John P. Crevelli papers
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Sonoma State University Library
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Title: John P. Crevelli papers
Dates: 1965-2014
Collection Number: Consult repository
Creator/Collector:
Crevelli, John P., 1931-2015.
Extent: 7 boxes
Repository:
Sonoma State University Library
Rohnert Park, California 94928
Abstract: 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.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research by appointment.
The library can only claim physical ownership of the collection. Users are responsible for satisfying any claimants of literary
property.
John P. Crevelli papers. Sonoma State University Library
Biography/Administrative History
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.
Scope and Content of Collection
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.
Environmentalists -- California -- Sonoma County.
Nuclear power plants -- California -- Sonoma County.
Political activism -- Sonoma County (Calif) -- History -- Sources.
Land use -- California -- Sonoma County.
Public lands -- California -- Sonoma County.
Conservation of natural resources -- California -- Sonoma County.
Shoreline protection -- California.
Environmental policy -- California -- Sonoma County.
Coastal zone management -- California.
Environmental protection -- California.
Sonoma County (Calif) - History - 20th century - Sources.
COAAST (Organization).
Committee to Preserve Bodega Head (Organization).
Northern California Association to Preserve Bodega Head (Organization).
Bodega Head (Calif.)
Bodega Bay (Calif.)
Sea Ranch (Calif.)