Community-based conservation

Scope and Contents Records of the West Virginia Chapter of the Sierra Club, an American environmental preservation organization. Records include correspondence, meeting minutes, publications, audiovisual materials, and other records of the Chapter’s operations. This collection also includes one box of records from the Potomac Chapter, from which the West Virginian Chapter was formed. The materials of this collection are generally related to two topics: administration and activism. ...

Overview The papers of David Elkinton, environmentalist and author of Fighting to Protect the Highlands: The First Forty Years of the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy. Includes resource materials collected for his book, such as research notes, video and audio tapes of interviews, photographs, and historical records of the environmental activist organization West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, including correspondence, court papers, and issues...