Environmentalism.
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:
West Virginia Academy of Science Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3133
Overview
Records from the files of the secretary of the West Virginia Academy of Science. Material concerning the Academy newsletter and published proceedings, membership, and Academy relations with other scientific organizations is included. Also correspondence, minutes of meetings, committee reports, and organizational papers are in the archives. Much material relates to the Academy's Scientific Talent Fund.
Dates:
1946-1980
West Virginia Civilian Conservation Corps Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0629
Overview
Journals and newsletters of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), a New Deal agency involved in environmental reclamation projects such as reforestation. Includes diaries and newspapers of CCC involvement in West Virginia documented in district and local camp periodicals, programs, and pictoral reviews.
Dates:
1936-1988
West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, David Elkinton Research Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3653
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 of its periodical publication "Highlands Voice" for...
Dates:
1969-2007
West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, Legal Records Regarding Otter Creek Drainage Case
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3923
Overview
Legal records from attorney Frederick Anderson who was involved with the Otter Creek drainage case on behalf of the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy. The case took place within the early history of the modern environmental movement in the United States. Congress eventually provided permanent protection for the Otter Creek wilderness, which is located on the Cheat-Potomac Ranger District of the Monongahela National Forest in Tucker and Randolph Counties, West Virginia. The collection also...
Dates:
ca. 1969-1971
West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3282
Overview
Administrative records, correspondence, publications, financial records and other material of the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy (WVHC), an environmental advocacy group formed in 1967. This collection contains material regarding the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy's activism on issues such as preservation of wilderness areas and air quality, among others. Please see "Scope and Content Note" and "Historical Note" for further information. Please see control folder for contents...
Dates:
1967-1996
West Virginia Wild Water Association Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3219
Overview
Consists primarily of most copies of the Association's newsletter, Wild Water Splashes (later titles: Whitewater Splashes and Splashes) which records the minutes of the organization's meetings and plans for whitewater canoe trips. Also includes the Association's schedule/membership rosters for most years, and miscellaneous whitewater and camping itineraries and newspaper articles about the Association. The West Virginia Wild Water Association was founded in 1965 to meet the need for a local...
Dates:
1965-2008
William Smith O'Brien (1862-1948) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1105
Overview
Correspondence, business and legal papers, notebooks, speeches, historical essays, genealogical records, clippings, and printed material of a Buckhannon lawyer, state jurist, member of Congress (1927-1929), and West Virginia Secretary of State (1933-1948). The collection also includes papers of O'Brien's father, Emmett J., a member of the state's first Constitutional Convention; letters from O'Brien's brother, Lieutenant A.L. O'Brien, 1874-1887, a West Point graduate serving at forts...
Dates:
ca. 1830-1950