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High Uintas Preservation Council records, 1976-2010
Overview of the Collection
- Title
- High Uintas Preservation Council records
- Dates
- 1976-2010 (inclusive)19762010
- Quantity
- 16 boxes, (8 linear feet)
- Collection Number
- UUS_COLL MSS 390
- Summary
- This collection contains the general records of the High Uintas Preservation Council and documents its involvement in the ranger districts encompassing the greater Uinta region.
- Repository
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Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives Division
Special Collections & Archives
Merrill-Cazier Library
Utah State University
Logan, UT
84322-3000
Telephone: 4357978248
Fax: 4357972880
scweb@usu.edu - Access Restrictions
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No restrictions on use, except: not available through interlibrary loan.
- Languages
- English
Historical NoteReturn to Top
In 1996, longtime Utah environmentalist Dick Carter established the High Uintas Preservation Council (HUPC), an organization which sought to "preserve and restore the integrity of the High Uintas ecosystem", Utah's most diverse wilderness area. Carter, along with a core group of board members and HUPC supporters, felt that the Forest Service was not doing enough to adequately protect the area from outside interests. Working to influence, and oftentimes to limit, the Forest Service's actions in the High Uintas, the HUPC pursued two main goals: to increase the size of designated wilderness areas and to block further land development for logging, stocking, grazing, mining, and drilling for oil.
Over time it became difficult to replace outgoing board members and, as development continued into the High Uintas, the council bore an increasing challenge to gain traction with the Forest Service. As Dick Carter said in the organization's farewell letter, "There is simply no room for a measured collaborative approach. We are simply not real players." Carter's method of citizen conservation, along with his goal to grow and support untouched wilderness areas, were discordant with the aims of a robust Forest Service which sought to strike a balance between preservation and development. After 15 years of working with the Forest Service and developing many protective initiatives, the HUPC officially disbanded in 2010.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
This collection contains papers relating to environmental issues in the greater Uinta Mountains ecosystem. They encompass an area spanning from Ashley National Forest to the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest and document the environmental conditions of the Uintas and preservation efforts made by the High Uintas Preservation Council. This collection is useful to those who are interested in tracing the history of environmental activism and related public land topics in northern Utah.
The records consist of research, reports, correspondence, and newsletters from the High Uintas Preservation Council and are separated into three series based on geographic area--the High Uintas Wilderness, the Ashley National Forest, and the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest--as well as a fourth series for the HUPC organizational records. These papers cover a wide variety of environmental subjects, including animals, water conservation, grazing, timber, vegetation, campground management, and fire management.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances.
Permission to publish material from the High Uintas Preservation Council records must be obtained from the Special Collections and Archives manuscript curator and/or the Special Collections and Archives Department Head.
Preferred Citation
Initial Citation: High Uintas Preservation Council records USU_COLL MSS 390, Box [ ]. Special Collections and Archives. Utah State University Merrill-Cazier Library. Logan, Utah.
Following Citations: USU_COLL MSS 390, USUSCA.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
Series I through Series III are organized in their original order. The general papers of Series IV are organized alphabetically, while the newsletters of the HUPC are organized chronologically.
Processing Note
Processed in November of 2019.
Acquisition Information
This collection was donated to Utah State University Special Collections and Archives by Dick Carter in 2011.
Related Materials
Utah Wilderness Association records, 1980-2000 USU COLL MSS 200
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
I: Series I: High Uintas Wilderness, 1976-2010Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 1 | 1 | Bighorn Sheep - Uintas |
1981-1998 |
| 1 | 2 | Bronze Plaque on Knap Peak |
2004 |
| 1 | 3 | Campfire restrictions |
2005 |
| 1 | 4 | "Cancer Hike" |
1998 |
| 1 | 5 | "Cut Throat Trout Study, BYU- Ashley National Forest and High Uintas Wilderness |
1997 |
| 1 | 6 | Chief Michael Dombeck |
1997 |
| 1 | 7 | Clements Lake Reservoir |
2007 |
| 1 | 8 | Fire Management Plan |
1997-1999 |
| 1 | 9 | Fisheries |
2010 |
| 1 | 10 | Fox Blue Bell reservation issues |
1998-2004 |
| 1 | 11 | Fox Blue Bell reservation issues |
1998-2004 |
| 1 | 12 | Fox Blue Bell reservation issues |
1998-2004 |
| 1 | 13 | General High Uintas Preservation Council Media |
1996 |
| 2 | 1 | Grandview trailhead relocation |
1987-2003 |
| 2 | 2 | H.U.W/A.N.F- Lakes Reservoirs of the Uintas |
1978-1999 |
| 2 | 3 | Mule project |
2005 |
| 2 | 4 | Outfitting and guiding |
1992-2003 |
| 2 | 5 | Outfitting permits |
2001 |
| 2 | 6 | Reservoirs - Kidney Lake Dam |
1976-1999 |
| 2 | 7 | Reservoirs - Silver Lake Dam, Loan Peak Wilderness |
2000 |
| 2 | 8 | Reservoir Stabilization |
2006-2009 |
| 2 | 9 | Reservoir stabilization, Deer Lake and East Timothy Lake |
2010 |
| 2 | 10 | Reservoir stabilization, Five Point Lake |
2009 |
| 3 | 1 | Reservoir stabilization - Kidney Lake fire protection |
2009 |
| 3 | 2 | Reservoir stabilization - Island Lakes, Brow Duck Lake |
2008 |
| 3 | 3 | Rock Creek drainage |
1998 |
| 3 | 4 | Rock Creek bridge |
2010 |
| 3 | 5 | Summit Co. anti-wilderness ordinances |
1996-1997 |
| 3 | 6 | Swift Creek Ridge (DRD-ANF) |
1999 |
| 3 | 7 | Wilderness forum |
1998-1999 |
| 3 | 8 | Wilderness management plan |
1996 |
| 3 | 9 | Wilderness management plan |
1997 |
| 3 | 10 | Wilderness management plan - appeal |
1997-1998 |
| 3 | 11 | Wilderness management monitoring plan |
2002-2004 |
| 3 | 12 | Wilderness and snowmobile plan (illegal access) |
2000 |
| 3 | 13 | Uintas collaboration - WCNF North slope |
1997 |
II: Series II: Ashely National Forest, 1994-2010Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 1 | 1 | UPALCO Uintah |
1997-1999 |
| 1 | 2 | Quarterly reports |
1997-2009 |
| 1 | 3 | National forest planning - draft plan, general forest plan revision notes |
2004-2010 |
| 1 | 4 | Forest plan, DFC |
2006 |
| 1 | 5 | Forest plan - Ro Allen |
2004-2006 |
| 1 | 6 | Ashley/Wasatch National Forests Wildlife and Scenic River draft environment impact statement |
2007-2009 |
| 1 | 7 | Wildlife and scenic rivers |
2004-2005 |
| 2 | 1 | Travel management |
2007 |
| 2 | 2 | Travel management |
2008-2010 |
| 2 | 3 | Forest plan amendment management indicator species |
2004-2006 |
| 2 | 4 | Fisheries projects- rotenone application |
1999-2006 |
| 2 | 5 | Vernal Ranger District (VRD) - timber sale proposals |
April 2010 |
| 2 | 6 | VRD - East Park Campground Fuels Reduction Salvage |
2005-2010 |
| 2 | 7 | VRD - timber |
2007 |
| 2 | 8 | VRD - West Trout Slope |
1998 - 2008 |
| 2 | 9 | VRD - Alma Taylor timber |
2006 |
| 3 | 1 | VRD - Cart Creek Salvate |
2005 |
| 3 | 2 | VRD - French Park |
2005 |
| 3 | 3 | VRD - East Trout Slope - timber sale |
1998-2003 |
| 3 | 4 | VRD - Timber Cliffside sales |
1998 |
| 3 | 5 | VRD - Grazing permit reassurance |
2008 |
| 3 | 6 | DRD - West Side/South Slope grazing |
2003-2004 |
| 3 | 7 | VRD - Lakeshore Basin Dry Fork Marsh Peak, Oak Park |
2001 |
| 3 | 8 | VRD - Black Canyon |
2003-2006 |
| 3 | 9 | VRD - South Fork Brownie Creek |
1998 |
| 3 | 10 | VRD - Travel plan and Process |
1989-2005 |
| 3 | 11 | VRD - Outfitter/guide special use permit |
1998 |
| 4 | 1 | VRD - Rocky Mountain goat transplants, White Rush Canyons |
1989-2000 |
| 4 | 2 | Roosevelt/Duchesne Ranger District (R/DRD), Neola timber salvage |
2009 |
| 4 | 3 | R/DRD - South Unit wildlife vegetation treatments |
2006 |
| 4 | 4 | R/DRD - Thinning proposals, Dry Gulch, Dowd Mountain |
2001-2005 |
| 4 | 5 | R/DRD - Campground salvage thinning |
2005-2006 |
| 4 | 6 | R/DRD - Yellowstone River Fuels Reduction |
2004-2006 |
| 4 | 7 | R/DRD - Limekiln timber sale |
1999 |
| 4 | 8 | R/DRD - Wind throw sale |
1998 |
| 4 | 9 | DRD - Prescribed Burns |
1996-2007 |
| 4 | 10 | DRD - High Uintas Wilderness grazing allotments |
2009 |
| 4 | 11 | R/DRD - Grazing Projects |
2007 |
| 4 | 12 | DRD - Grazing allotments reauthorization |
2005-2007 |
| 4 | 13 | R/DRD - Painter Basin Tungsten High Uintas Wilderness allotments |
2003 |
| 4 | 14 | R/DRD - Plegon H2O allotment Pole Creek |
1991-1998 |
| 4 | 15 | DRD - Somers Canyon allotment plan |
1999-2002 |
| 4 | 16 | DRD - Squaw Creek Pipeline |
2001-2002 |
| 5 | 1 | R/DRD - Anthro Mountain enclosures |
1999 |
| 5 | 2 | R/DRD - Bull Moose waterline |
1997-1998 |
| 5 | 3 | R/DRD - Paint Mine |
1994-2003 |
| 5 | 4 | R/DRD - Money proposals miner's Gulch |
2003 |
| 5 | 5 | R/DRD - Outfitting guides |
1995-2005 |
| 5 | 6 | Flaming Gorge Ranger District (FGRD) - Travel planning |
1996-2005 |
| 5 | 7 | FGRD - Sheep Creek Canal |
2002 |
| 5 | 8 | FGRD - Deep Creek fisheries |
2004 |
| 5 | 9 | FGRD - Mann Creek fisheries |
2001-2002 |
| 5 | 10 | FGRD - Beartop Bishoin Sheep vegetation treatment |
2008-2010 |
| 5 | 11 | FGRD - North Flank vegetation treatment |
2008 |
| 5 | 12 | FGRD - Summit spring timber |
2005 |
| 5 | 13 | FGRD - Red Canyon timber |
2004 |
| 5 | 14 | FGRD - Dowd Mountain Conifer Removal |
2003 |
| 5 | 15 | FGRD - Roadshed timber sale |
2002 |
III: Series III: Wasatch/Cache National Forest, 1993-2010Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 1 | 1 | Kamas Ranger District - Lakes back country non-materialized recreation plan |
1996-1999 |
| 1 | 2 | KRD - Travel plan |
1993-2005 |
| 1 | 3 | KRD - Travel plan amendment II |
2001-2002 |
| 1 | 4 | KRD - Mirror Lake Highway enhancement project |
1997 |
| 1 | 5 | KRD - Mirror Lake Snowmobile permit |
1999-2005 |
| 1 | 6 | KRD - Winter recreation plan, Bear Creek County ski report |
1997 |
| 1 | 7 | KRD - Wall Lake Stabilization |
1998 |
| 1 | 8 | KRD - Provo River rehab |
1999 |
| 1 | 9 | KRD - Small NEPA projects, categorial exclusions |
2003-2006 |
| 1 | 10 | KRD - Weber River allotment |
1995-1999 |
| 1 | 11 | KRD - Curry allotment |
2008-2009 |
| 2 | 1 | KRD - Paulson Basin Burn |
1999 |
| 2 | 2 | KRD - Murdock Mountain timber sale |
1992-2008 |
| 2 | 3 | KRD - Ponderosa restoration |
2006-2009 |
| 2 | 4 | Mirror Lake Highway, Campground beetle timber salvage |
2002-2005 |
| 2 | 5 | Mountain View Ranger District (MVRD) project updates |
1997-2005 |
| 2 | 6 | Evanston Ranger District (ERD) - West Fork Smiths Fork land exchange |
2000-2002 |
| 2 | 7 | Evanston/Mountain View Ranger District (E/MVRD) travel plan |
1998-2005 |
| 2 | 8 | E/MVRD - East Fork Beaver River interpretive trail |
2003 |
| 2 | 9 | E/MVRD - West Fork/Smith's Fork fish barrier |
2005 |
| 2 | 10 | E/MVRD - Gilbert Creek fish |
2000 |
| 2 | 11 | E/MVRD - Black Fork Salvage timber sale |
2009 |
| 2 | 12 | E/MVRD - W.F.K. Bear East system projects, West Fork Bear timber sales |
1998-2008 |
| 2 | 13 | E/MVRD - Lower Gilbert |
2006-2007 |
| 2 | 14 | E/MVRD - Gourley Meadows timber salvage |
2004-2005 |
| 3 | 1 | ERD - Coyote Pine Beetle salvage sale |
2004 |
| 3 | 2 | E/MVRD - Dahlgreen Creek Aspen sale |
2004 |
| 3 | 3 | E/MVRD - East Fork timber salvage (fire) |
2004 |
| 3 | 4 | ERD - Humpy Meadow timber sale |
1999 |
| 3 | 5 | E/MVRD - North Flank Douglas Fir project |
1997-1999 |
| 3 | 6 | E/MVRD - Little West Fork analysis area |
1994-1998 |
| 3 | 7 | E/MVRD - Poison table timber sale |
1996-1997 |
| 3 | 8 | ERD - North Slope seismic proposal |
2002 |
| 3 | 9 | E/MVRD - Tabletop supplemental draft environmental impact statement |
2004-2008 |
| 3 | 10 | E/MVRD - Rainbow family |
2003 |
| 3 | 11 | E/MVRD - Beaver/Burnt Fork grazing allotments |
2010 |
| 3 | 12 | E/MVRD - Stillwater grazing allotment |
2009 |
| 4 | 1 | E/MVRD - West Fork/Black Fork grazing - 1 |
1999-2009 |
| 4 | 2 | E/MVRD - West Fork/Black Fork grazing - 2 |
1999-2000 |
| 4 | 3 | E/MVRD - West Fork/Black Fork grazing - 3 |
1996-1999 |
| 4 | 4 | E/MVRD - Red Castle allotments |
2007 |
| 4 | 5 | E/MVRD - Gilbert Peak and Hessie Lake, Red Mountain cattle allotments, etc. |
2005 |
| 4 | 6 | E/MVRD - West Fork/Smiths Fork motorized grazing proposals |
1997-2006 |
| 5 | 1 | Wasatch/Cache National Forest - General |
1994-2008 |
| 5 | 2 | Forest plan - Revision scoping/proposed action |
1999-2000 |
| 5 | 3 | Forest plan - Analysis management solution |
1999 |
| 5 | 4 | Forest plan - Preliminary alterations |
1999 |
| 5 | 5 | Forest plan - Draft environment impact statement |
2000-2001 |
| 5 | 6 | Forest plan - Roadlen inventory |
1999 |
| 5 | 7 | Forest plan - Conservation alternations |
1999 |
| 5 | 8 | Forest plan - Released forest plan appeal |
2002-2005 |
| 5 | 9 | Wild and scenic rivers |
1998-1999 |
| 6 | 1 | Noxious weeds environmental impact statement |
2004 |
| 6 | 2 | Mountain Goats |
1998-2008 |
| 6 | 3 | Mountain Goats |
1998-2008 |
| 6 | 4 | Mountain Goats |
1997 |
| 6 | 5 | Predator control # 3 195-98 |
1995-2000 |
| 6 | 6 | Rangeland health environmental impact statement |
1995-1998 |
| 6 | 7 | KRD - Proposed Mt. Watson Wilderness - Lakes and back country |
1997 |
IV: Series IV: High Uintas Preservation Council records, 1996-2010Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 1 | 1 | Roadlen |
1998-2007 |
| 1 | 2 | Wolf |
2000-2003 |
| 1 | 3 | Utah Division of Wildlife Resources - Regional advising council |
1997-2003 |
| 1 | 4 | Fire management plan |
1999-2004 |
| 1 | 5 | Board meetings |
1996-1999 |
| 1 | 6 | Board meetings |
2000-2004 |
| 1 | 7 | Board meetings |
2000-2004 |
| 1 | 8 | Board meetings |
2005-2010 |
| 1 | 9 | Founding member thank you art |
2000-2009 |
| 1 | 10 | Rendezvous! |
undated |
| 1 | 11 | Rendezvous "letter" |
2004-2005 |
| 1 | 12 | Discussion Series |
2003/2004 |
| 1 | 13 | Admin - Forest planning workshop |
2000 |
| 1 | 14 | Wasatch front forum 1999, HUPC event |
1999 |
| 1 | 15 | Wasatch front forum - HUPC events |
1997-1998 |
| 1 | 16 | Admin - Founding member meeting - general member meetings |
undated |
| 1 | 17 | Patagonia presentation |
1997-2000 |
| 1 | 18 | Outagame Foundation |
1998 |
| 1 | 19 | Animal report |
1997 |
| 1 | 20 | Fare-Thee-Well |
2010 |
| 1 | 21 | American Land Conservation Award |
2003 |
| 2 | 1 | High Uintas Preservation Council Newsletters |
1997-1998 |
| 2 | 2 | HUPC Newsletters |
1999-2000 |
| 2 | 3 | HUPC Newsletters |
2001-2002 |
| 2 | 4 | HUPC Newsletters |
2003-2004 |
| 2 | 5 | HUPC Newsletters |
2005-2006 |
| 2 | 6 | HUPC Newsletters |
2007-2008 |
| 2 | 7 | HUPC Newsletters |
2009-2010 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Environmentalism
- Land use--Environmental aspects--Utah--High Uintas Wilderness.
- Wilderness Areas--Utah--High Uintas Wilderness
- Wilderness Areas--Utah--High Uintas Wilderness
Personal Names
- Carter, Dick.
Corporate Names
- High Uintas Preservation Council
- U.S. Forest Service.
Finding aid/Register created by Clint Pumphrey, Elisabeth Cropper, and Alyson Griggs
2019
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