Interior Department, senator thumb noses at FIIP report, BuRec to move in; Credit Committee chairman fired by Council; Payments mailed a week early, Tribes may have to take out a loan; Hellroaring timber sale: Scenery and water quality win over...
Discusses the attitudes and knowledge of wilderness visitors toward wilderness fire suppression policy. Although most users favored suppression, a substantial minority favored a more natural role for fire. Few found either total suppression or no...
Older consumers - - United States - - Recreation - - Statistics. ;<br> Minority consumers - - United States - - Recreation - - Statistics. ;<br> Public lands - - United States - - Recreational use Statistics.
The fastest growth in outdoor recreation participation is projected for activities that are popular with older adults, and the slowest growth for those activities popular with younger adults. Nationally, changing age distribution is the main reason...
Estimates of percent canopy cover generated by the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) are corrected for crown overlap using an equation presented in this paper. A comparison of the new cover estimate to some others is provided. The cover estimate is...
Wilderness areas -- Recreational use. ; <br> Wilderness area users.
Nearly 500 visitors to four wildernesses--The Bob Marshall in Montana, the Bridger in Wyoming, the High Uintas in Utah, and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) in Minnesota--completed a questionnaire designed to obtain data on four parameters of...
Outdoor recreation -- United States. ; <br> Wilderness area users -- United States.
A comparison of use patterns and visitor characteristics among nine wilderness and other roadless areas showed similarities for many characteristics and sharp differences for others. Differences were most pronounced for use patterns, such as length...
Wilderness area users. ; <br> Wilderness areas -- Montana -- Spanish Peaks Primitive Area.
A self-issued, mandatory visitor permit system was evaluated as a use measurement system during its first year of operation in the Spanish Peaks Primitive Area, Montana. Overall, 53 percent of all visitor groups obtained permits. Length-of-stay was...
Trends from 1970 to 1982 in the Bob Marshall Wilderness complex of three adjacent wildernesses were analyzed. Data on use characteristics, use distribution, visitor characteristics, and visitor attitudes were compared. The greatest changes were...
Visitors to three National Forest wildernesses in the South were surveyed in 1989 and 1990 to learn their characteristics and to determine how their wilderness experiences were influenced by conditions in wilderness. Visitors had different...
Wilderness areas -- United States -- Recreational use -- Statistics. ; <br> Wilderness area users -- United States -- Statistics. ; <br> Boundary Waters Canoe Area (Minn.) ; <br> Shining Rock Wilderness (N. C.) ; <br>...
Changes in wilderness visitors were studied over 12- to 21-year periods in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, MN, Shining Rock, NC, and Desolation, CA. Only five of the 83 variables assessed changed consistently in all wildernesses. Visitor age and...
Wilderness areas -- United States -- Recreational use. ; <br> Wilderness area users -- United States -- Attitudes. ; <br> Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- United States.
Six high-use destination areas were studied in the Alpine Lakes, Mount Jefferson, and Three Sisters Wildernesses in Washington and Oregon. Exit interviews were conducted with visitors, and recreation impacts and visitor encounter rates between...
The 1988 Gates Park Fire, along the North Pork of the Sun River in the Bob Marshall Wilderness, provided an opportunity to explore fire effects on wilderness visitor choices. Recreation visitors along the North and South Fork drainages were...
Wilderness area users -- California. ; <br> Desolation Wilderness (Calif.)
At the Desolation Wilderness a sample of visitors without the required use permit were asked to complete a short survey to allow them to be compared with visitors who had gotten permits. Previous resesirch suggested that those without permits...
United States--Politics and government--20th century
Senate
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1975
ENERGY LEGISLATION
Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, on
Friday last, on my own tntt1at1ve, I requested
a meettng wtth the President of
the United states to discuss energy legislation
and the approaching September...
United States--Politics and government--20th century
CONGRESSION r\.L RECORD June 27, 197 4
Pages S-11808-29
SENATE ACCOMPLISHMENTS,
JUNE 26, 1974
Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, before
adjourning for a few days in celebration
of the Fourth of July, I would like
to review the progress made by...
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.GUN CONTROL LEGISLATION-ADDrriONAI;.
COSPONSORS OF BILL
Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, on
February 4, the distinguished senior
from Utah <Mr. BENNETT) introduced
s. 845. It seems to...
United States--Politics and government--20th century
812932 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE . August 7, 1970
IWHY NOT ABOLISH THE INTER-
, STATE COMMERCE COMMISSION?
Mr: MANSFIELD. Mr. President, the
role of the regulatory agency in the Federal
system is an important one In that
It was conceived as...
United States--Politics and government--20th century
Feb1 t.'<'try 6, 1970 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE 81339
vious year and, by 1985, it is estimated
that they will increase ano~her sixfold.
Reports indicate that a!X>ut 1 acre of
every 10 in America. Is trea.ted with an
average of nearly 4...