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Logo of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act into law, October 2, 1968. The National Wild and Scenic Rivers System was created by the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1968 (Public Law 90-542 [1]), enacted by the U.S. Congress to preserve certain rivers with outstanding natural, cultural, and recreational values in a ...
The Wolf River in Wisconsin. This is a list of the designated National Wild and Scenic Rivers in the United States. Each river has been designated by Congress, or, if certain requirements were met, the Secretary of the Interior.
The Trinity River, which is designated as a wild and scenic river under both the National and State Wild and Scenic Systems. "River" means the water, bed, and shoreline of rivers, streams, channels, lakes, bays, estuaries, marshes, wetlands, and lagoons, up to the first line of permanently established riparian vegetation.
The Bluestone National Scenic River protects a 10.5-mile (16.9 km) section of the Bluestone River in Summers and Mercer counties of southern West Virginia.It was created 26 October 1988 under the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act and is protected by the National Park Service.
It flows within the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, the Bitterroot National Forest, and the Nez Perce National Forest of North Central Idaho. [5] The entire length of the Selway was included by the United States Congress in 1968 as part of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. [6]
The legislation amended the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1968 to establish 84 miles of three streams within the Los Padres National Forest as new Wild and Scenic Rivers: Sisquoc River - 33 miles (Wild River) Sespe Creek - 31.5 miles (4 miles as a Scenic River and 27.5 miles as a Wild River) Big Sur River - 19.5 miles (Wild River)
The Eleven Point National Wild and Scenic River is a 44-mile (71 km) stretch of the spring-fed Eleven Point River in the Ozarks of southern Missouri set aside through eminent domain for preservation by Congress in 1968. The designated part of the river stretches from Thomasville to State Highway 142.
The Wood-Pawcatuck Watershed Protection Act is a bill that was introduced into the United States House of Representatives during the 113th United States Congress.H.R. 723 would require the National Park Service (NPS) to study segments of the Beaver, Chipuxet, Queen, Wood, and Pawcatuck Rivers in Rhode Island and Connecticut for potential additions to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.