Sierra Club – Northern Rockies Chapter records, 1964-2005

This collection is primarily correspondence to and from Dennis Baird, a University of Idaho professor emeritus and former head of the Library's Reference Department, and analytical reports on national forests and environmental policies in Idaho by the Sierra Club and other conservation groups. There are also materials on the Sierra Club, legislation and policies, and documents on wilderness and national forest protection efforts.

The Idaho Environmental Council, Bureau of Land Management, and Department of Agriculture Forest Service are also heavily present in this collection through reports and correspondence. Area specific projects often relate to timber sales, roadless areas, and other land management policies that environmental groups were trying to oppose for forest preservation. Most projects that Dennis Baird was involved in were with the Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests, which was closest to his home in Moscow, Idaho.

There are also contributions by Charles Yoder, who donated a portion of the collection in 1988 on The Northern Rockies Chapter's Bureau of Land Management Issue Coordinator, and Ronald E. Wise's Hell Canyon National Recreation Area work through Dennis Baird's donations. Many of the efforts that the Sierra Club and Dennis Baird took on were focused on forest preservation by fighting against timber sales and road building in national forests, maintaining and lobbying for land designated as wilderness areas, and other environmental preservation activities like wildlife populations, water quality regulations, and the promotion of environmental awareness.