| James A. Pritchard - 1999 - 404 страници
...S. Grant signed the legislation creating Yellowstone National Park on March 1, 1872, which provided for "the preservation, from injury or spoliation,...park, and their retention in their natural condition." Congress also assigned the secretary of the interior the task of preventing the "wanton destruction... | |
| Delwin E. Benson, Ross Shelton, Donny Wayne Steinbach - 1999 - 190 страници
...Parks resulted from such actions. The legislative act that established Yellowstone stated that it would "provide for the preservation from injury or spoliation,...mineral deposits, natural curiosities, or wonders . . . and their retention in their natural condition." Notice that there was no mention of protecting... | |
| Mark Daniel Barringer - 2002 - 274 страници
...fashion. The secretary of the interior, to whom Congress assigned control over the park, was responsible "for the preservation, from injury or spoliation,...park, and their retention in their natural condition." To carry out this charge, Secretary of the Interior Columbus Delano appointed Nathaniel P. "National... | |
| Karen R. Jones - 2002 - 350 страници
...natural laws and its human- crafted governing legislation. The 1872 Act prescribed the preservation of "all timber, mineral deposits, natural curiosities,...or wonders within said park, and their retention in a natural condition," but this was not without qualification.57 Human priorities dictated the appropriate... | |
| Chuck Leavell, Mary Welch - 2001 - 220 страници
...on, Yellowstone National Park would be under the control of the Secretary of the Interior, who was to "provide for the preservation, from injury or spoliation,...park, and their retention in their natural condition." Soon afterwards, most of Mackinac Island in Michigan was turned into a national park under the US Army,... | |
| Samuel T. Prescott - 2003 - 172 страници
...exclusive control of the Secretary of the Interior who was responsible for developing regulations to "provide for the preservation, from injury or spoliation,...park, and their retention in their natural condition." 55 Other park functions were to include developing visitor accommodations, building roads and trails,... | |
| Jill Schneiderman - 2008 - 482 страници
...park or pleasuring ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people." The legislation also provided "for the preservation, from injury or spoliation,...park, and their retention in their natural condition." Thus, Yellowstone became the first national park. At the time, the famous geologist and explorer Ferdinand... | |
| Paul Schullery - 2003 - 380 страници
...for the management and care of the park and for the protection of the property therein, especially for the preservation from injury or spoliation of...timber, mineral deposits, natural curiosities, or wonderful objects within said park; and for the protection of the animals and birds in the park, from... | |
| Paul R. Josephson - 2004 - 296 страници
...secretary of the interior to set forth rules for the care and management of the park that provided "for the preservation, from injury or spoliation,...deposits, natural curiosities, or wonders" within it. It was eighteen years before another park was set aside, and not until 1916 was the National Park... | |
| Ken Retallic - 2005 - 290 страници
...and set apart as a public park or pleasuring ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people" and "for the preservation, from injury or spoliation,...mineral deposits, natural curiosities, or wonders... and their retention in their natural condition," by Congress on March 1,1872. Yellowstone is the oldest... | |
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