Kirkwood was a botanist and professor at the University of Montana. The collection consists of a selection of Kirkwood's published and unpublished writings, mostly on the botany of Montana and Idaho.
Summary information about the origin of geographic names within several Montana and Idaho national forests. Notes on the documents indicate this information was copied from card files in 1942.
This collection consists primarily of diaries Roy Phillips kept as a U.S. Forest Service employee supervising St. Joe, Nez Perce, Kaniksu, and Custer national forests in Idaho and Montana.
