Manuscripts Collection
Organized as the Federation of Minnesota Forestry Service Employees in July 1938, the association sought to "unite the members of all areas of the Division of Forestry for the betterment of their interests and rights." In November 1939 the organization became the Association of Minnesota State Forest Service Employees and, in 1967, the Association of Minnesota Division of Lands and Forestry Employees. Open to all Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (formerly Conservation Department) Division of Forestry employees, this voluntary association served as an employees' lobbying group before the state legislature, departments of natural resources and personnel, and the Civil Service Board; a collecting group for the history of forestry in Minnesota; and a statewide professional and social network for its members. In the mid-1970s, the organization's name was changed to the Association of Department of Natural Resources Forestry Employees. By 1979 it was known as the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Forestry Employees Association.
These documents are organized into the following sections:
Accession number: 12,653; 16,678
Catalog ID number: 001715202
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the
Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics,
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Includes 1939, 1942, 1954, and 1965 revisions and 1970 proposed revisions.
Disassembled volume in which are recorded monthly receipts and expenditures.
Contains organizational meeting minutes (July 1938) and incomplete sets of annual meeting and executive council minutes, correspondence, and planning files.
Letter announcing professional status of the DNR Forestry Employees Association.
Includes meeting notices, invitations, and guest lists.
Mainly form letters.
Includes mostly form and steering committee letters.
Mainly with Governor Wendell Anderson concerning Department of Natural Resources (DNR) legislation and action; also includes a list of 1971 state legislators.
General correspondence concerning department policies and actions.
Correspondence and clippings concerning the possible removal of Adams, area state forester at Warroad, because of timber sales problems; the association supported Adams.
Mainly minutes and financial data of the association's Bemidji unit.
Correspondence concerning each region's choice of one of four badges.
Incomplete.
February 28 questionnaire submitted to members by President Brian Garvey seeking their responses to the question"What direction should the association take?" Includes responses and percentage tables.
Includes correspondence, regulations, and legislation dealing with campground abuse and the need for more enforcement power for DNR employees.
Contains survey data of other state associations' union affiliation, an association versus union benefits comparison, and correspondence concerning whether to join the State Employees Union or Forestry Employees Union.
Contains two booklets:
Includes state employees salary range charts; correspondence concerning promotions, reassignments, and salary brackets; Civil Service Board salary assignments; a 1966 Department of Conservation Employees Committee questionnaire; and Department of Conservation salary proposals.
Includes American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) press materials, reports, and form letters; incomplete minutes of AFSCME Local #718 (1958-1962), and incomplete
Questions and answers from "What's New and What's Eating You?" meetings held at Bald Eagle Center (March 15-16) and Duluth (March 17-18).
Contains correspondence, notices, clippings, salary plans, pay plans, and personnel manuals dealing with reclassifications, salaries, retirement, transfers, and revisions of constitution and by-laws.
Mainly correspondence concerning the association's campaign to act as the forestry division's exclusive agent with the state. In 1973 Council 6 (AFL-CIO) was chosen as agent.
Mainly correspondence to and from Jacob N. Licke, executive secretary, concerning policy and actions.
Mainly state and federal government printed materials.
Correspondence and financial charts dealing mainly with legislative cuts and budget shortages.
Correspondence concerning a committee to work for favorable legislation.
Correspondence and photographs concerning the September 29th dedication of a memorial to Gaylord, a regional forester, at Bear Head Lake State Park (near Ely); placed jointly by the association and union.
Correspondence concerning the feasibility of this insurance.
Formed in 1969 to collect, preserve, and/or restore all equipment, photos, or items of historical value. Mainly correspondence concerning collecting of historical items from various units, displays, oral history interviews, association aid to the Hinckley (Minnesota) Depot Restoration Committee, and the association's Grand Rapids library.
Photocopied manuscript (1969) of this book, originally printed in 1965, and correspondence concerning the printings and sales. File does not include a published copy of the book, both editions of which are in the Minnesota Historical Society library.
Correspondence about various reclassification propositions.
Mainly concerns actions to obtain peace officer powers for supervisory employees at state recreation areas.
Includes reference copies of state legislation which affected the association.
Correspondence concerning Licke's legislative activities, incomplete minutes (1970), several lists of legislation prepared by the association, and requests to members for committee service.
Procedures and related correspondence.
Incomplete series of union newsletters.
Mainly members' correspondence opposing the emblem.
Photocopies of Grand Rapids
Includes a Field Services Committee report concerning reorganization and progress reports.
Concerns establishment of only one state payroll deduction, whether it should be association or union, and a 1970 proposed dues increase.
General correspondence, dealing mainly with personnel levels.
Deals with guards' seasonal status and possible expansion to full-time.
Copies of Forestry Division employee assignment letters.
Mainly state handouts on training policy, merit increases, overtime, and cost of living increases.
Forestry Division of the Department of Natural Resources, some specifying employee association membership affiliation.
Contains
Employee directory and brochures.
Questionnaire to employees concerning the feasibility of a combined DNR association to act as the sole DNR bargaining agent.
Deals with the Department of Highways' assignment to maintain and engineer DNR radio communications.
Correspondence concerning legislation affecting the association.
Correspondence, bills, and clippings dealing with the proposed 1965 Conservation Department reorganization and membership votes on the proposed 1971 reorganization.
Correspondence and recommended law changes.
Correspondence and clippings concerning the amount of departmental housing rent paid by DNR employees.
Congratulatory letters from the association, retirement party invitations, and thank-yous.
Correspondence concerning legislation and merit increases, salary tables, the 1962 Minnesota Salary Survey, and the Department of Conservation 1967-1969 biennium salary proposal.
Salary charts and grids, job descriptions, and correspondence and questionnaires concerning a comparison with other states' conservation agencies.
Questionnaires returned from Alabama, California, Florida, and Illinois.
Questionnaires returned from Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
Graphs, tables, salary propositions, and correspondence concerning state employee pay increases; also includes the 1972 association proposed salary plan and related salary recommendations.
Correspondence, statistics, and questionnaires from Minnesota, Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington, and Wisconsin.
Concerns the association's support of a government loan for the mill.
Correspondence dealing with dues and other financial problems, mainly with President Brian Garvey.
Flyers, brochures, and booklets from the State Employees Retirement Association.
Minutes (incomplete), correspondence with committee members, and planning files.
Correspondence concerning the association's opinion on the public employee's right to strike.
To employees and other organizations about various topics.
Proposed revisions by the Steering Committee.
Concerns classified status of forester-level trainees.
Minutes (incomplete) of various units and correspondence concerning unit chairmen's responsibilities.
Correspondence in support of this program concerning the future of private forest land in Minnesota; includes