| California Commission of Immigration and Housing - Land tenure - 1919 - 578 pages
...>Sv7J /; vj ' ' Sierra Club /iJ.*i&P' \ \ DEFINITION OF WILDERNESS From the 2964 Wilderness Act (c) A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man...does not remain. An area of wilderness is further defined to mean in this Act an area of undeveloped Federal land retaining its primeval character and... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations - 1962 - 1362 pages
...same as those who have been working for the establishment of wilderness areas, which they define — in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape * * * as an area where the earth and its community of life are nntrammeled by man, where man himself... | |
| Government publications - 1978 - 870 pages
...addition to Teton Wilderness: Bridger-Teton National Forest, Wyoming: beyond civilization lies wilderness, where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled...where man himself is a visitor who does not remain. — (Washington) : Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, 11977?) 20250 (66) p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.... | |
| Land use - 1976 - 352 pages
...Wilderness Act of 1964 sets out the criteria for wilderness in the following interrelated statements: 1. an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, 2. an area of undeveloped Federal land retaining its primeval character and influence without permanent... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Interior and Insular Affairs - 1957 - 120 pages
...conservationists have come to know very well, if not by exact definition. Wilderness I would say is in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape. In the wilderness, the earth and its natural life community are untrammeled by man. Man himself of... | |
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