Wildlife and America: Contributions to an Understanding of American Wildlife and Its ConservationCouncil on Environmental Quality, 1978 - 532 pages |
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... Federal Wildlife Law Michael J. Bean 18. The State - Federal Partnership in Wildlife Conservation John S. Gottschalk 273 275 279 290 19. Federal Initiatives in Wildlife Management 302 John D. Dingell and Frank M. Potter , Jr. 20 ...
... Federal Wildlife Law Michael J. Bean 18. The State - Federal Partnership in Wildlife Conservation John S. Gottschalk 273 275 279 290 19. Federal Initiatives in Wildlife Management 302 John D. Dingell and Frank M. Potter , Jr. 20 ...
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... federal government . As with the chapters they wrote , the authors cannot be strictly classified . Many have shifted among private organizations , universities , and state and federal government ; almost all have been consultants with ...
... federal government . As with the chapters they wrote , the authors cannot be strictly classified . Many have shifted among private organizations , universities , and state and federal government ; almost all have been consultants with ...
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... federal excise taxes on sporting arms and ammu- nition and fishing equipment . Through fiscal year 1974 , tax collections under these federal programs had contributed $ 818.5 million to the states , on a 3 - to - 1 matching basis . Of ...
... federal excise taxes on sporting arms and ammu- nition and fishing equipment . Through fiscal year 1974 , tax collections under these federal programs had contributed $ 818.5 million to the states , on a 3 - to - 1 matching basis . Of ...
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... federal agencies and academia will prevail and that they will not agree upon a scientific framework on which the management plans can be developed . If these shortcomings become modus operandi , then we may well have created a ponderous ...
... federal agencies and academia will prevail and that they will not agree upon a scientific framework on which the management plans can be developed . If these shortcomings become modus operandi , then we may well have created a ponderous ...
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... federal agencies attempted to stabilize or bolster crop production and the farm economy . Farmers received federal subsidies to build farm ponds but also to drain wetlands , to plant trees and hedgerows but also to remove them . In the ...
... federal agencies attempted to stabilize or bolster crop production and the farm economy . Farmers received federal subsidies to build farm ponds but also to drain wetlands , to plant trees and hedgerows but also to remove them . In the ...
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Page 360 - Though the law itself be fair on its face and impartial in appearance, yet, if it is applied and administered by public authority with an evil eye and an unequal hand, so as practically to make unjust and illegal discriminations between persons in similar circumstances, material to their rights, the denial of equal justice is still within the prohibition of the Constitution.
Page 431 - ... to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wildlife therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.
Page 361 - Migratory Bird Treaty Act. SEO. 2. That unless and except as permitted by regulations2 made as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful at any time, by any means or in any manner,, to pursue, hunt, take, capture, kill, attempt to take, capture, or kill, possess, offer for sale, sell, offer to...
Page 285 - Act and by taking such action necessary to insure that actions authorized, funded, or carried out by them do not jeopardize the continued existence...
Page 307 - State and local governments, and other concerned public and private organizations, 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 282 - But for the treaty and the statute there soon might be no birds for any powers to deal with. We see nothing in the Constitution that compels the Government to sit by while a food supply is cut off and the protectors of our forests and our crops are destroyed.
Page 301 - The government of the Union, then, (whatever may be the influence of this fact on the case,) is, emphatically and truly, a government of the people. In form and in substance it emanates from them. Its powers are granted by them, and are to be exercised directly on them, and for their benefit.
Page 181 - America, for large and pleasant navigable rivers: heaven and earth never agreed better to frame a place for man's habitation being of our constitutions, were it fully manured and inhabited by industrious people.
Page 434 - ... Multiple use" means: The management of all the various renewable surface resources of the national forests so that they are utilized in the combination that will best meet the needs of the American people; making the most judicious use of the land for some or all of these resources or related services over areas large enough to provide sufficient latitude for periodic adjustments in use to conform to changing needs and conditions; that some land will be used for less than all of the resources...
Page 33 - Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in a revery, amidst the pines and hickories and sumachs, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the birds sang around or flitted noiseless through the house, until by the sun falling in at my west window, or the noise of some traveller's wagon on the distant highway, I was reminded of the lapse of time.