Missouri River Basin Progress Report

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Interior Missouri Basin Field Committee, 1954

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Page 42 - ... to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wildlife therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.
Page 102 - State wherein the impoundment, diversion, or other control facility is to be constructed...
Page 186 - Under the principles of prior appropriation, the law is well settled that the right to water flowing in the public streams may be acquired by an actual appropriation of the water for a beneficial use...
Page 3 - The general comprehensive plans set forth in House Document 475 and Senate Document 191, Seventy-eighth Congress, second session, as revised and coordinated by Senate Document 247, Seventy-eighth Congress, second session, are hereby approved. I do not contend that the word "approved" carries in any sense an authorization.
Page xxvi - Stream-gaging procedure, a manual describing methods and practices of the Geological Survey: US Geol.
Page xix - Bureau of Indian Affairs Report of Ownership Status of Restricted Allotted and Tribal Indian Lands on the Crow Creek, Lower Brule and Rosebud Reservations, South Dakota, Affected by the Fort Randall Dam and Reservoir Project...
Page 186 - The principles underlying these two doctrines are diametrically opposed to each other, the former being based on the ownership of land contiguous to a stream, without regard to the time of use or to any actual use at all, and the latter on the time of use and on actual use without regard to the ownership of land contiguous to the watercourse.
Page 72 - It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to lay out said land in a suitable and enduring manner so that the same may be maintained as an appropriate monument to retain for posterity a proper memorial emblematical of the hardships and the pioneer life through which the early settlers passed in the settlement, cultivation, and civilization of the great West.
Page 153 - ... 434. Transfers of archeological specimens made prior to fiscal 1955 and not previously reported : Department of Anthropology, University of Denver, a total of 19 sites representing Bonny, Cherry Creek, Narrows, and Wray reservoirs. Department of Anthropology, University of Nebraska, a total of 11 sites representing Harlan County Reservoir. Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, a total of 66 sites representing Cedar Bluff, Glen Elder, Kanopolis, Kirwin, Lovewell, Norton, Pioneer, Webster,...
Page 65 - I never would have been President if it had not been for my experience in North Dakota.

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