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Sierra Club executive director and chairman, 1980s-1990s : oral history transcript : a perspective on transitions in the club
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Sierra Club executive director and chairman, 1980s-1990s : oral history transcript: a perspective on transitions in the club and the environmental movement / 1999Sierra Club oral history series
Creator/Contributor:
McCloskey, J. Michael (John Michael), 1934-, creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Lage, Ann, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Ruckel, H. Anthony.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
Sierra Club executive director during Reagan administration: James Watt, passage of wilderness bills, club growth and organizational
issues; executive directors Douglas Wheeler, Michael Fischer and Carl Pope; role as club chairman, 1985-1999: representing
the club in Washington, D.C., working on nonprofit regulatory reform, international trade issues, reflections on Clinton administration;
Sierra Club international program: park protection, human rights issues, biodiversity; trends in environmental movement: radical
environmentalism, market solutions, social policy issues, attitudes toward wilderness; changes in the club's environmental
strategies; Sierra Club internal affairs: transitions in volunteer leadership, chapters and the national club, relations with
Sierra Club Foundation and Legal Defense Fund; divisive issues in the club: ancient forests, zero-cut logging policy, immigration
and population control; wife Maxine McCloskey's environmental activism: the Whale Center and ocean habitat protection.
Date:
1999 (issued)Subject:
n-us--- -- n-us-caConservationists -- California -- Interviews
Conservation of natural resources -- California -- History
Conservation of natural resources -- United States -- History
Écologistes (Défenseurs de l'environnement) -- Californie -- Entretiens
Conservation des ressources naturelles -- Californie -- Histoire
Conservation of natural resources
Conservationists
California
United States
Sierra Club -- History
Sierra Club.
Note:
J. Michael McCloskey ; with an introduction by H. Anthony Ruckel. Interviews conducted by Ann Lage in 1998. Regional Oral
History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Forms part of: Sierra Club oral history series.
Updates his previous interview: Sierra Club executive director : the evolving club and the environmental movement, 1961-1981.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Audio tape recording of the interviews also available. Shelved as Phonotape 3068 C:1-14.
Also available online.
Volume includes index.
Duplicate transcript: Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
biographyHistory.
Interviews.
Oral histories.
Physical Description:
print
1 volume (viii, 281 pages) : portrait ; 29 cm
14 audiocassettes
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaClassification:
333.7205Copyright Note:
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.