California Wilderness Act of 1983: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Reserved Water of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session, on S. 5 .. S. 1515 ... H.R. 1437 ... July 28, 1983, Issue 45 |
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Access acreage Agriculture Association Board of Supervisors boundaries California Wilderness Act Chairman Committee comprise approximately compromise Congress Del Norte County depicted designated as wilderness Dinkey Lakes economic environmental existing Federal fish fisheries habitat hydroelectric impact included Ishi Klamath Lake LANDS AND RESERVED Lassen National Forest map entitled McCloud River Mendocino miles million acres mineral Mountain Wilderness national forest lands ness non-wilderness Norte County potential Primitive Area production proposed wilderness protection Public Lands RARE II recreation RESERVED WATER road roadless areas salmon San Francisco San Joaquin Secretary Senator WALLOP Senator Wilson Sequoia Sierra Sierra National Forest Siskiyou South Fork Stanislaus statement study areas SUBCOMMITTEE ON PUBLIC Thank timber harvest tion trails Trinity Alps Trinity County Tuolumne County Tuolumne River Tuolumne River Canyon U.S. Forest Service vehicle watershed Wild and Scenic Wilderness Act Wilderness Additions wilderness areas wilderness designation wilderness legislation wilderness system Wilderness-Proposed wildlife Yosemite National Park
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Page 432 - ... in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.
Page 959 - To declare a national policy which will encourage productive and enjoyable harmony between man and his environment; to promote efforts which will prevent or eliminate damage to the environment and biosphere and stimulate the health and welfare of man; to enrich the understanding of the ecological systems and natural resources important to the Nation; and to establish a Council on Environmental Quality.
Page 137 - Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate be hereby directed to transmit copies of this resolution to the President and Vice President of the United States, to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and to each Senator and Representative from California in the Congress of the United States.
Page 137 - Channel and commends the commission for such action ; and be it further Resolved, That the Legislature of the State of California...
Page 137 - Resolved by the Senate and Assembly of the State of California, jointly, That the Legislature of the State of California...
Page 516 - Nothing herein contained shall limit the President in proposing, as part of his recommendations to Congress, the alteration of existing boundaries of primitive areas or recommending the addition of any contiguous area of national forest lands predominantly of wilderness value.
Page 733 - State or private owner shall be given such rights as may be necessary to assure adequate access to such State-owned or privately owned land by such State or private owner and their successors in interest...
Page 137 - That the chief clerk of the assembly be hereby directed to transmit copies of this resolution to the President and Vice President of the United States, to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and to each Senator and Representative from California in the Congress of the United States.
Page 242 - Act, as amended, on or directly affecting any river which is listed in section 5, subsection (a), of this Act, and no department or agency of the United States shall assist by loan, grant, license, or otherwise in the construction of any water resources project that would have a direct and adverse effect on the values for which such river might be designated...
Page 242 - Nothing contained in the foregoing sentence, however, shall preclude licensing of, or assistance to, developments below or above a potential wild, scenic or recreational river area...