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Livermore, Jr. (Norman B.) Papers
BANC MSS 2011/129
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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
The Bancroft Library
Title: Norman B. Livermore, Jr. papers
creator:
Livermore, Norman B.
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 2011/129
Physical Description:
28.5 linear feet
(21 cartons, 4 tubes)
Date (inclusive): approximately 1933-2006
Abstract: The papers of Norman B. Livermore, Jr., conservationist, lumber industry executive, and Secretary of Resources under the Reagan
gubernatorial administration in California.
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Collection is open for research.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
The Norman B. Livermore, Jr. papers were gifted to the Bancroft Library by Samuel M. Livermore in 2011.
Processed by Lara Michels in 2015.
[Identification of item], Norman B. Livermore, Jr. papers, BANC MSS 2011/129, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
Norman B. Livermore, Jr. was born in 1911 in San Francisco to Norman B. Livermore, Sr. and Caroline Livermore (for whom Mt.
Livermore on Angel Island is named). He was the great-grandson of California pioneer and state senator (from El Dorado County)
Horatio Gates Livermore and the grandson of Horatio Putnam Livermore.
Norman B. Livermore, Jr. was a noted California conservationist and Secretary of Resources under Governor Ronald Reagan. He
was also an avid and accomplished mule packer and guide and, in the 1930s and 1940s, was actively involved in running packing
stations and leading packing trips into the Sierra. He was also an early director of the Sierra Club. From 1957 to 1965, Livermore
served as Treasurer for the Pacific Lumber Company.
In 1967, Reagan named Livermore as Secretary of Resources, hoping that Livermore would act as a bridge between the worlds
of lumber and conservation. Livermore would become one of Reagan's closest advisers. It was Livermore who convinced Reagan
to take the pack trip into the high Sierra that convinced that governor to oppose the building of a freeway from the Central
Valley across the Sierra into Nevada. Livermore also played a key role in Reagan's decision to curtail development in the
Tahoe Basin.
Livermore served on the boards of the National Audubon Society, the Peregrine Fund, Save the Redwoods League, Tamalpais Savings
and the Stanford Business School Advisory Council. He was the founder of the High Sierra Packers Association and treasurer
of the Commonwealth Club.
The papers of Norman B. Livermore, Jr., conservationist, lumber industry executive, and Secretary of Resources under the Reagan
gubernatorial administration in California. The collection is arranged into ten series: Resources Agency of California; Speeches;
Water; Reagan Presidential Transition; Wilderness; Pack Trips and Packing Stations; Subject Files; Pacific Lumber Company;
Personalia; and Maps. Within the files created by Livermore during his tenure as Secretary of Resources in California are
correspondence, administrative files, files relating to the Minarets highway controversy, files relating to the establishment
of Redwood National Park; and files documenting the Dos Rios Project (to build a dam on the Eel River). The Speeches series
contains Livermore's speech transcripts and notes arranged chronologically by year. Files in the Water series pertain to Hetchy
Hetchy and to the Garrison Diversion Project. The collection contains a small number of files documenting Livermore's connection
to the Ronald Reagan presidential transition. Wilderness files document Livermore's interest in and work on various wilderness
related issues in California. The Wilderness series contains some materials created by Livermore as Secretary of Resources
in California. The Pack Trips and Packing Stations series documents Livermore's extensive interest and work with pack trips
into the High Sierra and includes files of the Packing companies and a packing association he founded and helped operate.
The Pacific Lumber Company series consists soley of correspondence created by Livermore during his tenure as Treasurer of
the Pacific Lumber Company. This correspondence dates only from 1965 and does not cover his entire tenure as treasurer (1957-1965).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Livermore, Norman B.
Reagan, Ronald
California. Resources Agency
Sierra Club
Garrison Diversion Project
Pacific Lumber Company
Mount Whitney Pack Trains
Mineral King Packing Company
High Sierra Packers Association
Livermore, Norman B. -- Archives
Conservationists--California.
Environmentalists--California.
Wilderness area users -- California
Wilderness areas -- California
Hetch Hetchy Reservoir (Calif.)
Reservoirs -- California -- Eel River
Minarets Wilderness (Calif.)
Redwood National Park (Calif.)