Summary Information

Title: Wisconsin Ecological Society Records
Inclusive Dates: 1946-1979

Creator:

• Wisconsin Ecological Society

Call Number: Green Bay Mss 90; Audio 1060A

Quantity: 20.2 cubic feet (15 records center cartons and 13 archives boxes) and 1 tape recording

Repository:

Housed at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Archives and Area Research Center; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

UW-Green Bay Cofrin Library / Green Bay Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Records of the Wisconsin Ecological Society, a Green Bay, Wisconsin, group comprised of business and professional peoople, documenting their efforts to encourage rigorous enforcement of existing environmental protection statutes and to press for stronger legislation. Subject files include flyers, newsletters, correspondence, and other records and concern the society's activities in opposition to the U.S. Navy's Project Sanguine, water pollution by the paper and pulp industry, and the construction of nuclear power plants. Other concerns were air and water pollution generally, energy conservation, and land use.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-gb0090

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