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. Hearings - Page 235by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1961Full view - About this book
| Les Joslin - 2005 - 182 pages
...as wilderness. Wilderness, then, has been defined in the law as a special type of place "untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain." Yet, "the law," as Frome so eloquently put it, "serves only as a starting point for determining —... | |
| Gabriel R. Ricci - 130 pages
...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.... an area of underdeveloped Federal land retaining its primitive character and influence, without permanent improvements... | |
| Kat Anderson - 2005 - 570 pages
...(Public Law 88-577), wilderness is "an area where the earth and [its] community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain. An area of wilderness is further defined to mean in this Act an area of undeveloped Federal land retaining its... | |
| 2006 - 52 pages
...1964 to maintain designated Federal lands "where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man - where man himself is a visitor who does not remain." Within designated wilderness areas, Federal land retains its primeval character without permanent improvements.... | |
| Stephen M. Meyer - 2006 - 113 pages
...defines "wilderness" as follows: an area where the earth and its community of life are un trammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain . . . retaining its primeval character and influence, without permanent improvements or human habitation,... | |
| Matt Stone - 2005 - 158 pages
...The act states that wilderness is "an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammcled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain. ... [Wilderness] is an area of undeveloped Federal land retaining its primeval character and influence,... | |
| Allen Riedel - 2006 - 276 pages
...Act of 1964 defined wilderness 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." This principle governs the regulations that surround wilderness, and the general guidelines are as... | |
| Roger Kaye - 2006 - 306 pages
...legislation being debated in Congress: "'An area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.' . . . This wilderness concept, and the expressed intent of the [mining] provisions of S. 1899," he... | |
| Clayne R. Jensen, Steven Guthrie - 2006 - 392 pages
...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. Other key phrases in the act specified that wilderness was federal land "retaining its primeval character... | |
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