CONS. Conservation Collection

Scope and Contents The collection consists of items related to the professional and personal life of Roger W. Toll. The collection partly reflects Toll’s life between 1884 and 1896, however, the bulk of the collection covers his professional life between 1910 and 1936, specifically, his work in evaluating proposed and existing National Parks and Monuments. Included are official reports, news clippings, correspondence, scrapbooks, maps, and photographs. Very few personal items exist in the collection. Some...

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Report of insect control work, North Fork Project, Shoshone National Forest.

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Reports, correspondence, and articles regarding recreational uses of regional parks.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE The S. Herbert Evison collection contains items from the years of 1940-1969. Included in the collection are correspondence, reports, published and unpublished articles, National Park Service (NPS) memos and statistics, and one folder of photographs. Evison gathered the items that make up this collection in an attempt to write a history of the National Park Service. Some were obtained while he was an employee of the NPS, while others were obtained later to fill specific gaps in...

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Three scrapbooks of newspaper clippings from Seattle and Alaska newspapers regarding the fishing industry, primarily salmon.

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Collection includes working papers, field trip reports, maps, photographs and reports from the University of Colorado Wilderness Study Group.

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Collection contains mostly annual reports for the organization, including correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes.

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The manuscript details Haefner’s experiences on the Siskiyou National Forest in Oregon from 1909 – 1925 and 1930. During this period of time, the Siskiyou was classified as virgin forest. Haefner’s assignment involved mapping this area, locating and estimating the amount of timber and agricultural land.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE The papers of Stanley Young reflect his work for the Bureau of Biological Survey (1917-1960s) to control predatory mammals considered a threat to domestic livestock and agriculture. His papers also document the process of developing material for publication, determining an audience, obtaining a publisher, and managing the details of copyright, royalty payments, and collaborative authorship. The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, drafts, galley proofs, articles, and reference...

Scope and Contents 1957 First volunteers are placed in the Grand Teton and Olympic National Parks. 1960 Zion National Park and Cedar Breaks National Monument are added to the program. 1964 The organization incorporates as the Student Conservation Association, Inc. (SCA) and former National Park Service Director Conrad Wirth...

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE The Hal H. Harrison Papers are comprised of items from the years 1937 to 1990. Harrison’s research of common birds, and also the elusive warbler, make up the bulk of the collection. Also included in the collection are articles by Harrison, field notebooks, scrapbooks, correspondence, maps, and note cards. The items in this collection reflect the depth of research pursued by Harrison. His field notes, reference note cards, articles compiled, and observation notes are all part of the...

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE The majority of the material in this collection comes from the files of Jack Lorenz, Outdoor America editor and Executive Director, and Maitland Sharpe, Conservation Director, and their associates. Materials range from the late 1950s to the early 1990s, but the bulk of the materials date from the 1960s and 1970s. The collection contains correspondence and other documents from previous executive and conservation directors: Raymond C. Hubley,...

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The collection spans 1998-2022 and contains grant fund applications, interim and final reports, and correspondence.

SCOPE AND CONTENT The Nature Conservancy Records contain an assortment of correspondence, financial records, maps, marketing materials, memos, meeting minutes, newsletters, posters, presentations, publications, reports, research, video recordings, as well as some photographs and color slides generated by the organization since its founding in 1950. Earlier documents related to preceding organizations, such as the Ecological Society of America, and Ecologists Union, are also included. The bulk of the records...

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE The Wilderness Society Records document the administration and the programs of the organization. It includes correspondence, memos, reports, maps, studies, film and video recordings. The material dates from 1874 to 2005, with the bulk of the material from 1935 to the 1990s. The collection remains open and periodically receives additional material. While the organizational structure of the Wilderness Society has changed over the years, its work has been organized around internal...

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Collection contains a typed manuscript by Theodore Shoemaker titled "Some of my Experiences in the Forest Service" (98 p.); and typed manuscript (18 p.) written by his wife, Lillian Dee (nee Easton) Shoemaker, in 1955, reminiscing about the work of forest rangers and the contribution of their wives. Work diary dated 1909 transfered to CONS74, U.S. Forest Service collection, which contains other work diaries by Shoemaker.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE Of interest in this collection are the twenty-three love letters Theodore Cockerell wrote to Wilmatte Porter, his second wife. Most were written in 1900, while Cockerell taught entomology at the New Mexico Agricultural College. Also in the collection are reprints of articles Cockerell wrote while teaching at the University of Colorado in Boulder, a few letters to Wilmatte from other people, her notes on the Okapi and clippings about their development of the Red Sunflower. There are several...

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE The Forest Service collection was created in the early years (1960s) of the Conservation Library Center. It is an aggregate of materials sent to Arthur Carhart in response to his requests to friends from the Forest Service, and is composed of material covering several different aspects of Forest Service activities. The bulk of material falls into three general categories. The first relates to the management of timber sales contracts, including the illegal cutting of trees (timber...

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Reports and photographs of soil and erosion control programs in Colorado and the Great Plains States.

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Includes organizational records, clippings, photographs and maps.

Scope and Contents The Velma Johnston (Wild Horse Annie) Papers contain items from the years 1955-1977. Included in this collection is correspondence, meeting minutes, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, and legal documents. Audiotapes of Wild Horse Advisory Board meetings and motion picture films of events relating to the protection of wild horses form a part of this collection. The items in this collection provide in-depth information not only about efforts to protect wild horses and...

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Collection contains material developed in connection with the Arsenal Advisory Board, including memos, notes, meeting materials, reports, and correspondence. Also included are materials related to Smith's political activities.

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Organizational records.

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Includes organizations records and issue related documents.

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Collection contains reports, correspondence, newspaper clippings, maps, court documents, photographs, and Wilderness Society publications covering program development, timber management, logging, wilderness areas, and land use management.

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Includes files of Craig Gehrke, Regional Director regarding protection of National Forest roadless areas of Idaho, the Owyhee-Bruneau region, and advocacy and protection of the Birds of Prey National Conservation Area against recurring wildfires and military training exercises.