The records of the Fond du Lac County Conservation Alliance date 1961-1968 and include minutes, correspondence, clippings, and working papers of the Alliance, and papers concerning the Sixth District Advisory Committee to the National Rivers and Harbors Congress. A broad range of Alliance activity is documented, including its involvement in formulating Canada goose hunting regulations, in fighting water pollution, in encouraging desirable conservation legislation, and in sponsoring a tour for Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall and a banquet for naturalist Owen Gromme.
A major portion of the records in both size and significance are the minutes. They are present from June 1961, the Alliance's second meeting, to December 1966. Included with the minutes are notices of meetings, agenda, copies of speakers' remarks, committee reports, annual lists of projects, and copies of legislative bills of interest to the Alliance.
The materials filed under “Horicon Marsh” mainly concern Canada goose hunting regulations, particularly a public meeting held November 29, 1962, where opposing views on goose hunting were aired. Also included are a few items concerning the transfer of Les Dundas, Federal game manager at Horicon.
Newspaper clippings comprise the “Supple Marsh” folder. They concern the Alliance's efforts to stop the City of Fond du Lac and others from dumping operations at the Marsh, and their efforts to have it declared a wildlife preserve.
The Sixth District Advisory Committee to the National Rivers and Harbors Congress concerned itself with flood control, navigation, and irrigation in Wisconsin's 6th Congressional District. The records here consist of correspondence of John Franson, Committee president pro tem , with Congressman John Race and others, notices and minutes of meetings, clippings, and other materials. Examples of subjects discussed are the Wild Rivers Bill, Princeton Dam on the Upper Fox River, the building of a Federal pesticide laboratory in Wisconsin, and levels of lakes.
The “Miscellaneous” folder contains information on a proposed 1964 conservation tour by Governor Reynolds, on an FCCA request that Wisconsin's hunting regulations booklet mention life preserver laws, on the FCCA desire to re-locate the Federal harbor in Fond du lac, and on various Public Service Commission hearings. Also included is a draft of an undated letter to Senator Gaylord Nelson from John Franson expressing his frustration and discouragement on conservation problems.
