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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
Western Shoshone Defense Project Records
Collection
Identifier: 2013-10
Abstract
The Western Shoshone Defense Project Records were originally maintained by Carrie and Mary Dann, two traditional Western Shoshone ranchers living in northeastern Nevada. The Defense Project's mission is to affirm Western Shoshone jurisdiction over Western Shoshone ancestral homelands by protecting, preserving, and restoring Shoshone rights and lands for present and future generations based on cultural and spiritual traditions. It was established in 1991 by the Western Shoshone National...
Dates:
1863-2011; Majority of material found within 1930 - 2011
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- Black Rock Desert (Nev.) 1
- Carson River (Nev.) 1
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- Evans Creek (Reno, Nev.) 1
- Indians of North America -- Civil rights 1
- Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc -- Nevada 1
- Indians of North America -- Religion -- Nevada 1
- Indians of North America -- Treaties 1
- Land use -- Planning -- Nevada 1
- Land use -- West (U.S.) 1
- Land use, Rural -- Planning -- Nevada 1
- Mines and mineral resources -- Nevada 1
- Mining law -- Nevada 1
- Natural resources conservation areas -- Nevada 1
- Nature conservation -- Government policy -- Nevada 1
- Nevada National Security Site (Nev.) 1
- Nuclear weapons -- Nevada -- Testing 1
- Public lands -- Nevada 1
- Pyramid Lake (Nev.) 1
- Radioactive waste sites -- Nevada -- Yucca Mountain 1
- Rangelands 1
- Reclamation of land -- Nevada 1
- Shoshoni Indians -- Claims 1
- Shoshoni Indians -- Government relations -- Nevada 1
- Shoshoni Indians -- Great Basin 1
- Shoshoni Indians -- History 1
- Truckee River (Calif. and Nev.) 1
- Walker Lake (Nev.) 1
- Walker River (Nev.) 1
- Water use -- Nevada 1
- Watershed management -- Truckee River Watershed (Calif. and Nev.) 1
- Wetlands -- Law and legislation -- Nevada -- Reno 1
- Wildlife conservation -- Nevada 1 ∧ less
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- Burning Man (Festival) 1
- Dann, Carrie, 1934-2021 1
- Dann, Mary, 1923-2005 1
- Livermore, John Sealy, 1918-2013 1
- Lynn, Susan, 1945- 1
- Nevada State Multiple Use Advisory Committee 1
- Public Resource Associates (Organization) 1
- Public Resource Foundation (U.S.) 1
- United Nations 1
- United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs 1
- United States. Bureau of Land Management 1
- United States. Indian Claims Commission 1
- United States. Supreme Court 1
- University of Nevada, Reno. Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering 1
- Western Shoshone Defense Project 1
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