Forest Management Practices: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Forests of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 10364, H.R. 11894, H.R. 12130, H.R. 12503 ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976 - 791 pages |
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Page 279 - No public forest reservation shall be established, except to improve and protect the forest within the reservation, or for the purpose of securing favorable conditions of water flows, and to furnish a continuous supply of timber for the use and necessities of citizens of the United States...
Page 340 - ... to use all practicable means and measures, including financial and technical assistance, in a manner calculated to foster and promote the general welfare, to create and maintain conditions under which man and nature can exist in productive harmony, and fulfill the social, economic, and other requirements of present and future generations of Americans.
Page 44 - The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed to examine, locate, and recommend for purchase such forested, cut-over, or denuded lands within the watersheds of navigable streams as in his judgment may be necessary to the regulation of the flow of navigable streams or for the production of timber...
Page 177 - The Forest Service — one of the federal agencies behind the scheme to despoil Mineral King — has been notorious for its alignment with lumber companies, although its mandate from Congress directs it to consider the various aspects of multiple use in its supervision of the national forests. The voice of the inanimate object, therefore, should not be stilled. That does not mean that the judiciary takes over the managerial functions from the federal agency. It merely means that before these priceless...
Page 340 - Sustained yield of the several products and services" means the achievement and maintenance in perpetuity of a high-level annual or regular periodic output of the various renewable resources of the national forests without impairment of the productivity of the land.
Page 28 - ... as may be compatible with the utilization of the forests thereon, and may sell the same for not less than the appraised value in such quantities to each purchaser as he shall prescribe...
Page 60 - For the purpose of preserving the living and growing timber and promoting the younger growth on forest reservations, the Secretary of the Interior, under such rules and regulations as he shall prescribe, may cause to be designated and appraised so much of the dead, matured, or large growth of trees found upon such forest reservations as may be compatible with the utilization of the forests...
Page 340 - ... grounds; the dominant industry will be considered first, but with as little restriction to minor industries as may be possible ; sudden changes in industrial conditions will be avoided by gradual adjustment after due notice; and where conflicting interests must be reconciled, the question will always be decided from the standpoint of the greatest good of the greatest number in the long run.
Page 26 - An Act to enable the people of New Mexico to form a constitution and state government and be admitted to the Union on an equal footing with the original states; and to enable the people of Arizona to form a constitution and state government and be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original states" approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and ten, it is hereby provided: Section 1.
Page 498 - Mr. Chairman and members of the Committees, I am R. Keith Arnold, Director, Center of Natural Resources and Environment, and Assistant Vice President for Research, The University of Texas at Austin. I am presenting these remarks on behalf of the Society of American Foresters as its President. The Society has approximately...