Wilderness Preservation System: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Public Lands of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress, First[-second] Session, on S. 174 [and Other] Bills to Establish a National Wilderness Preservation System for the Permanent Good of the Whole People, and for Other PurposesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1962 - 1762 pages |
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... favor of wilderness bill , S. 174 , as was considered in the Senate on September 5 and 6 , 1961 . CONGRESSWOMAN GRACIE PFOST , Chairman , House Subcommittee on Public Lands : My name is Cecil F. McCracken . carpenter and a building ...
... favor of wilderness bill , S. 174 , as was considered in the Senate on September 5 and 6 , 1961 . CONGRESSWOMAN GRACIE PFOST , Chairman , House Subcommittee on Public Lands : My name is Cecil F. McCracken . carpenter and a building ...
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... favor of keeping as much of our remaining primi- tive lands intact as possible . The wilderness bill seems to be a step in this direc- tion , and I , therefore , urge your support for it . Respectfully yours , Representative GRACIE ...
... favor of keeping as much of our remaining primi- tive lands intact as possible . The wilderness bill seems to be a step in this direc- tion , and I , therefore , urge your support for it . Respectfully yours , Representative GRACIE ...
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... favor or against the bill ? Mr. SMITH . In favor . Mrs. Prost . Without objection , it will be included in the record at the conclusion of your statement . You may proceed . Mr. SMITH . As a director of the National Wildlife Federation ...
... favor or against the bill ? Mr. SMITH . In favor . Mrs. Prost . Without objection , it will be included in the record at the conclusion of your statement . You may proceed . Mr. SMITH . As a director of the National Wildlife Federation ...
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... favor of the bill . 6. Wilderness will not stop measures for fighting fires , insects , or disease . Wilderness will allow territory such as primitive areas and land in national parks to be reviewed not by a single agency or department ...
... favor of the bill . 6. Wilderness will not stop measures for fighting fires , insects , or disease . Wilderness will allow territory such as primitive areas and land in national parks to be reviewed not by a single agency or department ...
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... favor of it and if they are in favor of it with their wonderful rec- ord of fighting forest fires , I think they are worth listening to . Does that help any ? Mr. OLSEN . This is fine . Thank you . [ Applause . ] Mrs. PrOST . Our next ...
... favor of it and if they are in favor of it with their wonderful rec- ord of fighting forest fires , I think they are worth listening to . Does that help any ? Mr. OLSEN . This is fine . Thank you . [ Applause . ] Mrs. PrOST . Our next ...
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Page 252 - 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 92 - I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree.
Page 342 - That from the inmost darkness of the place Comes, scarcely felt ; the barky trunks, the ground, The fresh moist ground, are all instinct with thee.
Page 259 - In the administration of the national forests due consideration shall be given to the relative values of the various resources in particular areas. The establishment and maintenance of areas of wilderness are consistent with the purposes and provisions of this Act.
Page 211 - ... of sufficient size as to make practicable its preservation and use in an unimpaired condition; and (4) may also contain ecological, geological, or other features of scientific, educational, scenic, or historical value.
Page 39 - wilderness areas", and these shall be administered for the use and enjoyment of the American people in such manner as will leave them unimpaired for future use and enjoyment as wilderness, and so as to provide for the protection of these areas, the preservation of their wilderness character, and for the gathering and dissemination of information regarding their use and enjoyment as wilderness ; and no Federal lands shall be designated as "wilderness areas" except as provided for in this Act or by...
Page 146 - ... works, power projects, transmission lines, and other facilities needed in the public interest, including the road construction and maintenance essential to development and use thereof, upon his determination that such use or uses in the specific area will better serve the interests of the United States and the people thereof than will its denial...
Page 753 - Within wilderness areas in the national forests designated 'by this Act, (1) the President may, within a specific area and in accordance with such regulations as he may deem desirable...
Page 74 - ... 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 342 - God ! when thou Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts, or fill, With all the waters of the firmament, The swift dark whirlwind that uproots the woods And drowns the villages ; when, at thy call, Uprises the great deep and throws himself Upon the continent, and overwhelms Its cities — who forgets not, at the sight Of these tremendous tokens of thy power, His pride, and lays his strifes and follies by...