Roadless area review and evaluation (RARE II)U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978 |
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... goals to provide broad planning guidance that will keep us within that box . The needs criteria we are talking about ... RPA goal for wilderness . We need to be doing and we have to some extent done the same thing for the other RPA goals ...
... goals to provide broad planning guidance that will keep us within that box . The needs criteria we are talking about ... RPA goal for wilderness . We need to be doing and we have to some extent done the same thing for the other RPA goals ...
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... RPA goals . In that way a regional forester who has a 1.5 - million - board - foot timber goal would not be reaching outside of that . He would not be breaking that bank or getting out of that ball park . He would be ex- amining it in ...
... RPA goals . In that way a regional forester who has a 1.5 - million - board - foot timber goal would not be reaching outside of that . He would not be breaking that bank or getting out of that ball park . He would be ex- amining it in ...
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... goals in the RPA , but there are a number of other laws also that have some statement - presumably a public statement - of national needs . It is not all embedded in the RPA . Mr. SMITH . That is correct . In fact , our planning effort ...
... goals in the RPA , but there are a number of other laws also that have some statement - presumably a public statement - of national needs . It is not all embedded in the RPA . Mr. SMITH . That is correct . In fact , our planning effort ...
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... goals to measure land use decisions , there appears to be no overall coordination of the National Forest planning ... RPA goals , that will help im- prove the quality of those decisions - and that is commendable . If this program can ...
... goals to measure land use decisions , there appears to be no overall coordination of the National Forest planning ... RPA goals , that will help im- prove the quality of those decisions - and that is commendable . If this program can ...
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... goals established before us . in the RPA assessment program . There is now a 25- to 30 - million - acre goal for the national forests ' portion of the wilderness system . The RARE II process must be com- pleted in light of that goal ...
... goals established before us . in the RPA assessment program . There is now a 25- to 30 - million - acre goal for the national forests ' portion of the wilderness system . The RARE II process must be com- pleted in light of that goal ...
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acreage allocation alternative apparent naturalness AREA CODE AREA AREA NAME GROSS Assoc Attribute Rating System CANYON Chairman CODE AREA NAME Column components Congress consensus CREEK criteria CUTLER decisions economic Environmental Statement EWART Forest Service FORK FRANK CHURCH going Gospel-Hump groups Idaho identify included industry inventory LAKE land use planning legislation million acres MOUNTAIN multiple NAME GROSS ACRES National Forest lands national forest system natural integrity nonwilderness NOVEMBER 18 opportunities for solitude Oregon overall rating PEAK percent planning process potential primitive areas primitive recreation problem proposed public involvement question RARE II process recommendations region RIDGE RIVER Roadless Area Review roadless lands RPA goals Senator CHURCH Senator MCCLURE Sierra Club SMITH study areas sunset provision timber harvest timber supply tradeoffs U.S. Forest Service Washington WEAVER Wilderness Act wilderness areas Wilderness Attribute Rating Wilderness Preservation System Wilderness Study wilderness system wilderness values wildlife Worksheet
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Page 224 - 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; ( 2 ) has outstanding opportunities for solitude or a primitive and unconfined type of recreation...
Page 138 - ... imprint of man's work substantially unnoticeable; (2) has outstanding opportunities for solitude or a primitive and unconfined type of recreation; (3) has at least five thousand acres of land or is of sufficient size as to make practicable its preservation and use in an unimpaired condition; and (4) may also contain ecological, geological, or other features of scientific, educational, scenic, or historical value.
Page 61 - 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 225 - ... telephone lines, or facilities necessary in exploring, drilling, producing, mining, and processing operations, including where essential the use of mechanized ground or air equipment and restoration as near as practicable of the surface of the land disturbed...
Page 200 - Nothing in this Act shall prevent within national forest wilderness areas any activity, including prospecting, for the purpose of gathering information about mineral or other resources, if such activity is carried on in a manner compatible with the preservation of the wilderness environment.
Page 225 - Act, until midnight December 31, 1983, the United States mining laws and all laws pertaining to mineral leasing shall, to the same extent as applicable prior to the effective date of this Act, extend to those national forest lands designated by this Act as "wilderness areas...
Page 225 - Act, extend to those national forest lands designated by this Act as "wilderness areas"; subject, however, to such reasonable regulations governing ingress and egress as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture consistent with the use of the land for mineral location and development and exploration, drilling, and production, and use of land for transmission lines, waterlines...
Page 224 - An area of wilderness is further defined to mean in this 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...
Page 224 - Secretary of Agriculture for the protection of the wilderness character of the land consistent with the use of the land for the purposes for which they are leased, permitted, or licensed.
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