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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
Sessions S. Wheeler Papers
Collection
Identifier: 99-01
Abstract
Sessions S. Wheeler served on the board of the Nevada State Museum. He received the Conservationist of the Year award, Outstanding Biology Teacher award, and the Distinguished Nevadan Award from the University of Nevada in 1963. The collection consists entirely of materials related to Wheeler's published writings: manuscripts in draft and edited formats, research notes and tapes, original papers and records of Max C. Fleischmann, photographs, and newspaper clippings.
Dates:
1849-1992; Majority of material found within 1928-1992
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- Indochina -- Description and travel 1
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- Nature conservation -- Government policy -- Nevada 1
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- Rangelands 1
- Reclamation of land -- Nevada 1
- Sheep ranchers -- Nevada 1
- Speeches 1
- Truckee River (Calif. and Nev.) 1
- Walker Lake (Nev.) 1
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- Watershed management -- Truckee River Watershed (Calif. and Nev.) 1
- Wetlands -- Law and legislation -- Nevada -- Reno 1
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- Burning Man (Festival) 1
- Fleischmann, Charles 1
- Fleischmann, Max C. (Max Charles), 1877-1951 1
- Fleischmann, Sarah Hamilton, 1881-1960 1
- Haida (Yacht) 1
- Livermore, John Sealy, 1918-2013 1
- Lynn, Susan, 1945- 1
- Meaker, Reginald, 1877-1982 1
- Nevada State Multiple Use Advisory Committee 1
- Parman, Ralph G. 1
- Public Resource Associates (Organization) 1
- Public Resource Foundation (U.S.) 1
- Sheppard, Craig, 1913-1978 1
- Sheppard, Yolande Jacobson, 1921-1998 1
- Smith, Jedediah Strong, 1799-1831 1
- Taylor, John G., 1854-1941 1
- University of Nevada, Reno. Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering 1
- Urza, Monique, 1953- 1
- Wheeler, Sessions S. 1 ∧ less
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