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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
Kathryn Wishart Papers
Collection
Identifier: 95-94
Abstract
One section of materials focuses on specific projects or controversies experienced while Kathryn was a council member. Notable among these materials are those relating to the Plumas Street Widening Project, which raised considerable public uproar, including a threatened recall of four council members. Other projects include the Robb Drive I-80 interchange, a child care conference, and the wetlands and streams environmental policy. Newspaper clippings relating to specific projects are...
Dates:
1981-1993
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- Subject: Wetlands -- Law and legislation -- Nevada -- Reno X
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- Black Rock Desert (Nev.) 1
- Carson River (Nev.) 1
- Child care services -- Nevada -- Reno 1
- City planning -- Nevada -- Reno 1
- Evans Creek (Reno, Nev.) 1
- Grazing -- Nevada 1
- Land use -- Nevada 1
- Land use -- Planning -- Nevada 1
- Land use -- Planning -- Nevada -- Reno 1
- Land use -- West (U.S.) 1
- Land use, Rural -- Planning -- Nevada 1
- Local government -- Nevada -- Reno 1
- Mines and mineral resources -- Nevada 1
- Mining law -- Nevada 1
- Natural resources conservation areas -- Nevada 1
- Nature conservation -- Government policy -- Nevada 1
- Public lands -- Nevada 1
- Public lands -- Nevada -- Management 1
- Pyramid Lake (Nev.) 1
- Rangelands 1
- Reclamation of land -- Nevada 1
- Reno (Nev.) -- Politics and government 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
- Wildlife conservation -- Nevada 1
- Women -- Nevada 1
- Women -- Political activity -- Nevada -- Reno 1 ∧ less
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- Burning Man (Festival) 1
- Livermore, John Sealy, 1918-2013 1
- Lynn, Susan, 1945- 1
- Nevada State Multiple Use Advisory Committee 1
- Public Resource Associates (Organization) 1
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