Inclusion of Alaska Lands in National Park, Forest, Wildlife Refuge, and Wild and Scenic Rivers System: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on General Oversight and Alaska Lands of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session ... Held in Washington, D.C., April 21 and 22, 1977 . .U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977 |
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... existing national park system . In addition , these same proposals provide a more moderate degree of protection to roughly another 55 million acres ; an area equal to the States of Pennsylvania and New York combined . In contrast ...
... existing national park system . In addition , these same proposals provide a more moderate degree of protection to roughly another 55 million acres ; an area equal to the States of Pennsylvania and New York combined . In contrast ...
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... existing rights , hereby de- 5 clared to be units of the National Park System ; the areas 6 described in title II are , subject to valid existing rights , 7 hereby declared to be units of the National Wildlife Refuge . 8 System ; the ...
... existing rights , hereby de- 5 clared to be units of the National Park System ; the areas 6 described in title II are , subject to valid existing rights , 7 hereby declared to be units of the National Wildlife Refuge . 8 System ; the ...
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... EXISTING AREAS SEC . 102. ( a ) The following units of the National Park 5 System are hereby expanded : 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 ( 1 ) Mount McKinley National Park by the addi- tion of approximately four million seven hundred ...
... EXISTING AREAS SEC . 102. ( a ) The following units of the National Park 5 System are hereby expanded : 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 ( 1 ) Mount McKinley National Park by the addi- tion of approximately four million seven hundred ...
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... EXISTING AREAS SEC . 202. ( a ) The following units of the National Wild- 15 life Refuge System are hereby expanded : 16 17 13 19 20 15 21 22 32 23 24 225 ( 1 ) Clarence Rhode National Wildlife Range by the addition of approximately six ...
... EXISTING AREAS SEC . 202. ( a ) The following units of the National Wild- 15 life Refuge System are hereby expanded : 16 17 13 19 20 15 21 22 32 23 24 225 ( 1 ) Clarence Rhode National Wildlife Range by the addition of approximately six ...
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... existing units of those 12 systems , are , subject to valid existing rights , hereby desig- 13 nated as wilderness and , therefore , as components of the 14 National Wilderness Preservation System . 15 16 17 DESIGNATION OF WILDERNESS ...
... existing units of those 12 systems , are , subject to valid existing rights , hereby desig- 13 nated as wilderness and , therefore , as components of the 14 National Wilderness Preservation System . 15 16 17 DESIGNATION OF WILDERNESS ...
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Page 861 - 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 128 - States subject to all of the laws and regulations applicable thereto, and are withdrawn from all forms of appropriation under the public land laws, including the mining and mineral leasing laws...
Page 444 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory, according to their choice, reserving their natural allegiance, may return to Russia within three years ; but, if they should prefer to remain in the ceded territory, they, with the exception of uncivilized native tribes, shall be admitted to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities of citizens of the United States, and shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and religion.
Page 458 - ... harmonious and coordinated management of the various resources, each with the other, without impairment of the productivity of the land, with consideration being given to the relative values of the various resources, and not necessarily the combination of uses that will give the greatest dollar return or the greatest unit output.
Page 458 - Multiple use" means the management of all the various renewable surface resources of the national forests so that they are utilized in the combination that will best meet the needs of the American people; making the most judicious use of the land for some or all of these resources or related services over areas large enough to provide sufficient latitude for periodic adjustments in use to conform...
Page 459 - Sustained yield of the several products and services" means the achievement and maintenance in perpetuity of a high-level annual or regular periodic output of the various renewable resources of the national forests without impairment of the productivity of the land.
Page 240 - Wild and Scenic Rivers Act". (b) It is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States that certain selected rivers of the Nation which, with their immediate environments, possess outstandingly remarkable scenic, recreational, geologic, fish and wildlife, historic, cultural, or other similar values...
Page 135 - Secretary to withdraw up to 80 million acres of land to be studied for possible addition to the National Park, Forest, Wildlife Refuge, and Wild and Scenic Rivers Systems.
Page 571 - 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 335 - Convention, the following shall be considered as 'natural heritage': natural features consisting of physical and biological formations or groups of such formations, which are of outstanding universal value from the aesthetic or scientific point of view; geological and physiographical formations and precisely delineated areas which constitute the habitat of threatened species of animals and plants of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science or conservation...