The Evolution of National Wildlife LawThe Institute, 1977 - 485 páginas |
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1st Sess Act's administration agencies amendment animals apply areas authority Bald Eagle Bird Treaty Act Black Bass codified in 43 Commerce Congress Continental Shelf Convention Coordination Act current version decision Endangered Species Act Environmental Defense Fund environmental impact statement federal lands federal wildlife law Fish and Wildlife fishery fund Fur Seal habitat horses and burros impact statement implementation importation infra at text Interior issue jurisdiction Kleppe Lacey Act legislation limited Mammal Protection Act Marine Mammal Protection maximum sustainable yield ment Migratory Bird Treaty national forests National Wildlife Refuge NEPA permit plaintiffs Pollution prohibited proposed public lands purposes recreational regulations Secretary Secretary's Sierra Club Sikes Act statute substantial Supp supra at text supra note Supreme Court taking text accompanying notes tion United version at 16 violation waters whaling wild horses Wilderness Wilderness Act wildlife conservation Wildlife Service
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Página 1 - It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.
Página 194 - ... whenever the waters of any stream or other body of water are proposed or authorized to be impounded, diverted, the channel deepened, or the stream or other body of water otherwise controlled or modified for any purpose whatever...
Página 182 - ... to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life 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.
Página 227 - point source" means any discernible, confined and discrete conveyance, including but not limited to any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, concentrated animal feeding operation, or vessel or other floating craft, from which pollutants are or may be discharged.
Página 15 - He also said that the statute of Maryland does 'not touch the subject of the common liberty of taking oysters, save for the purpose of guarding it from injury, to whomsoever it may belong, and by whomsoever it may be enjoyed. Whether this liberty belongs exclusively to the citizens of the state of Maryland, or may lawfully be enjoyed in common by all citizens of the United States; whether this public use may be restricted by the state to its own citizens or a part of them, or by force of the constitution...
Página 184 - A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.
Página 16 - ... belongs exclusively to the citizens of the State of Maryland, or may lawfully be enjoyed in common by all citizens of the United States; whether this public use may be restricted by the State to its own citizens or a part of them, or by force of the Constitution of the United States must remain common to all citizens of the United States; whether the national government, by a treaty or act of Congress, can grant to foreigners the right to participate therein; or what, in general, are the limits...
Página 227 - Act — (1) it is the national goal that the discharge of pollutants into the navigable waters be eliminated by 1985; (2) it is the national goal that wherever attainable, an interim goal of water quality which provides for the protection and propagation of fish, shellfish, and wildlife and provides for recreation in and on the water...
Página 280 - UNREASONABLE ADVERSE EFFECTS ON THE ENVIRONMENT. — The term "unreasonable adverse effects on the environment" means any unreasonable risk to man or the environment, taking into account the economic, social, and environmental costs and benefits of the use of any pesticide.
Página 302 - States in adopting, such measures for their respective nationals as may be necessary for the conservation of the living resources of the high seas. Article 2 As employed in this Convention, the expression " conservation of the living resources of the high seas " means the aggregate of the measures rendering possible the optimum sustainable yield from those resources so as to secure a maximum supply of food and other marine products.