Buffalo National River, Arkansas: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on National Parks and Recreation..., 92-1, on H.R. 9119, H.R. 8382, and S. 7..., October 28 and 29, 1971 |
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... destroyed by pesticide and insecticides . Timber is being harvested in the water- shed areas , resulting in rapid runoff of waters . The demand for a Buffalo National River and the need for its protection leads me to urge this committee ...
... destroyed by pesticide and insecticides . Timber is being harvested in the water- shed areas , resulting in rapid runoff of waters . The demand for a Buffalo National River and the need for its protection leads me to urge this committee ...
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... destroy those characteristics which make it a National Treasure . We believe passage of this legislation will be a most important contribution to the welfare of the people of Arkansas and the nation and a credit to this Congress and the ...
... destroy those characteristics which make it a National Treasure . We believe passage of this legislation will be a most important contribution to the welfare of the people of Arkansas and the nation and a credit to this Congress and the ...
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... destroyed by pesticide and insecticides . Timber is being harvested in the watershed areas , result- ing in rapid runoff of waters . The demand for a Buffalo National River and the need for its pro- tection leads me to urge this ...
... destroyed by pesticide and insecticides . Timber is being harvested in the watershed areas , result- ing in rapid runoff of waters . The demand for a Buffalo National River and the need for its pro- tection leads me to urge this ...
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... destroy the values we're trying to protect . I know we do wish to protect it , and we recognize that when we make that designation it brings in problems , and we just have to solve them . I do have one further comment with respect to ...
... destroy the values we're trying to protect . I know we do wish to protect it , and we recognize that when we make that designation it brings in problems , and we just have to solve them . I do have one further comment with respect to ...
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... destroy the primitive quality and the beauty of the area , and , of course , the people come to this area because of these qualities that now exist . What we're asking for is control of this intrusion into- Mr. McCLURE . I would say ...
... destroy the primitive quality and the beauty of the area , and , of course , the people come to this area because of these qualities that now exist . What we're asking for is control of this intrusion into- Mr. McCLURE . I would say ...
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Page 19 - ... 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 37 - The Advisory Board on National Parks, Historic Sites, Buildings, and Monuments has recommended national seashore status for Oregon Dunes.
Page 6 - No department or agency of the United States shall recommend authorization of any water resources project that would have a direct and adverse effect on the values for which such river was established...
Page 131 - 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 36 - 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 131 - ... land. This sounds simple: do we not already sing our love for and obligation to the land of the free and the home of the brave? Yes, but just what and whom do we love? Certainly not the soil, which we are sending helter-skelter downriver. Certainly not the waters, which we assume have no function except to turn turbines, float barges, and carry off sewage. Certainly not the plants, of which we exterminate whole communities without batting an eye. Certainly not the animals, of which we have already...
Page 65 - 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 131 - 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 131 - There is as yet no ethic dealing with man's relation to land and to the animals and plants which grow upon it. Land, like 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 13 - Nothing contained in the foregoing sentence, however, shall preclude licensing of, or assistance to, developments below or above a...