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" 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 235
by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1961
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H.R. 822, H.R. 4806 and H.R. 4838: Legislative Hearing Before the ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health - 2005 - 80 pages
...wilderness is. In reading directly out of the Act, "The earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain. Undeveloped Federal land, retaining its primeval character and influence without permanent improvements,...
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The Wilderness Concept and the Three Sisters Wilderness: Deschutes and ...

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 —...
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Cultural Landscapes

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...
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Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California ...

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...
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Business plan for the Six Rivers National Forest: a window of opportunity

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....
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The End of the Wild

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,...
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Go Backpacking!

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,...
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Best Hikes with Dogs: Southern California

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...
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Last Great Wilderness: The Campaign to Establish the Arctic National ...

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...
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Outdoor Recreation in America

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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