Clifton R. Merritt Papers, 1935-2008

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Merritt, Clifton R. (Clifton Reeve), 1919-2008
Title
Clifton R. Merritt Papers
Dates
1935-2008 (inclusive)
Quantity
69.0 linear feet
Collection Number
Mss 700
Summary
This collection consists of the papers of environmental activist Clifton R. Merritt. From 1964 to 1978 Merritt served as Director of Field Services for The Wilderness Society. After leaving The Wilderness Society, Merritt founded the American Wilderness Alliance (later American Wildlands). His papers include correspondence, research files and other documents from his time with these agencies. Other materials cover his work with Montana Wilderness Association, Montana Wildlife Federation, and Friends of the Bitterroot. The collection also contains personal writings and correspondence.
Repository
University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections
Archives and Special Collections
Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library
University of Montana
32 Campus Dr. #9936
59812-9936
Missoula, MT
Telephone: 406-243-2053
library.archives@umontana.edu
Access Restrictions

Researchers must use collection in accordance with the policies of Archives and Special Collections, the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, and The University of Montana-Missoula.

Languages
English

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Clifton R. Merritt was born in November 1919 in the Prickly Pear Valley (now known as the Helena Valley) of Montana. He grew up on the cattle ranch his grandfather settled in the 1890s near the Gates of the Wilderness Mountains along the upper Missouri River. In his youth he was plagued by illness including polio and a triple heart valve leakage at age 15. Despite these physical ailments, Merritt was an avid hunter, fisherman, and hiker, often enjoying these activities with his twin brother, Don.

Clif attended college at Carroll College in Helena, Montana taking courses in liberal arts and sociology. After leaving Carroll, Merritt moved to Kalispell, Montana, and worked for the Bureau of Employment Security and Montana State Employment Service. He rose to Field Supervisor for the Bureau of Employment Security which involved hiring, training, and supervising of over 150 employees in nine (or more) field offices. Merritt held this position from 1953-1964.

During his time in Kalispell, Merritt helped found the Montana Wilderness Association in 1957. He also served in various positions for the Montana Wildlife Federation from 1950 to 1964. With these organizations, Merritt was a leader in getting the Montana Stream Preservation Act adopted and halting the establishment of the Spruce Park and Glacier View dams on the Flathead River, as well as spearheading the movement to get the 15,000 acre Jewel Basin Hiking Area established.

In 1964, Clifton Merritt became director of field services for The Wilderness Society. He began his work in Washington, DC, lobbying for the establishment of the Wilderness Act of 1964. Believing that the wilderness movement needed to garner the support of local citizens in order to add areas to the National Wilderness Preservation System, Merritt established The Wilderness Society’s Western Regional Office in Denver, Colorado, in 1966. In the Regional Office, Merritt trained and supervised a 15-person professional staff of natural resource specialists and field representatives stationed throughout the West. Through the efforts of Merritt and his staff, working closely with local groups, millions of acres were added to the National Wilderness Preservation System. Among those added were the Scapegoat, Absaroka-Beartooth, and River of No Return Wildernesses in Montana and the Weminuche, Flat Tops, and Eagles Nest Wildernesses in Colorado. After an organizational shakeup and upon hearing of the planned closing of the Regional Office, Merritt resigned from the Wilderness Society in 1978.

In 1979, Merritt, Sally Ranney, and Jerry Mallet, seeing a need left by the closing of The Wilderness Society’s Regional Office, formed The American Wilderness Alliance (known after 1983 as American Wildlands) based in Denver, Colorado. The organization worked with conservation groups throughout the Rocky Mountain West to preserve public lands for wildlife habitat and recreation. The American Wilderness Alliance was instrumental in getting the 161,000 acre Elkhorn National Wildlife Management Area established in Montana as well as ensuring the passage of the Colorado Wilderness Bill which gave wilderness designation to 1.4 million acres of public lands. In addition to serving as executive director, Merritt also edited the organization’s Wild America magazine and wrote and edited its On the Wild Side newsletter.

In 1984, Clifton Merritt returned to Montana and settled in the Bitterroot Valley. He still maintained the executive directorship of American Wildlands and the organization relocated to Bozeman, Montana, later that year. In 1990, Merritt stepped back from the executive directorship and became associate executive director. It was in 1990 that Merritt began the Corridors of Life Program. The Program used Geographic Information Systems to map wildlife migration corridors between roadless areas and established wilderness areas. As of 2009, American Wildlands’ Corridors of Life Program continues to work to restore and maintain wildlife corridors.

In 1998, at age 79, Clifton Merritt stepped down as associate executive director of American Wildlands. Though no longer in a leadership role at the organization, Merritt continued to support wilderness and environmental initiatives as a member of the organization he had helped found. He also continued to support local wilderness issues through membership with the organization Friends of the Bitterroot and continued membership with the Montana Wilderness Association and Montana Wildlife Federation.

Clifton Merritt had been a prolific writer all his life and his retirement afforded him more time for this interest. He began to pen his memoirs of the wilderness movement, which he titled Beyond the Roads. He also began work on a history of his grandfather’s settlement in the Prickly Pear Valley which he called I Remember my Grandfather. Merritt died on August 12, 2008 at the age of 89.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The Clifton R. Merritt Papers have been organized into seven series arranged by the periods in Merritt’s professional career. The majority of the series have been further subdivided into subseries, reflecting the order in which they were maintained by Merritt. The largest series in this collection relates to Merritt's time with American Wildlands and includes planning documents, committee minutes, and extensive correspondence files.

Of particular interest within this collection are documents and correspondence related to the recommendation of new wilderness areas into the National Wilderness Preservation System signed into law in 1964. The collection also contains documents related to the research and development of the Corridors of Life Program, which mapped wildlife migration corridors between roadless areas and established wilderness areas. The papers include a small portion of personal writings and correspondence including drafts and research for Merritt’s memoirs titled Beyond the Roads and his family history titled I Remember my Grandfather. The papers also contain awards and certificates received by Clifton R. Merritt.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

Researchers are responsible for using in accordance with 17 U.S.C. and any other applicable statutes. Non-exclusive copyright to the collection was transferred to The University of Montana.

Preferred Citation

[Name of document or photograph number], Clifton R. Merritt Papers, Archives and Special Collections, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, The University of Montana-Missoula.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

This collection has been divided into seven series:

Series I: Montana Wildlife Federation, 1954-2004, .75 linear feet

Subseries 1: Administration, 1954-1999, 0.15 linear feet

Subseries 2: Subject Files, 1953-2004, 0.5 linear feet

Subseries 3: Organizational Publications and Newsletters, 1956-2004, 0.10 linear feet

Series II: Montana Wilderness Association, 1949-2005, 1.25 linear feet

Subseries 1: Administration, 1968-2004, 0.25 linear feet

Subseries 2: Subject Files, 1949-2004, 0.75 linear feet

Subseries 3: Organizational Publications and Newsletters, 1978-2005, 0.25 linear feet

Series III: The Wilderness Society, 1954-2000, 23.75 linear feet

Subseries 1: Administration, 1963-2000, 1.0 linear foot

Subseries 2: Subject Files, 1954-1989, 22.70 linear feet

Series IV: American Wilderness Alliance/American Wildlands, 1957-2007, 29.5 linear feet

Subseries 1: Administration, 1965-2007, 5.0 linear feet

Subseries 2: Subject Files, 1957-2007, 20.5 linear feet

Subseries 3: Corridors of Life Program, 1985-2006, 1.5 linear feet

Subseries 4: Organizational Publications and Newsletters, 1979-2007, 2.5 linear feet

Series V: Friends of the Bitterroot, 1991-2006, 0.5 linear feet

Series VI: Personal Materials, 1935-2007, 5.5 linear feet

Subseries 1: Writings and Files, 1935-2007, 2.5 linear feet

Subseries 2: Miscellaneous Materials, 1940-1998 and undated, 3.0 linear feet

Series VII: Awards, 1972-2007, 5.75 linear feet

Subseries 1: Subject Files and Correspondence, 1972-2007, 0.5 linear feet

Subseries 2: Certificates, Statuettes, and Plaques, 1976-2007, 5.25 linear feet

Series VIII: Photographs, unprocessed

Series IX: Motion Picture Films, approximately 1952-approximately 1977, 14 films

Custodial History

The collection was in the possession of Clifton R. Merritt and maintained at his home until his death in 2008. Merritt's daughter, Sherry Essig, maintained the bulk of the materials in Merritt’s home until their transfer to the Archives.

Acquisition Information

The collection was acquired by the Archives from Clifton R. Merritt’s daughter, Sherry Essig, in 2008.

Processing Note

Clifton R. Merritt’s daughter, Sherry Essig, cleaned and arranged some materials and folders prior to their arrival at the Archives. Unfoldered and loose materials were foldered during processing at the Archives. Original order was largely maintained throughout the collection, with the exception that within subseries folders were arranged in a stricter alphabetical order to facilitate access. In 2006, Robert Baker (who was writing a thesis about Clif Merritt) loaned the Archives two notebooks of documents supporting an honorary degree proposal for Clif Merritt. A copy was made for the Archives and a copy was given to Sherry Essig. In 2013 the Archives' copy was added to Series VII, Subseries 1 although it is very likely that the original documents exist elsewhere in the collection. Clippings and maps not placed by Merritt within subject-specific folders were removed from the collection during processing and discarded.

In 2022, all motion picture film reels were cleaned, cored, and rehoused for preservation purposes and processed into the collection. Commercial films were removed from the collection.

Separated Materials

Most bound monographs, congressional records, and published congressional reports were separated from the collection during processing.

Bibliography

In 2005 Robert N. Baker submitted a MA thesis to The University of Montana entitled Clif Merritt and Wilderness Wildlife: Learning How to Live in Paradise.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Series I:  Montana Wildlife Federation, 1954-2004Return to Top

0.75 linear feet

The Montana Wildlife Federation is a Helena, Montana, based organization dedicated to the preservation of wildlife habitat. Merritt served in various positions for the Montana Wildlife Federation from 1950 to 1964, and helped spearhead the movement to establish the Jewel Basin Hiking Area in Montana. This series is arranged into three subseries. Subseries 1, Administration, includes internal correspondence and memos. Subseries 2, Subject Files, consists of correspondence, reports, and news releases. Subseries 3 contains organizational publications and newsletters.

Container(s) Description Dates
Subseries 1: Administration
0.15 linear feet
1954-1999
Box/Folder
1/1
Flathead Lake Wildlife Association Memo
1954
1/2
Membership Mailer
1996-1997
1/3
Memos and Internal Correspondence
1956-1959
1/4
Wildlife Legacy Council
1998-1999
Subseries 2: Subject Files
0.5 linear feet
1953-2004
Box/Folder
1/5
General Issue Correspondence
1955-1959
1/6
General Issue Correspondence
1961-1963
1/7
General Issue Correspondence
1964
1/8
Jewel Basin Hiking Area by Clifton Merritt
undated
1/9
Jewel Basin Proposed Wilderness Study Area-Flathead National Forest
1957-1964
1/10
Lincoln Back Country
1963-1969
1/11
Clifton Merritt, Editorials and Reports-Middle Fork of the Flathead
undated
1/12
Missouri River Breaks Wildlife Area
1953-1964
1/13
News Releases
1964
2/1
News Releases
1956-1963
124/1
Wilderness Society, Correspondence-MATERIALS HAVE MOLD, SEE ARCHIVIST FOR ACCESS
1963-1964
Subseries 3: Organizational Publications and Newsletters
0.10 linear feet
1956-2004
Box/Folder
2/2
Flathead Outdoors
1957-1958
2/3
Flathead Outdoors Clippings
1956-1958
2/4
Flathead Outdoors Column
1959-2006
2/5
Montana Wildlife Federation News
1963
2/6
Montana Wildlife Newsletter
1997-2004
2/7
Montana Wildlife Newsletter
1998-2004
2/8
Western Montana Wildlife News
1956

Series II:  Montana Wilderness Association, 1949-2005Return to Top

1.25 linear feet

Merritt helped found the Montana Wilderness Association (MWA) in 1957. The MWA is a Helena, Montana, based organization that works towards the preservation and designation of wilderness in Montana. Materials in this series related to the Glacier View and Hungry Horse Dams and the Wilderness Walks Program reflect these organizational goals. This series is arranged into three subseries: subseries 1: Administration, includes internal memos and correspondence as well as the organization’s constitution and bylaws. Subseries 2, Subject Files, consists of correspondence, reports and notes. Subseries 3 contains organizational publications and newsletters.

Container(s) Description Dates
Subseries 1: Administration
0.25 linear feet
1968-2004
Box/Folder
2/9
Constitution, Bylaws
1978-1979
2/10
Constitution, Bylaws
1978-1979
3/1
Interorganizational Correspondence
1987-1996
3/2
Missoula-Bitterroot Chapter
1993
3/3
Notices, Communiqués, Correspondence
1997-2004
3/4
Proposed Beartooth Wilderness-Meetings
1968
Subseries 2: Subject Files
0.75 linear feet
1949-2004
Box/Folder
3/5
Cabinet Mountains Wilderness-Kootenai National Forest-Idaho Panhandle
1967-1985
3/6
Convention
1978
3/7
Dallas Eklund Award
1978-1992
3/8
Doris Milner Special Conservation Award
1975-1996
3/9-11
Glacier National Park-Montana
1966-1975
3/12
Glacier View Dam
1955-1959
3/13
Hungry Horse Dams
1949-1957
4/1
Island Range Chapter Newsletters
1999 and undated
4/2
Ken and Florence Baldwin Special Conservation Award, Montana Wilderness Association
1973-1998
4/3
Legislating the Wild-A Guide to Montana Wilderness Legislation-Montana Wilderness Association
1994
4/4
Montana Wilderness Issues
1950-1957
4/5
National Wildlife Federation Conservation News
1954-1958
4/6
Quiet Trails Montana
1994
4/7
Recreation Values
1960
4/8
Robert F. Cooney Special Conservation Award
1994
4/9
Smoky Range Dam
1956
4/10
Thurman Trosper Special Conservation Award
1991-2001
4/11
Wilderness Walks
1992-1993
4/12
Wilderness Walks
1997-2002
4/13
Wilderness Walks
2000-2004
4/14
Wilderness Walks
2003-2004
Subseries 3: Organizational Publications and Newsletters
0.25 linear feet
1978-2005
Box/Folder
4/15-16
Newsletters and Bulletins
1978-2003
5/1
Wild Montana
1996-2005
5/2-3
Wild Montana, Letter Be Wild
1984-1990

Series III:  The Wilderness Society, 1954-2000Return to Top

23.75 linear feet

The Wilderness Society (TWS) is a national environmental organization dedicated to the preservation and designation of wilderness throughout the United States. In 1964, Clifton Merritt became director of field services for TWS. He began his work in Washington, DC, lobbying for the establishment of the Wilderness Act of 1964 and established the Society’s Western Regional Office in Denver, Colorado, in 1966. Of particular interest in this series are memos, notes, correspondence, and research done on areas proposed for entry in the National Wilderness Preservation System. This series has been divided into three subseries. Subseries 1, Administration, includes internal memos and correspondence, executive committee meeting notes and minutes, an organizational manual, and other notes. Subseries 2, Subject Files, consists of correspondence, notes, research files, and clippings.

Container(s) Description Dates
Subseries 1: Administration
1.0 linear foot
1963-2000
Box/Folder
5/4
Stewart Brandborg
1976
5/5
Bill Cunningham, Activity Reports
1976-1978
5/6
Bill Cunningham, Correspondence
1976-1978
5/7
Development of Other Wilderness Support Groups
1978
5/8
Executive Committee Meetings
1964-1966
5/9
Field Office Reorganization
1977-1978
5/10
Field Office Reorganization
1977-1980
6/1
Governing Council Meeting
1978-2000
6/2
Mailers and Memos to Membership
1966-1978
6/3
Clifton Merritt, Notes
1968-1978
6/4
Clifton Merritt, Statements
1972-1974
6/5
Nevada Outdoor Recreation Association Grant
1968-1975
6/6-7
Organization Manual
1973
6/8
Zahniser, Craighead, Brandborg Correspondence
1963-1976
Subseries 2: Subject Files
22.70 linear feet
1954-1989
Box/Folder
6/9-11
Absaroka
1973-1974
7/1-4
Absaroka Primitive Area-Gallatin and Custer National Forests
1968-1978
7/5-7
Absaroka Primitive Area-Gallatin and Custer National Forests
1968-1973
7/8
Absaroka-Beartooth Primitive Area Hearing Statements
1970-1975
7/9
Absaroka-Beartooth Primitive Area Hearing Statements
1974-1978
8/1
Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness
1968-1978
8/2-4
Absaroka-Beartooth-Slough Creek Primitive Area-Boulder River, Cooke City Road-Gallatin National Forest
1974-1978
8/5
Alaska Bill-Admiralty Island National Preserve and Other
1977
8/6
Alaska Bill-Seward National Recovery Area and Other
1977
8/7
Alaska Coalition Fact Sheet-Land Ownership
undated
8/8
Alaska D-2 Hearings Correspondence
1973-1977
8/9
Alaska Fish and Wildlife General
1968-1977
8/10
Alaska Maps
1972
8/11
American Motors Conservation Awards
1976
9/1-2
Anaconda Pintler Wilderness-Beaverhead, Deerlodge, and Bitterroot National Forests
1966-1976
9/3
Arguments for Wilderness
1970-1979
9/4
Bear Trap Canyon Primitive Area-Dillon Bureau of Land Management
1970-1972
9/5
Beartooth Plateau-Draft Environmental Statement
1976
9/6
Beartooth Primitive Area
1968-1978
9/7-9
Beartooth Primitive Area-Gallatin and Custer National Forests
1955-1976
10/1
Beartooth Ranch Acquisition-Montana Nature Conservancy
1970
10/2
Beartooth Reclassification Study Committee Final Report
1972-1973
10/3
Beaverhead and Deer Lodge National Forests-Tobacco Roots-Middle Mountain Proposed Wilderness Study Area
1974-1977
10/4-5
Beaverhead National Forest
1971-1978
10/6
Beaverhead National Forest-Anaconda-Pintler Enlargement-Wilderness Study Area
1974-1977
10/7
Beaverhead National Forest-East Pioneer Wilderness Study Area
1974
10/8-9
Beaverhead National Forest-General Phase I
1970-1973
10/10
Beaverhead National Forest-General Phase II
1972-1973
10/11-12
Beaverhead National Forest-General Phase III
1972-1987
11/1
Beaverhead National Forest-Land Use Planning
1972-1978
11/2
Beaverhead National Forest-Snowcrest Proposed Wilderness Study Area
1975-1977
11/3-4
Beaverhead National Forest-West Pioneer Proposed Wilderness Study Area
1970-1978
11/5
Beaverhead National Forest-West Pioneer Proposed Wilderness Study Area
1971-1975
11/6
Beaver-Marten-Vermillion Land Management Plan
1979
11/7
Bitterroot National Forest
1964-1975
11/8
Bitterroot National Forest-General Phase I
1972
12/1
Bitterroot National Forest-General Phase II
1972-1973
12/2-3
Bitterroot National Forest-General Phase III
1972-1978
12/4
Bitterroot National Forest-Proposed Wilderness Study Area-Great Burn
1976-1978
12/5
Bitterroot National Forest-Warm Springs, Medicine Tree
1976-1977
12/6
Black Foot River-Alice Creek Proposed Wild and Scenic River
1970
12/7
Blue Joint Wilderness Proposed Wilderness Study Area-Bitterroot National Forest
1974-1976
12/8
Blue Ribbon Streams Committee
1968-1969
12/9
Bob Marshall Wilderness
1965-1977
12/10
Bob Marshall Wilderness-Clippings
1970-1978
12/11-12
Bob Marshall Wilderness-Flathead and Lewis and Clark National Forests
1963-1977
12/13
Bob Marshall Wilderness-Flathead and Lewis and Clark National Forests, Maps
undated
13/1
Bob Marshall Wilderness-Sun Butte Dams
1964-1966
13/2
Bowdoin National Wildlife Refuge-Proposed Wilderness
1973-1978
13/3
Guy Brandborg, Forest Conservation
1965-1968
13/4
Bull Lake-Napoleon
1979
13/5
Bull Mountain Area
1971
13/6
Bureau of Land Management Wilderness
1977-1978
13/7
Canyon County Coalition
1972-1976
13/8-9
Carter Administration Proposal-HR 39-Native Claims Act
1977
13/10
Dick Carter, Wilderness Coordinator
1974-1978
13/11-12
Castle Reef and Sun River Dams
1967-1968
13/13
Centennial Mountains Primitive Area-Dillon Bureau of Land Management
1971-1976
13/14
Center for the Public Interest, Inc.
1963-1969
14/1
Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Range #1
1974-1975
14/2-4
Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Range #2
1974-1975
14/5-6
Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Range-Correspondence and Maps
1966-1975
14/7
Cloud Peak, Popo Agie, and Seven Lakes-Wyoming
1973-1978
15/1
Colorado Wilderness Bills and National Forest
1971-1974
15/2
Colorado Forest Service Wilderness Bills-Indian Peaks
1978
15/3
Colorado Wilderness Study Act of 1975
1974-1978
15/4
Congressional Record-Montana Wilderness Study Act, S. 393
1975
15/5
Congressional Statements, Clifton R. Merritt
1966-1975
15/6
Continental Divide Trail
1969-1973
15/7
Crazy Mountain Proposed Wilderness Study Area-Gallatin National Forest
1978-1979
15/8
Custer National Forest
1977-1978
15/9
Custer National Forest-General Phase I
1972
15/10
Custer National Forest-General Phase II
1973
15/11
Custer National Forest-General Phase III
1974-1976
15/12
Deerlodge National Forest-General Phase I
1972-1973
15/13
Deerlodge National Forest-General Phase II
1972-1973
15/14
Deerlodge National Forest-General Phase III
1974-1978
15/15
Deerlodge National Forest-North End
1976
16/1
Dolores River Correspondence
1975-1976
16/2
Dolores River-Proposed Wild and Scenic
1968-1977
16/3
Dolores River-Wild and Scenic River Study-Public Meetings Notes
1975-1976
16/4
Eagle's Nest Wilderness
1964-1975
16/5
Ecological Impact of Outfitting in Montana
1974
16/6
Elkhorn Environmental Impact Statement, Maps, and Proposals
1973-1978
16/7
Elkhorn Wilderness
1973-1980
16/8
Elkhorn Wilderness
1974-1979
16/9
Elkhorn Wilderness
1974-1982
16/10-11
Elkhorn Wilderness Area-Helena National Forest
1971-1980
17/1
Elkhorn Wilderness Proposed Wilderness Study Area Clippings-Helena and Deerlodge National Forest
1976-1979
17/2
Endangered American Wilderness Act-Colorado Areas
1976-1977
17/3-4
Environmental Statements-Colorado Parks
1967-1974
17/5-6
Flat Tops Primitive Area-Colorado
1968-1972
17/7
Flat Tops Wilderness
1966-1973
17/8-10
Flat Tops Wilderness-Correspondence
1966-1973
18/1-4
Flat Tops Wilderness-Statements and Mailers
1965-1973
18/5
Flathead Clippings-North, South, and Middle Forks
1969-1978
18/6
Flathead National Forest
1954-1970
18/7-9
Flathead National Forest-General Phase I
1971-1973
19/1
Flathead National Forest-General Phase II
1973-1977
19/2-3
Flathead National Forest-General Phase III
1975-1977
19/4-5
Flathead National Forest-Middle Fork-Continental Divide Wilderness Study Area
1971-1978
19/6-8
Flathead National Forest-Mission Mountain Wilderness
1963-1974
20/1-2
Flathead National Forest-Mission Mountain Wilderness
1969-1974
20/3
Flathead National Forest-Roadless Area Review
1977-1978
20/4-5
Flathead-Continental Divide Wilderness Study Area-Flathead and Lewis and Clark National Forests
1969-1971
20/6
Dave Foreman, Historical Overview of the Wilderness Society
1986-1989
20/7
Forest Service comments on the Montana Wilderness Act of 1975, S. 393
1974-1976
20/8
Fort Hawley Game Preserve
1963
20/9-11
Fort Hawley Waterfowl Development
1963-1966
20/12
Fox Creek Area, Gallatin National Forest
1977
21/1
Friends of the Dolores
1978
21/2
Gallatin National Forest-Absaroka-Beartooth Primitive Area
1971-1978
21/3
Gallatin National Forest-General Phase I
1972-1973
21/4
Gallatin National Forest-General Phase II
1972-1973
21/5
Gallatin National Forest-General Phase III
1972-1978
21/6
Gallatin National Forest-Lionhead
undated
21/7
Gallatin River-Proposed Wild and Scenic River
1971-1973
21/8
Gallatin, Beaverhead National Forests-Proposed Wilderness Study Area-Taylor Hilgard-Legislation and Clippings
1974-1977
22/1-3
Glacier National Park
1968-1978
22/4
Glacier National Park
1973-1978
22/5
Glacier Park Wilderness-Mailer and Memo
1971-1973
22/6
Grasslands Articles
1967
22/7
Grave Creek-Eureka-Kootenai National Forest
1974
22/8
Great Bear Wilderness #1
1977
22/9
Great Bear Wilderness #2
1978
22/10
Great Bear Wilderness #3
1977-1978
23/1
Grizzly Bear Recovery
1966
23/2
Hearing Statements, S. 393
1975-1977
23/3
Helena City Park-Montana
1975
23/4
Helena National Forest-Gates of the Mountain Wilderness
1965-1978
23/5
Helena National Forest-General Phase I
1972-1982
23/6
Helena National Forest-General Phase II
1972-1973
23/7-8
Helena National Forest-General Phase III
1972-1982
23/9
Helena National Forest-Mount Baldy Roadless Area
1981-1982
23/10
Hells Canyon National Recreation Area
1964-1970
23/11-12
Hells Canyon National Recreation Area
1967-1971
24/1-2
Hells Canyon National Recreation Area
1968-1971
24/3-5
Hells Canyon National Recreation Area
1968-1973
24/6
Hells Canyon National Recreation Area
1968-1973
25/1-4
Hells Canyon National Recreation Area
1970-1973
25/5
Hells Canyon National Recreation Area
1973-1974
25/6-7
HR 39-Alaksa National Interest Lands Conservation Act-Clippings
1976-1980
26/1
HR 39-Alaksa National Interest Lands Conservation Act Counter and Related Proposals
1977
26/2
HR 39-Alaksa National Interest Lands Conservation ActD-2 Pronunciation Sheet
1977-1978
26/3-4
HR 39-Alaksa National Interest Lands Conservation Act General
1973-1979
26/5
HR 39-Alaksa National Interest Lands Conservation Act General Legislation
1978
26/6
HR 39-Alaksa National Interest Lands Conservation Act Hearing Statements
1975-1977
26/7
HR 39-Alaksa National Interest Lands Conservation Act Hearing Statements
1977
26/8
HR 39-Alaksa National Interest Lands Conservation Act Interior Committee Cosponsors
1977
26/9
HR 39-Alaksa National Interest Lands Conservation Act Interior Department Comments
1977
26/10
Humbug Spires Primitive Area-Dillon Bureau of Land Management
1970-1975
27/1-3
Hyalite-Porcupine-Buffalo Horn Proposed Wilderness Study Area, Gallatin National Forest
1971-1978
27/4
Information from the Forest Service on 9 of the 9 Areas in the Montana Wilderness Study Act of 1975
1974-1977
27/5
International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Meeting, Clifton Merritt Speech regarding Fish and Wildlife Management
1978
27/6
Jewel Basin Proposed Wilderness Study Area-Flathead National Forest
1965-1970
27/7
Kootenai National Forest-Big Swede Pipe Land Use Planning
1976
27/8
Kootenai National Forest-General Phase I
1972
27/9
Kootenai National Forest-General Phase II
1973-1975
27/10-13
Kootenai National Forest-General Phase III
1972-1974
28/1
Kootenai National Forest-Maps
1977
28/2
Kootenai National Forest-O'Brien, Seventeen mile, Cross Mountain Land Use Planning
1976
28/3
Kootenai National Forest-Ziegler Land Use Planning
1976
28/4
Lee Metcalf Wilderness-Clyde Park-Dillon Transmission Line
1976-1977
28/5
Legislation Needed to Save the Upper Selway
1966
28/6
Letter Regarding S. 393 to Montana CWs and Members
1975
28/7
Lewis and Clark National Forest-Big Snowies Proposed Wilderness Study Area
1973-1978
28/8-9
Lewis and Clark National Forest-Middle Fork Judith Proposed Wilderness Study Area
1967-1978
28/10
Lewis and Clark national Forest-Rocky Mountain Front and Continental Divide Wilderness Study Areas
1971
28/11
Lewis and Clark National Forest-Tenderfoot-Deep Creek Roadless Areas
1978
28/12
Lincoln Back Country
1963-1976
28/13
Lincoln Back Country
1965-1966
28/14
Lincoln Back Country
1967
29/1-3
Lincoln Back Country-Scapegoat Wilderness Proposal
1964-1972
29/4
Lincoln Scapegoat
1964-1968
29/5
Lincoln-Scapegoat
1965-1970
29/6
Lincoln Scapegoat
1967-1968
29/7
Lincoln Scapegoat
1968-1969
30/1
Lincoln-Scapegoat
1968-1969
30/2-3
Lincoln-Scapegoat
1968-1972
30/4-5
Lincoln-Scapegoat
1969
30/6
Lincoln-Scapegoat Wilderness
1969-1972
30/7-8
Lincoln-Scapegoat-Correspondence, Notes and Clippings
1967-1976
30/9
Lolo National Forest-Big Hole
1975-1978
31/1-2
Lolo National Forest-Rattlesnake Roadless Area Proposed Wilderness Study Area
1975-1978
31/3
Lolo National Forest-Welcome Creek
1977
31/4
Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge
1973-1976
31/5
Metcalf and Mansfield Wilderness Bill, S.107
1963-1964
31/6
Lee Metcalf
1967
31/7-8
Middle Fork of the Flathead-Correspondence and Articles
1970-1976
31/9
Middle Fork of the Flathead-Correspondence and Articles
1972-1978
32/1-2
Middle Fork-Continental Divide Wilderness Study Area-Great Bear
1957-1978
32/3
Mission Mountain Tribal Wilderness
1971-1979
32/4-6
Mission Mountains Wilderness-Flathead National Forest
1963-1979
32/7
Missouri Breaks Proposed Scenic Recreation River
1963-1972
32/8
Missouri Breaks Proposed Scenic Recreation River
1969-1978
33/1
Missouri Breaks Proposed Wildlife Area
1965-1975
33/2
Missouri River-Miscellaneous
1962-1965
33/3
Montana Bureau of Land Management Wilderness Review
1978-1979
33/4
Montana Conservation
1968-1971
33/5
Montana Established Wilderness
1978
33/6
Montana Fish and Wildlife
1966-1978
33/7
Montana Forest Service Roadless Area Review, Phase II
1979
33/8
Montana Highway Department-Gallatin National Forest
1975-1976
33/9
Montana Lands, S. 393
1979
33/10
Montana Missouri River Breaks Congressional Record Excerpts, S. 1506
1975-1976
33/11
Montana National Parks
1978-1979
33/12
Montana Natural Areas System
1973-1978
33/13
Montana Rivers-North Fork of the Flathead-Cabin Creek, Canada Mine
1975-1976
33/14
Montana Roadless Area Review I-Phase I
1972-1977
34/1
Montana Roadless Area Review I-Phase II
1974-1975
34/2
Montana Roadless Area Review I-Phase III
1975-1976
34/3
Montana Roadless Area Review II-Phase I
1977
34/4
Montana Roadless Area Review II-Phase II
1978
34/5
Montana Roadless Area Review II-Phase III
1972-1973
34/6
Montana Roadless Area Review II-Phase III
1977-1983
34/7
Montana Stream Preservation Act
1965-1975
34/8
Montana Wild and Scenic Rivers
1974-1978
34/9
Montana Wilderness
1965-1971
34/10
Montana Wilderness Bill
1968-1970
34/11-12
Montana Wilderness Study Act
1974-1979
34/13
Montana Wilderness Study Act Clippings
1975-1978
35/1
Montana Wilderness Study Act of 1974
1974
35/2-3
Montana Wilderness Study Act of 1974-Lee Metcalf
1973-1974
35/4-5
Montana Wilderness Study Act of 1975
1974-1975
35/6-7
Montana Wilderness Study Act of 1975-Correspondence
1975
35/8
Montana Wilderness Study Act of 1975-S. 393-Maps-Revised 1976
1975
35/9
Montana Wilderness Study Act of 1977-Maps
1974-1977
35/10-11
Montana Wilderness Study Act-Correspondence
1975-1977
36/1-2
Montana Wilderness Study Area Act of 1975
1974-1976
36/3
Montana Wilderness Study Area-Maps
1975
36/4
Montana Wilderness Study Bill 1977, S. 393-Correspondence
1975-1977
36/5
Montana Wilderness Study Bill 1977, S. 393-Legislation
1977
36/6
Montana, 1964 and Previous
1960-1964
36/7
Mount Henry Proposed Wilderness Study Area-Kootenai National Forest
1972-1976
36/8
National Bison Range
1974
36/9
Northern Rockies Action Group
1978
36/10
Northern Tier Pipeline
1979
36/11
Pacific Northwest Conservation Council
1968
37/1
Policy for Wilderness within National Forests-Rupert Cutler
1968-1978
37/2
Powderhorn Primitive Area-Montrose District Office-Colorado Bureau of Land Management
1972
37/3
Proposed Absaroka Beartooth Wilderness-Absaroka Beartooth Task Force
1971
37/4
Proposed Beartooth Wilderness-Correspondence
1971-1978
37/5
Proposed Lincoln Backcountry Wilderness
1965-1966
37/6-7
Proposed Sun Butte Dams
1964-1965
37/8-10
Proposed Sun Butte Dams
1965
38/1
Pryor Mountains Wild Horse Range
1968-1976
38/2
Ravalli Waterfowl Refuge
1963-1964
38/3-5
Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge
1971-1976
38/6
Redwoods Bill
1968
38/7
Reference Acts
1966-1977
38/8
Reichle Dam-Big Hole River-Proposed Wild and Scenic River
1965-1969
38/9-10
River of No Return-Idaho and Salmon River Breaks Primitive Areas-Wilderness Correspondence
1966-1973
39/1
Roadless Area Review I and Roadless Area Review II, Montana
1973-1978
39/2-4
Roadless Area Review II
1976-1978
39/5
Roadless Area Review II
1978
39/6
Roadless Area Review II References
1979
39/7
Rock Creek Proposed Wild and Scenic River
1971-1977
39/8
Rocky Mountain Front Land Management Plan
1971-1979
39/9
Russell Fiord Proposed Wilderness Study Area-Tongass National Forest
1970
39/10-11
Sapphire Proposed Wilderness Study Area-Bitterroot and Deerlodge National Forests
1974-1977
40/1-2
Sapphire Proposed Wilderness Study Area-Bitterroot and Deerlodge National Forests
1974-1977
40/3
Sapphire Wilderness Study Area-Bitterroot National Forest-North Sapphire Area
1977
40/4
Scapegoat Enlargement-Helena, Lolo, and Lewis and Clark National Forests Proposed Wilderness Study Areas
1963-1977
40/5
Scapegoat Wilderness-Bills
1965
40/6
Scapegoat Wilderness-Proposals
1968-1976
40/7-8
Scapegoat Wilderness-Helena, Lolo, and Lewis and Clark National Forests
1968-1972
40/9
Scenic and Wild Rivers-Yellowstone River-Montana
1972-1977
41/1
Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness-Big Creek Dam
1977-1978
41/2
Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness-Bitterroot, Lolo National Forests
1965
41/3
Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness-Wilderness Society Trips
1972-1977
41/4
Ski Yellowstone
1974-1978
41/5
South San Juans #1
1975-1977
41/6
South San Juans #2
1966-1978
41/7-8
Spanish Peaks Correspondence
1965-1966
41/9
Spanish Peaks Correspondence
1967-1971
41/10
Spanish Peaks Hearing Statements
1972-1975
42/1
Spanish Peaks Primitive Area
1966-1967
42/2
Spanish Peaks Primitive Area-Gallatin National Forest Clippings
1971-1977
42/3-5
Spanish Peaks Primitive Area-Gallatin National Forest Correspondence
1966-1978
42/6
Spanish Peaks Primitive Area-Gallatin National Forest Correspondence
1967-1973
42/7-8
Spanish Peaks Primitive Area-Gallatin National Forest Correspondence
1970-1973
42/9-10
Spanish Peaks Primitive Area-Gallatin National Forest Maps
1966-1977
43/1-5
Spanish Peaks Primitive Area-Jack Creek Area
1967-1969
43/6-8
Spanish Peaks Wilderness
1966-1968
44/1
Spanish Peaks Wilderness
1966-1970
44/2
Spanish Peaks-Gallatin National Forest
1966-1975
44/3
Spanish Peaks-Jack Creek
1970-1971
44/4
St. Louis Peak Roadless Area
1973
44/5
State Wilderness Waterways
1966
44/6
Statement before Magruder Corridor Committee
1965-1967
44/7
Summaries of D-2 Environmental Impact Statement
1973-1974
44/8
Sun River Game Preserve-Bob Marshall Wilderness
1964
44/9
Swan Bunker Wilderness Study Area-Flathead National Forest
1964-1974
44/10
Sweetwater-Honker Proposed Wilderness Study Area-Tongass National Forest
1975
45/1-3
Taylor-Hilgard-Montana Wilderness Study Area-Correspondence
1958-1977
45/4-7
Taylor-Hilgard Proposed Wilderness Study Area-Gallatin and Beaverhead National Forests, Correspondence
1974-1979
45/8
Ten Lakes Proposed Wilderness Study Area-Kootenai National Forest
1970-1975
45/9
Thompson Seton Wilderness Study Area-Flathead and Kootenai National Forests
1975
45/10-11
Timber Practices
1970
46/1-3
Timber Practices
1971-1972
46/4-5
Timber Practices
1971-1974
46/6
Tongass National Forest-Misty Fiords Proposed Wilderness Study Area
1978
46/7
Tracy Arms Fiord Proposed Wilderness Study Area-Tongass National Forest
1971
46/8
UL Bend National Wildlife Refuge
1967-1974
46/9
United States Geological Survey Topographic Map of Montana
1976-1977
47/1-3
Upper Selway #4-Magruder Corridor
1970-1971
47/4
Upper Selway Proposed Forest Service Logging Area
undated
47/5
Upper Selway Wilderness
1964
47/6-8
Upper Selway Wilderness
1965
48/1-3
Upper Selway Wilderness
1965
48/4
Upper Selway Wilderness
1965-1967
48/5
Upper Selway Wilderness
1966
48/6-8
Upper Selway Wilderness
1966
49/1
Upper Selway Wilderness
1968-1969
49/2-3
Upper Selway Wilderness
1970
49/4-5
Upper Selway Wilderness-Magruder Corridor Review
1960-1968
49/6-8
Upper Selway Wilderness-Magruder Corridor Review #1
1966-1968
50/1-3
Upper Selway Wilderness-Magruder Corridor Review #1
1966-1968
50/4
Utah Wilderness Resources
1977
50/5
War Horse Lake National Wildlife Refuge
1973
50/6
Washington State Sportsmen's Council-North Cascades
circa 1970
50/7
Weminuche Wilderness-Colorado-San Juan National Forest
1968-1969
50/8
West Big Hole Wilderness
1973
50/9-10
West Chichagof-Yakobi Island Proposed Wilderness Study Area-Tongass National Forest
1969-1976
50/11
Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
1968-1976
50/12
Wild Missouri River-Montana #1
1963-1972
51/1-2
Wild Missouri River-Montana #2
1967-1969
51/3-4
Wild Missouri River-Montana #3
1969-1975
51/5
Wild Missouri River-Montana #4
1971-1975
51/6-8
Wild Missouri River-Montana #5
1963-1978
52/1
Wild Missouri River-Montana Clippings
1965-1976
52/2
Wild Missouri River-Montana Hearing Statements
1971-1975
52/3
Wild Missouri River-Montana Legislation
1965-1976
52/4
Wild River System
1963-1965
52/5
Wild River-Middle Fork of the Flathead
1965
52/6-7
Wild Rivers Bill System
1965-1966
52/8
Wilderness Acts
1966-1978
52/9
Wilderness Bills-Drafts
1973-1978
52/10
Wilderness Classification Procedures
1965-1966
52/11
Wilderness Clippings
1960-1963
52/12
Wilderness Conventions
1975-1976
52/13
Wilderness Preservation System-Clippings, Correspondence, Memos
1968-1978
53/1
Wilderness Proposals
1975-1978
53/2
Wilderness Resource Areas-New Mexico/West Texas
1977
53/3
Wilderness Review-Department of the Interior
1978
53/4
Wilderness System
1970-1977
53/5
Wildlife Refuges
1965
53/6
Wood Tikchik Area-Tongass National Forest
undated
53/7
Yakutat Forelands Proposed Wilderness Study Area-Tongass National Forest
1976-1977
53/8
Yellowstone National Park
1970-1975
53/9
Yellowstone National Park-Big Sky Resort
1975
53/10
Yellowstone River National Recreation Area
1970-1972

Series IV:  The American Wilderness Alliance / American Wildlands, 1957-2007Return to Top

29.5 linear feet

In 1979, Clif Merritt, Sally Ranney, and Jerry Mallet formed The American Wilderness Alliance (known after 1983 as American Wildlands) based in Denver, Colorado. The organization worked with conservation groups throughout the Rocky Mountain West to preserve public lands for wildlife habitat and recreation. Merritt served as executive director until 1990, when he became associate executive director. In 1990, Merritt began the Corridors of Life Program, which used Geographic Information Systems to map wildlife migration corridors between roadless areas and established wilderness areas.

This series is arranged into four subseries. Subseries 1: Administration includes internal memos and correspondence, meeting notes and minutes, resumes, notes, and financial and funding information. Subseries 2: Subject Files consists of correspondence, notes, research files, action reports, and clippings. Of particular interest are Subseries 3: Corridors of Life contains correspondence, research files, and notes. Subseries 4: Organizational Publications and Newsletters contains newsletters and publications, correspondence, notes, and drafts.

Container(s) Description Dates
Subseries 1: Administration
5 linear feet
1965-2007
Box/Folder
53/11
25th Anniversary Celebration
2002
53/12
About American Wilderness Alliance
undated
53/13
About American Wilderness Alliance
1988
53/14
About American Wildlands
1980-1996
53/15
Advisory Council
1992-1993
53/16
Rob Ament, Executive Director, Correspondence
2000-2003
53/17
Rob Ament, Resume
1996
53/18
Annual Review
1979-1986
53/19
Annual Review
1994-1995
53/20
Arrow Corporation, Yvon Chouinard
1986-1990
53/21
Arrow Corporation, Yvon Chouinard
1987
53/22
Board and Advisors List, office and Field Staff List
1993 and undated
53/23-24
Board Meetings
1991-1998
53/25
Board Meetings
1996-1999
53/26
Board Members
1987
53/27
Board Members
1997
53/28
Board Memos, Meeting Notes
1992
54/1
Board of Directors and Executive Director Memos and Correspondence
1996-1999
54/2
Board of Directors Manual and Meeting Minutes
1992-1999
54/3
Board of Directors Memos and Internal Documents
1987-1998
54/4-5
Board of Directors Memos and Internal Documents
1990-1998
54/6
Board of Trustees Meeting
1987
54/7-10
Board of Trustees Memos, Correspondence, Notes, and Internal Documents
1976-1997
55/1
Board of Trustees Packet for Board Meetings
1992
55/2
Board of Trustees, Meeting Minutes, Northern Regional Office Issues, and Development Information
1993-1994
55/3
Leslie Buckmaster, Resume
1994-1995
55/4
Budget Projections and Financial Reports
1996-1997
55/5
Bullitt Foundation
1993
55/6
Dale Burk, Resume and Vitae
1997-2006
55/7
By-Laws
1992-1993
55/8
Dan Chandler, Resume
1994-1996
55/9
Charter Members #1
1978
55/10
Cinnabar Foundation
1987-1988
55/11-13
Cinnabar Foundation-Annual Report and Grants
1986-1996
55/14-15
Clifton Merritt Internal Documents
1989-2000
56/1
Conferences
1996-2007
56/2
Conservation Endowment Fund, John Taft
1987
56/3
Consultants and Advisory Councils
1993
56/4
Corporate Certificate of Authority
1988-1996
56/5
Lance Craighead, Resume
1997
56/6
CS Fund
1986
56/7
Bill Cunningham, Resume
1980-1987
56/8
Directories, American Wildlands and Affiliates
1998 and undated
56/9
Directory, Board of Trustees and Staff
1993-1994
56/10
Duties and Responsibilities of Associate Executive Director
1986
56/11
Duties and Responsibilities of Montana Field Representatives and Natural Resources Specialist
undated
56/12
Economic Inventory Grant Proposal-Big Hole, Montana
undated
56/13
Employment Inquiries
1987
56/14
Executive Director Search
1994-1996
56/15
Executive Director's Manual
1986-1987
56/16
Expense Claims
1988
56/17
Expenses
1980-1987
56/18
Expenses
1980-1989
56/19-21
Financial Reports
1987-1997
57/1
Financials
1985
57/2
Financials
1986
57/3
Jim Frain, Resume
1995-1996
57/4
Paul Fritz, Idaho Representative
1988-1993
57/5
Paul Fritz, Personnel
1987
57/6
Fund Raising
1986-1990
57/7
Fund Raising
1996-1998
57/8
Funding
1987-1992
57/9
Funding
1994-1995
57/10
Funding File
1986-1988
57/11
General Office Procedures
1986-1987
57/12
Goals and Objectives
undated
57/13
Grant and Funding Proposals
1993-1999
57/14
Grant Proposals
1985-1986
57/15
Grant Status
1994
57/16
Dan Heinz, Resume
undated
57/17
History of American Wildlands
1994
57/18
Robert Hitchcock, Resume
1992-1996
57/19
Internal Documents
1978-2001
58/1
Internal Memos, organizational history, and board meeting minutes
1988-1992
58/2
Internal Revenue Service Letter
1978
58/3
IRS Exemption Letter
1982-1993
58/4
Job Descriptions
1992-1995
58/5
Ken Knapp, Director of Development
1993-1994
58/6
Jeff Larmer, Resume
1995-1997
58/7
Letterhead and Artwork
1994
58/8
Dave McCargo, Resume
1987-1996
58/9
Membership Brochure
1993-1994
58/10
Membership Information
1986-1987
58/11
Membership Letters
1965-1994
58/12
Membership Lists
1989
58/13
Membership Reference Materials
1965-1981
58/14
Membership Solicitation
1987
58/15-16
Memos and Internal Documents
1994-2005
59/1
Clifton Merritt, Background Sketches
1973-1986
59/2
Clifton Merritt, Expense Claims
1995-1996
59/3
Clifton Merritt, Expenses
1992-1994
59/4
Clifton Merritt, Meeting Notes
1990-1997 and undated
59/5
Clifton Merritt, Personal
1996-1998
59/6
Clifton Merritt, Personnel
1979-1986
59/7
Clifton Merritt, Resume
1979-1998
59/8
Clifton Merritt, Resume
1987
59/9
Clifton Merritt, Vitae and Biographical Information
1978-1997
59/10
Mission and Vision
1994
59/11
Montana Contributions
1986-1987
59/12
Montana Field Office Grant Proposal to Montana Outfitters and Guides
1986-1987
59/13
Montana Grant Proposal
1985-1986
59/14
Montana Mailing Lists
1986-1988
59/15
Montana Solicitation
1986-1987
60/1
Montana Wilderness Association, Friends of the Bitterroot, and American Wildlands Bitterroot Lawsuit
2001
60/2
Monthly Activity Reports, Bozeman Offices
1989-1995
60/3
Carla Neasel, Development Director, Correspondence
2000
60/4
New Choices-Funding Submission and Correspondence
1992
60/5
New Land Foundation-Grant Proposal
1996
60/6
New/Renew Membership Contributions
1986-2001
60/7
Organization Planning
1997
60/8
Patagonia Foundation
1990-2000
60/9
Patagonia Grant
1989-1990
60/10
Personnel
1985-1989
60/11
Personnel Policies
1993-1994
60/12
Personnel Policies-Revised
1994
60/13
Pledge Program
1987
60/14
Potential Applicants
1997
60/15
Dr. Thomas Power, Resource Economist, Resume
1993
60/16
Program Plan
1997
60/17
Program Plans
1998-1999
60/18
Purposes and Functions Advisory Council
undated
60/19
Purposes and Functions-Board of Trustees
undated
60/20
Range Management Policy Reform Program and Grant Proposal
1993
60/21
Range Management Policy Reform Program and Grant Proposal
1994
61/1
Sally Ranney, Correspondence
1986-1996
61/2
Reports from the Director
1996-1997
61/3-5
Resumes for Executive Director
1993-1994
61/6
Resumes of the Board
1992-1997
61/7
Roadless Area Mailers
1993-1996
61/8
Brooke Russell, Resume
1995
61/9
Ruth Mott Fund-Grant Proposal
1990-1994
61/10
Ruth Mott Fund-Correspondence
1993
61/11
Special Appeals Letters
1986-1993
61/12
Staff Reports and Memos
1986-1997
61/13
Strategic Planning
2000-2001
61/14
Tatshenshini-Board Meeting
1993
61/15
Testimonials
1994
62/1
Darcy Tickner, Resume
1992-1994
62/2
Time Sheets and Lobby Reports
1994-1996
62/3
Vanguard Brochures and Information
1987
62/4-5
Vanguard Correspondence
1985-1994
62/6
Vanguard Letter
1986-1989
62/7
Vanguard Letter #1
1986
62/8
Vanguard Letter #2
1986
62/9
Vanguard Letter #3
1986
62/10
Vanguard Letter #4
1987
62/11
Vanguard Membership Renewal
1987-1991
62/12
Vanguard Proposal
1985-1994
62/13
Vanguard Solicitation-Follow Up
1987-1994
62/14
Wage Slips
1980
63/1
Richard Walker, Resume
1996
63/2
Don Whittemore and Dawn Amato, Resumes
1989
63/3
Wild Country Fund Endowment
1994
63/4
Wild Country Vanguard
1985-1987
63/5
Wild Country Vanguard Letter
1987-1989
63/6
Wilderness Vanguard
1982-1987
63/7
Robert Williams, Resume
1989
63/8
John Wright, Resume
1991
63/9
Year-End Fundraising Letters
1990-1993
63/10
Dennis Zadra, Resume
1993-1994
Subseries 2: Subject Files
20.5 linear feet
1957-2007
Box/Folder
63/11
Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness
1977-1989
63/12
Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness
2002-2003
63/13
Acreages added to the Wilderness System in 1984
1984-1985
63/14
Ad Hoc Northern Rockies Wildlands Steering Committee
1992-1993
63/15
Adam's Rib Proposal-Colorado
1987
63/16
Adventure Travel Society
1991-1998
63/17
Alaska
1986-1987
63/18
Alaska
1992-2005
63/19
Alaska Fish and Wildlife-Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
1986-1987
63/20
Alaska Fish and Wildlife-General
1981-1987
63/21
Alaska Fish and Wildlife-Service News
1987
63/22
Alaska Lands Bill
1979-1980
63/23
Alaska National Interest Lands
1980
63/24
Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA)
1978-1982
63/25
Alaska Oil and Gas Lease Appeal
1994
64/1
Alice Creek Area
1997
64/2
Allan Mountain-Bitterroot National Forest
1974-1997
64/3
Allan Mountain (Colter-Shields) Area-Sula Ranger District
1988
64/4
Alliance for the Wild Rockies
1988-1992
64/5
Alliance for the Wild Rockies
1991-2004
64/6
Alliance for the Wild Rockies Newsletter
1991-1995
64/7
Alliance for the Wild Rockies Newsletter
1999-2004
64/8
Alliance for the Wild Rockies-Grizzly Bear Recovery
1998
64/9
Alternative Wilderness-Montana
1983-1986
64/10
American Land Conservation Award-Dick Carter
1996-2003
64/11
American Pioneer Skills Award
1987-1988
64/12
American Trails Network
1987
64/13
American Wilderness Adventures
1990-1991
64/14
Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness
1996-1999
64/15
Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness Additions
1993
64/16
Ancient Forest Legislation
1992
64/17
Appeals and Litigation
1994
65/1-2
Appeals, etc.-Dan Heinz-Montana and Colorado
1987-1989
65/3
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
1986-1987
65/4-5
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
1986-1989
65/6
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
1987
65/7
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge-Alaska Coalition
1987-1989
65/8
Arizona
1974-1987
65/9
Arrow Ranch, Jim Welch
1987
65/10
Articles, Clifton R. Merritt
1958-1995
65/11
Aspen Wilderness Workshop
1983
65/12
Audubon Wild Country Program
1983-1984
66/1
Badger-Two Medicine Roadless Area
1984
66/2
Badger-Two Medicine Roadless Area
1986-1993
66/3
Badger-Two Medicine Roadless Area
1991-1993
66/4
Baucus, Max, Correspondence Regarding Legislation
1990-2003
66/5
Bear News Publications
1995
66/6
Beartooth Wildlife Management Area
2002
66/7
Beaverhead National Forest
1980-1986
66/8
Beaverhead National Forest Land Use Planning
1982-1985
66/9
Below-Cost Timber Sales
undated
66/10
Below-Cost Timber Sales
1986-1987
66/11
Benefits and Costs of the United States Forest Service in Colorado
1981-1984
66/12
Best of the West
1987
66/13
Big Belt Mountains
1994-1996
66/14
Big Creek Lake-Comments on Permanent Storage Shed
2003
66/15
Big Open Project
2002
66/16
Big Snowies Wilderness Study Area
1996-2001
66/17
Big Snowy Mountains-Wilderness Study Area-Lewis and Clark National Forest
2001
66/18
Big Wild Action Report
1997-2001
66/19
Big Wild Advocates
1999
66/20
Big Wild Advocates
1999-2000
66/21
Big Wild Advocates
1999-2001
66/22
Bitter Creek
1994-2001
66/23
Bitter Creek Wilderness Study Area
1991-1999
66/24
Bitter Creek Wilderness Study Area and Mixed-Grass Prairie
1984-1999
67/1
Bitterroot Forest Plan Negotiations
1987-1988
67/2
Bitterroot National Forest
1980-1985
67/3
Bitterroot National Forest
1992-1997
67/4
Bitterroot National Forest-Appeal
1985-1988
67/5
Bitterroot National Forest-Comments on the Burned Area Recovery Draft Environmental Impact Statement
2001-2003
67/6
Bitterroot National Forest-Fiscal Year 1995 Monitoring and Evaluation Report
1995-1996
67/7
Bitterroot National Forest-Projects
1999
67/8-9
Bitterroot National Forest-Wilderness Issues
1995-2007
67/10
Bitterroot Wilderness Proposals
1971-2002
67/11
Black Hills National Forest
1990-1992
67/12
Black Ridge Canyons and Black Ridge Canyons West Wilderness Study Area
1987
67/13
Blackfoot River-Montana
1998
67/14
Blue Joint and Sapphire Wilderness
1985-1996
67/15
Blue Joint Wilderness Study Area
1984-1996
67/16
Bob Marshall
1985-1996
67/17
Bob Marshall Wilderness Area-Fish and Wildlife Plan
1988
67/18
Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex Newsletters
1995-1998
67/19
Bob Marshall Wilderness Study Area
1981
68/1
Bob Marshall Wilderness-Gas and Oil
1979-1993
68/2
Bob Marshall Wilderness-General Correspondence
1982
68/3-4
Boggs, Denise, Correspondence
1992-1994
68/5
Buffalo Campaign
2000
68/6
Bunker Creek Issue-Flathead National Forest
1996-2001
68/7
Bureau of Land Management
1985
68/8
Bureau of Land Management
1989-1995
68/9
Bureau of Land Management
1991-1996
68/10-12
Bureau of Land Management Action Taken on Wilderness Study Areas
1986-1996
68/13
Bureau of Land Management Fact Sheet
1984
68/14
Bureau of Land Management Wilderness Proposals-Montana
1991-1993
68/15
Bureau of Land Management Wilderness Study Area Permits
1987
69/1-2
Bureau of Land Management Wilderness Study Areas
1988
69/3
Bureau of Land Management Wilderness/Primitive Areas
1988
69/4
Bureau of Land Management-Oil and Gas
1980-1987
69/5
Conrad Burns, Correspondence Regarding Legislation
1990-2004
69/6
Senator Conrad Burns, Wilderness
1990-1991
69/7
Butte District Bureau of Land Management
1980-1981
69/8
California
1987
69/9
California Big Horn Sheep
1987
69/10
California Desert Protection Act
1987
69/11
Canada
1987
69/12
Cascade Holistic Economic Consultants
1989-1992
69/13
Celebrate America's Rivers Conference
undated
69/14
Centennial Mountains Wilderness Study Area
1999
69/15
Center for Public Integrity
1994
69/16
Central Montana Guides and Wilderness
1988
69/17-18
Central Rockies Wilderness Issues
1988-1995
69/19
Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge
1979-1981
69/20
Charles M. Russell Wildlife Range
1994
70/1
Chevron Conservation Awards Program
1988
70/2
Chief Joseph Wildlands
1993
70/3-4
Clif Merritt and Wilderness Wildlife: Learning How to Live in Paradise, Robert N. Baker Thesis Drafts
2005
70/5
Clippings
1957-1981
70/6
Coalition for Conservation of Colorado Fisheries
1994
70/7
Colorado Forest Service Wilderness Bills-Colorado National Forest Wilderness Act
1980
70/8
Colorado National Forest Wilderness Act of 1979, S.2123
1979-1980
70/9
Colorado National Forest Wilderness-General Correspondence
1987
70/10
Colorado Outdoor Recreation Commission
2002
70/11
Colorado Rivers
1987
70/12
Colorado Roadless Area Inventory
1985
70/13
Colorado Roadless Area Review II, H.R. 5487
1979-1980
70/14
Colorado Roadless Area Review II-H.R. 5487 Clippings
1979-1980
70/15
Colorado Roadless Area Review II, H.R. 5487
1979-1981
71/1
Colorado Water Project-Dolores Project
1980-1986
71/2
Colorado Wild and Scenic Rivers-Dolores
1983-1987
71/3
Colorado Wilderness
1959-2003
71/4
Colorado Wilderness
1972-1980
71/5
Colorado Wilderness
1985-1986
71/6
Colorado Wilderness
1986-1987
71/7
Colorado Wilderness Act of 1980
1979-1980
71/8
Colorado Wilderness Act of 1983
1983
71/9
Colorado Wilderness Act, General Correspondence
1979-1980
71/10
Colorado Wilderness Additions
1986-1987
71/11-12
Colorado Wilderness Bill
1980-1987
71/13
Colorado Wilderness Bill
1984
71/14
Colorado Wilderness Bill
1993
72/1
Colorado Wilderness Bill, 1985
1982-1986
72/2
Colorado Wilderness Bill, S. 2123
1979-1980
72/3
Colorado Wilderness Bill, S. 2123-Mallett's Statement Press Releases and Correspondence
1980
72/4
Colorado Wilderness Bills and Correspondence
1983-1984
72/5
Colorado Wilderness Issues
1983-1996
72/6
Colorado Wilderness Legislation
1984-1986
72/7
Colorado Wilderness Legislation, Armstrong, S. 2741
1980
72/8
Colorado Wilderness Projects
1988-1990
72/9
Colorado Wilderness Proposal
1983
72/10
Colorado Wilderness Study Act, 2741
1980-1981
72/11
Colorado Wilderness Study Areas #1
1981
72/12
Colorado Wilderness Study Areas #2
1982
72/13
Colorado-Miscellaneous Wilderness Materials
1991-1993
73/1-2
Columbia River Basin
1987-1994
73/3
Conference on Wilderness Philosophy and Management
1983-1990
73/4
Congressional and Forest Service Directories
1986-1987
73/5
Congressional Correspondence Regarding Legislation
1987-2008
73/6
Congressional Correspondence-General
1980-1982
73/7
Continental Divide Trail Alliance
1996-2003
73/8
Continental Divide Trail-Possible Motorized Use
2004
73/9
Correspondence-Timber Interests
1989
73/10
Craighead Wildlife-Wildlands Institute, 30 Year Anniversary of the Wilderness Act
1994-1998
73/11
Frank and John Craighead
1985
73/12
Crazy Mountain Proposed Wilderness Study Area-Gallatin National Forest
1980
73/13
Crippen Cabin Removal-Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness
2002
73/14
Bill Cunningham, Articles and Correspondence
1982-2000
73/15
Custer National Forest
1979-1982
73/16
Kim Davitt, Correspondence
2006
73/17
Deep Creek Mountains
1980
73/18
Deerlodge Forest Defense Fund
1998
73/19
Deerlodge National Forest
1981-1985
73/20
Deerlodge National Forest
1992
73/21
Deerlodge National Forest-Perry/Pole Environmental Analysis Report
1981
73/22
Deerlodge Ranger District
1979-1981
73/23
Department of Agriculture News Releases
1987
73/24
Department of the Interior News Releases
1987
73/25
Dolores River
1968-1981
73/26
Dolores River Correspondence
1978-1982
73/27
Draft Environmental Assessment-Missouri National Wild and Scenic River
1990
74/1
Draft Montana Wilderness Proposals-Bureau of Land Management
1993-1994
74/2
East Pioneers
1980-1984
74/3
East Pioneers-Beaverhead National Forest
1979-1984
74/4
Ecosystem Management
1995-1996
74/5
Electric Peak-Little Blackfoot
1984
74/6
Elkhorn Conservation Initiative-Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation
undated
74/7
Elkhorn Mountains
1965-2005
74/8
Elkhorn Mountains Properties for Sale
1999
74/9
Elkhorn Mountains Wildlife Management Area
1987-2005
74/10
Elkhorn Mountains Wildlife Management Unit, Clippings
1997-1999
74/11
Elkhorn National Wildlife Management Area
1984-2006
74/12-14
Elkhorn National Wildlife Management Area
1985-1997
75/1
Elkhorn Wilderness
1979-1995
75/2
Elkhorn Wilderness Interview and Miscellaneous Articles
1982-2005
75/3
Elkhorn Wilderness Study Area
1981-2001
75/4
Elkhorn Wilderness Study Area-Helena National Forest
1976-2005
75/5
Elkhorn Wildlife Management Area
1979-1995
75/6
Elkhorn Wildlife Management Area-Interview
2005
75/7
Elkhorn Wildlife Management Area-Mining Correspondence
1982-1997
75/8
Elkhorn Wildlife Management Unit
1981-1997
75/9
Elkhorn Wildlife Management Unit
2005
75/10
Employment Impact-Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA)-Dr. Tom Power's Report
1992
75/11
Endangered Species Act
1994
75/12
Endangered Species Act
1995
75/13
Entomological Society of America and the National Insect
1990
75/14
Environmental Communication Specialists-Don Whittemore and Dawn Amato
1992
75/15
Falcons
2003-2005
76/1-2
Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs
1980-1993
76/3
Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs
1981-1983
76/4
Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs
1981-1987
76/5
Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs
1994-2003
76/6
Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs
1998-2004
76/7
Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs-Articles, Clifton R. Merritt
1988-1996
77/1
Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs-Executive Committee
1983-1990
77/2
Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs-Executive Committee Minutes
1987
77/3
Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs-Hazel Wolf Correspondence
1988-1999
77/4
Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs-News Articles and Correspondence
1992-1997
77/5
Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs-Newsletters
1984-1985
77/6
Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs-Newsletters
1992-1995
77/7
Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs-Outdoors West
1984-2006
77/8
Field Advisory Group on Effectiveness of Wilderness Management
1990
77/9
Fire in Wilderness
1983-1985
77/10
Fire Policy
1984-1985
77/11
Fires of 1988
1988-1997
77/12
First American Energy-Westland Wind Project
2004
77/13
Flat Tops Wilderness
1985-1987
77/14
Flathead National Forest
1969-1987
77/15
Flathead National Forest-North Fork Valley
1982
78/1-3
Flathead National Forest-Wild and Scenic Rivers
1979-1983
78/4
Flathead River
1983-1987
78/5
Flint Creek Range-Deerlodge National Forest
1982-1997
78/6
Forest Economics Clippings
1994
78/7
Forest Fires
2001-2002
78/8
Forest History Articles
1986-2001
78/9
Forest Service 75th Anniversary Award
1980
78/10
Forest Service Moratorium on Roads in Roadless Areas
1998
78/11
Forest Service News
1987-1998
78/12
Forest Service Partnership with Outfitters
1980-1990
78/13
Forever Wild
1983
78/14
Forever Wild Endowment
1986
78/15
Forever Wild Endowment
1986-2001
78/16
Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness-Commercial Outfitters and Guides Lawsuit
1987-1989
78/17
Fred Burr Waster User Association
1990
78/18
Frenchman Creek Roadless Area
1999
78/19
Frenchmen Creek-Bureau of Land Management
1994-2000
78/20
Friend of the Westslope Cutthroat Trout
circa 2002
78/21
Friends of the Wild Swan
1996-2005
79/1
Michael Frome, Correspondence
1990
79/2
Gallatin National Forest
1966-1984
79/3
Gallatin National Forest
1980-1981
79/4
Gallatin National Forest
1986-1997
79/5
Gallatin National Forest
2002
79/6
Gallatin National Forest-Jack Creek
1979-1980
79/7
Gallatin National Forest-Robert E. Breazeale Supervisor
1986-1987
79/8
Game Farms
1994-2002
79/9
Gila Lower Box and Blue Creek Wilderness Study Area
1987
79/10
Glacier Clippings
1998
79/11
Glacier National Park
1980-1982
79/12
Grant-Kohrs Ranch Historic Site-Deerlodge National Forest
1980
79/13
Great Bear Foundation
2001
79/14
Great Smoky Mountains
1990
79/15
Great Western Trail
1999-2000
79/16
Greater Salmon-Selway Ecosystem
1987
79/17-18
Greater Yellowstone Coalition
1983-1992
80/1
Greater Yellowstone Coalition
1984-1987
80/2
Greater Yellowstone Coalition
undated
80/3
Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
1987
80/4
Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Grant Proposal
1986-1988
80/5
Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Grant Proposal-Steele and Reese
1987-1989
80/6
Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem-Bald Eagle Habitat
1987
80/7
Green and Yampa Rivers-Colorado River Drainage
1971-1980
80/8
Grizzly Bear Metapopulations
1994
80/9
Grizzly Bear Recovery-Salmon-Selway Grizzly Coalition
1996-1998
80/10-11
Halting Road building-Proposals, Memos, Correspondence
1986-2002
80/12
Tom Harding, Correspondence
1997
80/13
Dan Heinz, Correspondence
1986-1989
80/14
Helena National Forest
1973-1985
80/15
Helena National Forest
1995
80/16
Hells Canyon National Recreation Area-Oregon and Idaho
1986-1996
80/17
Hells Canyon Preservation Council
1993-2003
80/18
Hells Canyon-Oregon and Idaho
1993 and undated
80/19
High Uintas
1995-1997
81/1
High Uintas Preservation Council
1997-1998
81/2
Rick Hill, Representative from Montana-Conservation Concerns
1996
81/3
History of the Scapegoat Wilderness and Montana Wilderness Study Areas
2003-2004
81/4
Holy Cross Wilderness
1987
81/5
Holy Cross Wilderness (Homestake II Project-Colorado)
1987
81/6
HR 631, Colorado Wilderness Bill
1993
81/7
Humane Society Newsletter
1996
81/8
Humbug Spires-Montana
1985
81/9
Hunter Organizations and Newsletters
1992-1994
81/10
Hyalite-Porcupine-Buffalo Horn Proposed Wilderness Study Area, Gallatin National Forest
1983-1996
81/11
Hyalite-Porcupine-Buffalo Horn, Statement-Clifton Merritt
1985-1986
81/12
Hyalite-Porcupine-Buffalo Horn Wilderness Study Area
1985-1997
81/13
Hyalite-Porcupine-Buffalo Wilderness Study Area
1980-1986
81/14-16
Idaho
1976-1988
81/17
Idaho Alternative Wilderness-Roadless Area Review II
1978-1984
81/18
Idaho Environmental Council
2000-2001
81/19
Idaho Environmental Council Newsletter
1988-1999
81/20
Idaho Outfitter Lawsuit
1987
82/1
Idaho Outfitters-Wilderness Caches
1989-1991
82/2
Idaho Wilderness
1988
82/3
Idaho Wilderness Bill
1975-1988
82/4
Idaho Wilderness Bill
1983-1986
82/5
Idaho Wilderness Bill
1991
82/6
Idaho Wilderness Bill
undated
82/7
Idaho Wilderness Bills
1993
82/8
Inland Empire Public Lands Council
1990-1993
82/9-11
Inland Empire Public Lands Council-Dr. John Osborn
1988-1994
82/12
Interim Colorado Wilderness Bill-Senator Tim Wirth
1990
82/13
Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project
1997
82/14
Interior Committee Schedules
1987
82/15
Interview in Western Outdoors on the American Wilderness Alliance
1985
82/16
Jewel Basin
1983-2004
82/17-18
Jewel Basin Proposed Wilderness Study Area, Flathead National Forest
1968-1983
83/1
Kootenai and Lolo Wilderness Accords
1990-1996
83/2
Kootenai National Forest
1980-1985
83/3
Kootenai National Forest
1995
83/4
Kreck, Dr. Loren, Correspondence
1992-1997
83/5
Land Use Planning Flow Chart-Wilderness
undated
83/6
Las Cruces/Lordsburg Resource Area
1987
83/7
Last Refuge Project-Montana's Wilderness Legends
2000
83/8
Laws
1975-1986
83/9
Lee Metcalf Celebration
2002
83/10
Lee Metcalf Wilderness Alliance
1978-1979
83/11
Lee Metcalf Wilderness Alliance
1979-1981
83/12
Lewis and Clark National Forest
1979-1985
83/13
Lewis and Clark National Forest
1986-1995
83/14
Lifescapes
1996
83/15
Limekiln Canyons Wilderness Study Area
1980
83/16
Limits of Acceptable Change Fish and Wildlife Plan
1991-1993
83/17
Lincoln-Scapegoat Correspondence, Notes and Clippings
1980-2003
83/18
Little Blackfoot
1983
83/19
Lolo
1978-1982
83/20
Lolo and Rattlesnake National Forests
1983
83/21
Lolo National Forest
1994-1998
83/22
Lolo National Forest
2000-2004
83/23
Lolo National Forest Plan
1982-1996
83/24
Dr. John Loomis, Natural Resource Economist
1987-1988
83/25
Lost Trail Powder Mountain
1996
83/26
Jerry Mallett, Correspondence
1993-1998
83/27
Jerry Mallett, Election-Sportsmen in Colorado
2004-2005
83/28
David McCargo, Correspondence
1987
84/1
Melcher, et. Al
1986-1988
84/2
Clifton Merritt, Notes and Correspondence
2002-2005
84/3
Clifton Merritt, Newsletter Article about
2007
84/4
Clifton Merritt, Remarks on Wilderness
1999
84/5
Clifton Merrtt, Speeches
1968-1988
84/6-7
Clifton Merritt, Speeches, etc.
1968-2000
84/8
Donna Metcalf
1994-1995
84/9
Lee Metcalf, Correspondence
1979-1983
84/10
Middle Fork Flathead
1980
84/11
Middle Fork of the Flathead, Correspondence and Articles
1969-2005
84/12
Middle Fork of the Judith-Wilderness Study Area
1992-1996
84/13
Mineral Policy Center
1996
84/14
Mining
1981
84/15
Mining Claims-Montana Wilderness
1996
84/16
Mining on Public Lands
1993-1998
84/17
Mining Reform
1987-1993
84/18
Miscellaneous Clippings
1995-2001
84/19
Miscellaneous Correspondence
1987-1997
85/1
Miscellaneous Newsletters
1999-2000
85/2
Miscellaneous Newsletters-Montana Wilderness
1990-2000
85/3
Miscellaneous Wilderness Articles
1983-1986
85/4
Miscellaneous Wilderness Organizations' Newsletters
1987-2005
85/5
Miscellaneous Wilderness Organizations' Newsletters and Mailers
1987-1999
85/6
Mission Mountains Tribal Wilderness
1981
85/7
Mission Mountains Tribal Wilderness
1981-1986
85/8
Missouri Breaks Wilderness
1987-1994
85/9
Missouri River Breaks National Monument
2003
85/10
Montana Alternative "W" (Citizens' Wilderness Proposal)
1984
85/11
Montana Blackfoot River and Mining
1990-1993
85/12
Montana Bureau of Land Management
1986-1994
85/13
Montana Bureau of Land Management Bear Trap Canyon
1980
85/14
Montana Bureau of Land Management Lewistown District
1980-1981
86/1
Montana Bureau of Land Management Wilderness Proposals
1980-1991
86/2
Montana Bureau of Land Management Wilderness Review
1977-1981
86/3
Montana Bureau of Land Management Wilderness Review
1979-1982
86/4
Montana Bureau of Land Management-Sleeping Giant Wilderness Area
undated
86/5
Montana Clippings
1977-1994
86/6
Montana Conservation Voters
2001
86/7-8
Montana General
1976-1980
86/9
Montana Guides and Outfitters
1981-1994
86/10
Montana National Forests
1970-1995
86/11
Montana Natural Areas System
1987
86/12
Montana Outfitter Guests
1986
86/13
Montana Project
1990
86/14
Montana Proposed Highways Through Wilderness
2002-2003
86/15
Montana Proposed Wilderness Maps
1985 and undated
86/16
Montana River Action
2002-2003
86/17
Montana Special Alerts
1985-1987
86/18
Montana State Bills
1995
86/19
Montana State Lands and Montana Law Board
2002-2004
86/20
Montana Wilderness
1982-1987
86/21
Montana Wilderness
1987
86/22
Montana Wilderness
1987-2005
87/1
Montana Wilderness Act Correspondence
1984-1989
87/2
Montana Wilderness Association
2000-2002
87/3
Montana Wilderness Bill
1975-1993
87/4-5
Montana Wilderness Bill
1982-1986
87/6
Montana Wilderness Bill
1987-1989
87/7-9
Montana Wilderness Bill
1989-1995
87/10
Montana Wilderness Bill
1990
87/11
Montana Wilderness Bill
1991
87/12
Montana Wilderness Bill, 1984
1984-1985
87/13
Montana Wilderness Bill, 1988-Senator Melcher
1988
88/1
Montana Wilderness Bill, 1989
1988-1989
88/2
Montana Wilderness Bill, 1990
1990-1991
88/3
Montana Wilderness Bill, 1991, S. 1696
1991-1992
88/4
Montana Wilderness Bill, 1993
1993-1994
88/5
Montana Wilderness Bill, 1994
1994
88/6
Montana Wilderness Bill, Baucus
1987-1992
88/7
Montana Wilderness Bill, HR 2090, Representative Pat Williams
1986-1987
88/8
Montana Wilderness Bill, Summaries
1988-1993
88/9
Montana Wilderness Bills, 1968-1987
1981-1987
88/10
Montana Wilderness Clippings
1969-1998
88/11
Montana Wilderness Correspondence
1982-1992
88/12
Montana Wilderness Designation Book-Lerna Naegele
1991-1992
89/1-2
Montana Wilderness Issues
1988-1993
89/3-4
Montana Wilderness Issues
2000-2001
89/5
Montana Wilderness Maps
1979-1980
89/6
Montana Wilderness News Clippings
1988-1996
89/7
Montana Wilderness Status Map
1981
89/8-10
Montana Wilderness Study Act
1975-1981
89/11
Montana Wilderness Study Act
1975-2004
89/12
Montana Wilderness Study Act
2002-2003
89/13
Montana Wilderness Study Act, S. 393
1977-2006
90/1
Montana Wilderness Study Act, S. 393, Metcalf
1974-1986
90/2
Montana Wilderness Study Act, Lawsuit
1996-1998
90/3
Montana Wilderness Study Areas, Clippings
1995-2004
90/4
Montana Wilderness-Bureau of Land Management
1978-1985
90/5
Montana Wildlands Coalition
1988-1990
90/6
Montana Wildlife Management
1982-2001
90/7
National Conservation Area-Law and Bill
1991
90/8
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Documents-Bitterroot National Forest
1998
90/9
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Documents-Wise River District-Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest
1997
90/10
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)-American Wildlands Overview
1992-1993
90/11
National Forest Management Act
1999
90/12
National Forest Protection and Restoration Act
1997
90/13
National Forest Road Policy
1997-1998
90/14
National Forests
1995
90/15
National Forests
1996
90/16
National Parks and Monuments
1995
90/17
National Parks and Monuments
1999
90/18
National Scenic and Historic Trails
1988-1989
90/19
National Wetlands Inventory
1984-1985
90/20
National Wild and Scenic and Rivers
1997-1999
90/21
National Wild and Scenic and Rivers
undated
90/22
National Wilderness Preservation System
1978-1989
90/23-25
National Wilderness System
1962-1986
90/26
National Wildlife Refuges
undated
90/27
Native Ecosystem Council
1998
91/1
Natural Resources Defense Council
2004
91/2
Natural Resources Laws and Public Lands Protection Conference
1999
91/3
Nevada
1985-1988
91/4
Nevada Outdoor Recreation Association
1987-1996
91/5
Nevada Outdoor Recreation Association-Bureau of Land Management Grants
1988-1999
91/6
Nevada Wilderness Bill-Friends of Nevada Wilderness
1987-2000
91/7
New Mexico Wilderness
1987
91/8
New York
1987
91/9
News Articles
1984-1986
91/10
Northern Rockies Bioregion
undated
91/11
Northern Rockies Bioregion and Montana Wilderness
1987-1992
91/12
Northern Rockies Bureau of Land Management Task Force
1990-2004
91/13-15
Northern Rockies Bureau of Land Management Wilderness Issues
1990-1997
91/16
Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA)
1991-1994
91/17
Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA)-Alliance for the Wild Rockies
1999
92/1
Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA)-Booklets before Congress
1987-1993
92/2-3
Northern Rockies Task Force-Montana Wilderness
1986-1993
92/4
Northern Rockies Wilderness Issues
1989-1997
92/5
Northern Yellowstone Rim-Montana Issue
1984-1986
92/6
Northwest-General Information
1987
92/7
Notes
2003 and undated
92/8
Notes-Clifton Merritt
1981-1989
92/9
Notes-Clifton Merritt
1995-1996
92/10
Off-road vehicle and snowmobile use on Public Lands
1987-1998
92/11
Oil and Gas Leasing in Wilderness
1981-1982
92/12
Oil and Gas Leasing on the Rocky Mountain Front
1997
92/13
Oral Hearing and Appeal Highlights on the South Fork of the Flathead River Management Decision
1987
93/1
Oregon
1986-1988
93/2
Oregon Natural Desert Association
1989
93/3
Oregon Rivers Council
1987
93/4
Other Montana Rivers
1995
93/5
Pacific Crest Trail Conference
1988
93/6
Partnership Information
2000
93/7
Pew Environmental Research Center
2001
93/8
Pew Wilderness Center, Doug Scott
2001
93/9
Pike and San Isabel National Forests
1987
93/10
Pinchot Institute for Conservation
1998-1999
93/11
Pintler-Anaconda Wilderness-Montana
1979-1981
93/12
Pioneer Skills Award Program-Bill Worf
1985-1987
93/13
Predator Support
2002-2003
93/14-16
Proposed Centennial Mountains Wilderness
1985-1999
93/17
Proposed Garnet Range Wilderness
1998
94/1
Proposed Great Burn Wilderness
1997-2000
94/2
Proposed Great Divide Wilderness-Montana and Idaho
1989-1991
94/3
Proposed Lee Metcalf Wilderness
1978-1983
94/4
Proposed Sleeping Child Wilderness
undated
94/5-6
Proposed Sleeping Child Wilderness-Bureau of Land Management
1988-1991
94/7-8
Proposed Wilderness Study Additions-Western Montana
1986-1988
94/9
Publicity-Newspapers, Texas-San Antonio Light
1981
94/10
Rangeland Management
1994 and undated
94/11
Sally Ranney
1997
94/12
Sally Ranney-Award Nomination
1995
94/13
Rattlesnake Wilderness
1979-1981
94/14
Rattlesnake Wilderness, Lolo National Forest
1980
94/15
Ravalli County Fish and Wildlife Association
1998-2003
94/16
Ravalli Republic Interview
2003
94/17
Recommended Actions for Governmental Agencies to Mitigate Risk and Discover Cause of Observed Symptoms in People and Wildlife in the Bitterroot Valley
1995-1996
94/18
Reports on Garnet Range Roadless Area as Potential Wilderness Areas-Bill Cunningham
1998
94/19
Resource Specialist/Wildlife Biologist Position-American Wildlands
1994
94/20
Response to Robert Dreher's Report on the Oral Hearing for the Montana Wilderness Association regarding the Flathead River Management Plan
1987
95/1
Review of the Bitterroot Final Forest Plan and Environmental Impact Statement
1985
95/2
River Monitor
2000-2002
95/3
Rivers-Denver Water
1986-1988
95/4
Road building Moratorium in Roadless Areas
1998-1999
95/5
Roadless Area Review (RARE) III
1987
95/6
Roadless Area Review II-Buffalo Peaks-San Isabel National Forest
1981-1987
95/7-8
Roadless Area Reviews and Evaluations
1973-1988
95/9
Roadless Rule
2001-2004
95/10
Rock Creek
1990-1996
95/11
Rock Creek -Lolo, and Deerlodge National Forests
1990-1994
95/12
Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation
2001-2003
95/13
Rocky Mountain Front
1996-2004
95/14
Rocky Mountain Front
2002
95/15
Rocky Mountain Front
2004
96/1
Rocky Mountain Front-Proposed Addition to the Bob Marshall-Scapegoat Wilderness
1980-1984
96/2
Rupert Cutler Articles
1982-1984
96/3
Salvage Logging
1994-2002
96/4
Sample Letters to Representatives and Senators
1992
96/5
San Juan National Forest
1987-1988
96/6
Santa Fe Gold Environmental Assessment-Elkhorn Mountains
1990-1998
96/7
Sapphire Crest Wilderness
1978-1996
96/8
Sapphire Wilderness Study Area
1977-2003
96/9
Sapphire Wilderness Study Area
1984-1987
96/10
Sapphire Wilderness Study Area and Stony Mountain
2005
96/11
Saylor, Congressman John P., Correspondence
1998
96/12
Scapegoat Enlargement-Helena, Lolo, and Lewis and Clark National Forests Proposed Wilderness Study Areas
1987-2005
96/13
Scapegoat Wilderness Anniversary
2002
96/14
Scapegoat Wilderness Area
2002
96/15
Scapegoat-Miscellaneous
1968-2002
96/16
Brian Schweitzer, Correspondence
2000-2004
96/17-19
Scotchman Peak Wilderness Study Area
1975-1981
97/1
Selway-Bitterroot National Forest-Grizzly Bear Reintroduction
1996-1997
97/2
Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness-Bitterroot and Lolo National Forests
1969-1998
97/3
Seniors for Wilderness
1988
97/4
September Addendum to Deerlodge Forest Area
1998
97/5
Sheep Mountain Logging
1987
97/6
Shoshone District Wilderness Study Area
1987-1988
97/7
Sierra Borealis
1987
97/8
Sierra Club Suit-Water
1985
97/9
Ski Yellowstone
1983
97/10
Sleeping Child Wilderness
1988-1993
97/11
Smith River
1986
97/12
Snowmobiling on Public Lands
1996-1997
97/13
South San Juan Wilderness Expansion
1981
97/14
South San Juans-Draft Report
1982
97/15
South San Juans-Grizzly Incident
1979-1981
97/16
South San Juans-Rio Grande National Forest
1979-1981
97/17
Southeast Alaska Conservation Council
1987-1992
97/18
Southeast Alaska-Tongass Timber Reform
1986-1987
97/19
Special Appeals
1986-1993
97/20
Special Pieces on Wildlands and Wildlife, Clifton Merritt
1970-1998
97/21
Speeches and Statements, Clifton Merritt
1978-1999
97/22
Speeches on Wilderness
1994-1999
98/1
Stateline Snowmobile Analysis-Idaho and Montana
1997
98/2
Stony Mountain
1985-1989
98/3
Sunday Session Summaries, Annual Western Wilderness and Rivers Conference
1980
98/4
Tatshenshini-Alsek Rivers
1991-1992
98/5
Taylor-Hilgard
1980-1981
98/6
Taylor-Hilgard Wilderness Study Area
1975-1981
98/7
Ten Lakes Wilderness Study Area
1991
98/8
Ten Lakes Wilderness Study Area
1998
98/9
Ten Lakes, Montana
1980
98/10
Tenderfoot Deep Creek
1980-1987
98/11-12
The Economic Effects of Timber Harvesting on Recreational and Commercial Fisheries and Municipal Watersheds," by John B. Loomis
1987
98/13
Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Alliance
undated
98/14
Timber Articles and Clippings
1987-1998
98/15
Timber Trends
1992
98/16
Tin Cup Dam-Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness
1997
98/17
Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge
1995
98/18
Tobacco Road Roadless Area-Deerlodge National Forest
1981
98/19
Tongue River Breaks-Custer National Forest
1979
98/20
Trail Creek Lawsuit
1995
98/21
Trail Creek Lawsuit-Beaverhead National Forest
1994-1995
98/22
Travel Brochures
1998-2002
99/1
Trip Correspondence
1981
99/2
Trout Unlimited Newsletter-Flaming Gorge/Lower Green River Chapter
1997
99/3
Tsongas-Roth Alaska Lands Bill
1980-1981
99/4
Tuchuck Wilderness Study Area-Flathead and Kootenai National Forests
1980-1981
99/5
Two Forks Dam
1987-1988
99/6
Two Forks Dam
1987-2006
99/7
United Sportsman's Foundation-Articles of Incorporation)
undated
99/8
United Sportsman's Foundation-Tax-Deductible Internal Revenue Service)
1979
99/9
United States Forest Service
1980-1985
99/10
United States Forest Service-Shared Views Newsletter
2000-2001
99/11
Upper Missouri Breaks National Monument
2001-2004
99/12
Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument-Bureau of Land Management
2000-2004
99/13
Utah
1987-1988
99/14
Utah Bureau of Land Management: Conservationists Wilderness Proposal
1985-1986
99/15
Utah Wilderness Association
1979-1987
99/16-17
Utah Wilderness Association
1986-1996
100/1
Utah Wilderness Association
1991
100/2-3
Utah Wilderness Coalition
1988-1992
100/4-6
Utah Wilderness, Bureau of Land Management
1972-1990
100/7
Wall Canyon Wilderness Study Area
1987
100/8
Washington Wilderness Coalition, Washington Wildfire
1987
100/9
Wasting Disease Clippings
1999
100/10
Water Pollution
1996
100/11
Water Rights for Wilderness Areas
1987
100/12-14
Watershed Economics Grant Proposal-Dr. John B. Loomis
1980-1988
101/1
Weminuche Wilderness-Colorado. San Juan National Forest
1982-1987
101/2
West Big Hole
1980-1988
101/3
West Big Hole Wilderness Proposal
1979-1980
101/4
West Pioneer
1976-1981
101/5
West Pioneers Wilderness Study Area
1986-1996
101/6
Western States General
1987
101/7
Western Wilderness and Rivers Conference
1980
101/8
Western Wilderness Calendar
1983
101/9
Westlope Cutthroat Trout Campaign
1997
101/10
Westslope Cutthroat Trout Clippings
1992-2005
101/11
Westslope Cutthroat Trout Symposium
1983-1987
101/12
Whitetail-Haystack-O'Neil (WHO) Roadless Area-Deerlodge National Forest-Paul Richards' Correspondence
1997
101/13
Wild Idaho Conference
1990
101/14
Wild Missouri Wilderness Proposal Correspondence-Bureau of Land Management
1989-2003
101/15
Wild Rockies Wilderness
1990-1995
101/16
Wilderness Article Drafts
1991
101/17
Wilderness Article Drafts and Editing
1982-1998
101/18
Wilderness Article Drafts and Notes
1988-2002
101/19
Wilderness Articles
1967-2001
101/20
Wilderness Associated Wildlife-Montana
1978
102/1
Wilderness Clippings
1985-1993
102/2
Wilderness Economics
1986-1992
102/3
Wilderness Economics
1987
102/4
Wilderness Education
1988
102/5
Wilderness Highlights
1979-1985
102/6
Wilderness Institute
undated
102/7
Wilderness Leaders Conference
1987
102/8
Wilderness Management
1989-1994
102/9
Wilderness Management Dilemma-David N. Cole and Draft of Bill Worf Response
1996
102/10
Wilderness Management-Bill Worf
1987-1988
102/11
Wilderness Movement and National Forests: 1964-1980-Dennis Roth's Draft
1983
102/12
Wilderness Society-American Wildlands Correspondence
1987-1988
102/13-14
Wilderness Society-Wilderness Proposals
1983-2002
102/15
Wilderness Watch
1997-2004
103/1
Wilderness Watch Board, Notes, Minutes, Correspondence
1999
103/2-3
Wilderness Watch-Bill Worf
1994-1996
103/4
Wilderness Watcher
1998-2003
103/5-6
Wildland Economic Studies
1980-1995
123/
Wildlife Distribution and Proposed Montana Wilderness Maps
1983-1993
103/7
Wildlife Economics
1987-1997
103/8
Wildlife-Hunting-Colorado Wilderness Bill
1984-1985
103/9
Tim Wirth-Senate Campaign and Correspondence
1986-1987
103/10
Hazel Wolf, Speeches
1997
103/11
Words on Wilderness-The Wildlands Studies and Information Center
1996
103/12
Worf Family Memorial Wilderness Scholarship
1997
103/13
Written Statements and Remarks
1988-1996
103/14
Wyoming Chapter of the Sierra Club
2002
103/15
Wyoming Outdoor Council Annual Meeting
1988
103/16
Wyoming Wildlife Federation, Response to Governor Geringer's "Gag Order" on State Agencies
1995
103/17
Wyoming Wildlife Summit
1994
103/18
Yellowstone National Park-Snowmobile Issue
1999-2002
103/19
Yellowstone to Yukon
1993 and undated
103/20
Yellowstone to Yukon Biodiversity Strategy
1995-2001
103/21
Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative
1997-1999
103/22
Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative
2000-2002
104/1
Yellowstone to Yukon Project, Memos and Correspondence
1996
104/2
Yellowstone to Yukon Strategy
1995-1996
104/3
Dennis Zadra, Resource Specialist, Correspondence and Reports
1994
Subseries 3: Corridors of Life Program
1.5 linear feet
1985-2006
Box/Folder
104/4
Corridor Mapping
1986-1987
104/5-6
Corridors of Life
1992-1997
104/7-8
Corridors of Life
1993-1996
104/9
Corridors of Life
1994-2003
104/10
Corridors of Life
1995-1997
104/11
Corridors of Life
1997
104/12
Corridors of Life
1997-1999
104/13
Corridors of Life-Board Meeting
1993
104/14
Corridors of Life-Feasibility Study
1992-1999
105/1
Corridors of Life-Feasibility Study
1993-1996
105/2
Corridors of life-Funding and Grants
1992-1998
105/3
Corridors of Life-Model Building Phase
1996-1997
105/4
Corridors of Life-Outreach Mailers
undated
105/5
Corridors of Life-Outreach Proposals
1997-1998
105/6-7
Corridors of Life-Strategy
1993-1997
105/8-11
Corridors of Life-Wildlife Corridors Grant Proposals
1985-1995
105/12
Corridors Research-Bighorn Sheep
1994
105/13
Corridors Research-Bison
1995-1997
105/14
Corridors Research-Buffalo
1998
105/15
Corridors Research-Bull Trout
1994-2001
105/16
Corridors Research-Bull trout
1992-1997
106/1
Corridors Research-Cutthroat Trout
1996-1997
106/2
Corridors Research-Eagle
1992
106/3
Corridors Research-Elk
1991-1996
106/4
Corridors Research-Geese
1996
106/5
Corridors Research-Grayling
1994
106/6-7
Corridors Research-Grizzly Bear
1986-2000
106/8
Corridors Research-Grizzly Bear Recovery
1988-2000
106/9
Corridors Research-Lynx
1990
106/10
Corridors Research-Mule Deer
1996
106/11
Corridors Research-Owl
1990
106/12
Corridors Research-Rainbow Trout
1994-1997
106/13
Corridors Research-Wolf
1994-1999
106/14
Corridors Research-Wolverine, Lynx, Fisher
1995
106/15
Corridors Research-Woodland Caribou
1986-1991
106/16
Forest Environments, Montana Biological Survey: Corridors of Life-Student Letters
1998
106/17
Program Director, Corridors of Life
1994
107/1-3
Wildlife Corridors
1991-2006
107/4
Wildlife Corridors in the Northern Rockies
1993
Subseries 4: Organizational Publications and Newsletters
2.5 linear feet
1979-2007
Box/Folder
107/5
Annual Review and Report Mailers
1993-2004
107/6
It's Time To Go Wild Newsletter, Drafts and Correspondence
1987
107/7
It's Time To Go Wild Newsletter
1986-1988
107/8
Material Used for Summer/Fall Issue, On the Wild Side
1995
107/9
Miscellaneous Member Mailers
undated
107/10
Miscellaneous Organizational Publications and Mailers
undated
107/11
Newsletter Drafts and Correspondence
1988-1990
107/12
On the Wild Side, Article Drafts
1992
107/13
On the Wild Side, Article Drafts
1994
107/14
On the Wild Side, Articles and Correspondence
1994
107/15
On the Wild Side, Articles Drafts and Correspondence
1994-1996
107/16
On the Wild Side, Article Drafts and Correspondence
1995
108/1
On the Wild Side, Cartoons for issue
1994 and undated
108/2
On the Wild Side, Copy for the Next Journal
1991-1995
108/3
On the Wild Side, Correspondence
1994
108/4
On the Wild Side, Correspondence
1995-1996
108/5
On the Wild Side, Correspondence and Articles
1993-1994
108/6
On the Wild Side, Correspondence with Ecos
1994-1995
108/7
On the Wild Side, Correspondence
1994
108/8
On the Wild Side, Draft and Copies
1985-1986
108/9
On the Wild Side, Draft and Copies
1987
108/10
On the Wild Side, Edited Draft
1997
108/11
On the Wild Side, Clifton R. Merritt Articles
1996-1997
108/12
On the Wild Side, Special Issue Correspondence and Article Drafts
1995-1996
108/13
On the Wild Side, Unedited Copy
1995-1996
108/14
On the Wild Side, Used Drafts
1994
109/1
On the Wild Side, Newsletters
1979-1980
109/2
On the Wild Side, Newsletters
1981-1983
109/3
On the Wild Side, Newsletters
1984-1987
109/4
On the Wild Side, Newsletters
1987-1991
109/5
On the Wild Side, Newsletters
1991-1992
109/6
On the Wild Side, Newsletters
1993-1995
109/7
On the Wild Side, Newsletters
1996-1999
109/8
On the Wild Side, Newsletters
1999-2002
109/9
On the Wild Side, Newsletters
2002-2003
110/1
On the Wild Side, Newsletters
2004-2006
110/2
Wild America Publications
1979-1980
110/3
Wild America Publications
1980-1982
110/4
Wild America Publications
1983-1986

Series V:  Friends of the Bitterroot, 1991-2006Return to Top

0.5 linear feet

Friends of the Bitterroot is a forest-watch organization based in Hamilton, Montana. This series contains meeting memos, notes, correspondence, and newsletters.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
110/5
Meeting Agendas, Memos, and Internal Correspondence
1991-2003
110/6
Meeting Minutes and Agendas
1992
110/7
Meeting Notes and Memos
2003-2005
110/8
Memos, and Internal Correspondence
2000-2003
110/9
Friends of the Bitterroot News
1998-2006

Series VI:  Personal Materials, 1935-2007Return to Top

5.5 linear feet

This series is arranged into two subseries. Subseries 1, Writings and Files, contains drafts, correspondence, articles, and publications. Subseries 2, Miscellaneous Materials, consists of a scrapbook, a yearbook, and rolodexes.

Container(s) Description Dates
Subseries 1: Writings and Files
2.5 linear feet
1935-2007
Box/Folder
110/10
Beyond the Roads
1985-2003
110/11
Beyond the Roads
undated
110/12
Beyond the Roads, Book Chapter Drafts and Notes
1992-2006 and undated
110/13
Beyond the Roads, Book Chapters
1999-2004
110/14
Beyond the Roads, Book Chapters and Writing Submissions-Wilderness and Wilderness Policy
1990
110/15
Beyond the Roads, Chapters
2000-2002
111/1
Beyond the Roads, Chapters
2001-2003
111/2
Beyond the Roads, Chapters for the book
2005 and undated
111/3
Beyond the Roads, Older Drafts
1975-2005
111/4
Conquest of the Land through 7,000 Years
1953-1983
111/5
Employment Applications and Correspondence
1946
111/6
Grandfather
2005
111/7
Grandfather Copy
undated
111/8
Grandfather Merritt
1994-1999
111/9
Grandfather Merritt, Finished Chapters
2005-2007
111/10
High School Writings and Report Cards
undated
111/11
I Remember my Grandfather
2001
112/1
I Remember my Grandfather
undated
112/2
I Remember my Grandfather, Draft
2003
112/3
I Remember my Grandfather, Draft
2003
112/4
I Remember my Grandfather, Draft
2005
112/5
I Remember my Grandfather, Draft
undated
112/6
I Remember my Grandfather, Draft-includes Brother Don, but not Sister Bernice
undated
112/7
I Remember my Grandfather, Drafts
2005-2006
113/1-4
I Remember my Grandfather, Drafts, Notes, Research
1991-2006
113/5
Information Requests and Correspondence
1997-1998
113/6
Memoirs, Copies of Photos for
undated
113/7
Memoirs, Correspondence Regarding
1997-2006
113/8
Memoirs of Grandfather Merritt
2005-2006
113/9
Clifton Merritt, Older Articles
1965 and undated
113/10
Clifton Merritt, Oral History Interview Transcripts
1997-2001
113/11
Miscellaneous Book Chapter Drafts
2006 and undated
113/12
Personal Correspondence
1971-2005
113/13
Poems and Songs, Drafts
1937-1941 and undated
114/1
Poems and Songs, Drafts
undated
114/2-3
Poetry and Song Notebooks
1935-1939 and undated
114/4-5
Poetry and Song Notebooks
undated
114/6-8
Poetry and Song Notes and Drafts
1935 and undated
115/1-2
Publications
1946-1986
115/3
Poem Clipping-Published Copy
undated
115/4
Recollections in the Conservation Movement
1985
115/5
Jeanine Ricketts
1972-2005
115/6
Scapegoat Book Chapter Copies
undated
Subseries 2: Miscellaneous Materials
3.0 linear feet
1940-1998 and undated
Box/Folder
115/7
Helena High School Yearbook, "The Vigilante"
1940
Box
117
Rolodex
undated
118
4 rolodexes
undated
119
Scrapbook
1998

Series VII:  Awards, 1972-2007Return to Top

5.75 linear feet

This series is arranged into two subseries. Subseries 1, Subject Files and Correspondence, and Subseries 2, Certificates, Statuettes, and Plaques.

Container(s) Description Dates
Subseries 1: Subject Files and Correspondence
0.5 linear feet
1972-2007
Box/Folder
116/1
American Motors Award
1974-1978
116/2
American Motors Conservation Award
1973-1996
116/3
Conservation Award Correspondence and Clippings
1972-1978
116/4
Gift Sketch from Montana Wilderness Association
1984
116/5
Montana Wilderness Association Award
1990
116/6
University of Montana Commencement Program and Manual
2007
116/7
Proposal for Honorary Degree, Suppoting Documents
Photocopies of documents gathered to support honorary degree proposal. The original documents likely exist elsewhere in the collection.
circa 1970-2005
116/8
'Photocopies from Blue Binder'
Photocopies of documents likely gathered to support honorary award proposals. The original documents likely exist elsewhere in the collection.
circa 1970-2005
Subseries 2: Certificates, Statuettes, and Plaques
5.25 linear feet
1976-2007
Box
120
University of Montana Honorary Doctoral Degree Certificate
2007
120
American Motors Award Plaque
1976
120
American Motors Award Framed Certificate
1976
121
Frank Church Award Certificate and Award Correspondence-Unframed
1981
121
Friends of the Bitterroot Lifetime Achievement Award Framed Certificate
2003
121
Nick Kramis Award Framed Certificate
2005
122
Award Plaque
undated
123
Nick Kramis Award Statuette
2005
123
University of Montana Graduation Cap and Tassel
2007

Series VIII:  PhotographsReturn to Top

5.2 linear feet

This series primarily contains images of back country and wilderness areas. There are some photographs of Clif Merritt, his family, and individuals who were associated with The Wilderness Society. This series is currently unprocessed.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box
125-127
Slides
ca. 1950s-1970s
128-129
Prints
ca. 1950s-1970s

Series IX:  Motion Picture FilmsReturn to Top

14 16mm films

This series contains fourteen 16mm home movies primarily featuring outdoor recreation, family, and the Glacier National Park fish hatchery.

In 2022, films were viewed and content descriptions and dates provided as possible.

Container(s) Description Dates
Reel
1
Untitled
Shots of body of water - possibly Flathead Lake
16 mm
Color, 2 ft, No Sound
ca. 1950s
2
Untitled
Glacier National Park Fish Hatchery - shots of hatchery and workers, shots of workers loading fish into truck then releasing into pond or lake (unknown location)
16 mm
Color, 50 ft, No Sound
ca. 1950s
3
Untitled
Shots of passenger train
16 mm
Color, 5 ft, No Sound
ca. 1955
4
Untitled
Shots of family decorating Christmas tree with tinsel and wrapping presents and placing them under the tree. Includes shots of baby.
16 mm
Color, 50 ft, No Sound
ca. 1974
5
Untitled
Shots of two men fishing on river (unknown loactaion), one man may have been Clifton Merritt
16 mm
Color, 50 ft, No Sound
ca. 1977
6
Untitled
Shots of two men fishing on river (unknown location), Two children sledding - dog in one shot
16 mm
Color, 50 ft, No Sound
ca. 1976
7
Untitled
Shots of baby shoes in crib
16 mm
Color, 2 ft, No Sound
ca. 1974
8
Untitled
Shots of forest and mountain, shots of men fishing
16 mm
Color, 50 ft, No Sound
ca. 1976
9
Elk Hunting on Quintonknon Creek
Elk Hunting on Quintonknon Creek - Shots of hunting camp and hunters packing out elk
16 mm
Color, 50 ft, No Sound
ca. 1952
10
Untitled
Shots of child sitting in high-chair eating meal and drinking milk. Shots of child eating lollipop
16 mm
Color, 50 ft, No Sound
ca. 1974
11
Untitled
Shots of car entering West Glacier. Shots of child fishing. Shots of Lake McDonald
16 mm
Color, 30 ft, No Sound
March 14, 1955
12
Untitled
Shots of family walking out of house and getting into car with baby and child. Shots of child and baby playing near river with mother. Shots of child and baby playing in car. Shots of baby in high-chair. Shots of baby in crib. Shots of beby crawling and walking. Shots of baby's first birthday.
16 mm
Color, 200 ft, No Sound
ca. 1974
13
Glacier National Park Fish Hatchery
Shots of Glacier National Park fish hatchery. Shots of catching fish in hatchery and loading them on truck. Shots of Tally Lake Ranger Station. Shots of releasing fish into Tally Lake. Shots of Trail Creek. Shots of men netting fish and dog splashing in water. Shots of collecting fish eggs.
16 mm
Color, 200 ft, No Sound
ca. 1976
14
Fishing Trip
Shot of highway sign for Swan Lake, Polson, and Missoula. Various shots of Flathead Lake, men fishing, women on beach, men in canoe, children fishing and playing, boating, and the camp.
16 mm
Color, 210 ft, No Sound
ca. 1972

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Conservation of natural resources--Montana--Bitterroot River Valley--Societies, etc
  • Conservation of natural resources--Montana--Societies, etc
  • Conservation of natural resources--West (U.S.)--Societies, etc
  • Conservationists--West (U.S.)--Archives
  • Corridors (Ecology)--West (U.S.)
  • Environmentalists--West (U.S.)--Archives
  • Wildlife conservationists--West (U.S.)--Archives
  • Wildlife conservation--West (U.S.)--Societies, etc

Personal Names

  • Cunningham, Bill
  • Merritt, Clifton R. (Clifton Reeve), 1919-2008--Archives
  • Ranney, Sally Ann

Corporate Names

  • American Wilderness Alliance
  • American Wildlands (Organization)
  • Friends of the Bitterroot
  • Montana Wilderness Association
  • Montana Wildlife Federation
  • Wilderness Society (U.S.)

Geographical Names

  • West (U.S.)--Environmental conditions

Form or Genre Terms

  • Photographs