Sentence examples for wilderness bill from inspiring English sources

In 1956 Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, a Democrat from Minnesota, and Rep. John Saylor, a Republican from Pennsylvania, introduced the Wilderness Bill.

Throughout his judicial career Douglas remained a prolific writer, especially on conservation, history, politics, and foreign relations; his books include Of Men and Mountains (1950) and A Wilderness Bill of Rights (1965).

PAGE A18 Prosecutor Sued in Texting Case A18 Wilderness Bill Clears the House A19 Obituaries JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN, 94 A prolific scholar of African-American history, Mr. Franklin influenced thinking about slavery and Reconstruction while helping to further the civil rights struggle.

They would encourage Congress to adopt a Wilderness Bill, legislation that would enable the wilderness to live on and on.

The environmental coffee table book emerged as part of a campaign to persuade Congress to enact the Wilderness Bill, legislation that would guarantee the permanence of the nation's wild places.

First introduced in 1956, the Wilderness Bill crawled through the House and Senate for almost a decade, where it was amended and diluted, revised and reintroduced, passed and repassed, and finally signed into law by President Lyndon Baines Johnson who viewed it as an element of the Great Society on September 4 , 1964

In recent weeks the House has passed six wilderness bills, including Wild Sky, that would protect more than 500,000 acres.

As chairman of the Public Lands Subcommittee, he shepherded 20 wilderness bills covering more than eight million acres through Congress.

This is one of the most important wilderness bills Congress has ever considered, and it will leave a lasting legacy for future generations".

25-26 July, Long Marston Airfield, Stratford-upon-Avon globalgathering.com One of the most civilised festivals of the season, Wilderness bills itself as a "celebration of nature and the arts".

In a private April 9 meeting with environmental leaders, Jewell said she expected activists to try as hard as possible to get wilderness bills passed in Congress before pressing the administration to declare national monuments.