Finding Aid to the Dwight C. Steele Papers, 1942-2002 (bulk
1970-2001)
Stephanie M. Roach
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University of California, Berkeley
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Finding Aid to the Dwight C. Steele Papers, 1942-2002 (bulk
1970-2001)
Collection number: BANC MSS 2005/195 c
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
- Finding Aid Author(s):
- Stephanie M. Roach
- Date Completed:
-
2010
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- GenX
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Collection Summary
Collection Title: Dwight C. Steele papers
Date (inclusive): 1942-2002
Date (bulk): 1970-2001
Collection Number: BANC MSS 2005/195
c
Creator:
Steele, Dwight C.
Extent:
7 cartons, 2 oversize folders;
8.75 linear feet
Repository: The Bancroft Library.
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
Abstract: The Dwight C. Steele Papers, 1942-2002 (bulk 1970-2001), contain
correspondence, subject and organizational files on various environmental conservation
issues, with particular focus on the San Francisco Bay Area and Lake Tahoe Regions.
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite
and advance notice may be required for use. For current information on the location of these
materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Information for Researchers
Access
Collection is open for research.
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U.S.C.). In addition, the reproduction of some materials may be restricted by terms of
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Dwight C. Steele Papers, BANC MSS 2005/195 c, The Bancroft
Library, University of California, Berkeley
Alternate Forms Available
There are no alternate forms of this collection.
Related Material
The Sierra Club and the urban environment II : labor and the environment in the San
Francisco Bay area, 1960s-1970s : oral history transcript. BANC MSS 88/190 c
Sierra Club nationwide III : oral history transcript. BANC MSS 90/35 c
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
library's online public access catalog
Davis, Gray, 1942- --
Correspondence.
Feinstein, Dianne, 1933- --
Correspondence.
Reagan, Ronald --
Correspondence.
Steele, Dwight C., 1914-2002 --
Archives.
Steele, Dwight C., 1914-2002 --
Correspondence.
Citizens for the Eastshore
State Park.
League to Save Lake Tahoe.
Planning &
Conservation League (Calif.)
San Francisco Bay Conservation
and Development Commission.
Save San Francisco Bay
Association.
Sierra Club.
Sierra Nevada Alliance
(Organization)
Tahoe Regional Planning Agency.
Tahoe-Baikal Institute.
Conservation of natural resources--California --
San Francisco Bay Area.
Conservation of natural resources--Tahoe, Lake
(Calif. and Nev.)
Conservationists -- California.
Environmental lawyers--California
Environmentalism--California.
Environmentalists--California
Lawyers--California.
Waterfronts--California -- Albany -- Planning.
San Francisco Bay Area
(Calif.)--Environmental conditions
Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and
Nev.)--Environmental conditions.
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
The Dwight C. Steele Papers, 1942-2002 (bulk 1970-2001), were given to the Bancroft
Library by Alberta Steele on July 5, 2004. Additions were made on November 8, 2004.
Accruals
No additions are expected.
Processing Information
Processed by Stephanie M. Roach in 2010.
Biographical Information
Dwight C. Steele was born on January 23, 1914 in Alameda, California. A lawyer practicing
in California and Hawaii with an early interest in labor law, he began working pro bono in
1969 for conservation causes, and accepted no paying clients after 1980. From 1942 to 1945
he served on the Regional War Labor Board and the Regional War Manpower Commission, and from
1951 to 1952 he was appointed to the National Wage Stabilization Board. Labor work includes
that with the Distiributors Association of San Francisco, the Hawaii Employers Council, the
Lumber and Mill Employers Association, and the Bermuda Employers Council. From 1968 to 1972
he was elected to the office of Director of the Alpine Springs Water District. From 1971 to
1978 he was a trustee and treasurer for the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, and served as
General Counsel for the League to Save Lake Tahoe beginning in 1989. From 1978 to 1983 he
was appointed as a Governing Body Member of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency.
An environmental lobbyist and activist, Steele had a particular affinity for water and
transportation issues. Active in the Sierra Club beginning in 1966, his environmental
activism rapidly expanded to include many conservation groups, campaigns and causes. He
served on the Board of Directors and as the Vice President of the Save San Francisco Bay
Association (now known as Save the Bay) and served on the Board of Directors and as
President for the League to Save Lake Tahoe. He was on the Board of Directors for the
Tahoe-Baikal Institute and was deeply involved with many other conservation organizations in
the San Francisco Bay area and the Lake Tahoe region. He also worked on legislation to
establish the Eastshore State Park and the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development
Commission, the first coastal protection agency in the United States.
Two oral histories with Steele are included in
Sierra Club Nationwide
III
(1989) and
The Sierra Club and the Urban Environment II:
Labor and the Environment in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1960s-1970s
(1983). He was
the recipient of many awards throughout his career including the Peter E. Haas Public
Service Award (1999) for his volunteer efforts and grassroots environmentalism and the
ChevronTexaco Conservation Award (2002) for his conservation efforts in the San Francisco
Bay area. Steele died on July 11, 2002 in Alpine Meadows, California.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Dwight C. Steele Papers, 1942-2002 (bulk 1970-2001), contain correspondence, subject
and organizational files on various environmental conservation issues, with particular focus
on the San Francisco Bay Area and Lake Tahoe Regions.
Professional activities with environmental organizations comprise the bulk of the
collection and include correspondence, organizational memos, meeting minutes, planning and
policy communications, etc. Primarily spanning from 1970-2001, collection series include:
Correspondence; Professional Activities (Environmental Organizations; Legal Practice);
Subject Files; and Personal. Following the original order of the collection, correspondence
is found throughout according to organizational affiliation, topic, and year as appropriate
for each series. Correspondence is primarily related to organizational planning and policy,
as well as environmental and conservation advocacy and lobbying efforts, and includes
exchanges with regional and national figures such as Ronald Reagan, Gray Davis, Dianne
Feinstein, and other legislators. Environmental organizations of note include Save San
Francisco Bay Association, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission,
Citizens for the Eastshore State Park, Planning and Conservation League, Tahoe Regional
Planning Agency, League to Save Lake Tahoe, Tahoe-Baikal Institute, Sierra Club, Sierra
Nevada Alliance, and others. Subject files relate to environmental conservation topics.
Series 1:
Correspondence.
1952-2002
Physical Description:
Carton 1
Arrangement
Most correspondence is arranged chronologically by year. A small number of
correspondence files are arranged alphabetically by topic or person as per original
order. Additional correspondence is found in all series.
ctn. 1, folder 34
Operating Engineers Local Union No. 3.
1972-1973
ctn. 1, folder 35
Presidential and Congressional.
1966-1993
ctn. 1, folder 36
Reagan, Ronald.
1972-1974
Series 2:
Professional Activities.
1952-2002
Physical Description:
Cartons 2-5; Carton 6, folders 1-9
Subseries 2.1:
Environmental Organizations.
1964-2002
Physical Description:
Cartons 2-5
Arrangement
Arranged geographically: Bay Area, Lake Tahoe, International.
ctn. 2, folder 1-2
Bay Vision 2020 Commission.
1990-1991
ctn. 2, folder 3
Bay Vision 2020 Commission - Meeting Notes Binder.
1989-1990
ctn. 2, folder 4
Bay Vision 2020 Commission - Binder.
1989-1991
ctn. 2, folder 5
Bay Vision 2020 Commission - Binder.
1989-1991
ctn. 2, folder 6
California Council for Environmental and Economic Balance.
1973-1974
ctn. 2, folder 7-10
California Council for Environmental and Economic Balance.
1978-1980
ctn. 2, folder 11
California Council for Environmental and Economic Balance.
1982-1984
ctn. 2, folder 12
California League of Conservation Voters.
1975-1997
ctn. 2, folder 13
California Tomorrow.
1978-1983
ctn. 2, folder 14-31
Citizens for the Eastshore State Park.
1986-2002
ctn. 2, folder 32
Citizens for the Eastshore State Park - California State Coastal
Conservancy.
1986-1987
ctn. 2, folder 33
Citizens for the Eastshore State Park - Eastbay Shoreline Studies.
1982
ctn. 2, folder 34
Citizens for the Eastshore State Park - Federal Park Funding.
1987
ctn. 2, folder 35
Citizens for the Eastshore State Park - Federal Park Funding.
1988-1989
ctn. 2, folder 36
Citizens for the Eastshore State Park - Plans and Maps.
1988-1996
ctn. 2, folder 37
Citizens for the Eastshore State Park - Plans and Maps, Early.
1973-1986
ctn. 3, folder 1
San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission.
1968-1984
ctn. 3, folder 2
San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission.
1985-1988
ctn. 3, folder 3
San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission.
1990
ctn. 3, folder 4
San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission.
1991
ctn. 3, folder 5-7
San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission.
1993-1995
ctn. 3, folder 8
San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission.
2001
ctn. 3, folder 9
San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission.
2002
ctn. 3, folder 10
San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission - CALFED
Bay-Delta Program.
1988
ctn. 3, folder 11
San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission - CALFED
Bay-Delta Program.
1996-1997
ctn. 3, folder 12
San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission - CALFED
Bay-Delta Program.
1998
ctn. 3, folder 13
San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission -
Citizen's Advisory Committee.
1977-1988
ctn. 3, folder 14-17
San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission -
Citizen's Advisory Committee.
1997-2000
ctn. 3, folder 18
San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission - Legislation.
1970-1993
ctn. 3, folder 19
San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission - Mitigation.
1984-1987
ctn. 3, folder 20
San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission - Mitigation.
1988-1989
ctn. 3, folder 21
San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission - Mitigation.
1997
ctn. 3, folder 22
San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission - San Francisco
Waterfront Special Area Plan.
1999-2000
ctn. 3, folder 23
San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission - Waterfront
Advisory Committee.
1973-1975
ctn. 3, folder 24
San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission - Waterfront
Area Plan.
1980-1991
ctn. 3, folder 25-37
Save San Francisco Bay Association.
1964-1997,
undated
ctn. 3, folder 38-42
Save San Francisco Bay Association Shoreline Parks and Trails Commission.
1987-1992,
undated
ctn. 4, folder 1
Citizens Waterfront Committee.
1971-1979
ctn. 4, folder 2
Citizens Waterfront Committee.
1980-1981
ctn. 4, folder 3
Conservation Coordinators, Inc.
1971-1973
ctn. 4, folder 4
Planning and Conservation League.
1970-1979
ctn. 4, folder 5
Planning and Conservation League.
1987-1988
ctn. 4, folder 6-10
East Bay Regional Park District.
1998-2002
ctn. 4, folder 11
East Bay Regional Park District - Planning.
1973-1987
ctn. 4, folder 12
Sierra Business Council.
1997
ctn. 4, folder 13
Sierra Club - Correspondence.
1967-1983
ctn. 4, folder 18
Sierra Club - Asilomar Conference.
1971
ctn. 4, folder 19
Sierra Club - Conservation Committee.
1970-1974
ctn. 4, folder 20
Sierra Club - Environmental Lunches.
1971-1972
ctn. 4, folder 21
Sierra Club - Ford Foundation.
1970-1971
ctn. 4, folder 22
Sierra Club - Friends of Mammoth.
1972-1973
ctn. 4, folder 23
Sierra Club - Legal Defense Fund.
1974-1988
ctn. 4, folder 24
Sierra Club - Marin Conservation Subcommittee.
1968-1970
ctn. 4, folder 25
Sierra Club - Northern California.
1977-1979
ctn. 4, folder 26
Sierra Club - Office of International Environmental Affairs.
1972-1978
ctn. 4, folder 27
Sierra Club - Open Space.
1970-1987
ctn. 4, folder 28
Sierra Club - San Francisco Bay Chapter Sierra Club.
1969-1996
ctn. 4, folder 29
Sierra Club - Transportation.
1972-1973
ctn. 4, folder 30
Sierra Club - Yerba Buena Center.
1972-1973
ctn. 4, folder 31
Sierra Nevada Alliance.
1993-2001
ctn. 4, folder 32
California Tahoe Conservancy.
1991-2001
ctn. 4, folder 33-39
League to Save Lake Tahoe.
1972-1978
ctn. 4, folder 40
League to Save Lake Tahoe.
1984
ctn. 4, folder 41
League to Save Lake Tahoe.
1985
ctn. 4, folder 42
League to Save Lake Tahoe.
1990
ctn. 4, folder 43-50
League to Save Lake Tahoe.
1994-2001
ctn. 4, folder 51
League to Save Lake Tahoe.
2003
ctn. 4, folder 52
League to Save Lake Tahoe - Brochures.
1964-1998
ctn. 4, folder 53
League to Save Lake Tahoe - Federal Environmental Controls.
1976-1979
ctn. 4, folder 54
League to Save Lake Tahoe - Federal Environmental Controls.
1980-1994
ctn. 4, folder 55
League to Save Lake Tahoe - Land Trust.
1978-1988
ctn. 4, folder 56
League to Save Lake Tahoe - Shorezone.
1990-2001
ctn. 4, folder 57
League to Save Lake Tahoe - Tahoe Retreat.
2001
ctn. 4, folder 58
League to Save Lake Tahoe - Transit Campaign.
1996-1999
ctn. 5, folder 1
League to Save Lake Tahoe - Transit Talks.
1999
ctn. 5, folder 2
League to Save Lake Tahoe - Transportation Committee.
2000-2001
ctn. 5, folder 3
League to Save Lake Tahoe - Transportation Policies.
1995-2000
ctn. 5, folder 4
Tahoe-Baikal Institute.
1999-2002
ctn. 5, folder 5
Tahoe-Baikal Institute - Board Handbook.
1997-2000
ctn. 5, folder 6
Tahoe-Baikal Institute - Readings and Materials - Volume One.
1995
ctn. 5, folder 7
Tahoe-Baikal Institute - Readings and Materials - Volume Two.
1995
ctn. 5, folder 8
Tahoe Regional Planning Agency.
1973
ctn. 5, folder 9-17
Tahoe Regional Planning Agency.
1977-1984
ctn. 5, folder 18-22
Tahoe Regional Planning Agency.
1997-2001
ctn. 5, folder 23
Tahoe Regional Planning Agency - Monster Houses.
2000-2001
ctn. 5, folder 24
Tahoe Regional Planning Agency - Parking Management.
1995-2000
ctn. 5, folder 25
Tahoe Regional Planning Agency - Planning Retreat.
1993
ctn. 5, folder 26
Tahoe Regional Planning Agency - Resolutions and Ordinances.
1972-1984
ctn. 5, folder 27
Tahoe Regional Planning Agency - Scenic.
1982-1999
ctn. 5, folder 28
Tahoe Regional Planning Agency - Scenic.
2001-2002
ctn. 5, folder 29
Tahoe Regional Planning Agency - Tahoe Regional Planning Compact.
1969-2000
ctn. 5, folder 30
Tahoe Regional Planning Agency - Transportation History.
1979-2001
ctn. 5, folder 31-35
Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Tahoe Transportation Coalition.
1990-1994
ctn. 5, folder 36
Environmental Liaison Centre.
1975-1992
ctn. 5, folder 37
International Society for Ecology and Culture - Ladakh Project.
1982-1985
ctn. 5, folder 38
International Society for Ecology and Culture - Ladakh Project.
1986-1999
ctn. 5, folder 39
Spirit of Stockholm Foundation.
1975-1978
ctn. 5, folder 40
Spirit of Stockholm Foundation.
1980-1989
Subseries 2.2:
Legal Activities.
1952-1988
Physical Description:
Carton 6, folders 1-9
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically.
ctn. 6, folder 1
American President Lines, Ltd. vs. National Labor Relations Board.
1964-1967
ctn. 6, folder 2
American President Lines, Ltd. vs. National Labor Relations Board - Briefs.
1964-1967
ctn. 6, folder 3-6
Bermuda - Bermuda Employers Council.
1960-1977
ctn. 6, folder 7
Bermuda - Hotel Employers of Bermuda.
1981-1988
ctn. 6, folder 8
Hill, Ralph and Albert P. Hill
1952-1969
Series 3:
Subject Files.
1964-2002
Physical Description:
Carton 6, folders 10-45; Carton 7, folders 1-21
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by topic.
ctn. 6, folder 11
California Land Use Planning.
1969-1991
ctn. 6, folder 12
California Land Use Planning - Reports.
1970-1977
ctn. 6, folder 13
California Water Plans.
1971-1993
ctn. 6, folder 14
Carrying Capacity.
1971-1991
ctn. 6, folder 15
Coastal Commissions.
1973-1999
ctn. 6, folder 16
Conservation Law.
1968-1970
ctn. 6, folder 17
Conservation Law.
1970-1976
ctn. 6, folder 18
Conservation Law - Clippings and Articles.
1969-1974
ctn. 6, folder 21
Eastshore Bay Trail.
1990-1991
ctn. 6, folder 22
Eastshore Bay Trail.
1993-1996
ctn. 6, folder 23
Eastshore Bay Trail - Maps and Photos.
1995
ctn. 6, folder 24
Energy Conservation.
1971-1982
ctn. 6, folder 25
Energy Conservation - Clippings.
1971-1991
ctn. 6, folder 26
Energy Shortages.
1973-1993
ctn. 6, folder 27
Energy Shortages - Clippings.
1973-1993
ctn. 6, folder 28
Environmental Defense Fund.
1973-1987
ctn. 6, folder 29
Federal Pollution Policy.
1972-1990
ctn. 6, folder 30
Food and Hunger.
1981-1985
ctn. 6, folder 34
Lake Tahoe - Clippings.
1964-1997
ctn. 6, folder 35
Lake Tahoe - History.
1984-1995
ctn. 6, folder 36-37
Lake Tahoe - History.
2001-2002
ctn. 6, folder 39
Lake Tahoe - Pollution.
1967-1972
ctn. 6, folder 40
Lake Tahoe - Water Resources.
1973-1976
ctn. 6, folder 41
League of Women Voters.
1989
ctn. 6, folder 42
Limits on Growth.
1972-1992
ctn. 6, folder 43
One World - Gaia.
1987-1992
ctn. 6, folder 44
Overpopulation.
1970-1991
ctn. 6, folder 45
Property Rights and Public Access - Takings.
1988-1996
ctn. 7, folder 1
Property Rights and Public Access - Takings.
1988-1996
ctn. 7, folder 2
Property Rights and Public Access - Takings.
1972-1986
ctn. 7, folder 3-4
Property Rights and Public Access - Takings.
1987
ctn. 7, folder 6
San Francisco Bay Area - Mass Transit and No Fare.
1973-1999
ctn. 7, folder 7
San Francisco International Airport - Bay Fill.
1988-1999
ctn. 7, folder 8
San Francisco International Airport - Bay Fill.
1999
ctn. 7, folder 9
Reuss, Henry - Bay Delta Hearings.
1969-2001
ctn. 7, folder 10
Regional Transportation Plan.
1973-2001
ctn. 7, folder 11
San Francisco Bay Delta - Water Quality.
1984-1993
ctn. 7, folder 12
San Francisco Waterfront - Clippings.
1970-1972
ctn. 7, folder 13
San Francisco Waterfront - Special Area Plan.
2000
ctn. 7, folder 15
Solar Energy - Clippings.
1974-1990
caton 7, folder 16
Sonora Pass Tunnel.
1968-1972
ctn. 7, folder 18
Transportation - Southern Crossing.
1970-1990
ctn. 7, folder 19
Transportation - Southern Crossing - Clippings.
1970-1991
ctn. 7, folder 20
Wetlands Litigation.
1986-1991
ctn. 7, folder 21
Wetlands Litigation - Clippings.
1986-1993
Series 4:
Personal.
1942-2002
Physical Description:
Carton 7, folders 22-41; Oversize folders 1-2
Arrangement
Arrangement is alphabetical with University of California, Berkeley folders grouped
together at the end.
oversize-folder 1B
Awards.
1978-1990
Physical Description:
7 items.
Content/Description
Various awards, certificates, commendations, and posters.
ctn. 7, folder 24
Awards - Haas Award.
2000
ctn. 7, folder 25
Awards - Haas Award - Congratulations.
2000
ctn. 7, folder 26
Biography Notes.
1996-2002
ctn. 7, folder 27
Biography Notes - Medical.
1999-2001
oversize-folder 2A
Celebrations.
1997
Content/Description
Color caricature commemorating 25th anniversary of California League of Conservation
Voters, by artist Phil Frank, 1997 (engraved).
ctn. 7, folder 29
Friends - Brower, David R.
2000-2001
ctn. 7, folder 30
Friends - McLaughlin, Sylvia C.
1965-2001
ctn. 7, folder 34
Speaking Transcripts.
1985
ctn. 7, folder 35
Steele, Dwight C. - Oral Histories.
1981-2000
ctn. 7, folder 36
Steele, Dwight C. - Clippings and Articles.
1976-2000
ctn. 7, folder 38-39
University of California Berkeley - Class of 1935 - Sixtieth Anniversary.
1994-1995
ctn. 7, folder 40
University of California Berkeley - Class of 1935.
1971-2002
ctn. 7, folder 41
University of California Berkeley - Boalt Hall - Class of 1939.
1942-2001