Lincoln Back Country Wilderness Area, Montana, Volumes 8-13

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Considers S. 1121, to authorize USDA to classify as wilderness the national forest lands known as the Lincoln Back Country, and parts of the Lewis and Clark and Lolo National Forests, in Montana. Hearing was held in Great Falls, Mont.
 

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Page 172 - 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 flows, and to furnish a continuous supply of timber for the use and necessities of citizens of the United States...
Page 51 - The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.
Page 315 - We earnestly recommend that your subcommittee reject the proposal now before you, and request that this letter be made a part of the hearing record. Sincerely yours, STANFORD SMITH, General Manager.
Page 31 - I will lift mine eyes to the hills from whence cometh my strength.
Page 11 - enjoy' today is little else but a vast suicidal pollution. It is a blight affecting not only the air we breathe and the water we drink, but also the land we till and the outer space we hardly know. But most tragic of all, we now have the pollution of man in his body by insidious chemical products.15 No, technology is not the answer.
Page 167 - I appreciate very much the opportunity of appearing before you today to present the view of mv organization.
Page 200 - I respectfully request that this letter be made part of the hearing record dealing with the appropriation request for Federal construction of the San Luis and Oroville projects in California.
Page 358 - Our civilization," Krutch wrote, "is rapidly becoming one in which only two values are recognized: power and amusement. It would be a pity if the last refuges where man can enter into another kind of relation with the natural world should be improved out of existence.
Page 110 - The views expressed in this paper are the author'! own and should not be construed as representing the official position of the Senate Commerce Committee.
Page 341 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They do not labor or spin. But I tell you, Solomon in all his glory was not clothed as one of these.

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