About 25 letters (c. 1922-1930) with George Bird Grinnell, Robert Ferguson, Kermit Roosevelt, et al., concern big game policy in National Forests and Parks, including the Kaibab. The remainder date from 1945-1948. AL was elected associate member of the club in 1923.

35 letters, 1922-1948

This station at Barrington, Illinois, was organized on 15 November 1940, with AL and Miles D. Pirnie as advisors. Lyle Sowls and William Elder were also involved.

6 letters, organizational report, 1940-1941

Materials concern a Brule River survey that involved AL in his role as Conservation Commissioner. Norman Fassett, Arthur Hasler, et al. were also involved.

4 items, 1944-1945

Jay Darling had been in charge of this program, scheduled for July 14-19, 1941, but due to illness he asked AL to take over in November 1940. H. H. Bennett, C. E. Rachford, Paul Sears, Ira Gabrielson, and H. W. Thompson had been selected as participants when the program was finally cancelled in March 1941.

25 letters, 1940-1941

Materials from 1947 include several prospectuses and approximately 20 letters concerning establishment of the Conservation Foundation, especially with George Brewer and Fairfield Osborn of the New York Zoological Society, the sponsoring organization. Correspondence for 1948 deals with meetings of the advisory council, which included AL, Charles Elton, G. Evelyn Hutchinson, William Vogt, Alexander Wetmore, and others.

30 letters, misc., 1947-1948

Contains correspondence with Richard Costley, Ira Gabrielson, H. L. Shantz, William Feeney, et al., and 3 drafts of AL's "Deer Irruption Study" with correspondence regarding prospects for government support. Richard Costley, a student of V. E. Shelford with an abortive fellowship at the University of Wisconsin, was encouraged by AL to do a study of deer, probably in undisturbed Northern Mexico. In January 1943, Richard Costley was made chairman of a subcommittee (Ecological Society of America, Committee for the Study of Plant and Animal Communities) to handle the problem of over-utilization of natural areas by deer, etc.

20 letters, misc., 1941-1943

Contains correspondence for 1939-1940 that concerns organization, policy, and leadership of the Canadian restoration program and the US lobby. Correspondence with Tom Main, M. W. Smith, B. W. Cartwright, C. A. Gross, Albert Hochbaum, et al. during 1946-1947 concerns Ducks Unlimited policy, AL's hopes for a reorientation, and the withdrawal of his membership in July 1947.

20 letters, 1939-1940; 90 letters, , 1946-1950

Reprints and mimeos, 1932-1939, concern the Committee for the Study of Plant and Animal Communities and the Committee on the Preservation of Plant and Animal Communities, of which AL may have ceased to be a member about 1933. Five letters in 1936 concern the possibility of Ecology serving as the official organ for the recently organized Society of Wildlife Managers. AL was appointed in 1944 to the Preservation Committee for Wisconsin, with T. M. Sperry and C. B. Terrell. Seventeen letters concern AL's election In 1946 as vice-president of the Society.

40 items, 1936-1950

Correspondence concerns business of the Ecological Society of America (ESA), especially appointments to committees. AL was elected president for 1947. Several letters concern AL's posthumous address as past president of the Society, for which Mr. Hickey suggested using "The Land Ethic."

80 letters, 1947-1948

Correspondence concerns establishment of the committee. (This material is partially duplicated in the ESA 1947 folder.)

15 letters, 1947

Contains correspondence with participants in a round table discussion of animal population mechanisms, chaired by AL. Also included are AL's introduction (pencil, mimeo, and typed revision) and manuscripts of McCabe and Buss, Hawkins and Bellrose, Beer, and Errington.

25 letters, misc., 1947

This organization, founded in 1946, may have split from ESA.

3 letters, 3 mimeos, 1946-1947