Public Outdoor Recreation Areas: Acreage, Use, Potential : Report to the Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission, Issues 1-4 |
Common terms and phrases
48 contiguous acreage and capacity Areas reporting BWCA campgrounds camping census region Corps of Engineers COUNTY PARK designated recreation areas facilities Federal areas Fish and wildlife FISHING ACCESS AREA Forest agencies forest land GAME MANAGEMENT AREA Gila Gila Wilderness government and type grazing High Sierra HIGHWAY AGENCY HUNTING AND FISHING inventory LAKE PUBLIC FISHING level of government man-days million acres Mount Marcy Mountain NATIONAL FOREST National Park Service NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE nonurban public designated North Central region Northeast number of areas outdoor recreation Park agencies Percent of U.S. planned for development primitive areas public designated recreation PUBLIC FISHING ACCESS PUBLIC FISHING AREA PUBLIC FISHING SITE PUBLIC SHOOTING AREA RESERVOIR RIVER PUBLIC FISHING South Special authorities timber type of agency U.S. and region U.S. Forest Service Water development agencies WAYSIDE West West North Central wilderness areas Wilderness Tracts wilderness users wildlife agencies WILDLIFE AREA WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA Wildlife Service
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Page 15 - 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 18 - ... 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 22 - 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 32 - 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 302 - 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 302 - 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 16 - ... (by some great protecting policy of government) preserved in their pristine beauty and wildness, in a magnificent park, where the world could see for ages to come, the native Indian in his classic attire, galloping his wild horse, with sinewy bow, and shield and lance, amid the fleeting herds of elks and buffaloes. What a beautiful and thrilling specimen for America to preserve and hold up to the view of her refined citizens and the world, in future ages! A nation's Park, containing man and beast,...
Page 29 - A world from which solitude is extirpated, is a very poor ideal. Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is essential to any depth of meditation or of character; and solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur, is the cradle of thoughts and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without. Nor is there...
Page 302 - No public forest reservation shall be established, except to improve and protect the forest within the reservation, or for the purpose of securing favorable conditions of water flow, and to furnish a continuous supply of timber for the use and necessities of citizens of the United States...
Page 33 - If it had just risen from the sea. That gave us our hope and our excitement, and the hope and excitement can be passed on to newer Americans, Americans who never saw any phase of the frontier. But only so long as we keep the remainder of our wild as a reserve and a promise— a sort of wilderness bank. "As a novelist, I may perhaps be forgiven for taking literature as a reflection, indirect but profoundly true, of our national consciousness. And our literature, as perhaps you are aware, is sick,...