San Gorgonio Wilderness Area: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Public Lands of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, 89th Congress, First Session, November 16-17, 1965 |
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... youth , I hiked and camped for three seasons in the area now in controversy . I am married and have three children , all of whom are skiers . We have been skiing since January in 1962 , and would be classified neither as novices nor as ...
... youth , I hiked and camped for three seasons in the area now in controversy . I am married and have three children , all of whom are skiers . We have been skiing since January in 1962 , and would be classified neither as novices nor as ...
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... youth camps in the Barton Flats area . After Labor Day , the use of the area is minimal almost to the point of being nonexistent . There is no rea- son whatsoever why the present uses of the area for hiking and camp- ing , principally ...
... youth camps in the Barton Flats area . After Labor Day , the use of the area is minimal almost to the point of being nonexistent . There is no rea- son whatsoever why the present uses of the area for hiking and camp- ing , principally ...
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... youth organizations have told us that if winter recreation were allowed on San Gorgonio , the youth camps would make use of the camps in the winter also . I would like to request that you ask the representatives from the Barton Flats ...
... youth organizations have told us that if winter recreation were allowed on San Gorgonio , the youth camps would make use of the camps in the winter also . I would like to request that you ask the representatives from the Barton Flats ...
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... Youth Services Council , and various other functions within the city of Los Angeles and in the State of California . I am down here today representing our commission in addition to representating Mayor Sam Yorty , mayor of the city of ...
... Youth Services Council , and various other functions within the city of Los Angeles and in the State of California . I am down here today representing our commission in addition to representating Mayor Sam Yorty , mayor of the city of ...
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... youth of southern California who will use it for training for ski competitions or just for enjoying this wonder- ful gift I am sure the Lord intended to be used by all . I have heard arguments that developing the area would stop its use ...
... youth of southern California who will use it for training for ski competitions or just for enjoying this wonder- ful gift I am sure the Lord intended to be used by all . I have heard arguments that developing the area would stop its use ...
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access road acres Angeles area in southern BARING Barton Flats beauty Big Bear Boy Scouts Calif camping Canyon Chairman commercial development commercial ski committee Congress Creek cross-country skiing Dollar Lake downhill skiing Dry Lake enjoy family winter recreation feel feet gentlemen going gonio Gorgonio Wilderness Area groups hearing hikers hiking HOSMER JOHNSON land legislation Mammoth miles MOMYER Mount San Gorgonio mountain National Forest natural ness Area Olympic outdoor overnight parking lot Peak percent Poopout Hill population present primitive area proposed question reasons Redlands ridge San Bernardino County San Gor San Gorgonio area San Gorgonio Wilderness Sierra Club ski area ski development ski lift ski resort skiers skiing facilities slopes Slushy Meadows snow conditions southern California STATEMENT summer summit testimony Thank tion trail trip U.S. Forest Service Valley weekend wild area Wilderness Act wilderness bill winter sports youth
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Page 234 - ... 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 261 - 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 261 - 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 245 - 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 261 - 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 and which (1) generally appears to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature, with the imprint of man's work substantially unnoticeable...
Page 261 - 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 234 - ... 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 415 - WE who are old, old and gay, O so old! Thousands of years, thousands of years, If all were told: Give to these children, new from the world, Silence and love; And the long dew-dropping hours of the night, And the stars above : Give to these children, new from the world, Rest far from men. Is anything better, anything better? Tell us it then : Us who are old, old and gay, O so old ! Thousands of years, thousands of years, If all were told.
Page 261 - Congress to secure for the American people of present and future generations the benefits of an enduring resource of wilderness.
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.