MTGMss623.xml Guide to the Elizabeth Reitell Smith Papers 1953-1987 Smith (Elizabeth Reitell) Papers Finding aid prepared by Teresa Hamann Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, The University of Montana--Missoula © 2006
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Mss 623 Smith, Elizabeth Reitell, 1920-2001 Elizabeth Reitell Smith Papers 1953-1987 19.5 linear feet This collection contains materials relevant to Elizabeth Smith’s work as a Montana wilderness and environmental activist. The bulk of the materials includes research, newsletters, drafts of speeches, position papers and correspondence between 1965 and 1980. English Biographical Note

Elizabeth "Liz" Reitell Smith was born on September 11, 1920 in Elmira, New York to Charles and Jane Reitell. Smith graduated from the Lincoln School of Teachers College in New York City in 1937 and graduated from Bennington’s College in Bennington, Vermont in 1941 with a bachelor of arts degree. She majored in theatre design and minored in dance and drama literature. She married playright Adolph Green in 1941, the marriage would ultimately end in divorce. In subsequent years Smith designed costumes for a dance group, spent three years in the Army Air Corps during World War Two, studied art in France and in 1952 met the Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas, and produced his play "Under Milkwood." Smith and Thomas were close until his sudden death in 1953.

Smith was playwright Arthur Miller’s assistant in 1962 when she came to Montana for a Montana Wilderness Society sponsored horse-pack trip into the Bob Marshall Wilderness. The trip inspired an immense passion for the Montana wilderness that led her to a position as the publications director of The University of Montana School of Forestry in Missoula, Montana. After five years in that position, Smith met and married her fourth husband, Eldon Smith, an environmentalist and wildlife biologist for Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana.

For thirteen years, the pair traveled throughout the Western states speaking on the environment. In 1972 they were given the award for Outstanding Environmental Achievement. During those thirteen years, Elizabeth Smith worked as director of the Montana Wilderness Association.

In 1980 she was offered a position as writer/editor at the Columbia River Inter-tribal Fish Commission in Portland, Oregon. She retired in 1986 and returned to Missoula, Montana where she remained involved in environmental issues. Smith died in 2001.

This collection contains materials relevant to Elizabeth Smith’s work as a Montana wilderness and environmental activist. The bulk of the materials includes research, newsletters, drafts of speeches, position papers and correspondence between 1965 and 1980. Some of the research files also contain handwritten or typed notes. The correspondence mainly focuses on Smith’s wilderness and environmental works but also reflects personal relationships with fellow activists. A small amount of papers relate to Smith’s work as a writer and editor.

The collection is arranged alphabetically according to folder titles assigned by the author. Abbreviations were expanded

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[Name of document or photograph number], Elizabeth Reitell Smith Papers, Archives and Special Collections, The University of Montana—Missoula.

The collection was in the possession of Laure Pegelly-Drake.

The collection was transferred to the archives by Laure Pengelly-Drake in 1996.

The processor arranged the folders in alphabetical order.

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Montana Wilderness Association. Montana--Environmental conditions. Environmental protection -- Montana. Environmental Conditions Environmental Activism Women environmentalists --Montana. 1/1 Absaroka – Beartooth Miscellaneous 1/2 Absaroka – Beartooth Montana Outdoors articles undated 1/3 Absaroka-Beartooth, Wilderness Society Trip 1973 1/4 Absaroka-Beartooth, Forest Service Field Hearings 1974 1/5 Absaroka-Beartooth, Forest Service Publications 1/6 Absaroka-Beartooth, Ruth Koch> 1/7 Absaroka-Beartooth, Livingston ‘Tempest’ 1/7 Absaroka-Beartooth, Maps 1/8 Absaroka-Beartooth, Mineral Survey 1975 1/9 Absaroka-Beartooth, Bob Anderson Study 1/10 Absaroka-Beartooth, Clippings 1/11 Absaroka-Beartooth "Corridor" 1976-1980 2/1 Air Pollution 2/2 Alaska 2/3 Aldrich, American Motors Conservation Award 1965 2/4 Alice Creek I 2/5 Alice Creek II 2/6 American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) 2/7 American Wilderness Alliance 2/8 Applegate, Rick 2/9 Applegate, Rick and Independent Record affair 1975 2/10 Arrowleaf Project 1976-1980 3/1 Articles, miscellaneous 3/2 Ecology of Badgers on the Snake River Birds of Prey Natural Area,draft and editing 3/3 Baucus 3/4 "Bearhead," Thomas Swaney 3/5 Beaver Creek, Brelsford subdivision 1974-1977 3/6 Beaverhead Forest 3/7 Beautification, billboards, Missoula, etc. Remnant file 3/8 Behan, Rick 3/9 Big Sky Development at Lone Mountain 3/10 Bighorn Canyon 4/1 Bitterroot – Bolle Report 4/2 Bitterroot Logging 4/3 Bitterroot Logging 4/4 Black Mesa 4/5 Blue Ribbon Rivers Advisory Committee 4/6 Blue Ribbon Rivers Committee correspondence 4/7 BMA [Bob Marshall Alliance] clippings 1979 4/8 BMA [Bob Marshall Alliance] clippings 1980 4/9 BMA [Bob Marshall Alliance] clippings continued 1980 4/10 BMA [Bob Marshall Alliance] "itself" 4/11 BMA [Bob Marshall Alliance], Consolidated Georex Geophysics exploration permit 1979-1980 5/1 BMA [Bob Marshall Alliance], Consolidated Georex Geophysics exploration permit, letters in response to Forest Service progress report 1980 5/2 BMA [Bob Marshall Alliance], Deep Creek 5/3 BMA [Bob Marshall Alliance], miscellaneous publications 5/4 BMA, Liz’s Montana Wilderness Alliance convention speech 1979 5/5 BMA [Bob Marshall Alliance], Rainbow Resources 6/1 Bob Marshall Wilderness 6/2 Bolle, Arnold 6/3 Bozeman Environmental Task Force 1970 6/4 Bridger Pines Subdivision 6/5 Buck Creek – Yellow Mule 7/1 BLM [Bureau of Land Management] , Areas of Critical Environmental Concern Guidelines 1979 7/2 BLM [Bureau of Land Management], Advisory Boards (general) 7/3 BLM [Bureau of Land Management], State Advisory Board 1971 7/4 BLM [Bureau of Land Management], State Advisory Board 1972 7/5 BLM [Bureau of Land Management], State Advisory Board 1970-1977 7/6 BLM [Bureau of Land Management], State Advisory Board 1975 7/7 BLM [Bureau of Land Management], Advisory Board 1978-1979 7/8 BLM [Bureau of Land Management], Billings District 7/9 BLM [Bureau of Land Management], Butte District 8/1 BLM [Bureau of Land Management], Butte District 8/2 BLM [Bureau of Land Management], classifications 8/3 BLM [Bureau of Land Management], coal leasing 8/4 BLM [Bureau of Land Management], Dillon District 8/5 BLM [Bureau of Land Management], Fuelco Gas Pipeline 8/6 BLM [Bureau of Land Management], grazing miscellaneous 8/7 BLM [Bureau of Land Management], grazing fee 9/1 BLM [Bureau of Land Management], Lewiston District 9/2 BLM[Bureau of Land Management], Madison Unit 9/3 BLM [Bureau of Land Management], Malta District 9/4 BLM [Bureau of Land Management], Maps 9/5 BLM [Bureau of Land Management], Miles City Disrict 9/6 BLM [Bureau of Land Management], miscellaneous 9/7 BLM [Bureau of Land Management], miscellaneous 9/8 BLM [Bureau of Land Management], not main file 10/1 BLM [Bureau of Land Management], miscellaneous 10/2 BLM [Bureau of Land Management], Missouri River management 10/3 BLM [Bureau of Land Management], Moose 10/4 BLM [Bureau of Land Management], National Advisory Board 11/1 BLM [Bureau of Land Management], off road vehicles 11/2 BLM [Bureau of Land Management], Organic Act 11/3 BLM [Bureau of Land Management], Mike Penfield 11/4 BLM [Bureau of Land Management], Primitive Areas 11/5 BLM [Bureau of Land Management], Pryor and Mystic Mountains 11/6 BLM [Bureau of Land Management], range abuse 11/7 BLM [Bureau of Land Management], Wilderness I 12/1 BLM [Bureau of Land Management], Wilderness II 12/2 BLM [Bureau of Land Management], Wilderness III 12/3 BLM [Bureau of Land Management], Wilderness IV 12/4 BLM [Bureau of Land Management], Final Wilderness Inventory 1980 12/5 BLM [Bureau of Land Management], Instant Study Areas 13/1 BLM [Bureau of Land Management], Wilderness, Intensive Inventory, Lewistown and Miles City 13/2 BLM [Bureau of Land Management], Wilderness Interim Management Policiy 13/3 BLM [Bureau of Land Management], Wilderness, Overthrust Belt Accelerated Inventory 13/4 BLM [Bureau of Land Management], Wilderness, Overthrust Belt Accelerated Review 13/5 BLM [Bureau of Land Management], Wilderness miscellaneous 1979-1980 13/6 BLM [Bureau of Land Management], Wilderness miscellaneous 13/7 Candidate Areas – Rare II 13/8 President Carter 13/9 Cartoons 13/10 Ceder-Bassett 39/1 Centennial Mountains Wilderness Study 1987 14/1 CPI [Center for the Public Interest] 14/2 Chlordane – Gallatine Valley 14/3 Clark Fork Hearings 1966 14/4 Clark, Will 14/5 Cnare, Ed 1968-1969 14/6 Colorado Gulch 14/7 Colstrip 3 and 4 14/8 Conservation, miscellaneous 14/9 Corps of Engineers 15/1 Cougar 15/2 Cougar – active 15/3 Cougar, notes and background 15/4 Coyote 15/5 Cross Creek Protection Agency 15/6 Cunningham, Bill 15/7 Cunningham, Bill 15/8 Dams – Grand Canyon 15/9 Dams – Libby 15/10 Dams – Miscellaneous 15/11 Dams – Miscellaneous clippings 15/12 Dams – Reichle 1965-1967 16/1 Dams – Sun Butte 1965-1968 16/2 Darwin Ranch 1977-1980 16/3 Defenders of Wildlife 16/4 Dillon – Clyde Park 16/5 Dobson, Ed 16/6 Dunkle, Frank 16/7 Eagles – Wyoming 16/8 Earth Day 1970 16/9 Elections – Montana and General 16/10 Elkhorn Wilderness 16/11 Endangered American Wilderness Bill 1977 16/12 Endangered Species Act 1973-1979 16/13 EIC [Environmental Information Center] 1974-1975 16/14 EIC [Environmental Information Center] 1976-1978 17/1 EIC [Environmental Information Center] 1978-1981 39/2 Environmental Law 17/2 EPA [Environmental Policy Act] – Montana 17/3 EPA [Environmental Policy Act] Lawsuit 17/4 EPA [Environmental Policy Act] clippings 17/5 EPA [Environmental Policy Act] – national 17/6 EQC [Environmental Quality Council] – First Annual Report 1973 17/7 EQC [Environmental Quality Council], First Annual Report, miscellaneous drafts 17/8 EQC [Environmental Quality Council], First Annual Report, miscellaneous drafts 18/1 EQC [Environmental Quality Council] – Montana 18/2 EQC [Environmental Quality Council], Second Annual Report 18/3 Farm Bureau 18/4 Field, Chris 18/5 File Disposal 18/6 Fire Lab – Editorial Jobs 18/7 FWS [Fish and Wildlife Service] – Land and water conservation projects 18/8 Foley, Bill 18/9 Forest Management – general 18/10 Forest Management – Montana 18/11 Forest Service – "Lassie," "Smokey," and "Aesthetics" 19/1 Forestry School and UM publications 19/2 Forestry School brochure 1965 19/3 Franconia [New Hampshire] – reference material 19/4 Franconia – The Plan 1967-1969 19/5 Franconia – [Master Plan] 19/6 Franconia – [preliminary notes] 19/7 Franconia 19/8 Fraternities 1960-1964 19/9 Freedom of Information Act 19/10 Friends of the Earth (FOE) and League of Conservation Voters 1970-1974 19/11 Gallatin Elk 19/12 Gallatin National Forest 19/13 Gallatin National Forest – North Bridgers 19/14 Garbage 19/15 Garland, Cecil 19/16 "Garrison’s Desperate Trial," by Clarence Gordon and Elizabeth Hannum [Smith], Missoulian 1966 20/1 Garrison Phosphate – clippings 20/2 Garrison Phosphate 20/3 Glaciation Map 20/4 Gladwin Hill 20/5 Gleason, Ken and Alice 20/6 Gonsior (Falcon Project) 20/7 Great Bear area of Montana 20/8 Greenpeace 20/9 Grizzly in Glacier 20/10 Handgun Control 20/11 Hathaway, Stanley K. 20/12 Hell’s Canyon Preservation Council 1968-1970 20/13 High Country News 20/14 "Historical Resources Identification and Location Study – Garnet Mining District" byDennis Daley and Jim Mohler 20/15 Hodder, Richard 20/16 "Homo tremuloides and the Agency Image" by W. Leslie Pengelly and Elizabeth Hannum [Smith] 1965 21/1 Human Interest and Montana History 21/2 "Humane" fund for animals, clippings and other 21/3 Hutterites 21/4 Hyalite (Maxey property) 21/5 Indian Ridge 21/6 Karst 21/7 Kimble, Gary 21/8 Laitala, Lee 21/9 Language 21/10 Land Development, Montana 21/11 Lavender, David 21/12 Legislature, Big Sky 1971 21/13 Legislature, HB 66, Environmental Policy Act 1971 21/14 Legislature, HB 33, Environmental Protection Act 1971 21/15 Legislature, HB 298, McDonough 1971 39/3 Legislature, HB 243 and 244, Mining 1971 21/16 Legislature, Pesticide Bills 1971 21/17 Legislature, Rivers Bills 1971 21/18 Legislature, Stream preservation and water rights 1971 21/19 Legislature, miscellaneous 1971 21/20 Legislature, bills and testimony 1974 22/1 Legislature 1975 22/2 Legislatures 22/3 Letters to editors 22/4 Lewis, Anthony and Larson, Roy 22/5 Life, Creation of 22/6 Lincoln Back Country 1963-1967 22/7 Lincoln Back Country 1968-1972 22/8 "Conquest of the Land through 7,000 Years" by W.C. Lowdermilk 1953 22/9 Lubrecht Lab 22/10 Lubrecht Forest 23/1 Lubrecht (Wirth job) 1969 23/2 Macinko, George 23/3 Madison-Gallatin Alliance 23/4 Man to Land Ethics 23/5 Man versus Man 23/6 Man versus Nature 23/7 McCartin, Jim 23/8 McKelvey, Mavis and Bob 23/9 Melcher, John 23/10 Metcalf, Lee 23/11 Metcalf – Wilderness Study Bill 23/12 Middle Fork Flathead 24/1 Mill Creek 24/2 Milner, Doris and Kelsey 24/3 Mining Laws 24/4 Mission Mountains 39/4 Mission Mountain Tribal Wilderness Management Proposal 1978 24/5 Missoula Mall 24/6 Missouri River I 24/7 Missouri River II 24/8 Missouri River III 25/1 Missouri River, Fort Benton IV 25/2 Missouri River V 25/3 Missouri River VI 25/4 Missouri River VII 25/5 Missouri River 26/1 Montana 26/2 Montana State Park System 26/3 Montana State University Building Program (North Hill Park) 1970 26/4 Montana State University 26/5 Montana’s Recreation Challenge 26/6 MWA [Montana Wilderness Association] 26/7 MWA [Montana Wilderness Association] 1962-1964 27/1 MWA [Montana Wilderness Association] 1965 27/2 MWA [Montana Wilderness Association] 1966-1968 27/3 MWA [Montana Wilderness Association] 1969 27/4 MWA [Montana Wilderness Association] 1970 27/5 MWA [Montana Wilderness Association] 1971-1972 27/6 MWA [Montana Wilderness Association] 1973 27/7 MWA [Montana Wilderness Association] 1974 27/8 MWA [Montana Wilderness Association] 1975 27/9 MWA [Montana Wilderness Association] 1976 27/10 MWA [Montana Wilderness Association] 1977 28/1 MWA [Montana Wilderness Association] 1978 28/2 MWA [Montana Wilderness Association] 1979 28/3 MWA [Montana Wilderness Association] 1980 28/4 MWA [Montana Wilderness Association] 1981 28/5 MWA [Montana Wilderness Association], Back Country 28/6 MWA [Montana Wilderness Association], Legal and Education Fund 29/1 MWA [Montana Wilderness Association], Scapegoat 1964 29/2 Montana Wildlife Federation 1970-1975 29/3 Morris, Mel 29/4 Multiple Use Administrator 1964-1966 29/5 "The Multiple Use Administrator" by Arnold Bolle and Elizabeth Hannum [Smith] 29/6 Multiple Use articles 29/7 Mussehl, Tom 29/8 National Wildlife Federation 29/9 National Wildlife Refuge System 29/10 NRDC [Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.] 1975-1981 29/11 Newspaper Directory – Montana 29/12 New Yorker – Miscellaneous including cats 29/13 New Yorker – Miscellaneous articles 30/1 New Yorker "Greening of America 30/2 New Yorker Nuclear Series 30/3 New Yorker "Passage to Ararat" 30/4 New Yorker "Time of Illusion" 30/5 NPRC [Northern Plains Resource Council] 30/6 Northwest Citizens for Wilderness 30/7 NRAG [Northern Rockies Action Group] 30/8 Nukes 30/9 Obituaries 31/1 Off-road vehicles 31/2 Oil and gas leasing – Forest Service 31/3 Outfitters’ brochures 31/4 Passion – utilitarianism 31/5 Pesticides and herbicides 31/6 Pesticides, Idaho and Montana spray programs 1964 31/7 Pesticides, Liability in commercial applications 31/8 Pesticides, newsclippings 1964 31/9 Pesticides, spray program, salmon newsclippings 31/10 Pheasants – Wiegand and Mussehl 32/1 Pioneer Mountains 32/2 Porcupine – Buffalo Horn 32/3 Population – general 32/4 Predator control 32/5 Pryor Mountains 32/6 Public Lands 33/1 Public Land Law Review 33/2 Public Land Law Review Commission 33/3 Rahm, Neal 33/4 Range Management and Grazing 39/5 RARE II "Nonwilderness" areas and California case 1980 39/6 Red Rocks National Wildlife Refuge – wilderness proposal 1973-1974 33/5 Recreation Miscellaneous 33/6 Recreation Planning – Lubrecht Conference 1965 33/7 Recreation Planning Conference 1967 33/8 Rice Paddies 33/9 ROMCOE – Hilliard Award and other citations 1972 33/10 Roys, Perry and Billings Packing Plant 33/11 Science Complex, first building, justification 33/12 Scientific Writing – Teaching Manual 33/13 Scientific Writing for the General Public 33/14 Scientific Writing Workshop 34/1 Seattle 34/2 Seattle City Light 34/3 Sentz, Gene 34/4 South Fork Swan Creek 34/5 Southwest – Canyonlands and other 34/6 Speech – Arch Erskine Award 1975 34/7 Speech – BLM Primitive Area Program 1971 34/8 Speech – Faculty Women’s Club 1965 34/9 Speech – Coal Statement, BLM 1972 34/10 Speech – Havre, AAUW 1969 34/11 Stankey, Hendee, Lucas 34/12 Stern, Carlos 34/13 Sutton, Ann and Myron 34/14 Terranova [Patton, Pab and Kitle] 35/1 Thoresen, Nels [American Motors Conservation Award] 1978 35/2 Timber and Forest Management 1971-1972 35/3 Timber Industry in Montana 1966 35/4 Timber Supply Act clippings 1969-1973 35/5 Timber Supply Act 1969-1970 35/6 Valley of Fire presentation narrative 35/7 Valley of Fire [final manuscript] 35/8 "Nutrient Value of Range Forages as Effected by the Environment," Wambolt 35/9 Watt, James [Secretary of Interior, clippings] 35/10 Weed Control, herbicides, etc. 36/1 Weed Law, copies of proposed act 1968 36/2 Weeds, MWF policy, etc. 36/3 Weisel, George and Thula 36/4 Western Association of Fish and Game Commissioners 36/5 Western Montana Fish and Game Association 36/6 White, Lynn 36/7 White Tail Ranch 1963-1969 36/8 White Tail Ranch 1970-1973 36/9 WHOA [Wild Horse Organized Assistance, Inc.] 37/1 Wilderness Act 1964-1966 37/2 Wilderness Acts – states 37/3 Wilderness – Executive Order 1971 39/7 Wilderness – Inventories 37/4 Wilderness – lawsuits 37/5 Wilderness, miscellaneous 37/6 Wilderness – quotes 37/7 Wilderness Society, Eagle Cap Trip 1968 37/8 Wilderness Society – miscellaneous 37/9 Wilderness Society – Teton Yellowstone Trip 1968 37/10 Wilderness Society – "Way to the Wilderness" 1964-1977 37/11 Wilderness Society – Western Regional Office 38/1 "Wilderness Spruce" 38/2 Wildflower Plates 38/3 Wild Horse and Burro Act 38/4 Wildlife – miscellaneous 38/5 Wildlife Society – Northwest Section 38/6 Wild Rivers 38/7 Williams, Pat 38/8 Wirth, Theodore 38/9 Yellowstone Park – including elk 38/10 Yellowstone River 1977