San Rafael Wilderness: Hearing, Ninetieth Congress, First Session, on H. R. 5161, H. R. 5494 [and] S.889, Volumes 8-14U.S. Government Printing Office, 1967 - 172 pages |
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addition area F ASPINALL BAKER BARING bill boundary BRANDBORG brush CALIF California condor Chairman citizens Committee on Interior CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Congressman controlled burning displaced 250 feet distance of approximately easterly EASTON EISSLER fire protection Geological Survey GREELEY hearing record House Office Building included Insular Affairs Interior and Insular JOHNSON June June 19 legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRESS located Madre Ridge Road Manzana Creek McPherson Peak miles million acres mineral survey ness Padres National Forest pictographs portions of area proposed San Rafael proposed wilderness area question Rafael Primitive Area Rafael Wilderness Area recommended Representative WAYNE San Rafael area San Rafael Primitive San Rafael Wilderness Santa Barbara County SAYLOR Sierra Club Sierra Madre Ridge Sisquoc River southerly statement Subcommittee TEAGUE Thank thence meandering tion TUNNEY type conversion U.S. Forest Service U.S. Geological Survey values Washington watershed Wilderness Act Wilderness Preservation System Wilderness System wildlife
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Page viii - 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 2 - Be it enacted by the Senate and Souse of Representatives of the United States...
Page viii - A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, 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 viii - A recommendation of the President for designation as wilderness shall become effective only if so provided by an Act of Congress.
Page 1 - ... advise the Governor of each State and the governing board of each county, or in Alaska the borough, in which the lands are located, and Federal departments and agencies concerned, and invite such officials and...
Page 1 - ... appropriate, including publication in the Federal Register and in a newspaper having general circulation in the area or areas in the vicinity of the affected land; (B) hold a public hearing or hearings at a location or locations convenient to the area affected. The hearings shall be announced through such means as the...
Page viii - Nothing herein contained shall limit the President in proposing, as part of his recommendations to Congress, the alteration of existing boundaries of primitive areas or recommending the addition of any contiguous area of national forest lands predominantly of wilderness value.
Page viii - The President shall advise the United States Senate and House of Representatives of his recommendations with respect to the designation as "wilderness...
Page 142 - ... Service boats in conjunction with their work in National Park Service areas in Alaskan waters. A step toward international adoption of national park ideals and policies so well recognized in the United States was made on October 12, 1940, when representatives of seven American Governments signed the Convention on Nature Protection and Wildlife Preservation in the Western Hemisphere.
Page 163 - I respectfully request that this letter be made part of the official record of the hearings on HR 6245.