Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Florida Canyoneers Collection
- Dates:
- bulk 1970-1983
- Abstract:
- The Florida Canyoneer Collection consists of two scrapbooks, one manila envelope of news clippings, and one folder of news clippings. One large scrapbook album includes news clippings, photographs, letters, and museum documents relating to Florida Canyon, the Canyoneers, Japanese beetles in Balboa Park, and the 1974 centennial of the San Diego Natural History Museum. The smaller scrapbook binder contains news clippings of Helen Witham Chamlee.
- Containers:
- Box: 209
- Extent:
- 1 Linear Feet
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Florida Canyoneers Collection, ca. 1970-1983. Research Library, San Diego Natural History Museum.
Background
- Scope and content:
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1 box containing 2 scrapbooks, 1 manila envelope, and 1 folder containing newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, and artifacts. The manila envelope contains news clipping service loose newspaper clippings.
- Biographical / historical:
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Florida Canyon is a 150-acre natural area (mostly coastal sage scrub) in Balboa Park, San Diego, California. The Canyoneer program of the San Diego Natural History Museum is a volunteer program which provides training by Museum scientists and local experts on the natural history of the San Diego region. Helen Witham Chamlee (1907–1982), a botanist with the Museum, was instrumental in the establishment of Florida Canyon as a Native Plant Preserve, advocating for the preservation of local plants. Florida Canyon was opened to the public on November 17, 1973. Witham established the Florida Canyoneers, a naturalist-guide program of the San Diego Natural History Museum, in 1973. The Canyoneers conduct free guided tours of Florida Canyon to provide the public the opportunity to have direct contact with nature. The Canyoneers Program has expanded beyond the Florida Canyon, providing guided tours of a number of locations in San Diego County. Notably, the Canyoneers remain one of the few trail-guided groups nationwide affiliated with a natural history museum rather than a park or reserve.
The Florida Canyoneers Project Scrapbook was donated by Pat Knoll, husband of Paula Knoll (1953-2018), who was a 30-year veteran Canyoneer. Paula Knoll was helped to introduce new hiking areas to San Diego residents and was an editor and contributor to Coast to Cactus: The Canyoneer Trail Guide to San Diego Outdoors (2016). In addition, Knoll created a website, Southern California Nature, (www.pknoll.net) which is archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20170705214221/http://pknoll.net/paula/.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2020-02-06 13:08:17 -0800 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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The collection is open to researchers by appointment. Contact the Research Library Director, San Diego Natural History Museum.
- Terms of access:
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Copyright may be reserved. Consult the San Diego Natural History Museum Research Library Director for more information.
- Preferred citation:
-
[Identification of item], Florida Canyoneers Collection, ca. 1970-1983. Research Library, San Diego Natural History Museum.
- Location of this collection:
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1788 El Prado, Balboa ParkSan Diego, CA 92101, US
- Contact:
- (619) 255-0225