Mount Olympus National Park: Hearing Before the Committee on the Public Lands, House of Representatives, Seventy-fourth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 7086, a Bill to Establish the Mount Olympus National Park in the State of Washington and for Other Purposes. April 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30, May 1 and 5, 1936U.S. Government Printing Office, 1936 - 304 pages |
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Page 2 - Park shall be exercised under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior by the National Park Service, subject to the provisions of the Act of August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535; 16 USC 1 and the following), entitled "An Act to establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes...
Page 2 - That nothing herein contained shall affect any valid existing claim, location, or entry under the land laws of the United States, whether for homestead, mineral, right of way, or any other purpose whatsoever, or shall affect the rights of any such claimant, locator, or entryman to the full use and enjoyment of his land.
Page 2 - Rivers; thence east to the place of beginning, is hereby reserved and withdrawn from settlement, occupancy, or sale under the laws of the United States, and dedicated and set apart as a public park or pleasuring ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people...
Page 248 - ... resistance to desirable changes, rather than regarded as an act essential to a true determination of the relative merits of the proposal. But this Department believes, and will continue to believe, that If a certain proposal will entail greatly increased costs of administration, or problems of interbureau or interdepartmental coordination, or conflicts with the social and economic interests of dependent local populations, such facts frankly should be stated. This particular proposal, In essence,...
Page 5 - Handbook of Forest Practice for the West Coast Logging and Lumber Division.
Page 18 - I second the motion. The CHAIRMAN. It has been moved and seconded that the committee make a favorable report on the Hawley bill, 183, without amendment.
Page 2 - The said area or areas shall be permanently reserved as a wilderness, and no development of the project or plan for the entertainment of visitors shall be undertaken which will interfere with the preservation intact of the unique flora and fauna and the essential primitive natural conditions now prevailing in this area.
Page 92 - Every natural resource, without exception, that has been 71635 — 36 7 held for disposal by the Interior Department— public lands, Indian lands, coal, oil, water power, and timber — has been wasted and squandered at one time or another. It is one long story of fraud in public lands, theft in Indian lands, and throwing the people's property away. "Most of the fights for conservation have been made to save natural resources belonging to -the people which the Interior Department was throwing away....
Page 276 - ... forest of the Olympics. Here is the statement of the late Robert Marshall who, at the time of his death, was an assistant chief, United States Forest Service : Third, the whole basis of the argument for logging this area desired for a park is that it will be logged on a sustained yield basis. Actually it has not yet been demonstrated that sustained yield forestry can be practiced in this huge timber. Size and the abnormal danger from windfall may be too great an obstacle in the way of Olympic...
Page 232 - Stat., 628), which transferred the national forests from the Interior Department to the Department of Agriculture.