The John P. Crevelli Papers, dating primarily from 1965 through 2015, include correspondence, government documents, meeting minutes, newspaper clippings, newsletters, pamphlets, fliers, and ephemera on various county, state, and national environmental issues.

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.

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