American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Archives
1200 New York Avenue NW
Washington, D.C. 20005
Arid Lands Program
1965–1989
43.75 linear feet
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has long been concerned with arid lands. This began with a 1954 international meeting, proposed by the Association's Southwestern Division, held in Albuquerque, New Mexico. UNESCO sponsored the meeting that included representatives from nearly thirty countries. By 1965, AAAS formed a Committee on Arid Lands (COAL) that began to organize conferences and coordinate research efforts sponsored by public, private, and United Nations' groups. Records include conference materials projects on desertification and remote sensing.

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Archives
1200 New York Avenue NW
Washington, D.C. 20005
Climate Program
1975–1989
46.25 linear feet
This collection of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) program files encompasses conferences and publications on the interaction of climatic and direct biological effects of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide on water, plants, animals, and humans. Records document efforts by the scientific community to debate and define the threats of global climate change. Includes 1979 Annapolis workshop on climate change, AAAS Committee on Climate, correspondence with Department of Energy and other institutions.

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Archives
1200 New York Avenue NW
Washington, D.C. 20005
Population, Resources, and Environment Program
1974–1987
21.25 linear feet
This program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) concentrated on a numerous areas: scientific, ideological, and intellectual traditions; food; sustainability and technological developments; transnational impacts; the demand side of population; and implications for global security. The program became the AAAS Project on Population and Sustainable Development and later the AAAS Program on Ecology and Human Needs.

Harvard University. Environmental Science and Public Policy Archives
Environmental Information Center
LL-5
1 Oxford Street
Godfrey Lowell Cabot Science Library
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
Berry, Thomas Mary (b. 1914)
The Thomas M. Berry Papers document the work and life of an important historian and writer on religion and culture in their relations with the natural world. Berry's early interests included western intellectual history, Asian history and religion; later his focus expanded to embody more comprehensive issues at the intersection of culture and ecology. Berry is widely revered as a lecturer and writer on the transactions of life on earth, the contemporary significance of spiritual dynamics, and the ways in which the acts of man affect the universe. He lectured at Harvard Divinity School's Center for the Study of World Religions and Harvard's Forum on Religion and Ecology, which has created an award and lecture series in his name. The collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, lecture notes, diaries, calendars, notes, audiotapes, videotapes, artifacts, artworks, and awards.

Harvard University. Environmental Science and Public Policy Archives
Environmental Information Center, LL-5
1 Oxford Street
Godfrey Lowell Cabot Science Library
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
Mercury Collection of Marion Lamm
1970s–1980s
24.7 linear feet
A collection of materials related to a serious outbreak of Minamata Disease amongst a small Ojibwe population in Northwestern Ontario. This environmental disaster represents one of a handful of landmark cases in Canada that set the tone for the Canadian National Environmental Policy Act. It also represents a major precedent for indigenous rights vis-ã-vis the environment. The collection consists of personal and topical files collected by Marion Lamm for the purpose of making public the dangerous effects of mercury poisoning on humans. The files were used by a number of researchers, writers, scientists, journalists and other media representatives in developing the "Dryden-Minamata disease" case. It includes correspondence, clippings, radio transcripts, writings, governmental statements of claim, audiocassettes, films, monographs and serials, ephemera, photographs, scrapbooks, legal claims and documentation, etc.

East Carolina University
Special Collections
Joyner Library
Greenville, NC 27858-4353
Rodman, William Blount
1783–1976
ca. 50,500 items and 119 volumes
This North Carolina family produced three generations of lawyers with an interest in the lumber business. The business correspondence of William Blount Rodman I (1817–1893) contains letters reflecting Rodman's financial and professional interests in lumbering and forest lands. Included are discussions of speculation in a land improvement company (1856), disputes over a swamp drainage bond for Flat Swamp in Pitt County (1858), the purchase and sales of land for Northern investors, and the Southern Land Company (Daniel Sickles, president). William Blount Rodman II (1862–1946) was attorney for a number of companies. Portions of his general correspondence concern land, lumber, and debt collections. Rodman actively attempted to develop the family lands, and correspondence throughout the papers reflects his efforts. Rodman applied his legal talents to protect the holdings in order to maintain control by the Rodman family and to prevent encroachments by squatters or timber poachers. Land disputes, litigation, and surveys comprise a major topic of discussion. Much of the correspondence concerns Rodman's legal representation of lumber companies in suits involving debt collections and timber litigation. A major portion of the Rodman land and timber-related correspondence concerns the giant Roper Lumber Company of Norfolk, Va., for whom Rodman served as legal counsel.

University of California, Berkeley. Bancroft Library
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
Metcalf-Fritz Photographic Collection
1900–1960
ca. 6400 photographic prints
The Metcalf-Fritz collection is a group of photographs relating primarily to forestry, conservation, and the lumber industry in California and the United States. Subjects include logging operations, logging equipment, reforestation, forest research, fire protection, lumber mills, the activities of the University of California's School of Forestry, etc.

Vermont Historical Society Library
Pavilion Building
Montpelier, VT 05602
William E. Osgood Papers
1937–1998
6 linear feet
Williams E. Osgood was born on March 24, 1926, in Nashua, New Hampshire. In 1944 he was inducted into the U.S. Army and volunteered for service with the 10th Mountain Division where he was a combat infantryman during the Italian campaign of World War II. He received a Master's degree in Library Science from Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1952. During the 1950s and 60s Osgood held various library positions in Ohio, New Hampshire, and Vermont. He was appointed Librarian at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont, in 1957 and remained there until 1972. During the years 1968–1969 the family lived in Finland while Osgood was on sabbatical leave. In 1972 Osgood became the Librarian at the Center for Northern Studies in Wolcott, Vermont. The William E. Osgood Papers include journal entries for day-to-day activities in Vermont, primarily for the period 1960 to 1997. The journals also record foreign travels to northern regions. There is correspondence of a general nature as well as letters exchanged in the course of research into special topics. The collection includes official records of temperature and precipitation in Northfield, Vermont, which Osgood kept as an observer for the U.S. National Weather Service between 1974 and 1994.

Wyoming State Archives
Barrett Building
2301 Central Ave.
Cheyenne WY 82002
Wyoming Federation of Women's Clubs
1904–1995
17.5 cubic feet
The Wyoming Federation of Women's Clubs is a statewide, non-profit organization. Its membership is comprised of local, independent women's clubs who have joined together to promote civic, social and political activities for the state as a whole as well as support the activities of each club. These records not only document the administrative history but also the myriad of social and political concerns expressed by the federation including conservation and land tenancy. Most of the records date from the early 1950s when the federation showed signs of growing and later fading in statewide influence with the closure of many local women's clubs. Of particular importance are minutes, yearbooks (annual and biennial reports), histories, and the Wyoming Clubwoman, the newsletter of the federation.

University of New Mexico, General Library Center for Southwest Research.
The University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-1466
Mescalero Timber Trust Collection
1850–1980
5 cubic feet
The collection contains the research materials gathered in conjunction with preparation of The Mescalero Timber Trust, a history of forest management on the Mescalero Indian Reservation. The collection consists of photocopies of original documents and reports, largely generated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The collection is organized in a basic chronological sequence, within broad subject areas. The collection documents forestry activities on the Mescalero Indian Reservation and the roles of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Annual reports, maps, records of timber sales, historical documentation about the Mescalero reservation, forest management plans and reports relating to logging, sawmills, and fire protection are a sampling of the materials and subjects found in this collection.

Montana Historical Society, Library and Archives Dept.
225 N. Roberts
P.O. Box 201201
Helena, MT 59620-1201
North Butte Mining Company
1905–1934
3.5 linear feet
The North Butte Mining Company was incorporated under Minnesota law in 1905. The company purchased the Speculator Mine, the Granite Mountain Mine, and several smaller mines in Butte, Montana. The mine operations were conducted by general managers A.C. Carson, John D. Pope, and Norman B. Braly. The corporate officers in Duluth, Minnesota included presidents James Hoatson, Thomas F. Cole, and Robert Linton, and secretary-treasurer Frederick R. Kennedy. The company contracted out ore processing, thus saving capital that otherwise would have gone into the building of a smelter. The company immediately was able to pay out large dividends to stockholders. By 1911 the investors' $6 million investment in stock had been paid off. In 1915 the company suffered the first of two major disasters. On 19 October 1915, dynamite was ignited accidentally on the surface next to the Granite Mountain shaft, killing 15 miners. On 9 June 1917, a spark ignited a fire in the Granite Mountain shaft, killing about 160 miners. Because of the joint operation of the Granite Mountain and Speculator mines, the disaster has always been known as the Speculator fire. Although the company quickly repaired the damage to the shaft, production never returned to pre-fire levels. After the end of World War I, copper prices dropped dramatically and production was curtailed. In March of 1921 production ceased. The company operated sporadically through leases until the Anaconda Company purchased it in 1952 Business records of North Butte Mining Company. Core of the collection consists of interoffice correspondence (1906–1923) between the general manager in Butte, Montana, and the president and secretary-treasurer in Duluth, Minnesota, and New York. The correspondence includes annual and quarterly reports and weekly letters which all describe development work and production in considerable detail. The remainder of the interoffice correspondence deals with general problems of operation of the mines.

Denver Public Library, Conservation Collection
10 West 14th Ave. Parkway
Denver, CO 80204
U.S. Bureau of Land Management (RG49)
1900s–1970s
29 boxes
Created in 1946, this federal agency is responsible for the management of 270 million acres of public lands, the majority of which are in the western states and Alaska. Management duties include energy and mineral development, grazing, land use planning, and wildlife/fisheries habitat. Collection contains clippings, speeches, press releases, reports, management plans, correspondence and photos pertaining to environmental issues, land management, and organizational matters.

Denver Public Library, Conservation Collection
10 West 14th Ave. Parkway
Denver, CO 80204
Flugger, Annette
1930s–1960s
8 boxes
Former Conservation Specialist for the Pan American Union that dissolved in the 1970s. Collection consists of correspondence, reports, photos, clippings, publications, and reprints concerning the Pan American Union, the International Union for Conservation of Nature's General Assembly and Technical Meeting in Caracas, Venezuela [1952], and general conservation issues in Latin America.

Denver Public Library, Conservation Collection
10 West 14th Ave. Parkway
Denver, CO 80204
Izaak Walton League of America
1920s–1990s
73 boxes; 20 oversize
The League, founded in 1922, is dedicated to protecting resources of the natural environment for the future use of wildlife and mankind. The majority of the collection is derived from the files of Jack Lorenz (Executive Director, 1973–1992) and Maitland Sharpe (Conservation Director). Materials is organized according to issues, correspondence, administrative and financial records, legislature, reports, litigation, and clippings from the 1950s to 1990s.

Montana Historical Society
225 N. Roberts, P.O. Box 201201, Helena, MT 59620-1201
Anaconda Company
1876–1974
800 ft.
Anaconda Mining Company incorporated 1892; in 1895 renamed Anaconda Copper Mining Company; in 1955 reorganized as Anaconda Company; sold to Atlantic Richfield Co., 1979, and operations shut down in 1983; engaged in mining, smelting, and refining of copper, lead, zinc, and other ores, with subsidiaries in mining, lumber, coal, foundry, and other industries; headquartered in Anaconda, Montana, with major mines in Butte, Montana. Area. Records contain correspondence, court papers, financial and production records, legal documents, organizational records, subject files, and other materials, of the company and many of its predecessor and subsidiary companies and departments. Major subgroups include General Office (Anaconda and Butte), Big Blackfoot Milling Co., Bitter Root Development Company and its Lumber Dept. (Hamilton, Montana.), Boston & Montana Consolidated Copper & Silver Mining Co., Butte and Boston Consolidated Mining Company, Butte and Montana Commercial Company, Butte Sampling Works, Colorado Smelting & Mining Co., Diamond Coal and Coke Co., Parrot Silver & Copper Co., Anaconda's Reduction Dept. (formerly Anaconda Reduction Works), Trenton Mining and Development Co., Tuttle Manufacturing and Supply Co., and Washoe Copper Co., and more than one hundred smaller subgroups. Includes information relating to the operations of two large treatment plants, Anaconda Smelter and Great Falls Refinery; the company's lumber operations in the Missoula, Montana. Area; its coal mines; relations with employees; treatment and recovery of tailings, including the related issues of air and water pollution; its core mining operations in Butte; and related companies in other fields, including hotels, oil and gas development, water and townsite companies, and newspaper publishing.

Shenandoah National Park
3655 U.S. Highway 211 East
Luray, VA 22835-9036
Shenandoah National Park Resource Management Records
1880–1996
73.9 linear feet
The collection consists of material created, used, and/or distributed by the park staff during the course of managing park cultural and natural resources. These records were created in anticipation of and during the establishment of the park in 1936, and thereafter for the daily administration of the park, research completed by park employees and federal contractors, and the administration of organizations operating within the park boundaries. The records include historic structure and cultural landscape research, natural resource surveys, and various natural and cultural resource maintenance projects. Material types include typed and carbon copy letters, blueprints, photographs, handwritten notes, correspondence, reports, park guides, pamphlets, theses and scientific papers, magazines, books, drawings, and receipts. These records document park resources and serve as an information basis for their continuing management. This information is preserved and made available to the public and National Park Service managers responsible for oversight of park resources and maintenance of the park's historic integrity. It is expected that this collection will be supplemented with additional materials in the future.

Shenandoah National Park
3655 U.S. Highway 211 East
Luray, VA 22835-9036
State Commission on Conservation and Development Land Records
1869–1995
49.5 linear feet
The records were generated by the Commonwealth of Virginia in connection with the acquisition of 195,000 acres of land for the establishment of Shenandoah National Park. Collection includes typed letters and carbon copies, handwritten notes and forms in pencil and ink, newspapers, drawings, blueprints and diazo prints, photocopies, return receipt cards, ledger sheets, photographs, and an overhead projection transparency. The records cover the period from 1869 to 1995. The bulk of the records date from 1927, when the claim forms started to be filled out, to 1934, when most of the land had been acquired. Included with this collection are tax appraisals for the years 1980–1993. An extensive summation of data extracted from the Land Records has been compiled by the Archives staff and was published in 1997. The Database of Shenandoah National Park Land Records summarizes the nearly 4,000 tracts of land that were within the proposed boundaries of the park and includes landowner name, county, tract number, number of acres in tract, acres purchased for the park, value of land, size of house, number of buildings on property, house roof material, house construction type, house condition, barn size, barn construction type, barn roof material, barn condition, other outbuildings, orchard acres, type of orchard, and value of commercial timber.

Stephen F. Austin State University, East Texas Research Center
SFA Station Box 13055
Nacogdoches, TX 75962
Edwards Brothers Lumber Company
1928–1967
14 ledgers and 12 boxes
H. C. (Hugh Clete) and R. L. (Robert Lee) Edwards ran sawmills in Marion and Arcadia, Louisiana, before they moved to Bastrop, Texas in 1928. In July 1936 they organized the Edwards Brothers Lumber Company, purchased the land of the defunct New Birmingham Development Company near Rusk, Texas, and moved their sawmill operations there, soon becoming Cherokee County's largest lumber manufacturing company. R.L.'s son, Billie (Robert Lavalle), and the bookkeeper, C. F. Mehner, were active in the company as were Ada Jane Pace (Mrs. R. L.) Edwards who ran the commissary. Soon after the move to Rusk, R. L.'s older son, Arthur Nathan, returned to Bastrop where he ran a retail lumber store. In addition to the sawmill, the company operated a commissary (which sold groceries, dry goods, work clothes, and gasoline), a school bus, and rental houses for the workers. The company sold its goods directly, through lumber agents, and through other companies, especially the W. H. Norris Lumber Company, with which it had a special relationship. The partners, especially R. L., held oil and gas leases in Louisiana, but these and other investments seemed to be individual ventures. R. L.'s death in 1951 and H. C.'s serious illness from about then until his death in 1953 caused the company to close in 1952. Billie sold off the company's assets and kept its name active through the late 1950s. The records contain correspondence, collective financial records (audits, ledgers and ledger sheets, price lists, inventories, tax bills and receipts), daily financial records (inspection reports, bills invoices, receipts), and legal documents of the Edwards Brothers Lumber Company (1936–52), records of the company's partners (Hugh Clete and Robert Lee Edwards), their and their wives' (Ada Jane Pace [Mrs. R. L.] and Dorothy "Dolly" May Davis [Mrs. H. C.] estate settlements, and records of R. L.'s son, Billie (Robert Lavelle) Edwards, and the E & E Ranch which he managed, 1928 (1948–52) 1967, arranged into four series—Company Correspondence, Company Financial Records, Employees' Records, and Family Financial Records.

University of Colorado Libraries. Archives.
Campus Box 184
Boulder, CO 80309-0184
Boulder Eco-Center
1957–1974
40 boxes, 7 oversize folders
The Boulder Eco-Center was a non-profit corporation that disseminated environmental information free of charge and acted as a coordinating center for environmental activities. The collection contains subject files on issues relating to the environment, pamphlets, newsletters and other material from a wide variety of environmental organizations, collected by Eco-Center and by the Thorne Ecological Institute.

University of Colorado Libraries. Archives.
Campus Box 184
Boulder, CO 80309
Cobb, John
1960–1993
83 linear feet
Dr. John Cobb (b. 1919), M.D. Harvard University (1948), and Master of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University (1954), became a professor of community health in the Department of Preventative Medicine and Biometrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in 1965. Dr. Cobb was appointed by Colorado Governor Lamm and Congressman Wirth to the Lamm-Wirth Task Force on Rocky Flats in 1974. From 1975 to 1982 he worked as principal investigator on an EPA contract to study human plutonium burdens in people who lived near the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Facility. He has also served on several other councils and commissions concerning Rocky Flats and Three Mile Island. The collection contains files relating to Dr. Cobb's medical career including: plutonium study papers; material on air and water pollution, recycling, bioethics, holistic medicine, and urban health ecology; Rocky Flats and Pakistan radiation studies; and teaching materials, reports, and conference papers.

University of Colorado Libraries. Archives.
Campus Box 184
Boulder, CO 80309
Godfrey, Robert
1941–1988
36 boxes, 24 boxes film, 49 cans film, 38 maps
Robert Godfrey was a mountain climber, photographer, film maker, writer and teacher. Godfrey joined the Colorado Outward Bound program in 1968 while pursuing an M.A. in Physical Education at Colorado State University and a Ph.D. in Education at the University of Northern Colorado (1972). He served as an adjunct professor at the University of Colorado in the School of Education's Experiential Education Program from 1973 to 1975 while continuing his work for the Colorado Outward Bound Program. He began film making in 1975, winning several awards for "Free Climb" and "Sherpa." The collection contains papers, correspondence, films, drafts, course materials, publications and photographs on mountaineering, environmentalism and local political issues.

University of Colorado Libraries. Archives.
Campus Box 184
Boulder, CO 80309
White, Gilbert F.
1955–1986
42 boxes
Winner of the National Geographic Society's Hubbard Award, prominent geography professor at the Universities of Chicago, Oxford, and Colorado from 1956 to 1993, Gilbert F. White's career includes nine positions, 29 other professional activities, 20 books, and 17 awards in the fields of geography, natural hazards, water quality, flood plain management, and risk assessment. A noted authority on natural hazards, Gilbert White was also noted for his work with the American Service Committee, his interest in pacifism, and his work with the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Human Rights. This portion of his papers includes various versions of studies performed preliminary to the establishment of the High Level Nuclear Waste Facility at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. His flood plain, water resources and water quality research papers are held at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Archives at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.