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... feel this bill is against our free enter- prise form of Government . We feel that this is merely a confiscation of property by the Government of land which the railroads have paid for many times over due to land grant freight deductions ...
... feel this bill is against our free enter- prise form of Government . We feel that this is merely a confiscation of property by the Government of land which the railroads have paid for many times over due to land grant freight deductions ...
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... feel a lease - back on these ranches is no good , because I have had that experience too . We would lose our security for ourselves and our children . I feel sure , gentlemen , a small acreage of land for a park could be considered in ...
... feel a lease - back on these ranches is no good , because I have had that experience too . We would lose our security for ourselves and our children . I feel sure , gentlemen , a small acreage of land for a park could be considered in ...
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... feel our dairymen out there on Point Reyes are not fly - by - night dairymen . We have been out there and started the root to the tree , and now we have it blossoming . We are going to stay dairymen . We are not good for anything else ...
... feel our dairymen out there on Point Reyes are not fly - by - night dairymen . We have been out there and started the root to the tree , and now we have it blossoming . We are going to stay dairymen . We are not good for anything else ...
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... feel that will not work . Once the Park Service takes over the whole area there is a multitude of problems which would come from the Park Service operating it . You don't know what to build and what to develop and not to develop . You ...
... feel that will not work . Once the Park Service takes over the whole area there is a multitude of problems which would come from the Park Service operating it . You don't know what to build and what to develop and not to develop . You ...
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... feel to be a distortion of the true picture . We who have lived in and know this area well regard many of the proponents ' ideas as unsound and untenable . Our personal observations and involvement in the life of this Point Reyes region ...
... feel to be a distortion of the true picture . We who have lived in and know this area well regard many of the proponents ' ideas as unsound and untenable . Our personal observations and involvement in the life of this Point Reyes region ...
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Page 87 - I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast.
Page 235 - 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 1 - ... personnel as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this...
Page 1 - President at the time of the appointment, one at the end of one year, one at the end of two years, one at the end of three years, one at the end of four years, and one at the end of five years...
Page 102 - States ; and be it further Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate be hereby directed to transmit copies of this resolution to the President and Vice President of the United States...
Page 235 - 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 85 - Congress to secure for the American people of present and future generations the benefits of an enduring resource of wilderness.
Page 5 - An act [to amend an act entitled an act] to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes, approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two," approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
Page 141 - ... 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 34 - wilderness areas," and these shall be administered for the use and enjoyment of the American people in such manner as will leave them unimpaired for future use and enjoyment as wilderness...