Finding Aid to the Sierra Club Northern California/Nevada Regional Conservation Committee

Lisa Monhoff

The Bancroft Library

2017

The Bancroft Library

University of California

Berkeley, CA 94720-6000

bancref@library.berkeley.edu

URL: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/libraries/bancroft-library

Language of Material: English

Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library

Title: Sierra Club Northern California/Nevada Regional Conservation Committee records, 1880-1992

creator: Sierra Club. Northern California/Nevada Regional Conservation Committee

Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 2005/296

Physical Description: 12.5 linear feet (10 cartons)

Date (inclusive): 1880-1992 (bulk 1970-1984)

Date (bulk): 1970-1984

Abstract: The Sierra Club of Northern California/Nevada Conservation Committee records document the organization’s conservation policy and conservation position work in Northern California and Nevada, mainly in the 1970s and 1980s.

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.

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Accruals

Future additions are expected.

Organizational History

The Sierra Club of Northern California/Nevada Conservation Committee was founded in 1968 as the Sierra Club Northern California Regional Conservation Committee and is also known as the California Conservation Committee, the California-Nevada Conservation Coordinating Committee and CNRCC. The organization works to establish general conservation policy and specific conservation positions for Sierra Club California and the 13 chapters of the California Sierra Club. Its structure is composed of conservation issue committees and task forces that research and propose conservation policy and coordinate and implement programs for conservation issues across the various chapter boundaries.

Sources:

California Conservation Committee, 2017. Web site accessed December 1, 2017

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Sierra Club Northern California/Nevada Regional Conservation Committee records, BANC MSS 2005/296, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

System of Arrangement

Arranged to the folder level.

Processing Information

Processed by Lauren Lassleben and Lisa Monhoff in 2006 and 2017.

Scope and Contents

The Sierra Club of Northern California/Nevada Conservation Committee records document the organization’s conservation policy and conservation position work in Northern California and Nevada, mainly in the 1970s and 1980s. This collection includes records of three legislative representatives who lobbied for the organization during that period: Paula Carrell, Russell Shay and Lowell Smith. Activities documented include public policy research and planning, lobbying and legislative hearings, and task force and committee meetings. Consists of correspondence, administrative records and financial records, environmental analysis, testimony, maps, meeting minutes, and newsletters.

The collection is divided into two series: Administrative files and Subject files.

Conditions Governing Use

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Subjects and Indexing Terms

Sierra Club. Northern California/Nevada Regional Conservation Committee

Shay, Russell

Carrell, Paula

Smith, Lowell

Conservationists--California

Conservationists--United States

Conservationists -- Nevada

Environmentalists--California

Environmentalists--United States

Environmentalists -- Nevada

Series 1: Administrative 1880-1992

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically.

Scope and Contents

This series contains Sierra Club of Northern California/Nevada Conservation Committee’s administrative, committee and task force files. Consists of legislative representative Paula Carrell’s files and general administrative files of the organization including correspondence, agendas, financial records, meeting minutes and membership rosters.

carton 1, folder 1-5

Correspondence 1970-1983

carton 1, folder 6-7

NCRCC agendas 1970-1981

carton 1, folder 8

NCRCC financial records 1971-1979

carton 1, folder 9

NCRCC membership lists 1971-1976

carton 1, folder 10-14

NCRCC minutes 1968-1992

carton 1, folder 15

NCRCC organizational guidelines 1971-1977

carton 1, folder 16

NCRCC policies 1972-1979

carton 1, folder 17

NCRCC press releases/action alerts 1981

carton 1, folder 18

NCRCC resolutions 1972-1980

carton 1, folder 19-20

NCRCC rosters 1977-1990

carton 1, folder 21-22

NCRCC/SCRCC joint meetings 1974-1984

carton 1, folder 23

Photograph approximately 1982

Scope and Contents

Palmer, Mark J.; Watt, James G.

carton 1, folder 24

SCRCC Desert Committee 1976-1981

carton 1, folder 25-26

Air Pollution Committee 1971-1978

carton 1, folder 27

California Legislative Committee 1971-1984

carton 1, folder 28-30

Coastal Task Force 1972-1979

carton 1, folder 31

Energy Committee 1972-1980

carton 1, folder 32

Environmental Education Committee 1973-1977

carton 1, folder 33

Forest Practices Task Force 1974-1977

carton 1, folder 34

Geothermal Task Force 1973-1980

carton 1, folder 35

Indian Lands Sub-committee 1970-1974

carton 1, folder 36

Lake Tahoe Task Force 1970-1978

carton 1, folder 37

Land Use Task Force 1975-1977

carton 1, folder 38

Mineral King Task Force 1976-1978

carton 2, folder 1-2

Mining Impact Task Force 1970-1978

carton 2, folder 3

Mono Lake Task Force 1971-1979

carton 2, folder 4

MX Campaign Steering Committee 1979-1981

carton 2, folder 5

North Bay Task Force 1976

carton 2, folder 6

Off-Road Vehicles Committee 1971-1979

carton 2, folder 7

Public Lands Committee 1970-1978

carton 2, folder 8

Pyramid Lake Task Force 1974-1978

carton 2, folder 9-10

Redwoods Task Force 1971-1978

carton 2, folder 11

Sierra Nevada Task Force 1969-1974

carton 2, folder 12

Solid Waste Task Force 1972-1978

carton 2, folder 13-14

Transportation Committee 1971-1978

carton 2, folder 15-17

Tuolumne Meadows Land Advisory 1880-1977

carton 2, folder 18-23

Water Resources Committee 1966-1978

Scope and Contents

Tuolumne River

carton 2, folder 24

Wild Rivers Task Force 1971-1978

carton 2, folder 25-26

Wilderness Committee 1970-1979

carton 2, folder 27

Wilderness Coordinating Task Force 1976-1978

carton 2, folder 28

Wildlife Committee 1972-1986

carton 3, folder 1-3

Yosemite Task Force 1971-1980

Series 2: Subject Files 1966-1984

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by subject within two subseries: Lowell Smith and Russell Shay.

Scope and Contents

This series contains the subject files of two Sierra Club of Northern California/Nevada Conservation Committee conservation policy legislative representatives, Lowell Smith and Russell Shay. Consists of research files and lobbying documentation on environmental conservation issues such as air transport, all-terrain and off-road vehicles, livestock grazing, minerals and mining, MX weapons systems, public lands, weather modification, wilderness use, and the establishment of national monuments and parks. Includes correspondence, newsletters, proposals, proclamations, resolutions, testimony, environmental analysis, reports, graphs and maps.

Subseries 2.1: Lowell Smith Files 1967-1981

carton 3, folder 4

Air quality standards 1971-1973

carton 3, folder 5

Airports 1972-1973

carton 3, folder 6

Alaska 1971-1977

carton 3, folder 7

American Bicentennial Commission 1971-1972

carton 3, folder 8

Auburn Dam 1969-1977

carton 3, folder 9

Brushland management 1973

carton 3, folder 10

Bucks Lake 1971-1972

carton 3, folder 11

Butler Valley Dam 1972-1973

carton 3, folder 12

California Coastline Conservation Initiative 1972

carton 3, folder 13

Clean Air Act 1972-1973

carton 3, folder 14-17

Coastal zone management 1969-1977

carton 3, folder 18

Deepwater ports 1973

carton 3, folder 19

Desert protection 1971-1979

carton 3, folder 20

DNA research 1976-1977

carton 3, folder 21

Dow Chemical Company 1975-1978

carton 3, folder 22

Dutch elm disease 1975-1976

carton 3, folder 23

Energy generation and transmission 1973

carton 3, folder 24

Energy policy 1971-1974

carton 3, folder 25

Flora and Azalea Lakes property 1976-1977

carton 3, folder 26

Forest Highway 100 1971-1972

carton 3, folder 27-28

Forest practices 1971-1978

carton 3, folder 29

Forest Service roadless areas in California 1972-1974

carton 3, folder 30

Hetch-Hetchy 1972

carton 3, folder 31

Independence Lake 1974-1978

carton 3, folder 32

Jarvis-Gann Initiative 1978

carton 3, folder 33

Kings River 1973-1975

carton 3, folder 34

Kirkwood Meadows 1971-1973

carton 3, folder 35

Liquefied natural gas 1977-1978

carton 3, folder 36

Mammoth and June Lakes 1971-1972

carton 3, folder 37

Mineral King 1972-1978

carton 3, folder 38

Mount Shasta 1972-1979

carton 3, folder 39

North Battle Creek Reservoir 1971-1973

carton 3, folder 40

Nuclear energy 1973-1979

carton 3, folder 41-43

Off-road vehicle policy 1970-1973

carton 3, folder 44-46

Open space planning 1971-1973

carton 3, folder 47

Outer Continental Shelf 1977-1979

carton 4, folder 1

Pacific Gas and Electric Company 1973

carton 4, folder 2

Pacific Gas and Electric Company 1975-1976

carton 4, folder 3

Pacific Gas and Electric Company January 4-21, 1977

carton 4, folder 4

Pacific Gas and Electric Company January 25-31, 1977

carton 4, folder 5

Pacific Gas and Electric Company February 2-14, 1977

carton 4, folder 6

Pacific Gas and Electric Company February 15-March 21, 1977

carton 4, folder 7

Peripheral Canal 1968-1981

carton 4, folder 8

Pesticides 1970-1978

carton 4, folder 9

Pinnacles National Monument 1967-1971

carton 4, folder 10

Population 1970-1978

carton 4, folder 11-12

Power plant siting 1970-1973

carton 4, folder 13

Proposition One 1973

carton 4, folder 14

Rangeland enhancements 1972-1973

carton 4, folder 15-16

Roadless Area Review and Evaluation (RARE II) 1975-1978

carton 4, folder 17

Sacramento-Stockton-San Francisco Bay Area Corridor 1973

carton 4, folder 18

Santa Barbara Channel 1973

carton 4, folder 19

Sequoia National Park 1971-1974

carton 4, folder 20

Snow Mountain Wilderness 1972

carton 4, folder 21

Stanford University lands 1971-1972

carton 4, folder 22-23

Stanislaus River 1971-1972

carton 4, folder 24

Suisun Marsh 1973-1979

carton 4, folder 25-26

Supersonic Transport 1970-1972

carton 5, folder 1-2

Tahoe Regional Planning Agency 1971-1976

carton 5, folder 3

Trinity Alps 1971-1978

carton 5, folder 4

Warm Springs Dam 1973-1978

carton 5, folder 5

Water pollution 1970-1973

carton 5, folder 6

Weather modification 1972-1978

carton 5, folder 7

Westlands Project 1976-1977

carton 5, folder 8

Whaling 1977

carton 5, folder 9

Wild and Scenic Rivers 1971-1972

carton 5, folder 10

Wilderness protection 1970-1979

carton 5, folder 11

Wilderness use permits 1972-1973

carton 5, folder 12

Wildlife poisoning 1971-1972

Subseries 2.2: Russell Shay Files 1966-1984

carton 5, folder 13

All-terrain vehicles, Barstow to Las Vegas Race 1974-1975

carton 5, folder 14

ATVs, Barstow to Las Vegas Race 1982-1983

carton 5, folder 15

ATVs, Blue Lakes, Nevada 1973-1977

carton 5, folder 16

ATVs, coastal zone management 1979-1982

carton 5, folder 17-19

ATVs, Dove Spring Canyon, California 1980-1983

carton 5, folder 20-21

ATVs, Imperial Sand Dunes, California 1979-1980

carton 5, folder 22-23

ATVs, Johnson Valley to Parker Race 1980-1981

carton 5, folder 24

ATVs, Las Vegas to Reno 1982

carton 5, folder 25

ATVs, Ludlow to Parker Race 1979

carton 5, folder 26

ATVs, Parker 400 Race 1981

carton 5, folder 27

ATVs, Phantom Duck of the Desert 1975-1981

carton 5, folder 28

ATVs, Red Garter Enduro Race 1980

carton 5, folder 29-30

ATVs, management 1975-1983

carton 5, folder 31

ATVs, Management Plan for Ballinger Canyon 1979-1980

carton 5, folder 32

ATVs, use on public lands 1977-1981

carton 5, folder 33

ATVs, workshops and conferences 1979-1980

carton 5, folder 34

Amendment of Wilderness Inventory Decision 1982-1983

carton 5, folder 35

Apportionment, California Sebastiani Plan 1983

carton 5, folder 36

Assessment of the Forest Resources of California 1979

carton 5, folder 37

Assets Management Program, Forest Service land sales 1983

carton 6, folder 1

Bureau of Land Management, budget 1976-1978

carton 6, folder 2

BLM California Desert District Advisory Council 1981-1982

carton 6, folder 3

BLM California Desert District Advisory Council 1976-1979

carton 6, folder 4

BLM California desert legislation 1976-1985

carton 6, folder 5

BLM California Desert Conservation Area Plan 1973-1977

carton 6, folder 6

BLM California Desert Conservation Area Plan 1978-March, 1980

carton 6, folder 7

BLM California Desert Conservation Area Plan April-October, 1980

carton 6, folder 8

BLM California Desert Conservation Area Plan November 1980-1984

carton 6, folder 9

BLM California Desert Conservation Area Plan, amendments 1981-1982

carton 6, folder 10

BLM California Desert Conservation Area Plan, Jack Anderson 1976

carton 6, folder 11

BLM California Desert Conservation Area Plan, lawsuit 1981-1983

carton 6, folder 12

BLM California Desert Conservation Area Plan, motor vehicle routes 1981-1982

carton 6, folder 13

BLM California Desert Conservation Area Plan, newsclippings 1975-1980

carton 6, folder 14

BLM California Desert Conservation Area Plan, opponents 1979-1980

carton 6, folder 15

BLM California Desert Conservation Area Plan, prototype 1979

carton 6, folder 16

BLM desert grazing 1982

carton 6, folder 17

BLM Environmental Analysis Record, Cadiz-Danby Area 1976-1977

carton 6, folder 18

BLM Environmental Analysis Record, Eureka Dunes 1976

carton 6, folder 19

BLM Environmental Analysis Record, Mecca Hills 1973-1978

carton 6, folder 20

BLM Four-Year Authorization 1979-1981

carton 6, folder 21

BLM Land Use Planning Proposal 1979

carton 6, folder 22

BLM Land Use Planning Regulations 1981-1982

carton 6, folder 23

BLM Mid-Course Review 1980

carton 6, folder 24

BLM Rangeland Policy Review Committee 1980

carton 6, folder 25

BLM Wilderness, "A Conservationists Handbook" 1978-1983

carton 6, folder 26-29

BLM Wilderness Study Areas 1974-1984

carton 6, folder 30

BLM Wilderness Study Areas, Energy Leasing 1982

carton 6, folder 31-32

BLM Wilderness Study Areas, James Watts Policies 1982-1983

carton 6, folder 33

Burton, Philip, congressional campaign 1982

carton 6, folder 34

California Omnibus Bill 1976

carton 6, folder 35

California Omnibus Bill April-October 1979

carton 6, folder 36

California Omnibus Bill November 1979-June 1980

carton 6, folder 37

California Omnibus Bill July-December 1980

carton 7, folder 1

California Wilderness Bill 1980

carton 7, folder 2

California Wilderness Bill January-July 1981

carton 7, folder 3

California Wilderness Bill August-December 1981

carton 7, folder 4

California Wilderness Bill 1982

carton 7, folder 5

California Wilderness Bill January-July 1983

carton 7, folder 6-8

California Wilderness Bill Jul 1983

carton 7, folder 9

California Wilderness Bill July-December 1983

carton 7, folder 10

California Wilderness Bill 1984

carton 7, folder 11

California Wilderness Bill, compromise 1984

carton 7, folder 12-14

California Wilderness Bill, Granite Chief 1968-1984

carton 7, folder 15

California Wilderness Bill, hearings June 1981

carton 7, folder 16

California Wilderness Bill June-July 1981

carton 7, folder 17

California Wilderness Bill, hearings 1983

carton 7, folder 18-19

California Wilderness Bill, hearings (San Francisco, California) April 1982

carton 7, folder 20

California Wilderness Bill, hearings (Washington D.C.) November 1979

carton 7, folder 21

California Wilderness Bill, hearings (Weaverville, California) May 1981

carton 7, folder 22

California Wilderness Bill, House of Representatives 1983

carton 7, folder 23-24

California Wilderness Bill, leasing 1981-1983

carton 7, folder 25

California Wilderness Bill, legislation 1981-1982

carton 7, folder 26

California Wilderness Bill, lobbying material 1983

carton 7, folder 27

California Wilderness Bill, maps undated

carton 7, folder 28

California Wilderness Bill, opponents 1972-March 1983

carton 7, folder 29

California Wilderness Bill, opponents May-June 1983

carton 7, folder 30

California Wilderness Bill, opponents 1984

carton 7, folder 31-32

California Wilderness Bill, Sierra Club response 1982-July 1983

carton 8, folder 1

California Wilderness Bill, Sierra Club response July 1983-April 1984

carton 8, folder 2

California Wilderness Bill, Sierra Club response May-October 1984

carton 8, folder 3

California Wilderness Bill, ski resorts 1978-1981

carton 8, folder 4-5

California Wilderness Bill, testimony 1981-1983

carton 8, folder 6

Crested Butte undated

carton 8, folder 7

Death Valley 1976-1977

carton 8, folder 8

Grazing, cooperative projects 1978-1980

carton 8, folder 9

Grazing, Domenici field hearings 1979

carton 8, folder 10

Grazing, legislation 1978

carton 8, folder 11

Grazing, livestock limitation 1979-1980

carton 8, folder 12

Grazing, public lands 1978-1984

carton 8, folder 13

Grazing, Sierra Club Sub-committee 1979-1983

carton 8, folder 14

Gregg, Frank, BLM director 1977-1979

carton 8, folder 15

Mineral leasing 1981-1982

carton 8, folder 16

Mojave National Park (proposed) 1978-1984

carton 8, folder 17

Mount Shasta Wilderness (proposed) 1974-1976

carton 8, folder 18

Mount Shasta Wilderness (proposed) 1978-1982

carton 8, folder 19

MX (weapons systems), Draft Environmental Impact Statement 1978-1980

carton 8, folder 20

MX, Draft Environmental Impact Statement 1981

carton 8, folder 21

MX, fundraising 1980-1981

carton 8, folder 22

MX, legislation and hearings 1979-1980

carton 8, folder 23

MX, multiple protective shelters 1981

carton 8, folder 24

MX, opponents 1978-1981

carton 8, folder 25

MX, press releases 1979-1981

carton 8, folder 26

MX, Sierra Club Campaign Steering Committee March 1980-1981

carton 8, folder 27

MX, Sierra Club Campaign Steering Committee 1978-February 1980

carton 8, folder 28

MX, Sierra Club Campaign Steering Committee March-August 1980

carton 8, folder 29

MX, Sierra Club Campaign Steering Committee September 1980-1981

carton 8, folder 30

MX, Sierra Club Campaign Steering Committee, Dennis Willigan 1980-1981

carton 8, folder 31

MX, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund 1980-1981

carton 8, folder 32

MX, United States Air Force 1978-1980

carton 8, folder 33

National Forest Management Act 1980

carton 8, folder 34-37

1872 Mining Law Reform 1974-1979

carton 9, folder 1

Pacific Crest Trail Mine 1978

carton 9, folder 2

Presidential proposals for national monuments 1974-1981

carton 9, folder 3-8

Privatization of public lands 1979-1983

carton 9, folder 9-10

Proposed wilderness and wilderness study areas 1969-1979, 1983

carton 9, folder 11-12

Red Buttes (California and Oregon) 1974-1978

carton 9, folder 13

Roadless Area Review and Evaluation (RARE II) May 1977-1978

carton 9, folder 14

RARE II January-April 1977

carton 9, folder 15

RARE II 1979-1981

carton 9, folder 16

RARE II, Alternative H 1977-1978

carton 9, folder 17-18

RARE II, California 1978-1979

carton 9, folder 19

RARE II, California vs. Bergland 1980-1982

carton 9, folder 20-22

RARE II, correspondence 1977-1982

carton 9, folder 23

RARE II, Draft Environmental Statement 1978

carton 9, folder 24

RARE II, fire salvage 1980-1982

carton 9, folder 25

RARE II, Forest Service list undated

carton 9, folder 26

RARE II, Marble Mountain Wilderness 1977-1983

carton 9, folder 27

RARE II, position papers 1977-1979

carton 9, folder 28-30

RARE II, release strategy 1979-1981, 1983, 1984

carton 9, folder 31

RARE II, Trinity County, California 1978-1979

carton 10, folder 1-2

San Joaquin Wilderness Area, California (proposed) 1967-1981, 1983

carton 10, folder 3

Secretary of the Interior, William Clark 1983-1984

carton 10, folder 4-6

Siskiyou Mountains 1973-1985

carton 10, folder 7

Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area 1978-1980

carton 10, folder 8-9

Snow Mountain Wilderness Area, California (proposed) 1972-1983

carton 10, folder 10-11

Snowmobiles in Lassen National Park 1981-1982

carton 10, folder 12

Snowmobiles in National Parks 1973-1981

carton 10, folder 13-14

Tuolumne River 1972-1984

carton 10, folder 15

Tuolumne River, House of Representatives testimony 1983-1984

carton 10, folder 16

Tuolumne River, Senate testimony 1983

carton 10, folder 17

Tuolumne River, Sierra Club actions 1982-1983

carton 10, folder 18-20

Tuolumne River Preservation Trust 1981-1984

carton 10, folder 21

Trans-Sierra Highway (proposed) 1966-1983

carton 10, folder 22-23

Trinity Alps Wilderness 1969-1984

carton 10, folder 24

Ventana Wilderness, additions 1975-1983

carton 10, folder 25

Wild and Scenic Rivers 1980-1981

carton 10, folder 26

Wilderness Areas, boundary adjustments 1980-1982

carton 10, folder 27

Yolla Bolly-Middle Eel Wilderness 1971-1984