Colorado Wilderness Areas: Hearing, Ninety-third Congress, First Session, on S. 702 ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1973 - 562 pages Considers S. 702, S. 1863, S. 1864. |
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... NESS , Chief Counsel STEVEN P. QUARLES , Special Counsel HARRISON LOESCH , Minority Counsel PUBLIC LANDS SUBCOMMITTEE FLOYD K. HASKELL , Chairman JAMES A. McCLURE , Idaho MARK O. HATFIELD , Oregon JAMES L. BUCKLEY , New York HENRY M ...
... NESS , Chief Counsel STEVEN P. QUARLES , Special Counsel HARRISON LOESCH , Minority Counsel PUBLIC LANDS SUBCOMMITTEE FLOYD K. HASKELL , Chairman JAMES A. McCLURE , Idaho MARK O. HATFIELD , Oregon JAMES L. BUCKLEY , New York HENRY M ...
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... NESS , Chief Counsel STEVEN P. QUARLES , Special Counsel HARRISON LOESCH , Minority Counsel PUBLIC LANDS SUBCOMMITTEE FLOYD K. HASKELL , Chairman S. 702 S. 1863 . S. 1864 . CONTENTS STATEMENTS. ALAN BIBLE , Nevada FRANK CHURCH , Idaho ...
... NESS , Chief Counsel STEVEN P. QUARLES , Special Counsel HARRISON LOESCH , Minority Counsel PUBLIC LANDS SUBCOMMITTEE FLOYD K. HASKELL , Chairman S. 702 S. 1863 . S. 1864 . CONTENTS STATEMENTS. ALAN BIBLE , Nevada FRANK CHURCH , Idaho ...
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... ness Area . The areas proposed in these bills are approximately as follows : Flat tops Wilderness Area is near 212,716 acres ; Weminuche Wil- derness Area is near 440,000 acres ; and Eagles Nest Wilderness Area is near 125,000 acres ...
... ness Area . The areas proposed in these bills are approximately as follows : Flat tops Wilderness Area is near 212,716 acres ; Weminuche Wil- derness Area is near 440,000 acres ; and Eagles Nest Wilderness Area is near 125,000 acres ...
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... ness Act specifically provides that the President may authorize prospecting for water resources , the establishment and maintenance of new reservoirs , power projects , water conservation works , transmission lines , and other ...
... ness Act specifically provides that the President may authorize prospecting for water resources , the establishment and maintenance of new reservoirs , power projects , water conservation works , transmission lines , and other ...
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... ness bills which we are considering would add approximately 760,000 acres to the Wilderness System in Colorado . At the present time there are 280,000 acres in the Wilderness System . There is no question that Flat Tops , Eagles Nest ...
... ness bills which we are considering would add approximately 760,000 acres to the Wilderness System in Colorado . At the present time there are 280,000 acres in the Wilderness System . There is no question that Flat Tops , Eagles Nest ...
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addition campgrounds Chicago Basin citizen boundary Colo Colorado Open Space Colorado River Colorado West Committee Creek area Creek drainage Creek tributary designated Dillon Reservoir ditches Eagles Nest Wilderness East Meadow East Meadow Creek environmental facilities filed Flat Tops Wilderness FLOYD HASKELL Forest Service proposal Gore Creek Gore Range Gulch hearing Hinsdale County included industry irrigation June Lake located miles mineral National Forest ness North Fork oil shale Open Space Council percent Permittee Piney River plans Primitive Area proposed wilderness areas public lands recommended recreation road Roberts Tunnel Collection Rocky Mountain Power Senate Bill Senator DOMINICK South Fork South Platte River statement storage streams Thank timber harvests tion Tops Wilderness Area Tunnel Collection System unit vehicle water resources water rights watershed Weminuche Wilderness White River Wilderness Act Wilderness boundary wilderness classification wilderness proposals Wilderness Society wilderness system wildlife
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Page 159 - ... 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 152 - Act, (1) the President may, within a specific area and in accordance with such regulations as he may deem desirable, authorize prospecting for water resources, the establishment and maintenance of reservoirs, water-conservation works, power projects, transmission lines, and other facilities needed in the public interest...
Page 114 - Act an area of undeveloped Federal land retaining its primeval character and influence, without permanent improvements or human habitation, which is protected and managed so as to preserve its natural conditions and which (1) generally appears to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature, with the imprint of man's work substantially unnoticeable...
Page 514 - Wells would like to go on record as being in favor of the passing of bill HR 10619; request this telegram be read at the hearing to be held April 12, 1962.
Page 222 - Whenever, in the judgment of the Commission, the development of any water resources for public purposes should be undertaken by the United States itself, the Commission shall not approve any application for any project affecting such development, but shall cause to be made such examinations, surveys, reports, plans, and estimates of the cost of the proposed development as it may find necessary, and shall submit its findings to Congress with such recommendations...
Page 495 - Act (including measures required in emergencies involving the health and safety of persons within the area), there shall be no temporary road, no use of motor vehicles, motorized equipment or motorboats, no landing of aircraft, no other form of mechanical transport, and no structure or installation within any such area.
Page 254 - ... 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 72 - 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 378 - to the fullest extent possible: (1) the policies, regulations, and public laws of the United States shall be interpreted and administered in accordance with the policies
Page 311 - Congress to secure for the American people of present and future generations the benefits of an enduring resource of wilderness.