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biblioscope

AN ARCHIVAL GUIDE & BIBLIOGRAPHY

ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

Montana Historical Society 225 North Roberts Street P.O. Box 201201 Helena, MT 59620-1201 Montana Forestry Division 1896-1987 30 linear feet The Montana Forestry Division of the Department of State Lands and its predecessor the State Forester, administer forest lands owned by the State of Montana. Records (1896-1987) consist of interoffice correspondence; subject files on state and federal agencies, private organizations, and topics including fire fighting, insect control, land exchanges, and forest management; legal documents; reports; and miscellany, including land evaluation forms, timber sale files, and cutting permit files. There are subgroups for the State Board of Forestry, the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Forestry Advisory Commission, and the Montana Rural Fire Fighters Service.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography Archives University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, California 92093-0219 California Marine Research Committee 1935-1977 (bulk 1947-1964) 1.5 cubic feet The collection consists of records collected and generated by Julian G. Burnette, Chair of the Marine Research Committee, documenting the history and work of the committee. The committee was appointed by California Governor Earl Warren in 1948 to investigate the causes of the depletion of the sardine in California waters. The collection includes correspondence exchanged by Burnette and other committee members with scientists and fisheries industry experts including Wilbert MacLeod Chapman, Oscar E. Sette, and Harald Ulrik Sverdrup.
University of California, Davis. Special Collections 100 North West Quad Davis, CA 95616 Snyder, Gary (b. 1930) 1910-2003; (1945-2002 bulk) 270 linear feet Collection documents the personal and professional activities of Gary Snyder, poet, essayist, translator, Zen Buddhist, environmentalist, lecturer, and teacher. Snyder is considered one of the most significant environmental writers of the twentieth century and a central figure in environmental activism. He wrote more than twenty books of poetry and prose including his forty-year work Mountains and Rivers Without End and Turtle Island for which he won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Drafts as well as final versions of poems and prose pieces are found in the collection along with correspondence, recordings of poetry readings and interviews, subject files, publications by other authors, serials, ephemera, and memorabilia.
University of California, The Bancroft Library Berkeley, CA 94720 Brower, David Ross (1912-2000) 1924-2000 ca. 170 linear feet Collection consists of records accumulated in the course of Brower's lifelong work as a conservationist. Included are Brower's correspondence, writings, testimonies and speeches on virtually every topic associated with the environmental movement in the twentieth century, including energy resources and conservation, logging, nuclear power and nuclear war, population control, wilderness preservation, and wildlife conservation. Constituting the bulk of the collection are records from the conservation organizations he participated in or helped to found. Papers pertaining to his association with the Sierra Club include correspondence and writings dating from his early membership in 1933; editorial files from his work as editor of the Sierra Club Bulletin; files created during his final years as the club's Executive Director; and files created from his work as a board member after his resignation from the directorship through the final years of his life. The records of Friends of the Earth (FOE), which Brower founded in 1969 after leaving the Sierra Club, document conservation campaigns, issues, FOE's extensive publishing program, and affiliated organizations, including the John Muir Institute and Friends of the Earth Foundation, and the Conference on the Fate of the Earth. Throughout all of the records from conservation organizations is documentation of Brower's work to produce books in the Exhibit Format style he pioneered at the Sierra Club, combining beautiful photography and powerful writing to bring major conservation issues to the public, and his ongoing use of advertising in national papers to bring attention to major causes.
University of California, The Bancroft Library Berkeley, CA 94720 David Ross Brower Motion Picture Collection 1939-1998 68 reels and 73 videocassettes Collection consists of 16mm motion picture films and videocassettes. Included are 20 reels of home movies, educational works created by Brower and the Sierra Club, and commercial productions concerning environmental issues.
University of California, Water Resources Center Archives 410 O'Brien Hall Berkeley, CA 94720 Robie, Ronald B. (b. 1937) 1963-1982, (bulk 1967-1979) 14 linear feet Ronald B. Robie was born March 13, 1937 in Oakland, California. In 1967, he received his J.D. from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law.
Robie moved from Oakland to Sacramento in 1960 to work as a legislative intern for Carley Porter, the influential Chair of the Assembly Committee on Water. Robie began working with Porter's office on the Burns-Porter Act, which authorized the financing and construction of California's State Water Project. For the following 23 years, Robie devoted his career to California water policy issues and played a pivotal role in setting the state's course on those questions.
Robie's influence on water issues has been exercised through terms at three state government posts. During his term with Carley Porter and the Assembly Committee on Water, two landmark water bills passed into law. The State Water Resources Control Board Act (1967) created that board to address issues of water quality and water rights; the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Act (1969) revised California's water pollution law and assigned the task of administering the pollution control program to the board. It is generally recognized that the two acts were largely drafted by Robie. In 1969, Robie was appointed by Governor Reagan to be the lawyer member of the State Water Resources Control Board. During the six years Robie served on it, the board handed down a number of major, controversial decisions on environmental protection for the San Francisco Bay Delta, the New Melones Dam area, and the American River. Governor Brown appointed Robie to be Director of the California Department of Water Resources in 1975 where he served until 1983. In addition to addressing issues like sources of energy for the State Water Project, water rights law, and drought, Robie spent many years in negotiating for construction of the Peripheral Canal; the proposal was eventually defeated in a 1982 referendum.
Since leaving the Department of Water Resources, Robie has been active as Judge of the Superior Court in Sacramento. He has taught at McGeorge School of Law and published many articles on water issues in professional and environmental journals.
University of New Mexico, General Library Center for Southwest Research. Zimmerman Library University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131-1466 Tonantzin Land Institute 1911-2000 (bulk 1981-1997) 46 cubic feet Records of the Tonantzin Land Institute, an indigenous peoples advocacy organization founded in 1982. The records deal with a number of social and political issues relating to land, water, and community organizing in the United States and South America, as well as administrative aspects of the Institute. The records also reflect Tonantzin's close affiliation with groups such as the Indigenous Peoples Alliance, Indigenous Environmental Network, the Indigenous Women's Network, Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice, and the Coordinación de Organizaciones y Naciones Indigenas del Continente (CONIC). Due to their location in the U.S. Southwest, much of the material relates to Apache, Navajo, and Pueblo Indians.
University of Oregon Libraries Special Collections & University Archives 1299 University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403-1299 Jones, Holway R. (1922-1986) 1927-1986 9 linear feet Holway R. Jones was a prominent leader of the conservation movement in the Pacific Northwest from 1963, when he moved to Oregon, until his death in 1986. Jones was a librarian but spent much of his time working on conservation issues. He served on the Sierra Club's Board of Directors, 1973-1976, was chairman of the Publications Committee, 1974-1976, and of the National Wilderness Committee, 1972-1974, 1976-1978. Jones was one of the early advocates of the Oregon Wilderness Coalition, serving as its president 1976-1978, and served in other conservation groups in the Pacific Northwest. Represented in the papers described in this inventory are Jones's activities in the many national and local conservation organizations in which he participated. Contain papers that originated in the files of other conservation leaders, including Karl Onthank, Ted Snyder, and Richard Noyes.
University of Wisconsin Memorial Library Division of Archives 728 State Street Madison, WI 53706 R.A. McCabe Collection of the Writings of Aldo Leopold 1930-1996 3 linear feet Materials collected by Robert McCabe about Aldo Leopold (1886-1948), his mentor, colleague, and friend. The bulk of the collection consists of holograph drafts of articles and essays, copies of published articles, and letters by Leopold, and articles about Leopold. McCabe materials include the typescript of his book, Aldo Leopold, the Professor and other materials relating to McCabe's work on Leopold. Also present is a collection of black and white photographs of Leopold, mostly taken by McCabe.
Washington State University Libraries, Archives, and Special Collections. New Holland Library Pullman, WA 99164-5610 Columbia Plateau Resources Council 1965-1968 3 linear feet The Columbia Plateau Resources Council was established in February, 1966 at Spokane, Washington to provide an organization in which all individuals, groups, and agencies concerned with the land and water resources of the Columbia Plateau and its drainage basins could participate to ensure the orderly development, efficient use, proper management and conservation of these resources. The geographic area included Idaho and that part of the States of Washington and Oregon lying east of the Cascade Range which drain into the Columbia River. Key persons involved in the formation of the organization included Scott Barr (President of Washington State Association of SWCD's), Earl MaClellan (SWCD supervisor), Louis Madsen (Dean of College of Agriculture, WSU), Lewis Hargis (member of Idaho State ASC Committee), and Verle Kaiser (Conservation Agronomist for SCS). Collection includes membership lists, minutes, financial records, correspondence, newsletters, and other records.
Western Carolina University, Hunter Library Special Collections Cullowhee, NC 28723 Bemis Hardwood Lumber Company 1920s-1970s 30 linear feet The Bemis Hardwood Lumber Company was incorporated in 1926 and began operations in Graham County, North Carolina, in 1927. The company brought the first electricity, railroad, doctor, and hotel to Graham County. The collection includes correspondence, annual reports, deeds, financial statements, sales, information on the Graham County Railroad, general railroad information, and publications about the timber industry.

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