Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives
Rudy Lukez Wilderness Conservation papers
UUS_COLL MSS 324
2 boxes
1 linear feet
1972-1997
Rudy Lukez's papers include letters, newspaper clippings, and reports pertaining to the activities of the Sierra Club's Cache Valley Group, the Utah Chapter of the Sierra Club, and Utah Wilderness Coalition during the 1980s and 1990s.
Material in English
Processed in March of 2008.
This collection was donated to USU Special Collections by Rudy Lukez on November 12, 2004.
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Initial Citation: Rudy Lukez Wilderness Conservation papers USU_COLL MSS 324, Box [ ]. Special Collections and Archives. Utah State University Merrill-Cazier Library. Logan, Utah.
Following Citations: USU_COLL MSS 324, USUSCA.
Rudy Lukez grew up near Cleveland, Ohio and at the age of 22 in the 1980s, began work at Morton Thiokol in Brigham City, Utah as a rocket scientist. It was during this time that he served as chair for the Sierra Clubs' Cache Valley Group. In the 1990s, he served as chair of the Utah Chapter of the Sierra Club and chair of the Utah Wilderness Coalition, an umbrella group of state wilderness preservation organizations.
Rudy Lukez's papers include letters, newspaper clippings and reports pertaining to the activities of the Sierra Club's Cache Valley Group during the 1980s and the Utah Chapter of the Sierra Club and Utah Wilderness Coalition during the 1990s. The two-box collection contains subject pieces arranged alphabetically and each folder is arranged chronologically when dates are available.
Arranged alphabetically.
See also Special Collections and Archives COLL MSS 148 The Utah Chapter of the Sierra Club Papers.
Green movement--Utah.
Wilderness areas--Utah
Correspondence
Environmental Activism
A - M
1976-1992
(21 folders)
Amendment Project Agreement No. 225.2
1978
1
1
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Issue 10
1988 February
1
2
Bear River Basin Water Alliance
undated
1
3
Citizens and Natural Resources, Department of Forestry and Outdoor Rec, USU
undated
1
4
City of Logan documents
1976-1985
1
5
Environmental assessments for predator control reports
1991-1992
1
6
Giardia Run fundraiser
1986
1
7
Grasshopper spraying program
1984 July - 1986 May
1
8
Idaho Conservation League
1987 January - 1987 September
1
9
Idaho Environmental Council Vol. 19, No.1
1987
1
10
Idaho field hearing
1988 March 10
1
11
Idaho Wilderness Defense Coalition
undated
1
12
Idaho Wilderness Proposal
1988 January
1
13
Inland Empire Public Lands Council newsletters
undated
1
14
Land and Water Conservation Fund
undated
1
15
Letters to the Editor
1986
1
16
Little Goose Creek evaluation
1981
1
17
Maps
undated
1
18
Minidoka National Wildlife Refuge
1990
1
19
Miscellaneous correspondence
1979 April 9 - 1985 February 20
1
20
Miscellaneous handwritten notes
undated
1
21
N - W
1972-1990
(19 folders)
New Wilderness Study Areas reports
1973
2
1
Newspaper clippings
1973 March 15 - 1985 December 13
2
2
Newspaper clippings
1986 February 13 - 1988 February 28
2
3
RARE II proposals
1973-1978
2
4
Recycling program literature
undated
2
5
Ridgelines, Winter
1987
2
6
Sierra Club chronology
1972-1987
2
7
Sierra Club incoming correspondence (includes photos)
1986 February 26 - 1988 January 10
2
8
Sierra Club outgoing correspondence
1986 February 12 - 1988 February 24
2
9
Southeastern Idaho Wilderness Committee
undated
2
10
The Osborne Russell Wilderness Area Proposal
1972 March
2
11
Utah Sierran (Journal of the Utah Chapter, Sierra Club) Vol. 20, No. 7
July 1987
2
12
Utah Wilderness Association
1985 January - 1987 November
2
13
Utah Wilderness Association documents
1988 May - 1991 October
2
14
Utah Wilderness Association Manifesto
1990 February
2
15
Utah Wilderness Association News
1985-1990
2
16
Utah Wilderness Association Review, Vol. 6, No. 2
1986
2
17
Various bumper stickers
undated
2
18
Wilderness Status Report
undated
2
19