Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives
Laurence A. Stoddart papers
UUS_COLL MSS 51
17 boxes
8.5 linear feet
1924-1969
This collection contains the correspondence, course notes, and reports from Laurence A. Stoddart's range management course and the Experiment Station.
Material in English
Processed in November of 2001.
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Initial Citation: Laurance A. Stoddart papers USU_MSS 51, Box [ ]. Special Collections and Archives. Utah State University Merrill-Cazier Library. Logan, Utah.
Following Citations: USU_MSS 51, USUSCA.
Laurence A. Stoddart served as department head of the Range Management Department at Utah State University from its inception in 1935 until his untimely death on July 17, 1968. Writing in the September 1968 issue of the Journal of Range Management, the editors confirmed Stoddart's "brilliant record as both scientist and teacher, being at the same time a true intellectual and a perfectionist. Students from all parts of the world came to learn from him. That there are today so many eminent range scientists and range men who received their training from Stoddart, is an outstanding tribute to his ability."
Stoddart was widely celebrated as a researcher and writer, publishing hundreds of scholarly articles and co-authoring the manual Technical Writing , an indispensable guide for writers of scientific literature. Along with longtime colleague Arthur D. Smith, Stoddart published Range Management in 1943. The third edition of Range Management was published posthumously for Stoddart in 1975, making it the most widely used text in the field and granting Stoddart and Smith an enduring legacy for their professional commitment.
Stoddart was active both locally and nationally in professional societies, including the National Academy of Sciences, the Society for Range Management, the Society of American Foresters, and the American Society of Animal Science.
Born at Trinidad, Colorado, in 1909, Stoddart received his BS and MS degrees from Colorado State University. Subsequently, he studied under the storied JE Weaver at the University of Nebraska, where he earned his doctorate in 1934. From here, he accepted the challenge to initiate a range management program at Utah State.
Much of the collection is made up of typed copies of various items made by Mr. Stoddart and others for his records. Range research and reports on different aspects of range science are included in the papers.
The correspondence covers letters of school officials, government agencies, students, and other range management specialists on a variety of subjects. The subject file contains notes for his range management courses, the ASRM, the National Research Council, and the Taylor Grazing Act. The Experiment Station collection includes raw data and reports from various research projects, e.g., range reseeding, poisonous plants, and rabbit brush eradication.
The collection is divided into three sections: Correspondence (Boxes 1-4), Subject Files (Boxes 5-11), and Experiment Station (Boxes 12-17).
Correspondence: Boxes 1-4
This collection contains copies of letters/memos between Dr. Stoddart and school officials, government agencies, students, private citizens, and other range management specialists. The topics of discussion range from job recommendations and scientific reviews to department policies and the future of range management.
Subject Files: Boxes 5-11
A major portion of the subject file contains Dr. Stoddart's notes for his range management courses. Other folders deal with information on the American Society of Range Management, the civil Service register, the National Research Council, and the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934.
Experiment Station: Boxes 12-17
The Experiment Station collection includes raw data and reports from various research projects, e.g., rabbit brush eradication, poisonous plants, range reseeding, and plant/soil relationships.
L.A. Stoddart book collection (BOOK COLL 9)
Heyboer, Maarten (1959-) Grass-Counters, Stock-Feeders, and the Dual Orientation of Applied Science : the History of Range Science, 1895-1960 (BOOK COLL 25 NO. 468)
Agriculture
Colleges and Universities
Range management--Research--Utah
Rangelands--Revegetation--Research--Utah
Sheep industry--Research--Utah
Rubber rabbit brush--Control--Research--Utah--Strawberry River Valley
Grasses--Research--Utah
Correspondence
Correspondence
I
4 boxes, 25 folders
1962-1968
Correspondence A-E
1962-1968
1
1
"B"
1962-1968
1
2
"C"
1962-1968
1
3
"D"
1962-1968
1
4
"D"
1962-1968
1
5
"E"
1962-1968
1
6
Correspondence F-J
1962-1968
2
1
"G"
1962-1968
2
2
"H"
1962-1968
2
3
"I"
1962-1968
2
4
"J"
1962-1968
2
5
Correspondence K-R
1962-1968
3
1
"L"
1962-1968
3
2
"M"
1962-1968
3
3
"N"
1962-1968
3
4
"O"
1962-1968
3
5
"P"
1962-1968
3
6
"Q"
1962-1968
3
7
"R"
1962-1968
3
8
"Correspondence S-Z
1962-1968
4
1
"T"
1962-1968
4
2
"U"
1962-1968
4
3
"V"
1962-1968
4
4
"W"
1962-1968
4
5
"X"
1962-1968
4
6
"Y"
1962-1968
4
7
"Z"
1962-1968
4
8
Subject Files
II
7 boxes, 46 folders
1924-1969
Accreditation Range Science - Foreign Program
1964-1967
5
1
Advisory Committee-Livestock
1956-1961
5
2
American Society of Range Management
1950-1953
5
3
Appraisal and Real Estate
1961
5
4
Civil Service
1959-1964
5
5
Controversy Consultation
1958-1960
5
6
Extension Work
1960
5
7
Field Trip: BLM, FS. Stockmen
1963
5
8
Forage Plants
undated
5
9
Foreign Program
1967-1969
5
10
Graduate Council - North Dakota Agriculture College Correspondence Course
1959
6
1
Grant Money
1960
6
2
Grassland Conference
1964-1965
6
3
Herbarium Cases
1948-1949
6
4
Institution
1936-1958
6
5
International Biological Program
1968
6
6
International Education Act
1966
6
7
Maps
1924-1934
6
8
Memoranda
undated
6
9
National Research Council
1950-1962
6
10
North Dakota Ag. College Correspondence Course
undated
6
11
Palatability Materials - Published Papers
1925-1939
7
1
Public Land Law Review
1967
7
2
Public Land-History
1930
7
3
Published Papers
1950-1967
7
4
Range Management - RS 193 Seminar
1939-1946
8
1
Range Management Society-Old Correspondence
1946-1959
8
2
RS 164-Notes and Misc.
1969
8
3
RS 164-Technical Problems
1957-1968
8
4
RS 193-Seminar
1961
8
5
RS 204 Land Use Seminar - Research Methods
1947-1961
9
1
Range Use Committee-Annual Meeting
1965-1966
9
2
Range Use Coordinating Committee-Annual Meeting
1967-1968
9
3
Research Manual
1955-1958
9
4
Research Methods
1961
9
5
Rubber - USDA Post War Planning
1942
10
1
SCS Range Condition
1961-1962
10
2
Statistics
1951-1963
10
3
Summer Camp
1938-1952
10
4
Taylor Grazing Act
1934-1939
10
5
USDA Post-War Planning
1943-1944
10
6
Wasatch Front - Weather Maps
1943
11
1
Water
1964
11
2
Watershed
1938-1942
11
3
Weather Data
1931-1941
11
4
Weather Maps
undated
11
5
Experiment Station
III
6 boxes, 54 folders
1934-1966
Agricultural Resources - Collection Study (Analysis of Data)
1936
12
1
Capacity Survey Summary
1934-1937
12
2
Cedar City Research
1947-1964
12
3
Cedar City Research
1947-1952
12
4
Cheatgrass Seeding
1947-1964
12
5
Collection Study (Analysis of Data)
1940
12
6
Fertilizer Experiments - Nursery Plantings
1942
13
1
Fish and Game Seeing Project
1943-1948
13
2
Grazing Reconnaissance
1937
13
3
Halogeton
1949-1956
13
4
Herbage Removal
1950-1954
13
5
Instructions for Grazing Allotment Analysis
1947-1954
13
6
Lamb Trucking
1952
13
7
Land Use Problems
1936
13
8
Livestock Market Prices
1943
13
9
Nursery Plantings
1945
13
10
Plant-Soil Relationships - Project 162 Synphoricarpos Paper
1953-1962
14
1
Poisonous Proposals
1949
14
2
Project Proposals
1949-1957
14
3
Project 61-Range Reseeding With Native Forage Plants
1934-1935
14
4
Project 132-Supplements for Wintering Sheep
1931-1933
14
5
Project 162-Phosphorus Content of Summer Range Forage
1934-1938
14
6
Project 162-General Plant Analysis
1934-1937
14
7
Project 162-Plant Collecting Methods
1939
14
8
Project 162-Plant Collection Lists
1934-1936
14
9
Project 162-Survey and Capacity (Summary Sheets)
1935-1946
14
10
Project 162-Symphoricarpos Paper
undated
14
11
Project 185 (Agropylan Clipping 24 Plot Experiment) - Project 423 (Atomic Energy)
1936-1940
15
1
Project 185 (Misc.)
1939-1943
15
2
Project 185 (Nursery Crop Studies)
1939-1944
15
3
Project 185 (Reports on Range Reseeding)
1936-1944
15
4
Project 185 (Seeds/Nursery Tests)
1936-1941
15
5
Project 185 (Smith Seedings)
1931-1943
15
6
Project 185 (Wheat Clippings)
1936-1945
15
7
Project 292 (Seeding-General)
1944-1950
15
8
Project 360 (Benmore Pastures)
1940-1956
15
9
Project 423 (Atomic Energy)
1953-1958
15
10
Rabbitbrush Eradication - Strawberry Valley
1946
16
1
Range Management Educational Council
1964-1966
16
2
Range Survey-Utah County
1942
16
3
Range Taxation
1942
16
4
Regional Research
1953-1959
16
5
Reports-General
1939-1945
16
6
Reports-Reseeding
1946-1947
16
7
Sagebrush Studies
1942-1945
16
8
Seed Germination
1940
16
9
Sheep Management Bulletin
1956
16
10
Soil Survey
1944
16
11
Soil Survey-Hodge Pasture
undated
16
12
Strawberry Valley
1937
16
13
Swift Grant - Wheatgrass Plots
1946-1954
17
1
Tintic Valley Reseeding
1949-1959
17
2
W-11 State Reports
1956-1958
17
3
Wheatgrass Plots
1939-1941
17
4