Oversight on the Montana Wilderness Study Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Reserved Water of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, First Session, on the Future Management on the Mount Henry, Taylor-Hilgard, and West Pioneer Wilderness Study Areas, Montana Wilderness Study Act, Public Law 95-150, Bozeman, Mont., May 28, 1981, Issue 33

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Page 44 - An area of wilderness is further defined to mean in this act an area of undeveloped Federal land retaining its primeval character and influence, without permanent improvements or human habitation...
Page 14 - Nor shall anything herein prohibit any person from entering upon such forest reservations for all proper and lawful purposes, including that of prospecting, locating, and developing the mineral resources thereof: Provided, That such persons comply with the rules and regulations covering such forest reservations.
Page 43 - State or private owner shall be given such rights as may be necessary to assure adequate access...
Page 159 - In order to assure that an increasing population, accompanied by expanding settlement and growing mechanization, does not occupy and modify all areas within the United States and its possessions, leaving no lands designated for preservation and protection in their natural condition, it is hereby declared to be the policy of the Congress to secure for the American people of present and future generations the benefits of an enduring resource of wilderness.
Page 27 - 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...
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Page 20 - Nothing herein shall be construed as prohibiting the egress or ingress of actual settlers residing within the boundaries of such reservations, or from crossing the same to and from their property or homes; and such wagon roads and other improvements may be constructed thereon as may be necessary to reach their homes and to utilize their property under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior.
Page 36 - The Government, which holds its interests here as elsewhere in trust for all the people, is not to be deprived of those interests by the ordinary court rules designed particularly for private disputes over individually owned pieces of property; and officers who have no authority at all to dispose of Government property cannot by their conduct cause the Government to lose its valuable rights by their acquiescence, laches, or failure to act.
Page 22 - That the right of way for the construction of highways over public lands, not reserved for public uses, is hereby granted.
Page 51 - ... 30 USC 185 r (2)(A). All oil owned by the government or owned by any lessee of government land has the right to have their oil carried at reasonable rates and without discrimination. 30 USC 185 r (4). A substantial number of pipelines hold permits to cross federal lands. See, Hearings before the Subcomm. on Public Lands of the House Comm. on Interior and Insular Affairs, 93rd Cong., 1st Sess., Oil and Natural Gas Pipeline Rights-of-Way, 112-114 (1973). 149. Supra note 143. 150. In other industries...

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