San Gorgonio Wilderness Area: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Public Lands of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, Eighty-ninth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 6891, and Related Bills to Provide for Family Winter Recreational Use of a Portion of the San Gorgonio Wilderness Area, San Bernardino National Forest, California, and for Other Purposes. Hearings Held in San Bernardino, California, November 16 and 17, 1965 |
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... enjoy hiking and camping . Neither has a prior right or preference : ( b ) The area should be developed in such a manner that it may be used and enjoyed by the greatest number of our citizens over the great- est period of time , and ...
... enjoy hiking and camping . Neither has a prior right or preference : ( b ) The area should be developed in such a manner that it may be used and enjoyed by the greatest number of our citizens over the great- est period of time , and ...
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... enjoy- ment of wilderness area . We skiers enjoy hiking and camping also , and believe that 100 feet or so away from a chair lift the wilderness is as wild as it was before the ski lift was installed . We feel so strongly about ...
... enjoy- ment of wilderness area . We skiers enjoy hiking and camping also , and believe that 100 feet or so away from a chair lift the wilderness is as wild as it was before the ski lift was installed . We feel so strongly about ...
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... enjoy it . Some conservationists appear to have rather rigid rules on where and how to enjoy nature . I enjoy seeing a white- footed mouse or pocket gopher out on top of the snow under a ski lift and usually ski down to get a closer ...
... enjoy it . Some conservationists appear to have rather rigid rules on where and how to enjoy nature . I enjoy seeing a white- footed mouse or pocket gopher out on top of the snow under a ski lift and usually ski down to get a closer ...
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... enjoy the wonders of nature as they find them . I have found that damage to the psyche is quite variable , depending on the individual and his desire to resist or welcome damage to it . Youth organizations use trails at the east end of ...
... enjoy the wonders of nature as they find them . I have found that damage to the psyche is quite variable , depending on the individual and his desire to resist or welcome damage to it . Youth organizations use trails at the east end of ...
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... enjoyed ski touring in San Gorgonio for many years . However , I know the dangers in- volved in making such climbs in ... enjoy these camps in the winter , too ? Let's not keep the door to San Gorgonio closed all winter but open it for ...
... enjoyed ski touring in San Gorgonio for many years . However , I know the dangers in- volved in making such climbs in ... enjoy these camps in the winter , too ? Let's not keep the door to San Gorgonio closed all winter but open it for ...
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Page 263 - A wilderness, 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 263 - ... of sufficient size as to make practicable its preservation and use in an unimpaired condition; and (4) may also contain ecological, geological, or other features of scientific, educational, scenic, or historical value.
Page 263 - wilderness areas," and these shall be administered for the use and enjoyment of the American people in such manner as will leave them unimpaired for future use and enjoyment as wilderness...
Page 263 - Act an area of undeveloped Federal land retaining its primeval character and influence, without permanent improvements or human habitation, which is protected and managed so as to preserve its natural conditions...
Page 263 - 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...
Page 4 - Ao' 16S4' I, TH Ward, County Clerk, and ex officio clerk of the Superior Court, do hereby certify the foregoing to be a full, true, and correct copy of the original Articles of Incorporation ol " Sons of the Revolution," on file in my office, and that I have carefully compared the same with the original.
Page 263 - Act, and subject to existing private rights, there shall be no commercial enterprise and no permanent road within any wilderness area designated by this Act and, except as necessary to meet minimum requirements for the administration of the area for the purpose of this Act (including measures required in emergencies involving the health and safety of persons within the area), there shall be no temporary road, no use of motor vehicles, motorized equipment or motorboats, no landing of aircraft, no...
Page 236 - ... generally appears to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature, with the imprint of man's work substantially unnoticeable; (2) has outstanding opportunities for solitude or a primitive and unconfined type of recreation...
Page 394 - Thus it is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us what was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.
Page 412 - Now of the things which we have spoken, this is the sum ; We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.