...
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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...