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Cat Urbigkit Papers, 1907-2009

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Urbigkit, Cat.
Title
Cat Urbigkit Papers
Dates
1907-2009 (inclusive)
Quantity
13.10 cubic ft. (14 boxes) + 291 MB
Collection Number
11718
Summary
Cat Urbigkit was a Wyoming sheep and cattle rancher concerned with the reintroduction of the Gray Wolf into the Yellowstone area. The collection contains research, newspaper clippings, and administrative records of suits brought against various federal agencies.
Repository
American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
American Heritage Center
University of Wyoming
1000 E. University Ave.
Dept. 3924
Laramie, WY
82071
Telephone: 3077663756
ahcref@uwyo.edu
Access Restrictions
Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.

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Additional Information

Finding aid available in repository.

Languages
English
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Historical Note

Cat Urbigkit was a writer, photographer, and rancher from Big Piney, Wyoming. She graduated from Pinedale High School in 1983, and later married Jim Urbigkit. They raised sheep and Hereford cattle in Sublette County. Urbigkit spent more than a decade conducting research on the history of Wyoming's wolves for her non-fiction book, "Yellowstone Wolves: A Chronicle of the Animal, the People, the Politics," released in 2007. She and her husband were party to several Federal lawsuits dealing with Wyoming wolves, including the lawsuit challenging the wolf reintroduction program in Yellowstone National Park.

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Content Description

The Cat Urbigkit collection contains subject files (including wolves and Teton National Forest), legal documents, notebooks of clippings and printed material, books, VHS tapes, audio cassette tapes, slides, and a poster all dealing with wolf reintroduction in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Copyright Information

The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.

Preferred Citation

Preferred Citation

Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Collection Name, Collection Number, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

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Administrative Information

Related Materials

Related Materials

There are no known other archival collections created by Cat Urbigkit at the date of processing.

Acquisition Information

Acquisition Information

This material was received from Cat Urbigkit in 2009.

Processing Note

Processing Information

The collection was processed by Krist Jessup in April 2017.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Container List
  • Description: 1A Index/1B Expenses
    Dates: 1995
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: 2002 Wolf
    Dates: 2002
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: 2003 Predator Study
    Dates: 2003
    Container: Box 5
  • Description: 2004 Wolf
    Dates: 2004
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: 2005 Wolf
    Dates: 2005
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: 2007 Wolf
    Dates: 2007
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Audio Tapes
    Dates: 1991-1992
    Container: Box 13
  • Description: Alexander Archipelago Wolf
    Dates: 1994-1995
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Amerindian Dogs
    Dates: 1986
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: Another Look at Wolf Taxonomy
    Dates: 1992
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Anti-Wolf Literature
    Dates: 1975-1988
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: APHIS (Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service)
    Dates: 1992
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Bounty
    Dates: 1907-1943
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Brief of Amicus Curiae Applicant Nez Perce Tribe
    Dates: 1997-1998
    Container: Box 9
  • Description: Briefs, Appendices, Oral Arguments - Wyoming Farm Bureau Federation v. Bruce Babbitt, as Secretary of the Interior
    Dates: 1998
    Container: Box 8
  • Description: BTNF
    Dates: 1974-1985
    Container: Box 11
  • Description: Cardwell Wolf AUS
    Dates: 1994
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: A Case History of Wolf-Human Encounters in Alaska and Canada
    Dates: 2002
    Container: Box 5
  • Description: Cat Urbigkit Vs. US Department of Interior
    Dates: 1994
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: Charles Kay
    Dates: 1992-1996
    Container: Box 5
  • Description: Cheyenne FWS (Fish and Wildlife Service) Sighting - Vaughn Index
    Dates: 1992
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: Chico Wolf
    Dates: 1988-1992
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Coexisting with Large Carnivores - Lessons from Greater Yellowstone
    Dates: 2005
    Container: Box 7
  • Description: Compensation
    Dates: 1987-2004
    Container: Box 5
  • Description: Complaint
    Dates: 1962-1992
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: Control Plans
    Dates: 1971-1995
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Copies of Agency References
    Dates: 1977-1988
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Court Materials
    Dates: 1994
    Container: Box 9
  • Description: Daune's Decision
    Dates: 2000
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Decision Record and Finding of No Significant Impact for the Assessment of Predator Animal Damage Control on Public Lands
    Dates: 1994
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Deer Lodge Wolf
    Dates: 1994-1996
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Digital Media
    Dates: Undated
    Container: Box 13
  • Description: DNA
    Dates: Undated
    Container: Box 13
  • Description: Dog Skull from Dubois
    Dates: 1995
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Downes Olenhouse
    Dates: 1997
    Container: Box 8
  • Description: DOW, NWF (National Wildlife Federation), WWF (Wyoming Wildlife Federation) - Legal Files
    Dates: 1997-1998
    Container: Box 8
  • Description: Draft Reports
    Dates: 1992
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Draft Wyoming Gray Wolf Recovery and Management Proposal
    Dates: July 1997
    Container: Box 5
  • Description: Durward Allen
    Dates: Undated
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Elk Mountain Kids
    Dates: Undated
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Ernest R. Vyse - Professor of Biology - Montana State University
    Dates: 1994
    Container: Box 3

  • Endangered Species Act (ESA):

    Container: Box

  • Description: Enhanced Black Rock Tape (VHS)
    Dates: November 25, 1993
    Container: Box 13
  • Description: Exp Pop Rule Comment
    Dates: 1994
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Extra YNP (Yellowstone National Park) Stuff
    Dates: 1994
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: Fed Def 98.8009
    Dates: 1998
    Container: Box 8
  • Description: Final Report in 1978 Wolf Survey
    Dates: 1978
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: Fish and Wildlife Service Case
    Dates: 1992
    Container: Box 9
  • Description: Forests - Beaverhead, Gallatin, Caribou, Targhee
    Dates: 1975-1992
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Foundations
    Dates: 1991
    Container: Box 2

  • Freedom of Information Act (FOIA):

    Container: Box

  • Description: Friends of Animals
    Dates: 1997-1998
    Container: Box 9
  • Description: Fundraising
    Dates: 1995-1999
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: FWS (Fish and Wildlife Service) Wolf Lawsuit
    Dates: 1992
    Container: Box 8
  • Description: General Biographical Information
    Dates: 1986-1994
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Geographic Variation in the Cranial Morphology of the Wolf in Northern Canada
    Dates: 1997
    Container: Box 13
  • Description: Grand Teton National Park Wolf Sightings
    Dates: 1992
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: Gray Wolf Reintroduction - Research Materials
    Dates: 2008-2009
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Gray Wolf Poster
    Dates: Undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Idaho Wolf
    Dates: 1989-1991
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Idaho Wolf Update
    Dates: 1996
    Container: Box 5
  • Description: Images
    Dates: Undated
    Container: Box 13
  • Description: Important
    Dates: 1976-1986
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Intent to Sue Department of Interior and Fish and Wildlife Service
    Dates: 1994
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: Italian Wolves
    Dates: 1981-1989
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: Jack Lynch
    Dates: 1988-1989
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Jack Potter - Trapper
    Dates: 1994
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: James Hill and NPCA (National Parks and Conservation Association)
    Dates: 1997-1998
    Container: Box 9
  • Description: James R. and Cat D. Urbigkit - Administrative Record 1-7 of 7
    Dates: 1997
    Container: Box 10-11
  • Description: James R. and Cat D. Urbigkit v. Babbit - Administraitive Records - Extra Copies
    Dates: 1994
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: James R. and Cat D. Urbigkit v. Babbit - Administraitive Records - Volume 7 of 7
    Dates: 1988-1993
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: Legal Opinions/Citations
    Dates: 1987-1990
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: Leo Cottenoir Wolf
    Dates: 1943-1995
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Louis Roberts Wolf
    Dates: 1996
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Magazine Clippings
    Dates: Undated
    Container: Box 11
  • Description: Main Street Wyoming: Wolves Part I (VHS)
    Dates: January 21, 1993
    Container: Box 13
  • Description: Methods
    Dates: 1972-1988
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: The Mexican Wolf
    Dates: 1993
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: Mexican Wolf Recovery
    Dates: 1982
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Mexican Wolves
    Dates: 1980-1999
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Miscellaneous Individual Sightings
    Dates: 1969-1986
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: Miscellaneous Magazines
    Dates: 1963-1995
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Montana
    Dates: 1993
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Montana - Clips
    Dates: 1986-1988
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Montana Wolf Management Plan
    Dates: 2002
    Container: Box 5
  • Description: NAS 98.8008
    Dates: 1998
    Container: Box 8
  • Description: Nebraska Whooping Crane Sighting Reports
    Dates: 1992-1993
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: Newspaper Clippings
    Dates: 1992-1997
    Container: Box 12
  • Description: Newspaper Clippings - Reintroduction into Yellowstone
    Dates: 1997-2000
    Container: Box 7
  • Description: Newspaper Clippings - Wolf Reintroduction
    Dates: 1997-2000
    Container: Box 9
  • Description: NDSU (North Dakota State University) Population Dynamics Modeling Software
    Dates: 1989
    Container: Box 3, Folder ahcdm_11718_001
  • Description: North American Quaternary Canis
    Dates: 1979
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: North Dakota
    Dates: 1991
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Northern Rocky Mountain Wolf Status and Coordination Meeting
    Dates: 1988
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Nowak
    Dates: 1993-1994
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Opening Brief
    Dates: 1998
    Container: Box 8
  • Description: Oregon Wolf Lawsuit
    Dates: 2003
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Original Appellate Argument
    Dates: 1996
    Container: Box 7
  • Description: Paws
    Dates: 1990
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Personal Miscellaneous
    Dates: 1988-1995
    Container: Box 6, Folder ahcdm_11718_002
  • Description: Population Definition
    Dates: 1994
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: Predation and Thomas
    Dates: 2003
    Container: Box 5
  • Description: Predator Control
    Dates: 1989-1994
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Prior Filings
    Dates: 1997
    Container: Box 7
  • Description: Public Opinion Polls
    Dates: 1987-1989
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Rawlins ADC (Animal Damage Control) Plan
    Dates: 1993
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Readings from Conservation Biology
    Dates: 1995
    Container: Box 13
  • Description: Recovery Plan
    Dates: 1986-1987
    Container: Box 11
  • Description: Red Wolf Reintroduction to Bull Island
    Dates: 1988-1989
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: References/Chronology/Legal
    Dates: 1982-1989
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: Reintroduction Appeals
    Dates: Undated
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Reintroduction of the Gray Wolf into Yellowstone
    Dates: 1994
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: The Reintroduction of Gray Wolves to Yellowstone National Park and Central Idaho - Environmental Impact Statement Draft
    Dates: 1993
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: The Reintroduction of Gray Wolves to Yellowstone National Park and Central Idaho - Environmental Impact Statement
    Dates: 1994
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Report on Wolf Survey
    Dates: 1975
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Rocky Mountain Natives - Wyoming Wolf Recovery Project
    Dates: 1993
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Scientific Literature References
    Dates: 1973-1995
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Shoshone National Forest
    Dates: 1991-1999
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Similar Species, etc.
    Dates: 1995-1996
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Similar Species/Situations
    Dates: 1981-1998
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Social Structure/Population Genetics
    Dates: 1987
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: SRM (Society for Range Management) Speech and WACD (Wyoming Association of Conservation Districts)
    Dates: 1993-1994
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Standing Support
    Dates: 1994-1997
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Stanko and Wolves
    Dates: 2002
    Container: Box 5
  • Description: Statements to Congress
    Dates: 1990
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: The Status and Distribution of Wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains of the United States
    Dates: 1981
    Container: Box 12
  • Description: Supporting Information Miscellaneous
    Dates: 1977-1995
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Supporting Materials
    Dates: Undated
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: Table Mountain (Lander) Wolf
    Dates: 1985
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Telephone Memos, etc.
    Dates: 1992-1995
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: The Timber Wolf in Wisconsin
    Dates: 1993
    Container: Box 13
  • Description: Transcription of Oral Argument on Administrative Appeals - Wyoming Farm Bureau, Ubigkit, and National Abudon Society v. Bruce Babbitt
    Dates: 1995
    Container: Box 9
  • Description: Urbigkit 98.8011
    Dates: 1998
    Container: Box 8
  • Description: Urbigkit Emergency Motion for Injuction
    Dates: 1998
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Urbigkit v. Bruce Babbitt Secretary of the Interior
    Dates: Undated
    Container: Box 7
  • Description: Used References, Notes for Book
    Dates: 1971-1995
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Vernon Bailey
    Dates: 1907
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Was that a Wolf?: A Video Guide to Wolf Identification (VHS)
    Dates: 1992
    Container: Box 13
  • Description: The Wolf: The Ecology and Behavior of an Endangered Species
    Dates: 1970
    Container: Box 13
  • Description: Wolf Flight Funds
    Dates: 1983-1989
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: Wolf Hybridization Information
    Dates: 1992
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: Wolf Legislation 2003
    Dates: 2003
    Container: Box 5
  • Description: Wolf Management
    Dates: Undated
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Wolf Monographs
    Dates: 1967-1987
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: Wolf Organizations
    Dates: 1988-1994
    Container: Box 5
  • Description: Wolf/Outfitter Survey
    Dates: 1988
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: Wolf Plan 2002
    Dates: 2002
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Wolf Reintroduction - Research Materials
    Dates: 1907-1995
    Container: Box 6, 11
  • Description: Wolf Suit Stuff
    Dates: 1994
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Wolves
    Dates: 2001
    Container: Box 5
  • Description: Wolves: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation
    Dates: 2003
    Container: Box 13
  • Description: Wolves at Black Rock (VHS)
    Dates: November 25, 1992
    Container: Box 13
  • Description: Wolves and the Endangered Species Act
    Dates: Undated
    Container: Box 12
  • Description: The Wolves of North America Parts I and II
    Dates: 1944
    Container: Box 13
  • Description: Wolves of Northern Idaho
    Dates: 1984
    Container: Box 11
  • Description: Wolves of Northern Idaho and Northeastern Washington
    Dates: 1986
    Container: Box 11
  • Description: Wolves for Yellowstone? A Report to the United States Congress
    Dates: 1990
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: Wolves for Yellowstone? A Report to the United States Congress - Volume 4
    Dates: July 1992
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Worland ADC (Animal Damage Control)
    Dates: 1993
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Worland ADC (Animal Damage Control) Plan
    Dates: 1994
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Worland BLM (The Bureau of Land Management)
    Dates: 1975-1991
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Wyoming Game and Fish Open Record File
    Dates: 1974-1991
    Container: Box 11
  • Description: Wyoming Law Review
    Dates: 2001
    Container: Box 13
  • Description: The Wyoming Outdoorsman
    Dates: Spring 1998
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Wyoming Wildlife
    Dates: February 1971
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Wyoming Wolf Coalition
    Dates: 2004
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Yellowstone National Park
    Dates: 1992-1993
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Yellowstone National Park Exhibit 14
    Dates: 1993
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: Yellowstone National Park Reports
    Dates: 1972-1985
    Container: Box 11
  • Description: Yellowstone Wolf Reintroduction - Research
    Dates: 1975-1994
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: Young and Goldman
    Dates: 1994
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: YNP (Yellowstone National Park) Reports - Glenn Cole
    Dates: 1958-1971
    Container: Box 12

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Subject Terms

  • Wildlife management.
  • Wolves -- Idaho.
  • Wolves -- Law and legislation -- Yellowstone National Park.
  • Wolves -- Montana.
  • Wolves -- Reintroduction.
  • Wolves -- Wyoming.

Geographical Names

  • Wyoming -- History -- 1947-1999
  • Wyoming -- History -- 2000-

Processed by Krist Jessup
2013

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