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DOCUMENT Full-Text Bruce Babbitt.

I appreciate the opportunity to testify here today on proposed withdrawals of federal land from location and entry under general land laws, including the mining laws. Your letter of invitation specifically directed attention to my recent actions to initiate withdrawals of 429,000 acres along the Rocky Mountain Front in the Lewis & Clark and Helena National Forests, and 605,000 acres in the Shivwits/Parashant region north of the Grand Canyon in northwestern Arizona. I welcome a public discussion...

DOCUMENT Full-Text The Interagency Archeological Services Division. Rex L. Wilson.

At virtually every stage in the development of American archeology, some government agency has acted as the discipline's interface with the Federal establishment. The nature of this interface has reflected and affected the practice of archeology and the construction of archeological law. The Interagency Archeological Services Division (IAS), National Park Service is the latest of these interfaces. As a replacement of the Interagency Archeological Investigations and Salvage Program whose scope...

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This is the proceedings of a symposium held at the Society for American Archaeology in May of 1955. It was entitled, "Problems in Savaging Archaeological, Historical and Ethnological Data". It was sponsored by the Committee for the Recovery of Archaeological Remains, a committee formed after WWII to deal with archaeological remains found in the course of reservoir construction projects and other public works initiated throughout the United States. The papers in this symposium detail the state of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Francis McManamon.

The Antiquities Act of 1906 is among the most important of American conservation and preservation laws. It provides specifically for the preservation of archaeological, historical, and natural resources on public lands. It also provides the foundation of a century's worth of further developments in statutes, regulations, and policies for the conservation and preservation of archaeological, historical, and natural resources throughout the United States. Theodore Roosevelt, of course, was...

DOCUMENT Full-Text U.S.Supreme Court.

CAMERON v. U.S., 252 U.S. 450 (1920) 252 U.S. 450 Cameron et al.v. United States. No. 205 Argued January 29 and 30, 1920. Decided April 19, 1920 This is a suit by the United States to enjoin Ralph H. Cameron and others from occupying, using for business purposes, asserting any right to, or interfering with the public use of, a tract of land in Arizona, approximately 1,500 feet long and 600 feet wide, which Cameron is claiming as a lode mining claim, and to require the defendants to...

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In the United States District Court District of Utah-Central Division Utah Association of Counties, on behalf of its members, Plaintiffs, vs. George W. Bush, in his official capacity as President of the United States, et al., Defendants., and Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, et al., Defendants-Intervenors. AND Mountain States Legal Foundation, on behalf of its members Plaintiffs, vs. George W. Bush, in his official capacity as President of the United States, et al., Defendants. and Southern...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard W. Sellars.

This issue of the Natural Resources Journal encompasses a “very large array” of articles, to borrow the name of one of New Mexico’s wonders on the Plains of San Augustine southwest of Albuquerque and the title of National Park Service historian Richard Sellar’s history of the beginnings of the long esteemed and recently embattled agency for which he works. The “large array” in this issue runs the gamut from the economic evaluation of ecological services, a critical issue in the balancing of...