Gaylord Nelson Papers, 1954-2006 (bulk 1963-1980)

 
Contents List
Container Title
Eau Claire Mss DE
Series: The Buzzards Have Landed! The Real Story of the Flambeau Mine
Box   1
Folder   1
Front matter
Box   1
Folder   2
Appendices, cover, disclaimer, table, body
Box   1
Folder   3
Introduction
Box   1
Folder   4-5
Chapter 1: A Mining District in Northern Wisconsin?
Box   1
Folder   6
Chapter 2: Names to Know
Box   1
Folder   7
Chapter 3: The Department of Natural Resources is Born (1967)
Box   1
Folder   8
Chapter 4: Mineral Exploration in Rusk County (1968)
Box   1
Folder   9
Chapter 5: Kennecott Goes to Madison to Write its Own Tax Law (1973)
Box   1
Folder   10
Chapter 6: Property Taxes Go Up in the Town of Grant (January 1975)
Box   1
Folder   11
Chapter 7: Local People Get More Involved (September 1975)
Box   1
Folder   12
Chapter 8: Learning about Kennecott's Proposal (Fall 1975)
Box   1
Folder   13
Chapter 9: Ed May Promotes Kennecott's Toxic Lake (Fall 1975)
Box   1
Folder   14
Chapter 10: What Lies Ahead? (November 1975)
Box   1
Folder   15
Chapter 11: Taking Out Nomination Papers for the Rusk County Board (December 1975)
Box   1
Folder   16
Chapter 12: The DNR Moves Ahead with a Preliminary Environmental Impact Statement (December 1975)
Box   1
Folder   17
Chapter 13: Environmental Impact Statement Hearing (March 4, 1976)
Box   25
Folder   1-2
Chapter 12-13: Roscoe's copies: preliminary environmental report, and environmental impact statement: draft
Box   1
Folder   18-19
Chapter 14: Formation of Rusk County Citizen Action Group (RCCAG) (March 1976)
Box   1
Folder   20
Chapter 15: My Native American Friends
Box   1
Folder   21
Chapter 16: Annual Meeting of the Town of Grant (April 13, 1976)
Box   1
Folder   22
Chapter 17: “Taking On” N. L. Industries (July 1976)
Box   1
Folder   23
Chapter 18: What If Kennecott Were to Dissolve its Subsidiary After Mining?
Box   1
Folder   24
Chapter 19: Appealing the Decision to Approve Kennecott's Environmental Impact Statement (July 1976)
Box   1
Folder   25
Chapter 20: Enlisting the Aid of the Public Intervenor (July 1976)
Box   1
Folder   26
Chapter 21: The Town of Grant Takes Future Action (September 1976)
Box   1
Folder   27
Chapter 22: The Rusk County Board Denies Kennecott a Permit to Mine (November 10, 1976)
Box   1
Folder   28
Chapter 23: Representative Harvey Dueholm Comes to Ladysmith (February 1977)
Box   1
Folder   29
Chapter 24: Kennecott Does Not Give Up (1977)
Box   1
Folder   30
Chapter 25: How I Became a Democrat (June 1977)
Box   1
Folder   31-32
Chapter 26: Changes in the Mining Tax Law (June 1977)
Box   1
Folder   33-34
Chapter 27: The Wisconsin Legislature Revamps the Metallic Mining Reclamation Act (Fall 1977)
Box   19
Folder   1
Chapter 27: The Wisconsin Legislature Revamps the Metallic Mining Reclamation Act (Fall 1977)
Box   25
Folder   9
Chapters 1-5, 9, 12-18, 21, 22, 24-27: compact disc references
Box   2
Folder   1
Chapter 28: How I Became Involved in the Crandon Mine Controversy
Box   2
Folder   2
Chapter 29: My Patience with Peter Peshek Starts to Wear Thin (1978)
Box   19
Folder   2
Chapter 29: My Patience with Peter Peshek Starts to Wear Thin (1978)
Box   2
Folder   3
Chapter 30: The “Consensus” Process Infects Wisconsin (1979)
Box   2
Folder   4-5
Chapter 31: Rusk County is Declared a Radioactive “Hot Spot” (1980)
Box   2
Folder   6
Chapter 32: Dissension Arises Among the People of the Town of Grant (1980)
Box   2
Chapter 33
Note: Folder missing.
Box   2
Folder   7-10
Chapter 34: The DNR Enforces Groundwater Quality Rules Drafted by the Mining Company (July 31, 1981)
Box   2
Folder   11
Chapter 35: Townspeople Speak Out Against “Consensus” Proposals (1981-1982)
Box   2
Folder   12-14
Chapter 36: The Wisconsin Legislature Passes a New Mining Tax Law and the “Environmental Trailer Bill” (1981)
Box   19
Folder   3
Chapter 36: The Wisconsin Legislature Passes a New Mining Tax Law and the “Environmental Trailer Bill” (1981)
Box   2
Folder   15
Chapter 37: More Bad Legislation Resulting from “Consensus”: the Solid and Hazardous Waste Siting Bill (1981)
Box   25
Folder   10
Chapters 30-32, 34-37: compact disc references
Box   2
Folder   16
Chapter 38: The Town of Grant Takes Bold Action at its Annual Meeting (April 13, 1982)
Box   2
Folder   17
Chapter 39: Our Trip to the State of Washington for Business and Pleasure (April 1982)
Box   2
Folder   18
Chapter 40: Visiting Other Mine Sites Over the Years
Box   2
Chapter 41
Note: Folder missing.
Box   2
Folder   19-20
Chapter 42: The Wisconsin Resources Protection Council is Formed (July 1982)
Box   19
Folder   4
Chapter 42: The Wisconsin Resources Protection Council is Formed (July 1982)
Box   2
Folder   21
Chapter 43: Proposal for a Tough Mineral Rights Bill is Gutted by the Legislature (1984)
Box   3
Folder   1
Chapter 44: State Laws are Amended to Allow Foreign Mining Companies to Buy Large Tracts of Land in Wisconsin (1984)
Box   3
Folder   2-4
Chapter 45: Wisconsin's Groundwater Pollution Law is Passed by the Legislature (1984)
Box   3
Folder   5
Chapter 46: Wisconsin's Town Government Law is Weakened (1984)
Box   3
Folder   6
Chapter 47: The Rusk County Board Adopts a Tough Zoning Code for Mining (1984)
Box   19
Folder   5
Chapter 47: The Rusk County Board Adopts a Tough Zoning Code for Mining (1984)
Box   3
Folder   7
Chapter 48: Exxon Withdraws from Forest County After Undermining Wisconsin's Mining Laws (December 10, 1986)
Box   3
Folder   8
Chapter 49: A Time for Reflection (Early 1987)
Box   3
Folder   9
Chapter 50: Kennecott is Back and Bob Plantz Changes Sides (May 1987)
Box   19
Folder   6
Chapter 50: Kennecott is Back and Bob Plantz Changes Sides (May 1987)
Box   19
Folder   7
Chapter 35, 43, 45, 47, 50: compact disc references
Box   3
Folder   10
Chapter 51: Evelyn and I Meet Governor Tommy Thompson (June 1987)
Box   3
Folder   11
Chapter 52: Kennecott's New Mining Proposal (June 1987)
Box   3
Folder   12
Chapter 53: State Law Says a Mining Company Can Alter the Course of a River (1987)
Box   3
Folder   13
Chapter 54: Plantz Fails to Support the Town of Grant's Mining Moratorium (August 1987)
Box   19
Folder   8
Chapter 54: Plantz Fails to Support the Town of Grant's Mining Moratorium (August 1987)
Box   3
Folder   14
Chapter 55: Ladysmith Wants a Piece of the Pie (Fall 1987)
Box   3
Folder   15
Chapter 56: Formation of the Governor's Ad Hoc Task Force on Mining (September 1987)
Box   25
Folder   3
Chapter 56: Formation of the Governor's Ad Hoc Task Force on Mining (September 1987)
Box   25
Folder   11
Chapters 38-43, 45, 47-48, 50, 52-53, 56: compact disc references
Box   3
Folder   16-17
Chapter 57: Negotiations with Kennecott (Fall and Winter 1987)
Box   23
Folder   12
Chapter 1, 4, 14-23, 31-38, 41-49, 50, 51, 53-57: figures
Box   3
Folder   18
Chapter 58: Kennecott Drafts Local Agreement Law (December 1987)
Box   3
Folder   19
Chapter 59: The DNR Waives the Rules to Accommodate Kennecott (1988)
Box   3
Folder   20
Chapter 60: Purging of the Rusk County Board (April 1988)
Box   3
Folder   21
Chapter 61: Town of Grant Voters Pass a Second Mining Moratorium Resolution (April 12, 1988)
Box   19
Folder   9
Chapter 61: Second Mining Moratorium Resolution Passed by Voters of the Town of Grant (April 12, 1988)
Box   3
Folder   22
Chapter 62: The Terms of the Local Agreement (July 1988)
Box   25
Folder   12
Chapters 57-62: compact disc references
Box   25
Folder   13
Chapter 62: compact disc reference
Box   3
Folder   23
Chapter 63: Rusk County, the Town of Grant and the City of Ladysmith Approve the Local Agreement (July 1988)
Box   19
Folder   10
Chapter 63: compact disc reference
Box   3
Folder   24
Chapter 64: Special meeting of the Town of Grant (August 4, 1988)
Box   3
Folder   25
Chapter 65: Canoe Flotilla to Protest the Mine (October 2, 1988)
Box   19
Folder   11
Chapter 65: Canoe Flotilla to Protest the Mine (October 2, 1988)
Box   3
Chapter 66
Note: Folder missing.
Box   19
Folder   12
Chapter 66: Evelyn and I are Honored as Environmentalists (October 16, 1988)
Box   3
Folder   26-28
Chapter 67: Townspeople Sue the Grant Town Board (March 1989)
Box   19
Folder   13
Chapter 67: Townspeople Sue the Grant Town Board (March 1989)
Box   3
Folder   29
Chapter 68: Almost Broke - How We Got Funds
Box   3
Folder   30-31
Chapter 69: Citizens Petition the DNR to Amend the Natural Resource Rules Governing Metallic Mining (March 1989)
Box   25
Folder   14
Chapters 63-65, 67-69: compact disc references
Box   3
Folder   32
Chapter 70: Protect the Earth Festival at Oak Knoll Farm (September 1989)
Box   19
Folder   14
Chapter 70: Protect the Earth Festival at Oak Knoll Farm (September 1989)
Box   4
Folder   1
Chapter 71: The Draft Environmental Impact Statement is Released (September 1989)
Box   19
Folder   15
Chapter 71: The Draft Environmental Impact Statement is Released (September 1989)
Box   4
Folder   2
Chapter 72: Ziesler Tries to Knock Me Off the Rusk County Board (April 1990)
Box   4
Folder   3
Chapter 73: The Flambeau News and the Real Flambeau News Hit the Press (1990)
Box   4
Folder   4
Chapter 74: Kennecott Does Not Have to Monitor for Radioactivity (1990)
Box   4
Folder   5
Chapter 75: Drama Leading Up to the Master Hearing (July 1990)
Box   19
Folder   16
Chapter 75: Drama Leading Up to the Master Hearing (July 1990)
Box   4
Folder   6-7
Chapter 76: Local Opposition at the Master Hearing (July 1990)
Box   25
Folder   4-6
Chapter 76: Local Opposition at the Master Hearing (July 1990)
Box   19
Folder   17
Chapter 76: compact disc references
Box   4
Folder   8
Chapter 77: The Ballad of Roscoe Churchill (September 1990)
Box   4
Folder   9
Chapter 78: Attempt to Rescind the Local Agreement (September 1990)
Box   19
Folder   18
Chapter 78: Attempt to Rescind the Local Agreement (September 1990)
Box   25
Folder   15
Chapters 70-74, 76-78: compact disc references
Box   4
Folder   10
Chapter 79: The Freedom March (November 10, 1990)
Box   4
Folder   11-12
Chapter 80: Lawsuit Seeking to Invalidate the Local Agreement (December 1990)
Box   19
Folder   19
Chapter 80: Lawsuit Seeking to Invalidate the Local Agreement (December 1990)
Box   4
Folder   13
Chapter 81: The Takeover of the Rusk County Democratic Party (December 1990)
Box   4
Folder   14
Chapter 82: Mining Companies Do Not Have to Follow Wisconsin's Hazardous Waste Rules (March 1991)
Box   4
Folder   15
Chapter 83: Endangered Clams are Found in the Flambeau River (May 1991)
Box   4
Folder   16
Chapter 84: Flambeau Summer Starts with a Rally at the Grant Town Hall (July 6, 1991)
Box   4
Chapter 85
Note: Folder missing.
Box   19
Folder   20
Chapter 84-85: compact disc reference: Demonstrations Continue and Arrests are Made (July 1991)
Box   23
Folder   13
Chapter 57-59, 60-80, 82-85: figures
Box   4
Folder   17
Chapter 86: The LCO Ojibwe and Sierra Club File a Lawsuit Against the DNR (July 31, 1991)
Box   25
Folder   16
Chapters 80, 82-86: compact disc references
Box   4
Folder   18
Chapter 87: Mussel Power-The Clams Stop Kennecott (August 29, 1991)
Box   19
Folder   21
Chapter 87: Mussel Power-The Clams Stop Kennecott (August 29, 1991)
Box   4
Folder   19
Chapter 88: So Who Planted the Clams? (Fall 1991)
Box   4
Folder   20-21
Chapter 89: Proposals for Tougher Mining Laws are Debated (1991)
Box   19
Folder   22
Chapter 89: Proposals for Tougher Mining Laws are Debated (1991)
Box   4
Folder   22
Chapter 90: Kennecott Goes on the Offensive (1991)
Box   19
Folder   23
Chapter 90: Kennecott Goes on the Offensive (1991)
Box   4
Folder   23
Chapter 91: The Ladysmith Area Chapter of Commerce Adds to the Stench (1991-1993)
Box   4
Folder   24-26
Chapter 92: The DNR Completes its Shoddy Supplemental EIS (April 1991)
Box   19
Folder   24
Chapter 92: The DNR Completes its Shoddy Supplemental EIS (April 1991)
Box   4
Folder   27
Chapter 93: Walt Bresette Risks His Hide to Help Us (May 14, 1992)
Box   4
Folder   28
Chapter 94: The DNR's Sham Public Hearing on the SEIS (June 3, 1992)
Box   4
Folder   29
Chapter 95: Over a Decade of Proof that the DNR is Pro-Mining (1981-1992)
Box   25
Folder   17
Chapter 87, 89-95: compact disc references
Box   4
Folder   30
Chapter 96: Keeping the Struggle Alive (Summer 1992)
Box   4
Folder   31
Chapter 97: RTZ Executives Show Their True Colors (Fall 1992)
Box   5
Folder   1
Chapter 98: Almost Peter Peshek! (January 1993)
Box   19
Folder   25
Chapter 98: Almost Peter Peshek! (January 1993)
Box   5
Folder   2
Chapter 99: Mercando Maligns Evelyn Over Well Water Testing (February 1993)
Box   5
Folder   3
Chapter 100: Kennecott Gets Desperate and Pits Neighbor Against Neighbor (April 1993)
Box   19
Folder   26
Chapter 100: Kennecott Gets Desperate and Pits Neighbor Against Neighbor (April 1993)
Box   5
Folder   4-5
Chapter 101: The Flambeau Mine Starts Productions and Kennecott Makes Off with the Gold (May 1993)
Box   19
Folder   27
Chapter 101: The Flambeau Mine Starts Productions and Kennecott Makes Off with the Gold (May 1993)
Box   5
Folder   6
Chapter 102: Kennecott Threatens Those Who Wade the Flambeau River (July 1993)
Box   5
Folder   7
Chapter 103: The Flambeau Mine is Officially Dedicated (July 31, 1993)
Box   19
Folder   28
Chapter 103: The Flambeau Mine is Officially Dedicated (July 31, 1993)
Box   23
Folder   14
Chapters 86-94, 96-103: figures
Box   5
Folder   8
Chapter 104: Evelyn Pens the Declaration of Independence from Corporate Oppression and Destruction
Box   19
Folder   29
Chapter 104: Evelyn Pens the Declaration of Independence from Corporate Oppression and Destruction
Box   5
Folder   9
Chapter 105: Kennecott Petitions to Close the Mine One Year Early (January 1994)
Box   19
Folder   30
Chapter 105: Kennecott Petitions to Close the Mine One Year Early (January 1994)
Box   5
Folder   10
Chapter 106: Ladysmith Gets Half of a New Library (and a Fire Truck)
Box   5
Folder   11
Chapter 107: Evelyn and I are Honored by the Menominee Nation (August 1994)
Box   5
Folder   12
Chapter 108: Heavy Rains Cause Flooding in the Mine Pit (September 1994)
Box   5
Folder   13-14
Chapter 109: Petition to Promulgate Rules Banning Sulfide Ore Mining (December 1994)
Box   19
Folder   31
Chapter 109: Petition to Promulgate Rules Banning Sulfide Ore Mining (December 1994)
Box   25
Folder   18
Chapters 96-99, 101-106, 108-109: compact disc references
Box   5
Folder   15
Chapter 110: Does the DNR Have the Power to Say No to Metallic Sulfide Mining? The Court Decides (February 1995)
Box   5
Folder   16
Chapter 111: The History of the Corruption of Wisconsin Government by Mining Interests (April 1995)
Box   19
Folder   32
Chapter 111: The History of the Corruption of Wisconsin Government by Mining Interests (April 1995)
Box   5
Folder   17-18
Chapter 112: The DNR Issues a Report on Acid Mine Drainage (July 1995)
Box   19
Folder   33
Chapter 112: The DNR Issues a Report on Acid Mine Drainage (July 1995)
Box   5
Folder   19
Chapter 113: [unknown title]
Box   5
Folder   20
Chapter 114: I Lose My Best Pal (June 6, 1996)
Box   5
Folder   21-22
Chapter 115: Picking Up the Pieces and Continuing the Fight (1996)
Box   19
Folder   34
Chapter 115: Picking Up the Pieces and Continuing the Fight (1996)
Box   23
Folder   1
Chapters 110-115: compact disc references
Box   5
Folder   23
Chapter 116: Kennecott Closes the Mine and Changes its Reclamation Plans (1997)
Box   5
Folder   24-26
Chapter 117: How Much Money Did Kennecott Leave Behind in Taxes?
Box   19
Folder   35
Chapter 117: How Much Money Did Kennecott Leave Behind in Taxes?
Box   5
Folder   27
Chapter 118: The State Tries to Prop Up Rusk County's Failing Economy by Awarding Bogus Grants (1994-1998)
Box   25
Folder   7
Chapter 117-118
Box   23
Folder   2
Chapter 116-118: compact disc references
Box   5
Folder   28
Chapter 119: Did the Mine Help Rusk County's Economy?
Box   6
Folder   1-5
Chapter 120: The Wisconsin Legislature Passes a Mining Moratorium Law (February 1998)
Box   19
Folder   36
Chapter 120: The Wisconsin Legislature Passes a Mining Moratorium Law (February 1998)
Box   23
Folder   15
Chapters 105-112, 114-120: figures
Box   6
Folder   6
Chapter 121: The DNR Refuses to Write Administrative Rules for the Mining Moratorium Law (1999)
Box   23
Folder   3
Chapters 119-121: compact disc references
Box   6
Folder   7-8
Chapter 122: The DNR Ignores Recommendations from the Wisconsin Conservation Congress
Box   25
Folder   8
Charter 122: The DNR Ignores Recommendations from the Wisconsin Conservation Congress - Deals with Conservation Congress
Box   19
Folder   37
Chapter 122: The DNR Ignores Recommendations from the Wisconsin Conservation Congress
Box   6
Folder   9-11
Chapter 123: A List of Wisconsin's “Tough” Mining Laws
Box   19
Folder   38
Chapter 123: A List of Wisconsin's “Tough” Mining Laws
Box   6
Folder   12
Chapter 124: Using the Public Trust Doctrine to Help Change Wisconsin's Weak Mining Laws
Box   6
Folder   13-14
Chapter 125: See, We Told You So! The Flambeau Mine is Polluting Rusk County's Groundwater and the Flambeau River
Box   23
Folder   5-10
Chapter 125: compact disc references
Box   6
Folder   15
Chapter 126: Grass Over a Grave
Box   23
Folder   4
Chapter 122-126: compact disc references
Box   6
Folder   16
Chapter 127: The Flambeau Mine Fails Wisconsin's Mining Moratorium Test
Box   24
Folder   1
Chapters 121-123, 125-127: figures
Box   6
Folder   17
Chapter 128: Advice from Evelyn
Box   6
Folder   18
Chapter 129: Reflections
Box   6
Folder   19
Epilogue: A Bloom of Hope
Box   6
Folder   20
Postscript: Roscoe
Box   23
Folder   11
Chapters 127-128, Postscript: Roscoe
Box   6
Folder   21
Book sections without chapter numbers
Box   6
Folder   22
Book cover designs
Box   19
Folder   39
Wisconsin Mineral Provence [sic] maps for book
Box   19
Folder   40
Evelyn's Declaration of Independence for book
Box   19
Folder   41
The Buzzards Have Landed! takes on a life of its own
Box   19
Folder/Disc   41/3
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