Norman L. Winn papers, 1968-2004  PDF

Scope and Content: Legal files for litigation on behalf of the Nisqually Delta Association in Thompson v. Thurston County.

Scope and Content: Correspondence, notes, drafts of legislation, and ephemera.

Scope and Content: Hearing statements, drafts of regulations, minutes, and working papers.

Reflects Winn's work with the Forest Practices Advisory Committee of Washington. This committee developed forest practices regulations for state and private forest lands in Washington state. These regulations were subsequently adopted in a weaker form by the Forest Practices Board.

Scope and Content: Legal case file.

Winn was the attorney for Fayette Krause and the Audubon Society when it and the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission attempted unsuccessfully to support in court the commission's authority to close portions of ocean beaches to vehicular use.

Related accession Fayette Krause, #2217-12.

Scope and Content: Correspondence and writings.

Letters and position statements written on behalf of the Mountaineers mainly on conservation issues by Winn. Includes some material as member of the Mountaineers Conservation Division.

Scope and Content: Correspondence, mailings, notes, hearing testimony, legislation, agreements, newsletters, clippings, and ephemera.

Documents Winn's service as a trustee of the Mountaineers in Seattle.

Scope and Content: Correspondence, notes, agendas, reports, ephemera, maps and related papers.

Includes drafted and edited position statements for the Mountaineers on environmental issues by Norman Winn.

Scope and Content: Accident reports and supporting materials.

Two files concerning fatal accidents during Mountaineer sponsored climbs.

Scope and Content: Correspondence and legal papers.

Documents actions of Winn on behalf of the Mountaineers to obtain a reclassification of Kitsap County properties owned by the Mountaineers to open space classification, resulting in a lower valuation by the county for taxation. Also includes 1969 correspondence of Mountaineers leaders on the Kitsap property.

Scope and Content: Correspondence, planning files, testimony, notes, maps, and clippings.

Regarding Washington wilderness legislation, enacted in 1984 as the Washington State Wilderness Act of 1984 (Public Law 98-339).

Scope and Content: Correspondence.

Scope and Content: Correspondence, ephemera, notices, and clippings.

Scope and Content: Correspondence, agenda, notes, subject file, and financial records.

Papers reflect Winn's chairmanship of The Mountaineers Conservation Division and his presidency of the Washington Wilderness Coalition, an alliance of small environmental groups in Washington State. Material partially documents efforts of both groups in the Ancient Forests Campaign.

Scope and Content: Correspondence and related files created in his environmental activism for several Seattle organizations but especially the Mountaineers; 1985-1995.

Scope and Content: Correspondence mainly generated as a member of the Mountaineers Conservation Committee (1994-1995). Also includes correspondence and policy statements of the Conservation Division.

Scope and Content: Correspondence, clippings, and other material from his activity primarily commenting on issues for the Mountaineers Conservation Committee. Also documented are his involvement in and his presidency of WEAVE, 1994, and his unsuccessful opposition to a rapid transit ballot measure in the greater Seattle area in 1996.

Scope and Content: General correspondence but primarily letters drafted by Winn for The Mountaineers stating the organization's positions on various environmental issues in the Northwest, especially forestry and fishery habitat issues; September 1997-April 1998.

Scope and Content: Correspondence and related materials from his chairmanship of the Mountaineers Conservation Committee; 1998-2000. Includes a file on participation in the centennial of Mount Rainier National Park in 1999.

Scope and Content: Correspondence and related papers from his chairmanship of the Mountaineers Conservation Division. Also includes several reports. Span dates of this accession are March-June 2000.

Scope and Content: Correspondence, July 2000-February 2003, and subject file (including correspondence), 1998-2003, related primarily to issues of the Mountaineers Conservation Division; 1998-2003 (bulk 1999-2002). Includes Winn's letters drafted for Mountaineers presidents. Subject file include Elwha River restoration, 1998, Forest Service-Plum Creek land exchange, 1999, NOVA trail funding, 1999-2001, Conservation Task Force, 1999, Wenatchee ORV suit, 1999, salmon, 1998-2000, Cedar River HCP, 1999.

Scope and Content: This collection consists primarily of papers (articles, correspondence, and misc.) related to the Mountaineers Conservation Division. Subjects include the "Stumps" lawsuit, Endangered Species Act, Plum Creek Land Exchange, Cascade Alliance Project, Arctic Refuge, energy, bull trout, salmon, water, wetlands, WTO, and the Wild Sky Wilderness campaign. Other Mountaineers papers include topics such as board reform, past presidents' council, Kitsap Rhododendron Preserve, Port Blakely timber sale, and Citizens for Washington Wilderness. This collection also contains Norman Winn's personal papers, including general correspondence (primarily with members of Congress) and papers on Sound Transit.

Scope and Content: Additions to Norman L. Winn papers specific to the I-90 Land Exchange (legislation to exchange 15,000 acres of private forest land for 60,000 acres of Forest Service land near Interstate I-90 in Kittatas county).Includes general correspondence, correspondence to/from Norman Winn, notes, legislation and reports, newsclippings, newsletters and calls for action, photographs, and maps.