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Sierra Club Records
Collection
Identifier: NC1260
Abstract
The Sierra Club is a California based national organization devoted to preserving nature for future generations. Organized about 1890 in San Francisco, the club issues a Bulletin and publishes books about nature; they also investigate and lobby to prevent damage to the wilderness. Divided into chapters and subgroups based on geography. Richard Sill served on the national board of directors and executive committee from 1967-1971, on the executive board of the Toiyabe Chapter (Nevada), and as...
Dates:
1899-1979
Marjorie Sill Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2017-31
Abstract
Marjorie L. Sill (1923-2016) was a Reno local and noted environmental activist for the Eastern Sierra and Great Basin regions through involvement with the Toiyabe Chapter of the Sierra Club and other regional and national organizations. The collection comprises materials related to her activism, organizational involvement, and a small amount of materials from her career as a high school teacher. It includes memos, publications, photographs, correspondence, government press releases and...
Dates:
1940-2015
Lois Snedden Papers
Collection
Identifier: NC1410
Abstract
Lois Snedden served on the steering committee for the Western Mining Action Network (WMAN). The collection contains materials created and collected during her work with WMAN.
Dates:
1977-2004
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- Conservationists -- West (U.S.) 2
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- All terrain vehicles -- Environmental aspects -- West (U.S.) 1
- Bodega Bay (Calif.) 1
- Environmental impact statements -- Nevada 1
- Environmental impact statements -- West (U.S.) 1
- Environmental protection -- Research -- Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.) 1
- Environmental protection -- Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.) 1
- Excerpts 1
- Forest management -- Nevada 1
- Grazing -- Environmental aspects -- Nevada 1
- Inyo National Forest (Calif. and Nev.) 1
- MX (Weapons system) -- Environmental aspects -- Nevada 1
- Mineral industries -- Environmental aspects 1
- Minutes (Records) 1
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) 1
- Newsletters 1
- Photographs 1
- Reclamation of land -- Nevada 1
- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) 1
- Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.) 1
- Toiyabe National Forest (Nev. and Calif.) 1
- Toiyabe trails 1
- Water use -- Nevada 1
- Water-supply -- Nevada 1 ∧ less
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- Spanish; Castilian 1
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- Sierra Club. Toiyabe Chapter 2
- Farquhar, Francis P. (Francis Peloubet), 1887-1974 1
- Orr Ditch and Water Company 1
- Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of the Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada 1
- Pyramid Lake Task Force 1
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