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Max C. Fleischmann College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station Records
Collection
Identifier: AC 0191
Abstract
The Agricultural Experiment Station began with the 1887 Hatch Act, to develop agricultural research and education. In addition, during the 1930s, it worked with other federal and state agencies, including the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, the Nevada Emergency Relief Administration, the Farm Credit Administration, and Indian Field Service on several projects. In 1939, the Experiment Station, together with the U.S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics and the Nevada Agricultural...
Dates:
1929-1942
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
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- University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department 1
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- Agriculture -- History -- Nevada 1
- Black Rock Desert (Nev.) 1
- Carson River (Nev.) 1
- Clark County (Nev.) 1
- Douglas County (Nev.) 1
- Droughts -- Nevada 1
- Electric power systems -- Nevada 1
- Electric utilities -- Nevada 1
- Elko County (Nev.) 1
- Evans Creek (Reno, Nev.) 1
- Grazing -- Nevada 1
- Humboldt River (Nev.) -- Water rights 1
- Land use -- West (U.S.) 1
- Land use, Rural -- Planning -- Nevada 1
- Lincoln County (Nev.) 1
- Lyon County (Nev.) 1
- Maps 1
- McDermitt (Nev.) 1
- Mines and mineral resources -- Nevada 1
- Mining law -- Nevada 1
- Natural resources conservation areas -- Nevada 1
- Nature conservation -- Government policy -- Nevada 1
- Nevada -- Maps 1
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- Public lands -- Nevada -- Management 1
- Pyramid Lake (Nev.) 1
- Pyramid Lake (Nev.) -- Water rights 1
- Rangelands 1
- Reclamation of land -- Nevada 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
- Hardman, George 1
- Livermore, John Sealy, 1918-2013 1
- Lynn, Susan, 1945- 1
- Mason, Howard G. 1
- Max C. Fleischmann College of Agriculture. Agricultural Experiment Station 1
- Nevada State Multiple Use Advisory Committee 1
- Nevada. Emergency Relief Administration 1
- Nevada. State Land Use Planning Committee 1
- Newlands Project (U.S.) 1
- Peterson, William 1
- Public Resource Associates (Organization) 1
- Public Resource Foundation (U.S.) 1
- United States. Agricultural Adjustment Administration 1
- United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs 1
- United States. Farm Credit Administration 1
- United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Field Service 1
- University of Nevada, Reno. Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering 1 ∧ less
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