Lincoln Back Country Wilderness Area, Montana: Hearing, Ninety-first, Congress, First Session ... March 7, 1969, Volumes 8-13Considers S. 412, to classify portions of Lincoln Back Country, and Lewis and Clark and Lolo National Forests in Montana as wilderness areas. |
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Agriculture to classify allowable cut Back Country Wilderness beautiful Bob Marshall Wilderness Chairman Clark and Lolo classify as wilderness CLIFF Committee on Interior CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Continental Divide D.C. DEAR SENATOR dated February DEAR SENATOR CHURCH DEAR SENATOR JACKSON direct legislation February 27 Forest Service plan glacial drift hearing Helena Interior and Insular LEE METCALF Lewis and Clark LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Lincoln Back Country Lincoln-Scapegoat area Lincoln-Scapegoat Back Country lodgepole pine logging Lolo National Forests March 19 Marshall Wilderness Area million board feet mineral MISSOULA MONT multiple national forest lands potential primitive areas Public Lands Subcommittee RAHM road Scapegoat Wilderness Secretary of Agriculture Senate Office Building Senator FRANK CHURCH Senator HATFIELD Senator JORDAN Senator METCALF Senator NELSON Sincerely soil statement Subcommittee on Public Sylvania trails U.S. Forest Service U.S. Senate urge Washington Western Montana Wilderness Act wilderness area Wilderness Preservation System Wilderness proposal wilderness system wildlife
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Page 1 - in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized and directed to classify as wilderness those national forest lands containing approximately 240,500 acres in the Helena National Forest in Montana, known as the Lincoln Back Country, and parts of the Lewis and Clark and Lolo
Page 4 - the standpoint of the Administration's program. Sincerely, Clifford M. Hardin, Secretary. Executive Office of the President, Bureau of the Budget, Washington, DC, March 17, 1969. Hon. Henry M. Jackson, Chairman, Committee on
Page 59 - Western Wood Products Association Portland, Oreg., March 7, 1969. Hon. Frank Church, Chairman, Public Lands Subcommittee, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, US Senate, Washington, DC Dear Mr. Chairman: The Western Wood Products Association has reviewed S. 412, the Lincoln Back Country Wilderness proposal, and the Forest Service "Coordinated Resource Development Plan for the Blackfoot-Sun River Divide Area
Page 8 - Our objective in recreation management on the National Forest System is to provide a wide range of recreation opportunities. Through research and experience, we have found that many National Forest visitors seek experiences between those found in designated wilderness and those offered in heavily developed sites. There are
Page 38 - If it pleases the Committee I would like to have the following statement made a part of the Lincoln Scapegoat Wilderness hearing which was held on March 7, 1969 in Washington, DC, of which I attended in person.
Page 7 - Mr. Cliff. The National Wilderness Preservation System was established by the Wilderness Act of 1964. That act included immediately in the system 54 National Forest areas then classified as wilderness, wild, or canoe areas. It also set forth a procedure for review of the 34 National Forest Primitive Areas and certain Interior administered areas as to suitability or nonsuitability for inclusion in the Wilderness System.
Page 37 - We would appreciate it if this letter were made a part of the hearing record on S. 412.
Page 2 - area shall be subject to the same provisions and rules as those designated as wilderness areas by the Wilderness Act of September 3, 1964 (78 Stat. 890).
Page 31 - The committee will be in recess subject to the call of the Chair. I have a request for certain insertions in the record. Without objection, they