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Public Resource Associates Records
Collection
Identifier: 2006-05
Abstract
Records cover the various initiatives, activities, and efforts of both the Public Resource Foundation (1982) and later Public Resource Associates (1988) to effect environmental change on the national and local levels through grassroots planning and lobbying. Materials date from 1919-2012 with the bulk of the material covering the mid-1980s-2012. The major areas of emphasis in this collection are the work to reform the 1872 Mining Law, public lands management, and conservation and...
Dates:
1919-2013; Majority of material found within 1985-2012
A thousand miles of desert and mountains: a prospecting trip across Nevada and over the Sierras
Collection
Identifier: 91-48
Abstract
Josephine C. Scott was married to miner and prospector, George R. Scott. She wrote about mining and construction in Nevada. Collection contains three volumes (of the original 4 volumes) depict the Scott's prospecting journey through southern Nevada, Death Valley, eastern California/western Nevada along the Walker River, and through Bridgeport over Sonora Pass. Created between March 14-September 9, 1914.
Dates:
March 14-September 9, 1914
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- Land use -- Planning -- Nevada 1
- Land use -- West (U.S.) 1
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- Las Vegas (Nev.) -- History 1
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- Rangelands -- Effect of grazing on 1
- Reclamation of land -- Nevada 1
- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- Description and travel 1
- Truckee River (Calif. and Nev.) 1
- Walker Lake (Nev.) 1
- Water use -- Nevada 1
- Watershed management -- Truckee River Watershed (Calif. and Nev.) 1
- West Walker River (Calif. and Nev.) 1
- Wetlands -- Law and legislation -- Nevada -- Reno 1
- Wildlife conservation -- Nevada 1
- Women -- Description and travel -- West (U.S.) 1 ∧ less
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- Burning Man (Festival) 1
- Livermore, John Sealy, 1918-2013 1
- Lynn, Susan, 1945- 1
- Nevada State Multiple Use Advisory Committee 1
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