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To the Committee on Conservation and Administration of the Public Domain
Collection
Identifier: 89-11
Abstract
Report recommending that the President of the U.S. and the Secretary of the Interior be given authority to negotiate turning over to appropriate states all unappropriated, unreserved land in fee simple.
Observations on the Ely, Nevada, Bureau of Land Management District
Collection
Identifier: NC1231
Abstract
Hubert Grant Welch was a Nevada rancher from the Ely region. Tape and transcript of Welch's personal observations of the Nevada ranges, trends in "bureaucratic management" of public lands, and history of Quinn Battle and the community of Troy, Nevada, from 1978.
John Ensign U.S. Senatorial Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2013-11
Overview
Materials cover John Ensign's career as a U.S. Senator from Nevada from 2001 until his resignation on May 3, 2011. Files are only from his Washington D.C. office, with the bulk coming from Ensign's first term during the 107th to 109th congresses (2001-2006). The collection include correspondence, speeches, schedules, legislative work on bills and hearings, news clips, reports, and some audio/visual records. A few photographs and memorabilia are also included.
Friends of Nevada Wilderness Records
Collection
Identifier: ACM-94-50
Abstract
Friends of Nevada Wilderness is dedicated to preserving all qualified Nevada public lands as wilderness, protecting all present and potential wilderness from ongoing threats, educating the public about the values of and need for wilderness, and improving the management and restoration of wild lands. Included are bylaws, correspondence, membership lists, budgets, newsletters, speeches, clippings, and material from anti-wilderness groups from 1985-1993.
Tina Nappe Papers
Collection
Identifier: 90-34
Overview
Papers related to Nappe's interest in the use of Nevada's public lands include correspondence, printed reports, and articles.
Nevadans for a Practical Wilderness Policy Records
Collection
Identifier: 89-02
Abstract
Included are informational brochures, newsletters, and steering committee report. Additional records to be added as received.
Public lands in Nevada, opportunities for successful homestead and desert land entries through irrigation pumping and dry farm reclamation
Collection
Identifier: AC 0233
Abstract
Proposed publication prepared for the 1915 Nevada exposition on public lands, belonging to the federal government, in Nevada and which seem to present favorable opportunities for homestead or desertland entry. Manuscript submitted to the Nevada exposition commission by University of Nevada faculty members Charles A. Norcross, Director of Agricultural Extension; Charles S. Knight, Dean, College of Agriculture; and James G. Scrugham, Dean, College of Engineering. Includes copy of a section...
Public ownership of land in Washoe County
Collection
Identifier: 98-46
Abstract
Report determining the location, extent, and character of public land in Washoe County, Nevada, written in preparation for a general plan of development for the county (1975; 1978). Created by the Regional Planning Commission of Reno, Sparks, and Washoe County.
Public Resource Associates Records
Collection
Identifier: 2006-05
Overview
Records cover the various initiatives, activities, and efforts of both the Public Resource Foundation (1982) and later Public Resource Associates (1988) to affect 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 maintenance...
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...
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