Federal Promotion of Biological Diversity: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, First Session ... November 16, 1989U.S. Government Printing Office, 1990 - 143 páginas |
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Página 140 - ... provide for diversity of plant and animal communities based on the suitability and capability of the specific land area in order to meet overall multiple-use objectives...
Página 110 - ... CONSERVATION PROGRAMS The issue of states' rights versus federal power crops up in odd places. Now it has arisen in the area of wildlife management, where cooperation — not competition — should characterize the relations between state and federal conservation officials. Fearful that such agencies as the US Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service might start setting open seasons and bag limits, or even charging license fees for hunting and fishing...
Página 35 - to provide, preserve, restore, and manage a national network of lands and waters sufficient in size, diversity and location to meet society's needs for areas where the widest possible spectrum of benefits associated with wildlife and wildlands is enhanced and made available.
Página 87 - That it is the policy of the Congress that the national forests are established and shall be administered for outdoor recreation, range, timber, watershed, and wildlife and fish purposes.
Página 35 - To preserve, restore, and enhance in their natural ecosystems (or In as natural as practicable) all species of animals and plants that are endangered or threatened with becoming endangered.
Página 99 - Assessing Wetland Functions Using HGM," National Wetlands Newsletter 18(1):10-16. Jan.Feb. Congressional Research Service (1992). Calculating the Cost of Compensating Owners of Class A Wetlands Under Provisions ofH.R. 1330. Prepared for the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment, May 20.
Página 109 - When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
Página 33 - Act are to provide a means whereby the ecosystems upon which endangered species and threatened species depend may be conserved, to provide a program for the conservation of such endangered species and threatened species, and...
Página 114 - The bill has been referred to the committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries of the United States House of Representatives, and a hearing has been fixed by that committee for February 17.
Página 11 - That concludes my prepared statement. I would be glad to answer any questions that you might have. Mr. STAGGERS. Thank you, Mr. Webb. That is one of the shortest and most precise statements I have heard before the committee. Do you know of any opposition to this bill ? Mr.