San Gabriel, Washakie, and Mount Jefferson Wilderness Areas: Hearings, Ninetieth Congress, Second Session on S. 2531 ... S. 2630 ... and S. 2751 ... February 19 and 20, 1968, Volumes 8-13U.S. Government Printing Office, 1968 - 308 pages Considers. S. 2531, to establish the San Gabriel Wilderness in California as part of the National Wilderness Preservation System; S. 2751, to establish the Mount Jefferson Wilderness in Oregon as part of the National Wilderness Preservation System; and S. 2630, to establish the Washakie Wilderness in Wyoming from the combination of South Absaroka Wilderness and the Stratified Primitive Area as part of the National Wilderness Preservation System. |
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Page 22 - A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself Is a visitor who does not remain.
Page 22 - Act, an area of undeveloped Federal land retaining its primeval character and influence, without permanent improvements or human habitation, which is protected and managed so as to preserve its natural conditions and which ( 1 ) generally appears to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature, with the imprint of man's work substantially unnoticeable...
Page 279 - Multiple use" means the management of all the various renewable surface resources of the national forests so that they are utilized in the combination that will best meet the needs of the American people; making the most judicious use of the land for some or all of these resources or related services over areas large enough to provide sufficient latitude for periodic adjustments in use to conform to changing needs and conditions...
Page 16 - The management of all the various renewable surface resources of the national forests so that they are utilized in the combination that will best meet the needs of the American people; making the most judicious use of the land for some or all of these resources or related services over areas large enough to provide sufficient latitude for periodic adjustments in use to conform to changing needs and conditions; that some...
Page 42 - Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, with your permission, I would like to call on our regional project development engineer, Mr.
Page xiv - AN ACT Relating to the revested Oregon and California Railroad and reconveyed Coos Bay Wagon Road grant lands situated in the State of Oregon...
Page 22 - Nothing in this Act shall prevent within national forest wilderness areas any activity, including prospecting, for the purpose of gathering information about mineral or other resources, if such activity is carried on in a manner compatible with the preservation of the wilderness environment.
Page 82 - Society's objectives are to secure the preservation of wilderness, to carry on an educational program concerning the value of wilderness and how it may best be used and preserved in the public interest, to make and encourage scientific studies concerning wilderness, and to mobilize cooperation in resisting the invasion of wilderness.
Page xiii - In the State of California. Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the United States...
Page 153 - Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Act, until midnight December 31, 1983, the United States mining laws and all laws pertaining to mineral leasing shall, to the same extent as applicable prior to the effective date of this Act, extend to those national forest lands designated by this Act as "wilderness areas...