Draft environmental statement: Burnt Powder Planning Unit : a land management plan

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Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, 1978 - 257 pages

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Page 4 - Council") . The Council shall be composed of three members who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and each of whom shall be a person who as a result of his training, experience, and attainments, is exceptionally...
Page 122 - No public forest reservation shall be established, except to improve and protect the forest within the reservation, or for the purpose of securing favorable conditions of water flows, and to furnish a continuous supply of timber for the use and necessities of citizens of the United States...
Page 8 - For the purposes of this section — (1) continuity of session is broken only by an adjournment of Congress sine die ; and (2) the days on which either House is not in session because of an adjournment of more than three days to a day certain are excluded in the computation of any period of time in which Congress is in continuous session.
Page 2 - To declare a national policy which will encourage productive and enjoyable harmony between man and his environment...
Page 4 - It shall be the duty and function of the Council— ( 1 ) to assist and advise the President in the preparation of the Environmental Quality Report required by section 201 of this title; (2) to gather timely and authoritative information concerning the conditions and trends in the quality of the environment...
Page 24 - Indians, as also the right of taking fish at all usual and accustomed places, in common with the citizens of the Territory, and of erecting temporary buildings for curing them; together with the privilege of hunting, gathering roots and berries, and pasturing their horses and cattle upon open and unclaimed land.
Page 19 - ... the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed to develop and administer the renewable surface resources of the national forests for multiple use and sustained yield of the several products and services obtained thereform.
Page 4 - President with respect thereto; »(4) to develop and recommend to the President national policies to foster and promote the improvement of environmental quality to meet the conservation, social, economic, health, and other requirements and goals of the Nation; (5) to conduct investigations, studies, surveys, research, and analyses relating to ecological systems and environmental quality...
Page 19 - It is the policy of the Congress that the national forests are established and shall be administered for outdoor recreation, range, timber, watershed, and wildlife and fish purposes.
Page 4 - Act for the purpose of determining the extent to which such programs and activities are contributing to the achievement of such policy, and to make recommendations to the President with respect thereto...

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