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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... million people who live within driving distance of it . There is a great need for another national park in the ... million persons would visit the river yearly , most of them over a season of seven to eight months ; 2. the Park Service ...
... million people who live within driving distance of it . There is a great need for another national park in the ... million persons would visit the river yearly , most of them over a season of seven to eight months ; 2. the Park Service ...
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... millions of persons in the middle part of the United States . In its present status , the Buffalo is doomed to become an elongated resort - type area , subject to the type of despoliation that only man is capable of creating . No river ...
... millions of persons in the middle part of the United States . In its present status , the Buffalo is doomed to become an elongated resort - type area , subject to the type of despoliation that only man is capable of creating . No river ...
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... million people , is a great outdoor museum whose geology , botany , wildlife , archeology , and history record the evolution of man and nature over thousands of years . The bills authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire by ...
... million people , is a great outdoor museum whose geology , botany , wildlife , archeology , and history record the evolution of man and nature over thousands of years . The bills authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire by ...
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... million backlog as of fiscal 1972 , and we are spending $ 78 million this year . Mr. MCCLURE . Now the $ 301.2 million is based on the appraisals that were used at the time of acquisition or has that figure been updated ? Mr. REED . I ...
... million backlog as of fiscal 1972 , and we are spending $ 78 million this year . Mr. MCCLURE . Now the $ 301.2 million is based on the appraisals that were used at the time of acquisition or has that figure been updated ? Mr. REED . I ...
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... million out of the Depart- ment , departmental budget , and that's a very healthy increase over the last 5 years . Mr. MCCLURE . I just wanted to make two points , Mr. Secretary , which you have made and I think should be well ...
... million out of the Depart- ment , departmental budget , and that's a very healthy increase over the last 5 years . Mr. MCCLURE . I just wanted to make two points , Mr. Secretary , which you have made and I think should be well ...
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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...