ORRRC Study Report, Issue 3Outdoor Recreation Resources Commission, 1962 - Outdoor recreation |
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Absaroka acreage allocation appeal AUM's board foot Bob Mar Bob Marshall Bob Marshall Wilderness Boundary Waters Canoe BWCA campers camping Canyon costs Creek developed estimates favor Federal legislation fish Forest Service wilderness Gila Smoky Gila Wilderness Glacier Glacier Peak Wilderness grazing High Sierra Idaho important included income increase interviewers Known deposits Lake livestock 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 population potential Primitive Area problems productive forest land region reported respondents roads sample Selway-Bitterroot Smoky Sierra Marcy Table timber tion U. S. Forest Service U.S. Forest United UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 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 Wildland Research Center wildlife withdrawals Wyoming
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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 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 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 citizens and subjects of both countries.
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 306 - Agriculture is authorized and directed to develop and administer the renewable surface resources of the national forests for multiple use and sustained yield of the several products and services obtained therefrom. In the administration of the national forests due consideration shall be given to the relative values of the various resources in particular areas. The establishment and maintenance of areas of wilderness are consistent with the purposes and provisions of this Act.
Page 306 - March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and which may be continued: and he may make such rules and regulations and establish such service as will insure the objects of such reservations, namely, to regulate their occupancy and use and to preserve the forests thereon from destruction...
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 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.