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Chip Ward papers, 1968-2004
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Ward, Chip
- Title
- Chip Ward papers
- Dates
- 1968-2004 (inclusive)19682004
- Quantity
- 11.5 linear feet
- Collection Number
- ACCN 2303
- Summary
- The Chip Ward papers (1968-2004) consists of correspondence and other materials relating to the incineration of chemical weapons and the militaries involvement. This collection also includes drafts of Ward's books, including Canaries on the Rim: Living Downwind in the West and Hope's Horizon: Three Visions for Healing the American Land. Chip Ward was a former teacher, reporter, resort manager, and guest ranch operator. He is currently the Assistant Director for the Salt Lake City Public Library System. Ward is the co-founder of West Desert HEAL, co-founder of Families Against Incinerator Risk (FAIR), co-founder of Citizens Against Chlorine Contamination, and co-founder of HEAL Utah and is currently on the advisory board.
- Repository
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University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860
Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu - Access Restrictions
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Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.
- Languages
- English
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Chip Ward recieved his B.A. from Tufts University in 1971. We went on to recieve his M.L.I.S. form Brigham Young University in 1993. He was a former teacher, reporter, resort manager, and guest ranch operator. He is currently the Assistant Director for the Salt Lake City Public Library System. Ward is the co-founder of West Desert HEAL, co-founder of Families Against Incinerator Risk (FAIR), co-founder of Citizens Against Chlorine Contamination, and co-founder of HEAL Utah and is currently on the advisory board. Ward has also written two books entitled Canaries on the Rim: Living Downwind in the West (1999) and Hope's Horizon: Three Visions for Healing the American Land (2004).
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The Chip Ward papers (1968-2004) consists of correspondence and other materials relating to the incineration of chemical weapons and the militaries involvement. This collection also includes drafts of Ward's books, including Canaries on the Rim: Living Downwind in the West and Hope's Horizon: Three Visions for Healing the American Land.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.
Preferred Citation
Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Book FilesReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 1 | 1-2 | Militarization of the West |
1988-1999 |
| 1 | 3 | Articles |
1994-1998 |
| 1 | 4-5 | West Desert Issues |
1994-1996 |
| 1 | 6 | Addicted Traumatized Amnesiacs...Find Their Way Home |
1994-1998 |
| 1 | 7 | Kissing the Army's Ass |
19994-1999 |
| 1 | 8 | Boiling Frogs files |
1995-1999 |
| 2 | 1 | How To Be an Air Hugging Lunatic for Gaia |
1996-1997 |
| 2 | 2 | Myth of Doing Nothing and What To Do About It |
1996-1998 |
| 2 | 3 | The Cow That Got Stuck in the Chimney |
1997-1998 |
| 2 | 4-5 | Breakfast Cereal for Two-Headed Babies |
1997-1998 |
| 2 | 6 | Grasshopper Notes |
1997 |
| 2 | 7 | Agents/Publishers |
1998 |
| 2 | 8 | Book Writings and Notes |
1998 |
| 2 | 9 | I Used to Stomp on Grasshoppers But Oysters Made Me Stop, Copy |
1998 |
| 3 | 1 | Landing on the Rim of the Great Basin |
1998 |
| 3 | 2 | Landing Under a Sleeping Rainbow |
1998 |
| 3 | 3 | MX Marks the Spot |
1998 |
| 3 | 4 | Betting the Ranch at the Nuclear Casino |
1999 |
| 3 | 5 | Storming the Castle of the Invisible Ego-Thug |
1999 |
| 3 | 6 | Cowboys in Gas Masks Find a Damn Good Place to Dump Used Razor Blades |
|
| 3 | 7 | Humble Visions: Making Habitats Whole |
|
| 3 | 8 | Fluid Creatures |
|
| 3 | 9 | Miscellaneous |
1996 |
| 3 | 10 | Presentation Notes, Book Talks |
1999-2001 |
| 3 | 11 | Reconnection: Keeping Track of Deer Guts n' Cat Scat |
2002 |
| 3 | 12 | Flash Floods: Driven by Unquenchable Thirst Into the Path of Danger |
|
| 4 |
Canaries on the Rim: Living Downward in the West, Book Files |
1999 | |
| 5 |
Canaries on the Rim: Living Downward in the West, Book Files |
2000-2002 | |
| Folder | |||
| 5 | 1 | Book Talk |
2000-2002 |
Chemical Weapons Working Group (CWWG)Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 6 | 1 | Army |
1988-1999 |
| 6 | 2 | Chemical Demilitarization Program |
1992 |
| 6 | 3-4 | Incinerators |
1992-1997 |
| 6 | 5 | Hazardous Waste News |
1993 |
| 6 | 6 | Disposal |
1993-1994 |
| 6 | 7 | General |
|
| 7 | 1 | Chemical Weapons Disposal |
1993-1996 |
| 7 | 2 | Term Project |
1994 |
| 7 | 3 | Incineration of Chemical Weapons |
1994-1995 |
| 7 | 4-5 | Correspondence |
1994-1996 |
| 7 | 6 | Incinerator files |
1994-1996 |
| 7 | 7 | Supercritical Water Oxication Reports |
1994-1996 |
| 7 | 8 | Press Releases |
1994-1997 |
| 7 | 9 | Correspondence |
1995-1997 |
| 8 | 1 | Chemical Weapons Disposal |
1995-1997 |
| 8 | 2 | Chemical Demilitarization Program |
1996-1999 |
| 8 | 3 | Tooele |
1997 |
| 8 | 4 | Chemical Weapons Disposal |
1998 |
| 8 | 5 | Action for Environmental Protection, National Study |
1998 |
| 8 | 6 | Conference Materials |
1998 |
| 8 | 7 | HEAL files |
1996-1997 |
| 8 | 8 | Incineration Myths vs Alternative Tech. Realities |
1998 |
| 8 | 9 | Disposal of Chemical Weapons |
1999-2001 |
| 8 | 10 | Whistleblower, Chemical Incineration |
2000 |
| 8 | 11 | Chemical Disposal Project |
2001 |
Citizens Against Chlorine Contamination (CACC), 1994-1997Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 9 | 1 | Communication Notes |
|
| 9 | 2 | Incinerator Lawsuit |
|
| 9 | 3 | Davis County Incinerator |
|
| 9 | 4 | General |
1994-1997 |
| 9 | 5 | Correspondence |
1996 |
| 9 | 6 | Technical and Government Documents |
|
| 10 | 1 | Ira Rennert |
|
| 10 | 2 | General |
|
| 10 | 3-7 | Magcorp/CACC |
ConservationReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 11 | 1 | Wilderness Conservation |
1996-2002 |
| 11 | 2 | Environment and Ecology Articles |
|
| 11 | 3 | Book Ideas |
1997-2001 |
| 11 | 4 | Rachel's Environment and Health Weekly |
1998-1999 |
| 11 | 5 | Conservation and Ecology |
1998-2002 |
| 11 | 6 | Conservation of Great Salt Lake Area |
1999-2002 |
| 11 | 7 | Flash Forward: Damned If You Do and Damned If You Don't, Draining Lake Powell |
|
| 11 | 8 | Sky Islands Wildlands Network |
|
| 11 | 9 | Tracking, Sue Morse, Kinglet |
|
| 12 | 1 | Articles on Wolves |
2000-2002 |
| 12 | 2 | Forest Fires and Logging |
2000-2002 |
| 12 | 3 | Forest Related |
2000-2002 |
| 12 | 4 | Buffalo Common |
2001 |
| 12 | 5 | Wildlands Projects Brochures |
2001-2002 |
| 12 | 6 | Conservation Brochures and Newletters |
2001-2002 |
| 12 | 7 | Articles on Coyotes |
2001-2002 |
| 12 | 8 | Articles related to Salmon Farming and Conservation |
2001-2003 |
| 12 | 9 | Glen Canyon and Utah Rivers |
2001-2003 |
| 12 | 10 | Keeping Track, Articles on Tracking Animals |
2002 |
| 12 | 11 | Written Notes |
|
| 12 | 12 | Wilderness Protection Related to Roads |
2002-2003 |
| 12 | 13 | Articles about Wilderness Laws in Utah |
2003 |
CorrespondenceReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 13 | 1 | Mike Davis |
1998-1999 |
| 13 | 2-3 | Correspondence |
1999-2001 |
Environmental IssuesReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | |
| 14 | 1 | Articles for the case against Incineration |
| 14 | 2 | Dioxins, Endocrine Disruptions |
| 14 | 3 | Cancer |
| 14 | 4 | Epidemiolgy |
| 14 | 5 | Humble Visionaries, Writings and Drafts related to the Draining of Lake Powell |
| 14 | 6 | RFID, Radio Frequency |
Families Against Incinerator Risk (FAIR)Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 15 | 1 | General |
|
| 15 | 2 | Early |
|
| 15 | 3 | Correspondence |
1992-2000 |
| 15 | 4 | Campaign |
1997-1998 |
| 15 | 5 | Articles and Clippings |
Health IssuesReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 16 | 1 | Dugway and Health |
1991-1998 |
| 16 | 2 | Community Health Survey Data Sheets |
1992-1996 |
| 16 | 3 | Health Surveys Communications, Air Monitor |
1992-1996 |
| 16 | 4 | Toxic Substances and Disease Information |
1992-1993 |
| 16 | 5 | Breast Cancer |
1993-1999 |
| 16 | 6-7 | TAD and OB/OD |
1994 |
| 16 | 8 | Health Study Information to Chip |
1994-1996 |
| 17 | 1 | Military Environmental Issues |
1994-1996 |
| 17 | 2 | Health Survey, Handouts and Documents |
1994-1997 |
| 17 | 3-4 | Granstsville Community Health |
1995-1996 |
| 17 | 5 | Chemical Weapons Incinerator |
1996 |
| 17 | 6 | Gulf War Syndrome Information |
1996 |
| 17 | 7 | Health Study Responses #4 |
1996 |
| 17 | 8 | Health Related Survey and Letters |
1996 |
| 18 | 1-2 | HEAL Newsletter, Smokeout |
1996 |
| 18 | 3 | Military and Gulf War Illness |
1996-1997 |
| 18 | 4 | Articles for Press Packets |
1997 |
| 18 | 5 | Breast Cancer, Canaries on the Rim Speech |
1997-1998 |
| 19 | 1 | Ward's Email Activism |
1998 |
| 19 | 2 | Smokeout II |
1998 |
| 19 | 3 | West Desert Articles, Deseret News |
2001 |
| 19 | 4 | Hand-outs |
BooksReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box | ||
| 20 |
Hope's Horizon: Three Visions for Healing the American Land, Book files |
2002-2004 |
| 21 |
Hope's Horizon: Three Visions for Healing the American Land, Book files |
2004 |
Incinerator ResearchReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 22 | 1 | Burning Desire: Why the Army Wants to Incinerate Nerve Gas, Research Files |
1993-1996 |
| 22 | 2 | Incinerators, EPA |
2000 |
| 22 | 3-5 | Clippings |
Nuclear Waste IssuesReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 23 | 1 | Citizen's Handbook on Nuclear Attacks and Natural Disasters |
1968 |
| 23 | 2 | Nuclear Energy and Chernobyl |
1991-2002 |
| 23 | 3 | PFS, Skull Valley, Nuclear |
1996-1998 |
| 23 | 4 | Nuclear Power and Pwer Plant |
1999-2003 |
| 23 | 5 | Nuclear Waste Storage |
2000-2001 |
| 23 | 6 | Nuclear Waste Fact Sheets |
2000-2002 |
| 23 | 7 | Nuclear Waste Transportation |
2000-2002 |
| 23 | 8 | Nukes, Priority Reading |
2000-2002 |
| 23 | 9 | Articles, Proposed Yucca Mountain Nuclear Storage Site |
2001-2002 |
| 23 | 10 | Correspondence |
2001-2003 |
| 24 | 1 | Magazines Related to Alternative Evergy Sources |
2002 |
| 24 | 2 | Nuclear Notes |
2002 |
| 24 | 3 | Nuclear Related Research Articles |
2002 |
| 24 | 4 | Nuclear Waste Storage |
2002-2003 |
| 24 | 5 | Initiative One |
2002-2003 |
| 24 | 6 | Skull Valley and Nuclear Waste Storage |
2002-2003 |
| 24 | 7 | Envirocare |
2002-2003 |
| 24 | 8 | Downwinders |
2003 |
Subject FilesReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 25 | 1 | Alliance for Nuclear Accountability |
1998-1999 |
| 25 | 2 | Articles |
|
| 25 | 3 | Assembled Chemical Weapon Assessment, Alternative Descriptions |
1996-1998 |
| 25 | 4-5 | Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment, General |
1997-2001 |
| 25 | 6 | Assessment of Using Stockpile Disposal Facilities to Process Selected Non-Stockpile Chemical Material, Report |
2000 |
| 25 | 7 | Book Reviews |
1996-1997 |
| 25 | 8 | Calendar |
2000 |
| 25 | 9 | Chemical Pollutants Articles |
1994-1998 |
| 25 | 10-11 | Clippings |
1999 |
| 26 | Subject Files, E-M |
1990-2001 | |
| 27 | Subject Files, N-W |
1992-2001 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Environmentalism--Great Basin--History--20th century
- Nature conservation--United States
- Restoration ecology--United States
Personal Names
- Ward, Chip--Archives
Finding aid created by Erin McCarthy and Sam Francis
2006 (last modified: 2018)
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