1. Professional Papers 1960-1990s
Scope and Content Note
A. Oak Shores Development
Scope and Content Note
County Board of Supervisors – Resolutions, Agendas and Petitions re Oak Shores Referendum
Correspondence
Environmental Impact Reports
General Resource Development (GRD) vs. Miossi, et al. – Legal Documents
General Resource Development (GRD) vs. Miossi, et al. – Pleadings
General Resource Development (GRD) vs. Miossi, et al. – Research
General Resource Development (GRD) vs. Miossi, et al. – Transcripts
Newspaper Clippings
Planning Commission Documents
Planning Department Documents – General Plans
Planning Department Documents – Specific Plans
B. Santa Lucia Wilderness Area
Scope and Content Note
Articles by Harold Miossi re Wilderness Area
Congressional Record re Wilderness Bill
Correspondence
County Records
Federal Legislative Records re Wilderness Area
Lobbying Efforts
Local Hearings on Wilderness Area
Maps – Wilderness Area
Newspaper Clippings
Petitions
Photographs Used at Senate Hearings
Press Releases
Proposals and Revisions for Wilderness Area Bill
Research on Wilderness Areas
Senate Hearings on Wilderness May 18, 1972
Senate Hearings on Wilderness Area– Expenses
Sierra Club Correspondence re Wilderness Area
Slides of Lopez area – 28 color slides assorted numbers 1–39, 8 slides lettered A–H used in brochure of Santa Lucia Wilderness Area
Talcott Proposal for Wilderness Area
C. Coastal San Luis Resource Conservation District
Scope and Content Note
Agricultural Preserve/Open Space Coastal San Luis Resource Conservation District
Appointment – Coastal San Luis Resource Conservation District
Awards and Events – Coastal San Luis Resource Conservation District
California Association of Resource Conservation Districts
Insurance – Coastal San Luis Resource Conservation District
Land Conservation Act of 1965 – Implementation in San Luis Obispo County
Minutes – Coastal San Luis Resource Conservation District
Morro Bay Watershed Enhancement Coastal San Luis Resource Conservation District
Revenue Detail – Coastal San Luis Resource Conservation District
Upper Salinas – Las Tablas Resource Conservation District
Worthan vs. County of San Luis Obispo Appeal
D. Miscellaneous Issues
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Correspondence with Government Officials
Correspondence and Notes – Various
Drought Disaster Relief
Energy
Energy – Articles
Energy – Correspondence
General Politics and Philosophies
Land Use (BLM) Bureau of Land Management; Nature Conservancy
Miscellaneous Newspaper Articles
Montana de Oro
Montana de Oro – Master Plan
Pecho Coast Article – Drafts, Notes, and Publication
Pesticides
Recreational Vehicles
San Luis Mountain (Madonna)
Sargent Cypress Grove
Water
Williamson Act – Open Space Agricultural Liaison
E. Flood Control
Scope and Content Note
Creek Improvement Correspondence
Environmental Reports – Flood Control
Flood Advisory Committee – Zone 9
Flood Control – Charts and Maps
Flood Control – Press Releases and Articles
Flood Control and Drainage Master Plan
Flood Control and Drainage Master Plan – Drafts
Flood Control Hearings – Miossi's Statements
Measure B – Milne/Miossi Correspondence
Measure B – Newspaper Articles
Zone 9 Photographs
F. Cuesta Grade – Opposition to Highway 101 Widening
Scope and Content Note
Caltrans Correspondence re Highway Issues
Chamber of Commerce Highway Committee
Citizen's Committee Against the Freeway
Correspondence re Highway 101
County Board of Supervisors re Highway Issues
Letters to the Editor by Harold Miossi
Newspaper Clippings
Maps
Obispo Beautiful
Photographs Cuesta Grade
Planning Department Report re Cuesta Grade
Research
G. Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant Opposition
Scope and Content Note
Atomic Energy Commission — Hearing RE Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant
Bassi vs. Pacific Gas and Electric — Expenses
Biaggini vs. Pacific Gas and Electric — Case #9075
Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant — Correspondence
Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant — Newspaper Clippings
Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant — Pacific Gas and Electric Publications
Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant — Sierra Club Minutes
Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant — Sierra Club Publications
Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant Site Preconstruction Photos
Diablo Canyon: The Purchasing of the Sierra Club
Environmental Review Committee for Diablo Canyon Power Lines Box 7 Folder 12 Nuclear Power Plants — Research
Public Utilities Commission Hearing re Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, 1967 — Statement
Public Utilities Commission Hearing — Pacific Gas and Electric vs. Sierra Club
Public Utilities Commission Hearing — Pacific Gas and Electric vs. Sierra Club — Statements and Notes
San Luis Obispo County Planning Commission — Correspondence and Statements re Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant
Scenic Shoreline Preservation Conference
Tree Removal — Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant
United States Forest Service Special Use Permit — Pacific Gas and Electric
H. Open Space Preservation
Scope and Content Note
Open Space Plan — Hearing Draft
Open Space Preservation — Correspondence
Open Space Preservation — Government Documents
Open Space Preservation — Hearing Statements and Notes
Open Space Preservation — Review Committee
2. Monographs 1967-1973
Scope and Content Note
A. Land Use Resources
Scope and Content Note
Barnes, Peter, and Larry Casalino. Who Owns the Land? A Primer on Land Reform in the USA. Berkeley: Center for Rural Studies, 1972
Brandborg, Stewart M. A Handbook on the Wilderness Act. Washington D.C.: Wilderness Society, undated
Heckendorf, Richard C. "West Cuesta Road: A New Scenic Drive". Senior Project. Calif. State Polytechnic U, 1970. San Luis Obispo, California, 1970
How to Work Under the Wilderness Act. San Francisco: Sierra Club Conservation Dept., 1967
Land: Program of the Northern California Land Trust. Berkeley: Northern California Land Trust, 1973
Laven, John Eugene. "Conservation Conflict, Ombudsman Alternative." Thesis. Sacramento State College, 1970. Sacramento: Sacramento State College, 1970
Miossi, Harold. "Singular Crossing: The Historic Dimensions of Cuesta Pass," 1968
Santa Cruz and the Environment. Santa Cruz, Calif.: U of Calif. undated
Stanford Biology Study Group. A Legacy of Our Presence: The Destruction of Indochina. San Francisco: California Tomorrow 1970
3. Government Documents 1967-1989
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A. Government Documents – Federal
Scope and Content Note
United States. Cong. House. Designating Certain Endangered Public Lands for Preservation as Wilderness, Providing for the Study of Additional Endangered Public Lands for Such Designation, Furthering the Purposes of the Wilderness Act of 1964, and for Other Purposes . 95th Cong., 1st Session. Washington: GPO 1977
United States. Cong. House. Endangered American Wilderness Act of 1978. 95th Cong., 2nd Session. Washington: GPO, 1978
United States. Cong. House. San Rafael Wilderness. 90th Cong., 1st Session. H.R. 5161, H.R. 5494, S. 889. Washington: GPO, 1967
United States. Cong. Senate. San Rafael Wilderness. 90th Cong., 1st Session. S. 889. Washington: GPO, 1967
United States. Cong. Senate. The United States Senate in Session. 92nd Cong. Washington: GPO, 1971
United States. Cong. Senate. A University View of the Forest Service. 91st Cong., 2nd Session. Washington: GPO, 1970
United States. Dept. of Agriculture. Forest Service. California District. Santa Barbara National Forest, California. Map. Washington: GPO, 1927
Scope and Content Note
United States. Cong. Forest Service. California Region. Mission Planning Area Management Alternatives February '77. Washington: GPO, 1977
United States. Cong. Forest Service. Fact Sheet for Lopez Canyon and Vicinity Management Proposals. Washington: GPO. 1972
United States. Cong. Forest Service. Forest Planning Issues (Preliminary). Washington: GPO, 1979
United States. Cong. Forest Service. RARE II: California. Supplement to Draft Environmental Statement Roadless Area Review and Evaluation. Washington: GPO, 1978
United States. Cong. Forest Service. RARE II: Draft Environmental Statement Roadless Area Review and Evaluation. Washington: GPO, 1978
United States. Cong. Forest Service. RARE II: A Quest for Balance in Public Land Use. Washington: GPO, 1978
United States. Cong. Forest Service. County of Los Angeles. A Homeowner's Guide to Fire and Watershed Management at the Chaparral/Urban Interface, . Washington: GPO 1982
United States. Cong. Soil Conservation Service. Morro Bay Watershed Enhancement Plan Draft: San Luis Obispo, California. Washington: GPO, 1989
United States. Cong. Soil Conservation Service. Morro Bay Watershed Enhancement Plan: San Luis Obispo, California. Washington: GPO, 1989
United States. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Public Health Service. Environmental Health Service. National Air Pollution Control Administration. Environmental Quality: The First Annual Report of the Council on Environmental Quality, 1970. Washington: GPO, no date
United States. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Land Management. Final Intensive Inventory: Public Lands Administered by BLM California Outside the California Desert Conservation Area Wilderness. Washington: GPO, 1979
United States. Cong. Bureau of Land Management. Interim Management Policy and Guidelines for Lands Under Wilderness Review. Washington: GPO, 1979
B. Government Documents – State of California
Scope and Content Note
California. Assembly. Report of the Assembly Committee on Natural Resources, Planning, and Public Works, Part V. Sacramento: State of California, 1967
United States. Dept. of Conservation. Land Conservation Unit. Draft Recommendations for a California Soil Conservation Plan: A Working Paper for Public Comment Prepared by the Soil Conservation Advisory Committee, March, 1986 . Sacramento: State of California, 1986
United States. Dept. of Conservation. Land Conservation Unit. Williamson Act Task Force Consensus for Action: An Interim Report to the Secretary for Resources. Sacramento: State of California, 1986
United States. Office of Planning and Research. An Urban Development Strategy for California: Advisory Committee Draft for Public Review and Comment. Sacramento: State of California, 1977
United States. The Resources Agency. Dept. of Conservation. Office of Land Conservation. Division 9 Public Resources Code, Resource Conservation, Jun 1989. Sacramento: State of California, 1989
United States. Cong. Dept. of Conservation. Soil Conservation Advisory Committee. Conserving the Wealth of the Land: A Plan for Soil Conservation. Sacramento: GPO, 1988
United States. Cong. Dept. of Conservation. Soil Conservation Advisory Committee. Soil Conservation Advisory Committee: First Year Report, 1985. Sacramento: State of California, 1985
United States. University of California. Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources. Cooperative Extension. California's Environment 21, and 31, (Sep- Oct 1974) (May-Jun 1976)
United States. University of California, Davis. Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources. Cooperative Extension. Integrated Hardwood Range Management Program: First Progress Report July 1986–December 1987. Davis: University of California IHRMP, 1988
United States. University of California, Berkeley. Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources. Cooperative Extension. Living Among the Oaks: A Management Guide for Landowners. Berkeley: Univ. of Calif. Cooperative Extension, Natural Resources Program, no date
United States. Cong. Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources. Cooperative Extension. Oaks 'n Folks: A Newsletter of the Integrated Hardwood Range Management Program. 3.2, (1988)
C. Government Documents – San Luis Obispo County
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San Luis Obispo County. Board of Supervisors. Saving the Farm: A Handbook for Conserving Agricultural Land. January 1990. San Francisco: American Farmland Trust, 1990
San Luis Obispo County. Dept. of Auditor-Controller. Coastal San Luis Resource Conservation District. Audit Report, June 30, 1984 and June 30, 1985. San Luis Obispo County, 1985
San Luis Obispo County. Coastal San Luis Resource Conservation District. Arroyo Grande Creek Critical Area Treatment RC8D Measure Plan. California: Central Coast Resource Conservation 8 Development Area, 1987
San Luis Obispo County. Coastal San Luis Resource Conservation District. Coastal San Luis RCD Annual Progress Report, 1987–88. San Luis Obispo, [1988]
San Luis Obispo County. Coastal San Luis Resource Conservation District. The Cover Up Story of San Luis Obispo County: A Resource Management Guide. San Luis Obispo: CSLRCD, 1985
San Luis Obispo County. Coastal San Luis Resource Conservation District. Central Coast Resource Conservation and Development Area. A Report on Prime Farmland Conversion in the Arroyo Grande Valley and La Cienega Valley. San Luis Obispo: CSLRCD, 1982
San Luis Obispo County. Dept. of Agriculture and Measurement Standards. Annual Report 1984. San Luis Obispo County, 1984
San Luis Obispo County. Dept. of Agriculture and Measurement Standards. Annual Report 1988. San Luis Obispo County, 1988
San Luis Obispo County. County Engineering Dept. San Luis Obispo County Water Ethic Final Draft. San Luis Obispo County, 1989
San Luis Obispo County. Dept. of General Services. Recreation Facilities Division. Lopez Guide. San Luis Obispo County, 1984
San Luis Obispo County. Planning Commission. Amended Master Plan of Shoreline Development for San Luis Obispo, California. San Luis Obispo County, 1955
San Luis Obispo County. Planning Commission. The Master Shoreline Plan: San Luis Obispo County , [1942]
San Luis Obispo County. Planning Department. A Discussion of Agricultural Issues and Opportunities. San Luis Obispo, 1978
San Luis Obispo County. San Luis Ranger District, Los Padres National Forest. Establishment Report for Lopez Canyon Scenic Area. San Luis Obispo County, 1970
4. Articles 1961-1988
Scope and Content Note
A. Environmental Articles
Scope and Content Note
"Air Pollution." Honolulu Star-Bulletin , 17 Feb 1968
Bliss, Betsy. "Ecology." U.S. Catholic , Jul 1972
Bonanza. [Motherlode Chapter, Sierra Club], Feb 1972
Borland, Hal. "Summer: A Time for Perspective." The Progressive , Jul 1970
Borrelli, Peter. "That Was the Year That Was." Eco–Alert , Nov 1970
California Farmer Consumer Reporter , Oct-Nov 1972
Canyon Echo. [Grand Canyon Chapter, Sierra Club], Apr 1971
The Concrete Opposition , 1972-74
Cousteau, Jacques–Yves. California Monthly , May 1972
Cry California: the Journal of California Tomorrow , 1968 1971-72
Dawson, A.D. "The Law of the Land." New England Sierran , Jun 1971
Defenders of Wildlife , 1961
Dreyfuss, John. "Ecology Bright Spot: Marine Life Returns as Harbor Clears Up." Los Angeles Times , 28 Feb 1971
Earth's Advocate: A Publication of the Environmental Center of San Luis Obispo County , 1975-76
Ehrlich, Paul. "Eco–Catastrophe!" Ramparts , Sep 1969
Environmental Action , 1971, 1975
Friends for Ecology , 1973
Hightower, Jim. "Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times: The Failure of the Land Grant College Complex." California Agriculture , Nov-Dec 1972
"The Land: How to Design with Nature." Time , 10 Oct 1969
Land Lines , Winter 1988
Luckett, Liz. "Plain Dealing." California Farmer , 9 Mar 1988
McMillan, Ian. "Doing Away with Wildness." Defenders of Wildlife News , Nov-Dec 1968
Mechling, Thomas B. "Public Equity: A Businesslike Approach to Public Interest Law." Alternatives: Legal Services and the Public , Aug 1975
Miller, Willard M. "Radical Environmentalism." Not Man Apart , Nov 1972
"Mineral King at the Crossroads." The Sierra Club Outdoor Newsletter , 19 May 1969
Miossi, Harold. "Time to Kill Harbor District?" The Earth's Advocate , no date
Monthly Summary of Business Conditions in Southern California , Sep 1971
Northwest Conifer: Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Sierra Club , 1972
Pacific Gas and Electric Progress , 1970
Private Property and the Public Interest: Summary of a California Tomorrow Legal Seminar on the Use and Regulation of Land. San Francisco: California Tomorrow, 1974
"Protection for the Beach Creatures." Los Angeles Times , 9 Mar. 1972
Resources , Oct 1975
Ritter, Norman. "Interstate 87." The Atlantic , Sep 1967
Santa Barbara Survival Times , Dec 1970
Spherics , Apr 1970
Wilderness Report , May 1976
"The Worst is Yet to Be?" Time , 24 Jan 1972
"You Can Relive History on the Cuesta Grade." Sunset , Jul 1968
5. Visual Media circa 1947-1973
Scope and Content Note
A. Cuesta Canyon Highway Oversized Photographs
Scope and Content Note
Highway print with painted mylar overlay of proposed freeway
Highway print with painted mylar overlay looking south
Highway print with painted mylar overlay, photo 7x19, "Scenic Corridor looking south."
Old Stagecoach Road, gravel road
Old Stagecoach Road, mowed field
Old Stagecoach Road, oaks and clearing
Old Stagecoach Road, oaks and dirt road
B. Diablo Canyon Oversized Photographs
Scope and Content Note
Aerial view of Diablo Canyon and Pecho Coast, 16x16, photographer – Martin Litton
Aerial view of power lines, 10.5x13.25, caption "Vandalism is defined as the destruction of values of which one is ignorant" – Dr. Robert F. Hoover
Aerial view of power plant under construction, 7.5x7.5, photographer – Martin Litton
Aerial view of power plant under construction, 1970, 7.5x7.5, photographer – Martin Litton
Aerial view of power plant under construction, 16x20, photographer – Martin Litton
Aerial view of power plant under construction, labeled "Desalting Plant", 30x40
Aerial view of road to power plant, 1970, 7 1/2x8, photographer – Martin Litton
Coon Creek or Upper Diablo Canyon, 16x19
Coon Creek, 15x16
Four Martin Litton photos of various sizes – two aerial views, two coastal scenes
Display of six aerial photos of power plant with label "Did Pacific Gas and Electric Win Because It Turns So Much Earth?"
Oak tree, removed for construction of power plant, 16x16
Oak tree and structure, removed for construction of power plant, 16x17.5
Trail through wooded area, 16x16, photographer – Martin Litton
C. Grover Beach Oversized Photographs
Scope and Content Note
Aerial view of cities, Grover Beach and Pismo, mid–late 1950s, 16x19.5, photographer – Martin Litton
Aerial view of city and coast, 9/13/1947, 16x20, Spence Air Photos
Aerial view of city and coast (three miles south of Pismo), 13 Sep 1947, 16x20, Spence Air Photos
Aerial view of city and coast, 11/3/1947, 16x20, Spence Air Photos
Aerial view of city, coast and dunes, 16x19, photographer – Martin Litton
D. Lopez Canyon and Lopez Creek Oversized Photographs
Scope and Content Note
Lopez Creek, 16x17.75
Lopez Canyon Valley, 11x14, exhibit H–20
Lopez Canyon Valley, 11x14, exhibit H–23
Lopez Canyon Valley, 11x14, farmland now covered by Lopez Reservoir
Lopez Canyon Valley floor now covered by Lopez Reservoir, 11x14, exhibit H–15
Lopez Canyon Valley floor now covered by Lopez Reservoir, 11x14, exhibit H–16
Lopez Creek, 11x14, exhibit H–10
Upper Arroyo Valley floor now covered by Lopez Reservoir, 11x14, exhibit H–14
E. Morro Bay Oversized Photographs
Scope and Content Note
Aerial view of the city of Morro Bay, Morro Rock and sand spit
Aerial view of the city of Morro Bay and Toro Creek
Aerial view of the city of Morro Bay and Toro Creek north of Morro Rock, late 1950s
Aerial view of dunes north of Morro Rock, 1947
Aerial view of Morro Bay, Morro Rock and sand spit, 1947
Aerial view of Morro Bay and White Point, 1947
Aerial view of Morro Bay and White Point
F. Pecho Coast Oversized Photographs
Scope and Content Note
Aerial view of Pecho Coast
Aerial view of Pecho Coast – Montaña de Oro
G. Maps
Scope and Content Note
State of California, Department of Parks and Recreation, Resources Agency of California, Montana de Oro State Park Ownership, folder 1 of 2
State of California, Department of Parks and Recreation, Resources Agency of California, Montana de Oro State Park Ownership, folder 2 of 2
State of California, Department of Parks and Recreation, San Luis Obispo Study Area, Land and Boundary Study, plate 1, 1966
State of California, Department of Parks and Recreation, San Luis Obispo Study Area, Land Use and Facilities Study, plate 2, 1966
Topographical Map of Lopez Mountain, #43
Topographical Map of Santa Margarita, #44
Topographical Map of Tar Spring Ridge, color
Topographical Map of Tar Spring Ridge, cropped
Topographical Map of Tar Spring Ridge, #54
Diablo Canyon Power Plant–Midway Station E.H.V. Transmission, Sheet 1 (Pacific Gas and Electric power line routes)
Diablo Canyon Power Plant–Midway Station E.H.V. Transmission, Sheet 2 (Pacific Gas and Electric power line routes)
Photomechanical duplication of Santa Lucia Wilderness, San Luis County, Senate Bill No. 113, January 1973
Photomechanical duplication of Santa Lucia Wilderness, San Luis County, Senate Bill No. 113, January 1973
Santa Lucia Wilderness, San Luis County, Senate Bill No. 113, January 1973
Santa Lucia Wilderness, San Luis County, Senate Bill No. 113, January 1973
Santa Lucia Wilderness, San Luis County, Senate Bill No. 113, January 1973
H. Lobbying Displays
Scope and Content Note
Local Opposition to Cuesta Canyon Route–Various newspaper articles, 1968
Local Opposition to Diablo Canyon – Various newspaper articles, 1971
"Congressman Hashes out Desalter with County Candidates," Paso Robles Daily Press, August 8, 1972
Planning Department, 1968
Resolutions—Audubon Society, California State Historical Association, Board of Supervisors, Obispo Beautiful Association, and Sierra Club
San Luis Obispo County Telegram Tribune Editorials, 1967-68
San Luis Obispo County Telegram Tribune Feature Articles, 1967-68
San Luis Obispo County Telegram Tribune, March 12, 1968