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Name and location of repository
Level of description
collection
Title
Sierra Club Upper Mississippi River Task Force records, 1969-1976.
Date(s)
- 1969-1976 (creation)
Extent
1.2 cubic feet (3 archives boxes)
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Scope and content
Correspondence, subject files, and clippings of an environmental group organized by local Sierra Club chapters in response to perceived inadequacies of H.R. 10529, a bill sponsoring a National Recreation Area in the Upper Mississippi River Valley.
Preserved by chair Pat Nolan, the correspondence includes letters between Task Force members and from other interested parties. Subject files contain correspondence, reports, studies, surveys, minutes, memos, proposed legislation, meeting notices, and pamphlets of the Task Force and other environmental and non-environmental groups involved with the same issues. The collection also contains correspondence and subject files concerning the St. Croix River inclusion in the National Scenic and Wild River System, and other Mississippi River environmental issues.
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Conditions of access and use elements
Conditions governing access
COLLECTION STORED, ALL or IN-PART, AT ARC: Collection can be requested for transfer through the Area Research Center (ARC) Network, consult Reading Room Staff.
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Technical access
Conditions governing reproduction
Researchers are responsible for using in accordance with 17 U.S.C. Copyright may have not been transferred to the University of Wisconsin-River Falls.
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Custodial history
Immediate source of acquisition
Presented by Patrick B. Nolan, Dayton, Ohio, 1974 and 1983.