| 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...(2) has outstanding opportunities for solitude or primitive and unconfined type of recreation; (3) has at least five thousand acreas of land or is of... | |
| Land use - 1976 - 352 pages
...primeval character and influence without permanent improvements or human habitation, 3. an area that generally appears to have been affected primarily...imprint of man's work substantially unnoticeable, 4. an area that has outstanding opportunities for solitude or a primitive and unconfined type of recreation,... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1961 - 1320 pages
...by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain. An area of wilderness is further denned to mean in this Act an area of undeveloped Federal...by the forces of nature, with the imprint of man's works substantially nnnoticeable ; (2) has outstanding opportunities for solitude or a primitive and... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1962 - 1206 pages
...contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscni>e. is hereby recoimlzed as an area where the earth and its community of life...by the forces of nature, with the imprint of man's works substantially unnoticeable ; (2) has outstanding opportunities for solitude or a primitive and... | |
| United States. Department of the Interior - Public lands - 1980 - 984 pages
...sneaks of the aesthetic of wilderness ; eg, "iintramnieled by man." "primeval character or Influence," "generally appears to have been affected primarily...nature, with the Imprint of man's work substantially onnoticeable." 71 Thus extracting 5 tons of ore by pick, shovel and mule should have far less Impact... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Interior and Insular Affairs - 1963 - 290 pages
...dissemination of information regarding their use and enjoyment as wilderness. DEFINITION OF WILDERNESS (b) A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man...by the forces of nature, with the imprint of man's works substantially unnoticeable ; (2) has outstanding opportunities for solitude or a primitive and... | |
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