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Claude Dukes Collection of Federal Water Master's Office Records

 Collection
Identifier: 84-11
Abstract

Collection contains papers from the Federal Water Master's Office, Reno, Nevada, 1926-1982. Included are office operational records, correspondence; also water data, reports, maps and printed material relating to water in the Truckee and Carson River Basins, Nevada and California.

Dates: 1849-1982

Charles E. Hancock Collection of Nevada water Court Cases

 Collection
Identifier: 91-54
Abstract

This collection consists of court documents for the case which involved water rights to the Truckee River in Nevada and a reconsideration of the Orr Water Ditch decree, and for the appeal cases which arose from that litigation. The collection Includes motions, interrogatories, answers and objections, notices, memorandum, lists of witnesses and experts, opinions of the litigants and the courts. Created by Charles E. Hancock between 1974-1986.

Dates: 1974-1986

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

David K. Rice Papers

 Collection
Identifier: NC1323
Abstract

David K. Rice worked for the Nevada Department of Wildlife for 30 years primarily as Chief Conservation Educator. He is also the author of a former weekly column for the Reno Gazette Journal on hunting and fishing. Collection contains material from the Nevada Department of Wildlife (and formerly the Nevada Fish and Game Commission) about the department's conservation work, particularly at Pyramid Lake. Also includes columns written by Rice for the RGJ.

Dates: 1887 - 2014

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

The Truckee Basin Fishery, 1844-1944

 Collection
Identifier: NC1246/3
Abstract

A history of fish and fishing in the Truckee River from Verdi to Pyramid Lake. Included are a summary of fisheries before 1900, the causes and effects of pollution in the river, and the final destruction of native fish species.

Dates: 1978

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Truckee River (Calif. and Nev.) 5
Water use -- Nevada 3
Fishing -- Nevada 2
Mines and mineral resources -- Nevada 2
Public lands -- Nevada -- Management 2
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Technical reports 2
Water rights -- Nevada 2
Wildlife conservation -- Nevada 2
Albums (Books) 1
All terrain vehicles -- Environmental aspects -- West (U.S.) 1
Anti-environmentalism -- Nevada 1
Black Rock Desert (Nev.) 1
Business correspondence 1
Carson River (Nev.) 1
Carson River (Nev.) -- Water rights 1
Conference materials 1
Cui-ui -- Nevada -- Pyramid Lake 1
Cutthroat trout -- Nevada 1
Data sets 1
Environmental impact statements -- Nevada 1
Environmental monitoring -- Nevada 1
Environmental protection -- Nevada 1
Environmental protection -- Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.) 1
Evans Creek (Reno, Nev.) 1
Excerpts 1
Fisheries -- Nevada 1
Forest management -- Nevada 1
Grazing -- Nevada 1
Hazardous wastes -- Nevada 1
Hunting -- Nevada 1
Interviews 1
Lake trout -- Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.) 1
Land use -- Nevada 1
Land use -- Planning -- Nevada 1
Land use -- West (U.S.) 1
Land use, Rural -- Planning -- Nevada 1
Law materials 1
MX (Weapons system) 1
Maps 1
Mining law -- Nevada 1
Natural gas pipelines 1
Natural resources conservation areas -- Nevada 1
Nature conservation -- Government policy -- Nevada 1
Naval Air Station (Fallon, Nev.) 1
Photographs 1
Public lands -- Nevada 1
Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of the Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada 1
Radioactive waste disposal -- Nevada 1
Rangelands 1
Reclamation of land -- Nevada 1
Reno (Nev.) 1
Sage grouse -- Conservation -- Nevada 1
Sage grouse -- Habitat -- Nevada 1
Sagebrush Rebellion (Movement : Nev.) 1
Serial publications 1
Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.) 1
Toiyabe trails 1
Truckee River (Calif. and Nev.) -- Water rights 1
Walker Lake (Nev.) 1
Walker River (Nev.) 1
Water -- Law and legislation -- Nevada 1
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Water conservation projects -- Nevada -- Washoe County 1
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Water diversion -- Truckee River (Calif. and Nev.) 1
Watershed management -- Truckee River Watershed (Calif. and Nev.) 1
Wetlands -- Law and legislation -- Nevada -- Reno 1
Wild burros -- Control -- Nevada 1
Wild horses -- Control -- Nevada 1
Wilderness areas -- Nevada -- Management 1
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Nevada. Department of Wildlife 2
Orr Ditch and Water Company 2
Truckee-Carson Irrigation District 2
Bell, Walter L., 1924- 1
Burning Man (Festival) 1
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California. Department of Fish and Game 1
Dieringer, Jack, 1925-2020 1
Dukes, Claude, 1914-1984 1
Dukes, Harry C. 1
Dukes, Lynne 1
Federal Water Master Nevada 1
Hancock, Charles E., 1874- 1
Livermore, John Sealy, 1918-2013 1
Lynn, Susan, 1945- 1
Nevada State Multiple Use Advisory Committee 1
Nevada. Department of Fish and Game 1
Nevada. Fish and Game Commission 1
Public Resource Associates (Organization) 1
Public Resource Foundation (U.S.) 1
Sierra Club 1
Sierra Club. Toiyabe Chapter 1
Townley, John M. 1
Trelease, Tom 1
United States. Bureau of Land Management 1
United States. Court of Appeals (9th Circuit) (Title of a work--United States of America, petitioner, vs Truckee-Carson Irrigation District, et al, respondents) 1
United States. Court of Appeals (9th Circuit) (Title of a work--United States of America, plaintiff, and Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of Indians, plaintiff-intervenor, vs Truckee-Carson Irrigation District, et al, defendants-appellees) 1
United States. District Court (Nevada) (Title of a work--United States of America, plaintiff, and Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of Indians, plaintiff-intervenor, vs Truckee-Carson Irrigation District, et al) 1
United States. District Court (Nevada) (Title of a work--United States of America, plaintiff, vs Orr Water Ditch Company, et al, defendants) 1
United States. Forest Service. Intermountain Region 1
United States. Supreme Court (Title of a work--Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of Indians, cross-petitioner, vs Truckee-Carson Irrigation District, et al, cross-respondents) 1
United States. Supreme Court (Title of a work--State of Nevada, petitioner, vs United States of America, et al, respondents) 1
United States. Supreme Court (Title of a work--Truckee-Carson Irrigation District, et al, petitioner, vs United States of America and Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of Indians, respondents) 1
University of Nevada, Reno. Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering 1
Washoe Project, Nevada-California 1
Wright, Fred 1
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