John P. Crevelli papers, 1965-2014

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Summary

Creators:
Crevelli, John P., 1931-2015.
Abstract:
Extent:
7 boxes
Language:
Preferred citation:

John P. Crevelli papers. Sonoma State University Library

Background

Scope and content:

The materials are organized into seven boxes and seven separate record groups: C.O.A.A.S.T., Environmental Activism, Correspondence, Teaching, Maps, Photographic Materials, Ephemera. There is a total of fifty-four folders containing documentary material, with the maps, photographic materials and ephemera each in separate boxes.

Biographical / historical:

John P. Crevelli was part of Sonoma County’s environmental vanguard, which thwarted PG&E’s plans to erect a nuclear power plan on an earthquake fault at Bodega Bay and fought to preserve public access to the coast. Crevelli was a founding member of the group C.O.A.A.ST (Californians Organized to Acquire Access to State Tidelands), formed in fellow Santa Rosa Junior College instructor Peter Leveque’s classroom in 1968. C.O.A.A.ST also included the late Bill Kortum, the dean of Sonoma County environmental activists, and the late Chuck Hinkle, a former county supervisor who was recalled, along with Kortum, in 1976 in a move that paved the way for the board’s first environmental majority. Also, out of C.O.A.A.S.T’s endeavors came the 1972 Coastal Zone Conservation Act, parent of California’s Coastal Commission. Crevelli authored Bill Kortum: A Fifty Year History of Environmental Activism in Sonoma County.

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research by appointment.

Terms of access:

The library can only claim physical ownership of the collection. Users are responsible for satisfying any claimants of literary property.

Preferred citation:

John P. Crevelli papers. Sonoma State University Library

Location of this collection:
Special Collections
1801 E. Cotati Avenue
Rohnert Park, CA 94928, US
Contact:
(707) 664-4152
specialcollections@sonoma.edu
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