Nevada National Security Site (Nev.)

Abstract John Ensign served in the United State Congress from 1994-1998 and the U.S. Senate from 2000 until his resignation in 2011. He served on the following Senate Committees: Budget; Finance; Armed Services; Commerce, Science, and Transportation; Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP); Veterans Affairs; Homeland Security and Government Affairs; Small Business and Entrepreneurship; Rules and Administration; and Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. The collection covers Ensign's career as a...

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Katharine Gardiner Hale (1944-2021) was an active member of the northern Nevada community and the co-founder of Citizen Alert and Save the Mapes, later known as the Truckee Meadows Heritage Trust. The collection includes Hales' records regarding Citizen Alert, Save the Mapes, a collection of art exhibit posters and flyers, and general information about Reno, Nevada politics from the 1990s.

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James H. Trexler and Patricia H. Cashman were Geology professors in University of Nevada, Reno Department of Geological Sciences. The collection contains unpublished and final reports, field notebooks, maps, measured sections, well logs, core sample information, and other research materials related to Nevada compiled by Trexler and Cashman on their geological work at the Nevada Test Site (now the Nevada National Security Site) and Yucca Mountain.

Abstract The Western Shoshone Defense Project Records were originally maintained by Carrie and Mary Dann, two traditional Western Shoshone ranchers living in northeastern Nevada. The Defense Project's mission is to affirm Western Shoshone jurisdiction over Western Shoshone ancestral homelands by protecting, preserving, and restoring Shoshone rights and lands for present and future generations based on cultural and spiritual traditions. It was established in 1991 by the Western Shoshone National...