Conservation of natural resources
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 38 Collections and/or Records:
Anne Morrow Lindbergh papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 829
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, writings, childhood, school and college materials, housekeeping and social records, reports, memoranda and correspondence from the many organizations in which Anne Morrow Lindbergh took an active interest. Also included are voluminous mail from members of her reading public and memorabilia, both objects sent by admirers and items collected by her on her travels. The death of Charles Lindbergh in 1974 is documented by mail from friends, members of...
Dates:
1906-1997
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh papers
Charles Augustus Lindbergh papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 325
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence; diaries; writings; childhood, school and college materials; financial, legal, and housekeeping records; reports; memoranda; drawings; maps; publications; artifacts; and memorabilia documenting the life and interests of Charles Augustus Lindbergh. The papers form the largest and most extensive collection of his personal, professional, and family papers. They document his work as a pilot, developer of commercial aviation and rocketry, bio-engineer, air force...
Dates:
1780-1999, bulk 1911-1974
Walter Clay Lowdermilk papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 597
Overview:
Typed manuscript (mimeograph) "Soil, Forest, and Water Conservation in China, Israel, Africa, and the United States," oral history interview (703 pages in two volumes) conducted by Malca Chall for the Regional Oral History Office at the University of California at Berkeley, illustrated, 1969, Berkeley, California. Also included is a typed manuscript (mimeograph) "The Heavens Cooperate," by Inez M. Lowdermilk.
Dates:
1969
David Townsend Mason Papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 545
Overview:
The papers consist entirely of Mason's diaries and travel journals spanning the years 1907-1973. The sixty-eight volumes of diaries deal chiefly with forestry and give considerable attention to the formulation of national policy on forests in the 1930s. The fifteen travel diaries (1950-1972) record Mason's almost annual trips to Europe and the Far East and are also largely devoted to technical subjects.
Dates:
1907-1973
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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David Townsend Mason Papers
Thornton Taft Munger papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 652
Overview:
Correspondence, memoranda, writings, and diaries relating to his career with the U.S. Forest Service. Two reports: "The Survey of Industrial Forestry in the United States" (1928-1931) and "Problems and Progress of Forestry in the United States" (1942-1946) are the subject of most of the correspondence. Major figures in the correspondence are Henry Solon Graves, Philip P. Wells, R. E. Marsh and Shirley W. Allen. The diaries (1914-1923) record Munger's professional travel observations. The...
Dates:
1893-1972
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Thornton Taft Munger papers
Francis Griffith Newlands papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 371
Overview:
The papers contain correspondence, speeches, reports, scrapbooks, and other material documenting the political career of Francis G. Newlands. The papers highlight Nevada Democratic and Silver Party politics and focus on Newlands's legislative programs on transportation, particularly railroads and inland waterways, interstate commerce, irrigation, flood control, land reclamation, currency and silver, conservation and forests, and tariffs. An addition to the collection contains over 600 personal...
Dates:
1869-1936, bulk 1899-1917
Arthur Bernhard Recknagel papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 408
Overview:
Correspondence, writings, subject files, account books, photographs, an album of postcards, clippings, and printed matter of Arthur Bernhard Recknagel. The largest part of the collection is made up of papers, speeches, and reports by Recknagel and others on forestry. Also included are records of the St. Regis Paper Company for which Recknagel had been forestry consultant and a number of reports prepared by the Committee on Conservation and Management of Natural Resources of the National...
Dates:
1904-1960
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, records
Collection
Call Number: RU 41
Overview:
The records consist of class materials and student papers from courses taught at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (School of Forestry prior to 1972) by Edward A. Bowers, Herman H. Chapman, B. E. Fernow, Henry Solon Graves, Gifford Pinchot, and Charles A. Walker. Also included are clippings, biographical notes, letters, publications, and photographs concerning the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and its faculty; publications and talks of Carl E. Ostrom,...
Dates:
1905-2006
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, records concerning the industrial forestry seminar
Collection
Call Number: RU 44
Overview:
The records consist of papers and materials from seminars and files from seminar instructors documenting the Industrial Forestry Seminar conducted by the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (called the School of Forestry prior to 1972).
Dates:
1955-1979
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, records of the dean
Collection
Call Number: RU 40
Overview:
The records consist of correspondence, subject files, financial records, committee files, minutes, reports, and related materials documenting the activities of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (called the School of Forestry prior to 1972). Topics include governance, curriculum, budgets and fund-raising, buildings and properties, camps and experiment stations, research programs, students, personnel, alumni relations, and relations with governmental and forestry...
Dates:
1900-2010
School of Forestry, Yale University, records of training camps
Collection
Call Number: RU 43
Overview:
The records consist of clippings, records, scrapbooks, and photographs which document the students and operations of the Yale School of Forestry's (called the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies after 1972) training camps.
Dates:
1901-1962
George Dudley Seymour papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 442
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, writings, photographs, research files, printed material, and miscellanea of George Dudley Seymour, a lawyer, antiquarian, historian, author and city planner in New Haven, Connecticut. Seymour's personal papers and collected manuscripts document the history of the Seymour family, the patriot Nathan Hale, the city planning movement in New Haven, Connecticut, and local history, 1684-1944. General correspondence files contain the bulk of personal...
Dates:
1684-1944
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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George Dudley Seymour papers
Ward Shepard papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 746
Overview:
Correspondence, writings and a few essays by others on ecology, Indians, and Darwinism. The main portion of the correspondence (1943-1958) is with John Collier on the subject of Shepard's last book, The Living Whole. His writings reflect interests in the environment and related scientific subjects, and the papers include both published and unpublished works.
Dates:
1909-1959
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Ward Shepard papers
Edward Augustine Sherman papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 594
Overview:
Typed manuscripts; diaries of 3 trips to Alaska, illustrated with photographs; memorandum on Alaska re: forestry and agriculture.
Dates:
1915-1922
David Martyn Smith papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1189
Overview:
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, and other papers relating to the Connecticut Pesticide Investigating Committee. This committee was chaired by Anthony E. Wallace and one its members was David Martyn Smith.
Dates:
1961-1963
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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David Martyn Smith papers
Frederic Collin Walcott papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 529
Overview:
The early papers relate to Walcott's business concerns and his game preserve. The bulk of the collection covers the period from 1915-1919 when Walcott was with the Rockefeller Foundation War Relief Commission and the U.S. Food Administration. Beginning with 1929 there is some correspondence from his career as Republican Senator from Connecticut. The remainder of the collection relates to Walcott's work in Polish relief (1939-1940) and his interest in conservation. Other persons represented...
Dates:
1850-1948
Herbert Isaac Winer papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1160
Overview:
The papers of Herbert Isaac Winer include material related to Dr. Winer’s teaching at the Yale Forestry School (later Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies), including course files, student files, correspondence, and class trips to the Yale Forestry Camp in Crossett, Arkansas. Research files consist of field data and statistical studies of logging and sawmill operations in the southern United States, especially in Crossett and Urania, Louisiana. The papers include data sheets,...
Dates:
1911-2014
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Herbert Isaac Winer papers
Harold Edward Woodsum, Jr. papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1673
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, subject files, reports, meeting minutes, financial records, and other organization files that document Harold Edward Woodsum, Jr.'s terms on the board of directors of the National Audubon Society.
Dates:
1984-1994