Implementation of Wilderness Act: Oversight Hearing Before the Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands and the Subcommittee on Forest and Forest Health of the Committee on Resources, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, First Session ... April 15, 1997--Washington, DC.

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Page 189 - A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
Page 138 - ... generally appears to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature, with the imprint of man's work substantially unnoticeable; (2) has outstanding opportunities for solitude or a primitive and unconfined type of recreation...
Page 138 - 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 194 - NWPS is made up of lands managed by federal agencies, including the US Forest Service, the National Park Service, the US Fish and Wildlife Service and, more recently, the Bureau of Land Management.
Page 190 - Congress to secure for the American people of present and future generations the benefits of an enduring resource of wilderness.
Page 1 - I do not think there is any question about that, at least as far as the Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management and the National Park Service are concerned, but that is not why it was established — that is a collateral benefit.
Page 185 - Watch is a national organization dedicated to the preservation and wise stewardship of lands within the National Wilderness Preservation System and the Wild and Scenic Rivers System.
Page 87 - I will be happy to answer any questions members of the Committee may have.
Page 1 - US House of Representatives Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health Committee on Resources Washington, DC The Subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 3:05 pm, in Room 1334, Longworth House Office Building, Hon.
Page 136 - In Wildness is the preservation of the World." But is it? The more one knows of its peculiar history, the more one realizes that wilderness is not quite what it seems. Far from being the one place on earth that stands apart from humanity, it is quite profoundly a human creation — indeed, the creation of very particular human cultures at very particular moments in human history.

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