Wilderness and Recreation--a Report on Resources, Values, and Problems: Report to the Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission by the Wildland Research Center, University of CaliforniaU.S. Government Printing Office, 1962 - 352 pages |
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Absaroka acreage acres aesthetic-religious appeal AUM's board foot Bob Marshall Bob Marshall Wilderness Boundary Waters Canoe Bureau BWCA California campers camping Canyon Creek estimates favor Federal legislation Fish Forest Service wilderness Gila Gila Wilderness Glacier Glacier Peak Wilderness grazing High Sierra Idaho included income interview Known deposits Lake livestock located major man-days miles million acres mineral mining Montana Mount Marcy national forest wilderness National Park Service NPS area Park Service areas parks and monuments Percent among users permit population potential Primitive Area problems productive forest land Range region reported respondents River roadless roads sample Selway-Bitterroot Table Teton timber tion Total U. S. Forest Service United USFS areas vacation Waters Canoe Area wild areas wilderness and primitive wilderness areas wilderness lands wilderness recreation wilderness reserves Wilderness Tracts wilderness trip wilderness users wilderness values Wildland Research Center wildlife withdrawals Wyoming Yellowstone
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Page 17 - Wisdom and spirit of the universe ! Thou soul that art the eternity of thought, That givest to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion, not in vain By day or star-light thus from my first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul ; Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects ; with enduring things, With life and nature, purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline, Both pain...
Page 305 - States is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to declare by public proclamation historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic or scientific interest that are situated upon the lands owned or controlled by the Government of the United States to be national monuments...
Page 20 - ... 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 32 - When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
Page 24 - The lands of the State, now owned or hereafter acquired, constituting the forest preserve as now fixed by law, shall be forever kept as wild forest lands. They shall not be leased, sold or exchanged, or be taken by any corporation, public or private, nor shall the timber thereon be sold, removed or destroyed.
Page 34 - Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence, so that never again will Americans be free in their own country from the noise, the exhausts,...
Page 314 - It being understood that all the water-communications, and all the usual portages along the line from Lake Superior to the Lake of the Woods, and also Grand Portage from the shore of Lake Superior to the Pigeon River, as now actually used, shall be free and open to the use of the subjects and citizens of both Countries.
Page 206 - Xn + n) which all enjoy in common in the sense that each individual's consumption of such a good leads to no subtraction from any other individual's consumption of that good...
Page 31 - I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness. O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart — and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where— For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.
Page 292 - He may also; upon terms and conditions to be fixed by him, sell or dispose of timber in those cases where in his judgment the cutting of such timber is required in order to control the attacks of insects or diseases or otherwise conserve the scenery or the natural or historic objects in any such park, monument, or reservation.