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Linda Cooper, Environmentalist, Canaan Valley Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3223
Scope and Contents
These records document Linda Cooper's efforts to preserve the environment of Canaan Valley, WV, and to establish a National Wildlife Refuge there. These include reports, brochures, and other material regarding the development and creation of the Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge, correspondence, memoranda, and other material regarding the construction and development of the Davis Pumped Storage Project (a hydroelectric energy storage facility), and newspaper articles, newsletters,...
Dates:
1945-1995
Linda Cooper, Environmentalist, Records of Citizens for Responsible Wind Power
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3623
Overview
Records of Citizens for Responsible Wind Power (CRWP), an environmental advocacy group in West Virginia, collected and created by Linda Cooper, a member. Includes minutes, correspondence, reports, and legal documents. Boxes 1-2 regard a wind farm project in Grant County involving NedPower, a wind turbine company; boxes 3-5 regard the Beech Ridge wind farm project in Greenbrier County; boxes 6-7 regard work of CRWP with the West Virginia Public Power Commission to create wind turbine siting...
Dates:
1999-2008
Monongalia County GreenSpace Coalition Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3965
Overview
Records of the Monongalia County GreenSpace Coalition, an environmental advocacy group. Includes correspondence, minutes, reports, projects files, photographs, audiovisual material, and poster boards, among other material. This collection is currently unprocessed.
Dates:
ca. 1990-2005
National Audubon Society, Mountaineer Chapter Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3701
Overview
Administrative records of the Mountaineer Chapter of the National Audubon Society. Includes copy of original charter (1971), minutes, correspondence, newsletters, financial records, and brochures. There are numerous bird count records for the Morgantown area. Local topical files include material regarding a NASCAR lawsuit, a Wal-Mart expansion, and a West Virginia Ecology Youth Camp. There are also two videos related to National Audubon's "Protect the Arctic Campaign".
Dates:
1970-2013
New River Symposiums Proceedings
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3393
Overview
Compact disc of a searchable database of 1200 facsimile pages of New River Symposium Proceedings dating from 1982-1999. Articles in the Proceedings discuss the natural and cultural features of the New River region of West Virginia, including the following topics: botany, Civil War, coal mining, environmentalism, folklore, folk music, geology, Green Sulphur Springs, historic preservation, iron industry, native Americans, railroads, rivers (Bluestone, Gauley, New), transportation, and Mary...
Dates:
1982-1999
Peoples Appalachian Research Collective, Papers regarding Strip Mining
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2618
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of correspondence, notes, articles, newsletters, news clippings, reports, studies, Congressional testimony, and other materials collected by Keith Dix and other members of the Peoples Appalachian Research Collective for the purpose of preparing a 1971 issue of People's Appalachia concerning strip mining in Appalachia. The bulk of the material is newsletters from anti-strip mining organizations and reports, studies, and testimonies on...
Dates:
1968-1973
Philip Bagdon, Research Notes regarding Cass, West Virginia
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3070
Overview
Notes compiled by Philip Bagdon which were used by Dr. Roy Clarkson to complete his history of the logging town of Cass entitled Beyond Leatherbark: The Cass Saga. Bagdon's notes, composed of maps, tables and quotes from newspapers, correspondence and business records, are arranged chronologically and topically covering subjects important to the history of Cass, the Greenbrier River valley and east central West Virginia. Subjects mentioned are land purchases, timber appraisals, railroads,...
Dates:
1876-1976
Pocahontas Operators Association, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2796
Overview
The minutes, correspondence, and financial records of the Pocahontas Operators Association and of its successors, the Smokeless Operators Association and the Southern Virginias Operators Association. Topics mentioned are foreign competition, environmental legislation, labor strife and union negotiations, and lobbying efforts in Congress and with state legislatures. Special mention is made of the conditions in the coal industry during World War II, the impact of the Taft-Hartley Act on...
Dates:
1941-1973
Soil Conservation Society of America, West Virginia Chapter, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3072
Scope and Contents
The West Virginia chapter of a national environmental association whose membership was composed of conservation professionals. Nearly all of its members were federal, state or academic employees of such organizations and institutions as the U. S. Forest Service, West Virginia University, or the WV State Conservation Commission. Arranged chronologically by year, the records include annual meeting programs, executive council meeting minutes, correspondence, newsletters, speeches, reports, and...
Dates:
1946-1965
Upper Monongahela Valley Planning Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3246
Overview
Four items regarding the resources and development of the Upper Monongahela River area in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Includes an "Upper Monongahela Valley Association Economic and Social Objectives Progress Report" (1935-37), a letter to the Secretary of the Interior regarding a project of joint Federal-local planning for the "rehabilitation and development of the Upper Monongahela Valley" (1935), a map titled "Industrial Development in Western Pennsylvania, Northern West Virginia, and...
Dates:
1924-1949