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Bob A. Fulkerson Papers on Citizen Alert
Collection
Identifier: NC1343
Abstract
Bob A. Fulkerson is a fifth-generation Nevadan who has spent his life working to protect the environment and people of the state. He served as the Executive Director of Citizen Alert from 1984-1994 and is the co-founder and Director of PLAN, the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada. Collection contains a variety of information and materials created and collected by Bob Fulkerson during his time as Director of Citizen Alert.
Dates:
1980-1994
Citizen Alert MX Missile Papers
Collection
Identifier: 89-17
Abstract
Research materials, primarily generated by anti-MX groups, on the proposed MX missile project which was to have been based in Nevada and Utah. Included are clippings, correspondence, and reports (both originals and copies).
Dates:
1979-1990
Katharine Gardiner Hale Papers
Collection
Identifier: NC1421
Abstract
Katharine Gardiner Hale (1944-2021) was an active member of the northern Nevada community and the co-founder of Citizen Alert and Save the Mapes, later known as the Truckee Meadows Heritage Trust. The collection includes Hales' records regarding Citizen Alert, Save the Mapes, a collection of art exhibit posters and flyers, and general information about Reno, Nevada politics from the 1990s.
Dates:
1974-2000
MX Missile Project in Nevada
Collection
Identifier: 82-31
Scope and Contents
The MX Missile Project in Nevada contains reports and publications related to the project. This project was proposed by the U.S Airforce to construct missile shelters. Material between 1978-1981.
Dates:
1980-1981; 1978-1981
Max C. Fleischmann College of Agriculture, Renewable Natural Resources Division Records
Collection
Identifier: AC 0366
Abstract
The records in this collection were primarily created by John L. Artz, Extension Range Specialist in the Renewable Natural Resources Division, 1966-1985, and Associate Director of the Cooperative Extension Service, 1982-1984. Artz was closely involved with the public land grazing issues as a consultant, educator, and mediator. Much of the records relate to public land livestock grazing issues, 1970s-1980s, involving the Bureau of Land Management and Environmental Impact Statements, including...
Dates:
1935-1993
William T. and Ann H. Scott Papers
Collection
Identifier: 95-92
Abstract
Husband and wife William Taussig Scott (1916-1999) and Ann Herbert Scott (1929-2018) lived in Reno, Nevada, between 1961-1995. William taught physics and philosophy of science at the University of Nevada, Reno, from 1961-1981 and conducted research in cloud physics at the Desert Research Institute from 1965-1975. Ann was an author of children's books and a book on the U.S. Census. The collection consists of the personal papers and professional records of Ann and William Scott and their...
Dates:
1833-1994
Sierra Club, Toiyabe Chapter Records
Collection
Identifier: 87-04
Abstract
The Toiyabe Chapter is a regional chapter of the Sierra Club, a California-based national organization devoted to preserving nature for future generations. The Toiyabe Chapter was organized in 1957 and originally included Nevada, California east of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and north of San Bernardino and Kern Counties, and parts of the state of Utah. The collection contains records created or collected by the Toiyabe Chapter of the Sierra Club related to the environment, its use, and its...
Dates:
1924-2018
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
Western Solidarity Records
Collection
Identifier: 2017-54
Abstract
Founded in 1982, Western Solidarity was comprised of a coalition of concerned citizens from eight western states that opposed the federal governments proposed deployment of the Peacekeeper missile experiment (MX). This collection contains a variety of materials including news clips from various Western newspapers and periodicals, member listings, regional and local memoranda, organization newsletters, correspondence, notes, lawsuit and hearing briefs, and governmental studies and...
Dates:
1978-1989; 1978-1989
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- Subject: MX (Weapons system) X
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- University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department 8
- University of Nevada, Reno. University Archives 1
- Subject
- MX (Weapons system) 6
- Environmental impact statements -- Nevada 3
- Intercontinental ballistic missile bases -- West (U.S.) 3
- MX (Weapons system) -- Environmental aspects -- Nevada 3
- All terrain vehicles -- Environmental aspects -- West (U.S.) 2
- Environmental impact statements -- West (U.S.) 2
- Environmental protection -- Nevada 2
- Environmental protection -- Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.) 2
- Excerpts 2
- Forest management -- Nevada 2
- Grazing -- Environmental aspects -- Nevada 2
- Photographs 2
- Toiyabe trails 2
- Anti-environmentalism -- Nevada 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Nevada 1
- Antinuclear movement -- West (U.S.) 1
- Art -- Exhibitions 1
- Ballistic missile defenses 1
- Business correspondence 1
- Children's literature 1
- Children's literature -- Authorship 1
- Cloud physics 1
- Conscientious objectors -- United States 1
- Conservationists -- West (U.S.) 1
- Cosmic rays 1
- Electricity 1
- Environmental monitoring -- Nevada 1
- Environmental protection -- Research -- Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.) 1
- Fiction 1
- Fliers (Ephemera) 1
- Grazing -- Nevada 1
- Grazing -- Research 1
- Hazardous wastes -- Nevada 1
- Indians of North America -- Utah 1
- Inyo National Forest (Calif. and Nev.) 1
- Knowledge, Theory of 1
- Magnetism 1
- Mass spectrometry 1
- Mines and mineral resources -- Nevada 1
- Missions -- China 1
- Natural gas pipelines 1
- Natural resources -- Management 1
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) 1
- Naval Air Station (Fallon, Nev.) 1
- Nevada -- Politics and government 1
- Nevada National Security Site (Nev.) 1
- Nuclear disarmament 1
- Nuclear weapons -- Nevada -- Testing 1
- Pacifism 1
- Pacifists -- United States 1
- Paiute Indians -- Social conditions 1
- Peace 1
- Philosophy and science 1
- Prisons -- Nevada 1
- Public lands -- Nevada 1
- Public lands -- Nevada -- Management 1
- Pyramid Lake (Nev.) 1
- Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation (Nev.) 1
- Quantum theory 1
- Radioactive waste disposal -- Nevada 1
- Radioactive waste sites -- Nevada -- Yucca Mountain 1
- Range management -- West (U.S.) 1
- Rangelands 1
- Religion and science 1
- Sage grouse -- Conservation -- Nevada 1
- Sage grouse -- Habitat -- Nevada 1
- Sagebrush Rebellion (Movement : Nev.) 1
- Scattering (Physics) 1
- Shoshoni Indians 1
- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) 1
- Society of Friends -- Nevada 1
- Society of Friends -- Political activity 1
- Toiyabe National Forest (Nev. and Calif.) 1
- Truckee River (Calif. and Nev.) 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Conscientious objectors -- Nevada 1
- Water -- Management 1
- Water use -- Nevada 1
- Wild burros -- Control -- Nevada 1
- Wild horses -- Control -- Nevada 1
- Wild horses -- Nevada 1
- Wilderness areas -- Nevada -- Management 1
- Wildlife conservation -- Nevada 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors 1 ∧ less
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- Citizen Alert (Organization) 3
- Sierra Club 3
- MX Missile Project 2
- Sierra Club. Toiyabe Chapter 2
- American Friends Service Committee (Reno, Nev.) 1
- Artz, John L. 1
- Cactus Alliance 1
- California. Department of Fish and Game 1
- Firmage, Edwin B. 1
- Fujian xie he da xue 1
- Fulkerson, Bob A. 1
- Garwin, Richard L. 1
- Great Basin MX Alliance 1
- Hale, Katharine Gardiner, 1944-2021 1
- Katharine Gardiner Hale Trust 1
- Mapes Hotel (Reno, Nev.) 1
- Max C. Fleischmann College of Agriculture. Cooperative Extension Service 1
- Max C. Fleischmann College of Agriculture. Renewable Natural Resources Division 1
- Nevada Cattleman's Association 1
- Nevada. Department of Fish and Game 1
- Nevada. Department of Wildlife 1
- Painter, Marla 1
- Polanyi, Michael, 1891-1976 1
- Riverside Hotel (Reno, Nev.) 1
- Robertson, Joseph H., 1906-1998 1
- Scott family 1
- Scott, Abraham McLean 1
- Scott, Agnes 1
- Scott, Ann Herbert 1
- Scott, C. P. G. (Charles Payson Gurley), 1853-1936 1
- Scott, Carl F. 1
- Scott, Roderick 1
- Scott, William T. (William Taussig), 1916-1999 1
- Sierra Nevada Alliance 1
- Sill, Marjorie Leite 1
- Society for Social Responsibility in Science 1
- Truckee Meadows Heritage Trust 1
- United States. Air Force 1
- United States. Bureau of Land Management 1
- United States. Bureau of Land Management. Nevada State Office 1
- United States. Forest Service. Intermountain Region 1
- Western Solidarity (Organization) 1
- Western Universities Public Range and Coordination Committee 1 ∧ less
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