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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... trails traversing this range both across it and the length of it . Most of these trails have very little use because they are rather steep , for those not in good physical condition , and lead to a peak lower than San Gorgonio Peak ...
... trails traversing this range both across it and the length of it . Most of these trails have very little use because they are rather steep , for those not in good physical condition , and lead to a peak lower than San Gorgonio Peak ...
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... trails at the east end of the San Gorgonio wild area from Poopout Hill to Slushy Meadows to Dollar Lake to San Gorgonio Peak extensively when there is not enough snow for skiing . Slushy Meadows is used for winter camping when the road ...
... trails at the east end of the San Gorgonio wild area from Poopout Hill to Slushy Meadows to Dollar Lake to San Gorgonio Peak extensively when there is not enough snow for skiing . Slushy Meadows is used for winter camping when the road ...
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... trails at the west end of the reserve only to find them blocked with drifted snows at the 7,000 level in June and sometimes even in July . The majority of the trails into the summit area are on northern slopes , and with normal winter ...
... trails at the west end of the reserve only to find them blocked with drifted snows at the 7,000 level in June and sometimes even in July . The majority of the trails into the summit area are on northern slopes , and with normal winter ...
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... trail is [ indicating ] . The San Gorgonio trail is over on the south reaches of the massive for the most part [ indicating ] and there is no use getting the skiers over there . The skiers can stay below the ridge in the big basin above ...
... trail is [ indicating ] . The San Gorgonio trail is over on the south reaches of the massive for the most part [ indicating ] and there is no use getting the skiers over there . The skiers can stay below the ridge in the big basin above ...
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... trails in most of the Western States , Canada , and West- ern Europe . As a member of the Los Angeles County Fire Department I worked directly in conservation work . My first duty station was Henninger Flats Nursery where I worked in ...
... trails in most of the Western States , Canada , and West- ern Europe . As a member of the Los Angeles County Fire Department I worked directly in conservation work . My first duty station was Henninger Flats Nursery where I worked in ...
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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.