Manuscripts Collection
The collection includes administrative records about individual chapters in Minnesota, in addition to records documenting the state body. The records largely document environmental subjects, including the conservation of natural resources (fish, game and wetlands), and the pollution of water and air. Other specific areas of concern addressed by the records are the struggle to keep the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) free from commercial exploitation, the establishment of the Voyageurs National Park in northern Minnesota, and ground water conditions in St.Louis Park.
Accession number: 10,544; 11,382, 11,460; 11,901; 12,057; 12,189; 12,338; 13,998; 15,075; 16,175
Processed by: J. M. Wickre, October 1975 and Bonnie B. Palmquist, August 1988 and May 1995. Additions made by Meagan Kellom and Alex Kent, February 2011.
Processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with a Basic Project
grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission
Catalog ID number: 001711355
Includes correspondence, Range River, Citizen's Committee and Alliance.
Peterson was the Clean Water Coordinator.
Amax proposed a copper-nickel test shaft near Babbitt, Minnesota. Conflict over site monitoring ensued among the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, the Sierra Club, and the IWLA. Includes correspondence, reports, charts, statements, and newspaper clippings.
Correspondence, statements, and legal papers about management of the BWCA, the Oberstar Bill, The Seagull River Project, and the Superior National Forest.
The Minnesota Memorial Hardwood Forest was established in 1961 in southeast Minnesota and later renamed the Richard J. Dorer Memorial State Hardwood Forest.
A project to divert Missouri River water to irrigate 250,000 acres of farm land in North Dakota. Because the return flow would enter the Red River, it could potentially change the water quality of the Red River in Minnesota.
Statements and correspondence in opposition to a proposed metropolitan airport to replace the existing airport in Minneapolis/St. Paul.
Correspondence, resolution, and newspaper clippings relating to a replacement of Lock and Dam 26 at Alton, Illinois and a new "superlock" at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.
Correspondence relating to the establishment of standards and criteria for the management of the Lower St. Croix National Scenic Riverway.
Notes for a speech on the effects of mercury contamination given by Dr. Paul Toren to the American Society for Testing and Materials, Northern Plains District, and the Minnesota Section of the Standards Engineers Society.
Correspondence, statements, and memoranda relating to the extension of navigation on the Minnesota River.
Minutes and correspondence relating to task forces for the development and use of the river, including the Great River Environmental Action Team, barge traffic, Pigs Eye, and related interests.
Minutes, correspondence, and research of the IWLA's Environmental Task Force Committee and Citizens Advisory Plant Siting Task Force.
Correspondence relating to the proposed Twin Valley Lake project.
Includes minutes, bylaws, articles, resolutions and exemption document.
Submitted to the Minnesota Environmental Quality Council from the City of St. Louis Park.
Prepared for the City of St. Louis Park by the National Biocentric, Inc.
Submitted to the City of St. Louis Park by National Biocentric, Inc.
Includes files regarding State of Minnesota v. Reilly Tar & Chemical Corporation et al. Civil No. 4-80-469.