Sentences with phrase «wilderness act»

Congressional hearings for the Red Rock Wilderness Act are expected to occur this month.

DeGette introduces another wilderness bill and Sen. Mark Udall (D) creates a «draft discussion» bill for Browns Canyon, tentatively called the «Joel Hefley Browns Canyon Wilderness Act.»

Colorado Democratic Rep. Diana DeGette (D) submits a proposal known as the Colorado Wilderness Act.

The first iteration of DeGette's Wilderness Act has 25 co-sponsors but fails to make it to the floor for a vote.

In June, congregants worked to pass an Action of Immediate Witness (AIW) at the General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association to mobilize Unitarians across the country to support America's Red Rock Wilderness Act.

Degette continues working to pass the Colorado Wilderness Act for the next 16 years without success.

Denali National Park is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Wilderness Act with a series of events over the next couple of weeks.

Channel Islands National Park enabling legislation, the Wilderness Act, and National Park Service Management Policies require that lands within the park be studied for wilderness designation.

Many types of recreational uses are allowed in wilderness, except those needing mechanical transport or motorized equipment, such as cars, trucks, off - road vehicles, and bicycles (exceptions include wheelchairs: Congress reaffirms that nothing in the Wilderness Act prohibits wheelchair use in a wilderness area by an individual whose disability requires its use.

However, the Wilderness Act requires no agency to provide any form of special treatment or accommodation or to construct any facilities or modify any conditions of lands within a wilderness area to facilitate such use

Congress reaffirms that nothing in the Wilderness Act prohibits wheelchair use in a wilderness area by an individual whose disability requires its use.

More than 30,000 acres (120 km2) of the Point Reyes National Seashore are designated as the Phillip Burton Wilderness, named in honor of California Congressman Phillip Burton, who wrote the legislation creating the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and was instrumental in helping to pass the California Wilderness Act of 1984.

The Wilderness Act also states that these lands are set aside to «be devoted to the public purposes of recreation, scenic, scientific, educational, conservation and historic use.»

The wilderness was added to the National Wilderness Preservation System when the United States Congress passed the Northern California Coastal Wild Heritage Wilderness Act in 2006 (Public Law 109 - 362).

-- The National Council on Disability shall conduct a study and report on the effect that wilderness designations and wilderness land management practices have on the ability of individuals with disabilities to use and enjoy the National Wilderness Preservation System as established under the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.).

Determined to preserve it from development, he created the Redford Family Trust which, over time, has placed most than 5,000 acres under protection of the Wilderness Act.

Those laws include the Endangered Species Act, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Wilderness Act, which might otherwise slow or delay construction within vulnerable habitats.

On Sept. 3, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson and the U.S. Congress signed into law the Wilderness Act.

Wilderness is dead, long live the Wilderness Act.

Leading green groups are outraged because this would undermine 1964's Wilderness Act which expressly bans motor vehicles on these last wild vestiges of untrammeled American land.

The framers of the Wilderness Act, believing that automobiles led to the ruination of nature, prohibited anything related to a road or a motor in designated areas.

Sept. 3: The National Museum of Natural History celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act with «Wilderness Forever,» a juried exhibition of images of wild America.

The more Nadeau protests, the more I am reminded of the original intentions of the Wilderness Act.

The language of the Wilderness Act describes man as a «visitor who does not remain»; Jim and Holly Akenson, wildlife biologists with an exemption, live at the property year - round.

A broad coalition of 133 conservation and Wilderness organizations from across America, including Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve, has asked Congress «to reject an unprecedented call to amend the Wilderness Act to allow for the use of mountain bikes in designated Wilderness.»

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She and Valerie Langer helped organize one of the largest acts of civil disobedience in Canadian history in the almost 350,000 hectare wilderness area.

Perry Miller argued that a covenant represented Puritan attempts to soften the irrational and arbitrary act of double predestination; see his «The Marrow of Puritan Divinity,» Errand into the Wilderness (New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1956), pp. 65, 69.

Your Grace, Even in those post-Peel wilderness years, Derby and Disraeli did get enough short goes in power as to never quite be out for 10 years - with Disraeli often demonstrating what now seems a rather Cameronesque flexibility.They did have one major «legacy» achievement - in the 1867 reform act - if created rather more from political opportunism than any particular principle on the franchise question.

Experiments are frowned upon, because the wilderness is supposed to be left alone — «untrammeled,» the act says, free from human constraint or manipulation.

The act also designated 8 million acres of ANWR as wilderness and thus off - limits to human settlement, and directed that the 1002 area — the 1.5 million acres of coastal land between the Brooks Range and the Beaufort Sea — could be surveyed for possible oil and gas resources.

Without areas of wilderness we have nothing to act as a contrast to the barren urban wastelands most of us find ourselves in, and finally, without nature, we would lose the richness of human experience that is just as much a part of our heritage as our genes.

The opening act in Toronto feels like a standard indie comedy about (yet another) white male's arrested development, the piano - based score and aversion to dialogue feels indebted to silent films, and once the film transitions to the wilderness it goes into European arthouse territory (the title card doesn't appear until James ends up in BC, a choice that implies this is where the film really begins).

Not satisfied with having published guidebooks and articles for outdoor enthusiasts and educators alike, Ro Privett envisaged mobile software that would act to compile practical information on how to conduct safe, informative adventures with young people, with a view to inspire more people to get out and experience what's on offer in the Australian wilderness.

It acts as the gateway to iSimangaliso Wetland Park, one of the largest parks in South Africa, renowned for its wildlife safaris, diverse ecosystems, hippo and crocodile cruises on the estuary, and untamed wilderness that draws travellers from far and wide for a relaxing bush escape.

Perth Waterfront & Waterbank East Perth, Western Australia — five star hotel and mixed use development Moonlight Head on the Great Ocean Road, Victoria - luxury lodges and hotel development Pumphouse Lake St Clair at Cradle Mountain, Tasmania — wilderness lodge The Landing at Gosford, NSW — waterfront precinct and accommodation development State capital CBD accommodation developments in Adelaide, Brisbane and Darwin and Stromlo Forest Park Development, Mount Stromlo (ACT)(Full list available in the Guide or www.tourisminvestment.com.au)

After the Cyloid battle, I found myself treated to some driving gameplay, something that was previously an alien concept to the Duke Nukem franchise, but luckily it acts a lot like what you'd expect, taking you out into the desert wilderness.

Therefore, Link is set loose into the wilderness of this kingdom armed with the branch of a tree, and with the knowledge that there is something terribly wrong and — for some reason — he is the one that needs to act upon it.

Atlas comes alive through programming: Beginning in May 2016, the Queens Museum presents a series of public talks, walks, and urban adventures led by the essay writers from the book, artists, and other imaginative thinkers addressing topics including water and power, linguistic diversity in Queens, walking as an embodied act, the conjoined histories of environmental and financial disaster in Lower Manhattan, wilderness in the City, and Latino radio in NYC.

Developed as a component of the Clean Air Act, the Regional Haze Rule is meant to protect 156 national parks and wilderness areas — including Utah's «Mighty Five» national parks — from visibility - impairing haze.

A movement based on the above principles could protect millions of acres of wilderness more stringently than could any congressional act, could insure the propagation of the Grizzly and other threatened life forms better than could an army of game wardens, and could lead to the retreat of industrial civilization from large areas of forest, mountain, desert, prairie, seashore, swamp, tundra, and woodland that are better suited to the maintenance of native diversity than to the production of raw materials for over consumptive technological human society.

One of the most egregious areas he wielded his pen was in expanding federal control over wilderness areas with use of the «Antiquities Act.»

The declaration, which is signed by a number of influential organizations, argues that wilderness areas — both terrestrial and marine — act as carbon sinks, while preserving biodiversity and vital ecosystem services.

The act directs the agency to inventory its lands and identify areas with certain characteristics as wilderness study areas, areas that Congress would then designate as wilderness or open for other uses.

Our successes range from protecting millions of acres of wilderness to helping pass the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and Endangered Species Act.

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In response to the Wilderness Societies campaign to protect rivers across northern Australia, the Queensland Parliament introduced the Wild Rivers Act 2005 (Qld)(The Wild Rivers Act).