Aldo Leopold papers


Summary Information

Overview of the Collection

Title: Aldo Leopold papers
Dates: 1887-1948

Creator:
  • Leopold, Aldo, 1887-1948
Record Series: 9/25/10

Extent: 27.6 cubic feet (83 archives boxes), 3 reels microfilm, 5 folios, 3 cases, 7 diaries, 12 journals, 1 scrapbook, and 1 photo album.

Repository:
University of Wisconsin--Madison. Archives and Records Management.

Archival Location:
UW-Madison Archives and Records Management (Map)

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

Biography of Aldo Leopold, 1887-1948

Aldo Leopold was born in Burlington, Iowa in 1887. After earning B.Ph. (Bachelor of Philosophy) and M.F. (Master of Forestry) degrees from Yale University in 1909, he joined the US Forest Service and was assigned to the Southwestern district, where he served on the Apache and Carson National Forests and in the district headquarters at Albuquerque, rising to Chief of Operations. In 1924 he left the Southwest for Wisconsin, to become associate director of the US Forest Products Laboratory in Madison. He left the Forest Service in 1928 to conduct game surveys for the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute, and during the next few years helped lay the foundations for the new profession of wildlife management. He accepted a chair of game management created at the University of Wisconsin in 1933, and in 1939 became chairman of a new Department of Wildlife Management. He died on 21 April 1948.

Scope and Content Note

The papers of Aldo Leopold are included in 9/25, which includes the records of the University of Wisconsin--Madison College of Agriculture, Department of Wildlife Ecology. The papers include 83 archive boxes (about 28 cubic feet) and several additional cases, folios, and microfilm reels, grouped into twelve series. The records span the years of Aldo Leopold's life, but are most complete after 1928. For the earliest years, Mr. Leopold himself retained only a few significant items, including journals dating back to 1903, some Yale reports, official Forest Service diaries, and copies of some early writings. Leopold's family, however, preserved much of the voluminous correspondence dating from these early years. It has since been acquired by the University of Wisconsin--Madison Archives and Records Management Services. Some notebooks from Mr. Leopold's years as a student have also been located and deposited in the UW--Madison Archives.

Mr. Leopold worked more or less independently after 1928, keeping his own files as he moved from office to office. In the UW-Madison Archives are most of the papers which he chose, over the years, to retain. Due to Mr. Leopold's historical consciousness, his early family and Forest Service training in systematic record-keeping, and his extreme good fortune in securing high calibre, full-time secretaries, his files were well organized and of consistently high quality. Throughout the files are individual folders of original materials deposited by colleagues and friends of Aldo Leopold, other original materials located in the course of research by Leopold scholars, and Xerox copies of materials in various repositories or in private hands. They are identified as to origin both in the folder list and in the folders.

In the Leopold Papers as arranged at the UW-Madison Archives, the first five series, numbered 9/25/10-1 to 9/25/10-5 (correspondence; organizations and committees; county, state and foreign files; species and subjects; research areas and projects) correspond, as nearly as can be determined, to Mr. Leopold's own filing system during his years at the University of Wisconsin. Most of these materials, in fact, remained at the Department of Wildlife Management after his death, and were deposited in the UW-Madison Archives in about 10 separate installments from 1961 to 1969. Considerable arranging of folders and of items chronologically within folders has been required in order to approximate the original order, but the contents and titles of individual folders have, in general, not been changed. Where it was apparent that a letter had been misfiled or belonged with a series of letters in another folder, the change was made.

9/25/10-6, Writings, includes reprints and unpublished manuscripts deposited by various members of the Leopold family on about ten occasions, 1961-69, together with manuscript working papers and correspondence which remained in Mr. Leopold's files after his death and were deposited by the Department of Wildlife Management. (A bibliography of Mr. Leopold's publications and several bibliographies pertaining to superseded drafts and unpublished items in this series and throughout the files, formerly grouped in the appendices to the finding aid, have now been placed in position in the relevant folders.)

Most of the materials in 9/25/10-7 to 10-10 (diaries and journals; biographical materials; photographs; and memorabilia) were kept at the Leopold home and later deposited by Mrs. Leopold and other members of the Leopold family. T

In 9/25/10-11 are Forest Service records, including a few from Mr. Leopold's own files, but mostly photocopied or microfilmed from various government repositories and offices, except for those at the Forest Products Laboratory in Madison. Mr. Leopold did retain in his own files correspondence, notes, and clippings pertaining to game management, especially after about 1921.

9/25/10-12 includes class notebooks and materials from Leopold's high school, prep school, college, and graduate school coursework.

Throughout the files are individual folders of original materials deposited by colleagues and friends of Aldo Leopold, other original materials located in the course of research by Leopold scholars, and copies of materials in various repositories or in private hands. They are identified as to origin both in the finding aid and in the folders.

Iconography files, series 3/1. This series includes loose photographs, scanned memorabilia, and other images from the Leopold Papers in the University of Wisconsin Archives, the archives of the Aldo Leopold Foundation, and other sources. The images in this series may also be searched from "Search Photographs" on the home page of the collection.

9/25/10-13, Additions to the Collection, was created in 2009 to accommodate materials that have been absorbed into the collection since the completion of the digitization of the Leopold Papers. All materials acquired in the future will be placed in this series.

In Brief
  • Series 1: Correspondence (with individuals), alphabetical by last name of recipient
  • Series 2: Organization and committee files, alphabetical by name
  • Series 3: County, state and foreign files, alphabetical
  • Series 4: Species and subjects, generally alphabetical
  • Series 5: Research areas and projects
  • Series 6: Writings -- reprints, manuscripts, teaching materials
  • Series 7: Diaries and Journals, 1899-1948
  • Series 8: Biographical materials -- family correspondence, clippings, personal history
  • Series 9: Photograph albums
  • Series 10: Memorabilia -- bows, arrows, pipes, and miscellaneous
  • Series 11: Forest Service records -- documents, including the Pine Cone newsletter
  • Series 12: Student course materials -- high school and Yale Forest School
  • Iconography Files 3-1: loose photographs
  • Series 13: Additions to the Collection -- materials acquired since 2009
  • Iconography Files 3-1: loose photographs
Copyright and Citation
Copyright and Permissions

The Aldo Leopold Foundation holds the rights to all of Leopold's unpublished material and works in non-extant publications. Written authorization from the Aldo Leopold Foundation is required prior to reproducing items in the collection for publication or exhibition. For higher quality digital or print copies please contact the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center.

Access to and usage of this portion of the collection requires permission of the Aldo Leopold Foundation.


Guidelines for Citation

A proper citation of archival material includes information about the specific document (author, title or other description of document, and date), the name of the collection, location of the item within the collection (series and box or folio number), and location of the collection (depository and city or Internet location).

In a paper, article or book for which scholarly citation is used, it is ordinarily sufficient to cite the collection and depository in full only once in the first citation to a document from the collection and again in the bibliography: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/AldoLeopold [hereafter cited LP, for Leopold Papers].

Thereafter, to cite individual documents in the collection, you may cite the actual document (author, title or other description, and date) and use a short form for the collection and the location of information in the collection. For example: Aldo Leopold, USFS Diary, April 14-July 31, 1909, LP 7B1, p. 3 [for Leopold Papers, subseries 7, box 1, p. 3.

This method of citation has the advantage of allowing you or a reader to locate the original document in either the digital collection or the hard copy Leopold Papers in the University of Wisconsin Archives. It is the method of citation used by most of the scholars who have cited material from the Leopold Papers for the past four decades. The only element of this citation that is unique to the digital collection is the page number (p. 3), which allows one to go quickly to the digitized page cited. It should be noted, however, that the page number alone is useless without the other location information (LP 7B1), as there are more than a hundred different series of page numbers in the nearly 100,000-page digital collection.

For a published item [e.g., Aldo Leopold, "The Conservation Ethic," Journal of Forestry 31:6 (Oct. 1933), p. 634-643], it is not ordinarily necessary to cite the location in the collection because the journal can presumably be found in major libraries. But recording this information (LP 6Bx, p. xx) in your notes will make it much easier to find the original in order to check the accuracy of a quotation.

It is not necessary to cite the date you accessed this collection, since it is a permanent collection, and your citation, if you follow these guidelines, will also refer to the actual physical location of the original in the University of Wisconsin Archives.


Detailed Description/Box and Folder Listing
Series: 9/25/10-1: Correspondence

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Scope and Content Note

These files contain correspondence with individuals. Mr. Leopold apparently began keeping these files when he joined the University of Wisconsin faculty in 1933. General folders (labeled A-Z) contain correspondence on miscellaneous game and conservation matters, 1933-1948. For these folders, only indviduals with whom there is considerable correspondence or whose names appear prominently elsewhere in the Leopold papers have been listed. Individuals who were students of Mr. Leopold are designated with an asterisk.

A few folders in this series were deposited in the UW--Madison Archives by various Leopold students and colleagues. Included in these are some of Mr. Leopold's handwritten letters on yellow-lined paper, copies of which he would not have had in his own files.

It should be noted that this is miscellaneous correspondence. Additional correspondence with many of these individuals, and with many others as well, may be found filed according to content in other folders throughout the Leopold papers.

Papers in these folders are generally arranged in reverse chronological order; this appears to have been the order in which AL filed his correspondence.

box 001
box 001
folder 001
A

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Note: Includes correspondence with Durward Allen.
box 001
folder 002
Anderson, Harry* 1936-1939

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box 001
folder 003
B

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Note: Correspondents include Rudolf Bennitt, Gardiner Bump, Irwin Bode.
box 001
folder 004
Black, Charles* 1939-1947

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box 001
folder 005
Brittingham, Thomas E. 1934-1938

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Note: Correspondence in this folder concerns financial support for quail research.
box 001
folder 006
C

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Note: Correspondents include H. H. Chapman, Ralph Conway, Victor Cahalane, Morris L. Cooke, Dennis Chitty, Richard Costley, and Louis Clas.
box 001
folder 007
Chapman, H. H. (Yale Forest School)

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Note: This correspondence, mostly with Professor Chapman, was Xeroxed from the Leopold file, "Yale Forest School," with permission of Dean Francois Mergen, 21 August 1968. 25 letters, 1909-1933, 1946-1948
box 001
folder 008
D

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Note: Correspondents include Otto Doering and Murl Deusing.
box 001
folder 009
Darling, Jay N. "Ding" 1937-1947

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box 001
folder 010
E

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Note: Correspondents include Alfred Etter* and John Emlen, Jr.
box 001
folder 011
Elder, William* 1946-1948

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box 001
folder 012
box 001
folder 013
Errington, Paul L. 1945-1948

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box 001
folder 014
F

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Note: Correspondents include William Feeney and G. Decker French.
box 001
folder 015
box 001
folder 016
G

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Note: Correspondents include Robert F. Griggs, Howard T. Greene, Ira Gabrielson, Seth Gordon, R. B. Goodman, Walter Gresh, Gunther Graetzer, Martin Gillin, and Frank Grimmer.
box 001
folder 017
Grange, Wallace 1935-1948

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box 001
folder 018
Gromme, Owen 1940-1947

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Note: AL was apparently to collaborate on "Birds of Wisconsin."
box 001
folder 019
H

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Note: Correspondents include Vivian Horn, Barnard Hendricks, Franklin Henika*, Franz Heske, Joel Hedgepeth, Carl Hubbs, George Halazon, Robert Hecht, James Harlan, Foster Hannaford, George Hendrickson, Leonard Hall, Charles Hejda, Lawrence Hautz, R.L. Hungerford, Larry Holmes, Frances K. Hutchinson, L.W. Hutchcroft, John A. Harlow, H.O. Hougen, and C.S. Hean.
box 001
folder 020
Hawkins, Arthur* 1937-1948

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Note

Folder 020 was deposited by Mr. Hawkins, 18 December 1967.

30 letters, mss.

box 001
folder 021
Hickey, Joseph* 1941-1946

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Note

Folder 021 was deposited by Mr. Hickey, 12 Jan 1968.

10 letters, misc.

box 001
folder 022
J

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Note: Correspondents include Merritt L. Jones, Lee Jacquer, Albert G. Johnson, Barbara Ellen Joy, and Melvin Johnson.
box 001
folder 023
box 001
folder 024
K

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Note: Correspondents include James W. Kimball, John Alden Knight, Karl W. Kahmann, Charles M. Kirkpatrick, S. Charles Kendeigh, Valentine Ketcham, Rex King, Alfred Kieckhefer, R.A. Kolb, and T.R. Kelly.
box 002
box 002
folder 001
L

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Note: Correspondents include Mrs. Edward LaBudde, Fred Luening, J. S. Lignon, David Lack, Norman Levine*, Hoyes Lloyd, Russell Lord, Harrison Lewis, Jean Linsdale, J.P. Lunduska, J.H. Lilly, Hannes Laven, F.C. Lincoln, M.G. Little, A.G. Langenbach, R.G. Lynch, H.R. Lathrop, and Norman Levine.
box 002
folder 002
box 002
folder 003
Leopold, A. Starker

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Note

Box 002, Folder 003 was deposited by A. Starker Leopold, 18 September 1967.

55 letters, misc., 1943-1948

box 002
folder 004
Lovejoy Letters , 1933-1942

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Note: Folder 004 contains a bound volume of AL's correspondence with P. S. Lovejoy, deposited by A. Starker Leopold, 18 September 1967. Other Lovejoy correspondence is scattered throughout the files. See also working papers for AL's obituary of P. S. Lovejoy (9/25/10-6 009 005).
box 002
folder 005
Lovejoy, P. S.

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Note: 1 letter, 1934
box 002
folder 006
M

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Note: Correspondents include R. J. Meyer, Arthur MacArthur, Gordon MacQuarrie, V. J. Muench, A. D. Middleton, W. L. McAtee, Manly F. Miner, G. W. Malaher, L.W. McCaskill, T.E. Musselman, E.B. Moore, William H. Marshall, John B. Marks, J.S. McDiarmid, John Matter, J.O. Moreland, R.J. Meyer, and Arthur MacArthur.
box 002
folder 007
McBeath, Donald* 1934-1936

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box 002
folder 008
box 002
folder 009
Moore, Ellwood* 1935-1940

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box 002
folder 010
N-O

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Note: Correspondents include Werner Nagel, Margaret Nice, Paul Needham, Keith Neville, Fred Nichols, Anton F. Novy, Jack Nelsen, Oliver S. Owen, Livingston Osborne, William O'Brien, Fred C. Ott, and Fairfield Osborn.
box 002
folder 011
P

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Note: Correspondents include Albert Van S. Pulling, George Parker, Kenneth Parker, John M. Phillips, Michael Petruska, Arthur N. Pack, and Matt Patterson.
box 002
folder 012
R

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Note: Correspondents include Guido Rahr, William Rowan, Louise Radke, William Guy Ruggles, Helen M. Ruggles, Alfred Rogers, and Ben Rohan.
box 002
folder 013
S

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Note: Correspondents include George M. Sutton, E. Sydney Stephens, Walter Scott, J. Clark Salyer II, David L. Spencer*, Gustav Swanson, George Schuetze, A.W. Schorger, William H. Stickel, S.H. Sundberg, Carl D. Shoemaker, Lloyd Shinners, Harold F. Scholz, Carl L. Strelitzer, Harry Stroebe, Max J. Schmitt, Dave Spencer, Robert Stabler, J.S. Smith, G.N. Sale, Henry Schmitz, Mrs. Harry Swigart, A.C. Steenburg, Judson W. Staplekamp, Roman H. Sturgel, Ernest Swift, John Steenis, H.R. Sterrett, J.F. Swant, J.H. Strong, Archie W. Storms, and W.C. Stanton.
box 003
Correspondence: Sc-Z; Miscellaneous

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box 003
folder 001
Schottlaender, Ard Heinrich 1939

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box 003
folder 002
Siegler, Hilbert R.* 1936-1948

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folder 003
box 003
folder 004
Stoddard, Herbert L. 1928-1948

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box 003
folder 005
T

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Note: Correspondents include R. E. Trippensee, David H. Thompson, Clyde B. Terrell, Harold Titus, Lytton Taylor, F.B. Trenk, N.W. Talbot, Ernst Mayr, Shay Tannert, G.W. Taft, Olive J. Thomas, M.W. Torkelson, and J.W. Turner.
box 003
folder 006
Thomsen, Hans Peter* 1944-1947

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box 003
folder 007
U-V

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Note: Correspondents include Charles T. Vorhies, Jack Van Coevering, Claude Vine, A.O. Vinz, and Paul Vincent.
box 003
folder 008
box 003
folder 009
Vogt, William

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Note

Contains letters not included in the above file of correspondence with Vogt. Contents were Xeroxed from the William Vogt papers at the Conservation Library Center, Denver Public Library, 18 September 1969.

25 letters, 1943-1948

box 003
folder 010
W-Z

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Note: Correspondents include S. A. Wilde, Earl Wallace, Carl Welty, Alfred Wallner, Chester Wilson, Lyle Watts, Joan Wright, Harold Wilson, Clare Wildner, Paul Weiss, George Wehrwein, C.P. Winslow, Harry P. Walker, H. Basil Wales, Carl Wiegand, Byron Webster, Ralph Yeatter, James Zimmerman, and A.A. Zurbuch.
box 003
folder 011
box 003
folder 012
Wright, Bruce* 1944-1965

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Note: Includes correspondence with AL, R. McCabe, A. Hochbaum, and J. Hickey. File was deposited by Mrs. Wright.
box 003
folder 013
Other Students*, 1940-1948

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box 003
folder 014
Round Robin*, 1942-1945

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Note: Wartime round-robin among AL's students: letters from Irv Buss, Leonard Wing, Orville Lee, Hilbert Siegler, Vivian Horn, Doug Wade, Art Hawkins, Harry Anderson, Al Hochbaum, Fred and Frances Hamerstrom, Alice Harper, Aldo Leopold, Bob McCabe, Bill Elder, Joe Hickey, Dan Thompson, Bruce Stolberg, and Lyle Sowls.
box 004
Correspondence: Ralph T. King , 1930-1948

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Note: In 1930, Mr. King received one of the original SAAMI research fellowships to study the population dynamics and ecological characteristics of the ruffed grouse. AL, in his role as head of the SAAMI-sponsored game survey, oversaw these research efforts (in partnership with Herbert Stoddard). Mr. King's work was conducted at the University of Minnesota. For further material, see 9/25/10-3 006 007. Materials in this box were donated by Mrs. King in 1979.
box 004
folder 001a
box 004
folder 001b
box 004
folder 002
box 004
folder 003
box 004
folder 004
box 004
folder 005
box 004
folder 006
box 004
folder 007
1931-1934 Miscellaneous Correspondence including Errington, Elton

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Note: Miscellaneous documents from 1930 and 1951 are also included.
box 004
folder 008
Mrs. R.T. King: Transmittal, 8-20-79

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Series: 9/25/10-2: Organizations, Committees

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Scope and Content Note

This series includes correspondence and other documents (c. 1929-48) pertaining to professional societies, committees, conservation organizations, government agencies, research stations, conferences, consultant positions, magazines, and journals. Mr. Leopold was actively involved in some official capacity with virtually all of these; for most, he prepared reports, memoranda, or articles. The papers contain many instances of Mr. Leopold's conservation philosophy in practice.

Equivalent materials from the years prior to 1928 were probably not as voluminous, and some may have been lost. Others may be found, however, with the professional correspondence that Mr. Leopold kept at his home (9/25/10-8 001 001), and also scattered throughout the species and subject files.

Papers are generally arranged in reverse chronological order; but within this general framework it is clear that AL clipped together some batches of correspondence thematically.

box 001
Organizations, Committees: A

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folder 001
American Forestry Association, 1928-1947

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Note

Most correspondence up to 1934 is with Ovid Butler of the American Forestry Association, concerning issues and articles for publication.

25 letters

box 001
folder 002
American Game Association, Game Policy Committee, 1930-1932

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Note

AL chaired this committee and wrote most of its reports, including the "Game Policy" adopted by the American Game Conference, 2 December 1930. A rough draft of the 1929 report dated 15 July 1929 is the only material present for 1929, when the initial policy report was drafted. The American Game Association ceased to exist in 1936, when it was absorbed by the new American Wildlife Institute (AWI).

120 letters, reports, and articles

box 001
folder 003
American Game Conference, 1933

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Note

The 19th American Game Conference authorized a committee, chaired by Arthur L. Clark, to consider an "American Standard of Perfection for Game Birds." In January 1933 AL accepted a position on an advisory council to this committee. Included is a resolution to establish a Modern Game Breeding Law Committee, with AL as chairman.

5 letters and statements

box 001
folder 004
American Jacksnipe Society, November 1931

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Note

Includes a copy of AL's "The Proposed American Jacksnipe Society" and comments by nine men. (See also Burr G. Lichty, "The American Jacksnipe Society," American Field, CXX:48, 2 December 1933, l.)

10 letters

box 001
folder 005
American Ornithologists' Union, 1929-1947

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Note

Most of the correspondence concerns reports of the Committee on Bird Protection, which AL co-authored with Victor Cahalane, William L. Finley, and Clarence Cottam, 1938-1942. AL was elected an associate of the Union in 1929 and a member in 1935.

ca. 35 letters

box 001
folder 006
American Society of Mammalogists, 1930-1941

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Note

Contains annual meeting programs, 1930-1932; 3 letters regarding legislation, 1931; and a memo to AL as member of an editorial committee and reply, 1941.

8 items

box 001
folder 007
American Society of Mammalogists, Mammals committee (Committee on Conservation of Land Mammals) 1941-1942

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Note: Material relates to wolf policy in the lake states, including studies by William Feeney, and a reference by Elliott Barker to the remnant population of grizzly bears in New Mexico.
box 001
folder 008
American Wildlife Institute

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Correspondence concerns wildlife conference suggestions, articles for American Wildlife , and a job with the Institute. Also included is a 1946 Wildlife Management Institute report.

10 letters, 1935-1939

box 001
folder 009
AWI, Technical Committee 1935(6?)-1939

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Note

Contains correspondence regarding the background of Pittmann-Robertson (P-R) funds (October 1936); the relative roles of the United States Biological Surveyand universities; and projects, project reports (e.g., wildlife crops), and research proposals (e.g., cycles, jacksnipe, deer, farm conservation). AL was chairman of the AWI Technical Committee, which also included Herb Stoddard, Gardiner Bump, George C. Embody, Carl L. Hubbs, and possibly others. The function of the committee was to pass on grants of research funds made by the Institute and to review the research work of the recipients, ten in number by 1940, including units working at the Delta Duck Station and in Michigan, Missouri, Idaho, etc.

75 letters, misc.

box 001
folder 010
AWI, Technical Committee, 1940

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Note

Includes correspondence on Maine salmon research and on the inadequacy of the committee as presently structured.

25 letters

box 001
folder 011
AWI, Technical Committee, 1941

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Includes general correspondence and material relating to AL's visit to research units in Utah and Oregon, a pole-trapping incident (including American Ornithologists' Union materials), and an Ohio pheasant manuscript on which AL commented.

40 letters

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folder 012
AWI, Technical Committee, 1942-1946

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Note

Half of the correspondence (1941-1942) concerns an introduction by AL to F. H. Kortright's "Ducks, Geese, and Swans of North America" and publication of the manuscript, ultimately undertaken by AWI. The remainder relates generally to wartime curtailment of technical committee work.

40 letters

box 001
folder 013
Arctic Institute of North America

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Note

AL was invited to become an associate of the Arctic Institute of North America in 1948, but declined because he opposed the objective of development of the Arctic.

7 letters, 2 pamphlets, 1946-1948

box 002
Organizations, Committees: B-E

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box 002
folder 001
Boone and Crockett Club

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Note

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

box 002
folder 002
Bright Land Farm Waterfowl Experiment Station

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Note

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

box 002
folder 003
Brule Project

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Note

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

box 002
folder 004
Chautauqua Conservation Week

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Note

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

box 002
folder 005
Conservation Foundation

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Note

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

box 002
folder 006
Cooper Ornithological Club

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Note: Contains copy of the 1912 Constitution and a 1929 mimeo letter concerning investigation of problems of bird conservation in California.
box 002
folder 007
Deer Irruption Study (& Richard Costley)

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Note

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

box 002
folder 008
Ducks Unlimited

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Note

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

box 002
folder 009
Ecological Society of America (ESA)

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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

box 002
folder 010
ESA, 1947

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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

box 002
folder 011
ESA, Life Histories Committee -- file for President

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

15 letters, 1947

box 002
folder 012
ESA, Symposium, December 1947

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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

box 002
folder 013
Ecologists' Union

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Note

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

3 letters, 3 mimeos, 1946-1947

box 003
Organizations, Committees: Delta [Duck Station -- Manitoba]

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Box 003 continues Leopold's "organization and committee" files. AL's relationship to Albert Hochbaum's waterfowl research at the Delta Duck Station, Delta, Manitoba, was organizationally complex. Delta was one of the research units financed by the American Wildlife Institute, under supervision of its Technical Committee, chaired by AL (see AWI folders, Box 001). Among other duties, AL apparently handled Delta financial arrangements for the Institute. Hochbaum was AL's student at the time he began his research at Delta in 1938, and later received his master's degree from the University of Wisconsin for a thesis based on early Delta findings. Miles D. Pirnie of Michigan, however, was to supervise Hochbaum's research work at Delta while AL was to serve as a policy adviser.

Along with Pirnie and William Rowan, AL was appointed to a Delta Board of Advisors, created in 1940 by the Cooperators (James Ford Bell and AWI), and it was apparently in this capacity that he undertook to edit Hochbaum's "Bulletin No. l," published as "Canvasback on a Prairie Marsh" in 1944. After 1942, AL apparently had no official connection with the station; correspondence thereafter is with Hochbaum as a professional and friend.

box 003
folder 001
Delta, 1938

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Note: 80 letters, December 1937-1938
box 003
folder 002
Delta, 1939

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Note: 110 letters
box 003
folder 003
Delta, 1940

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Note: 185 letters
box 003
folder 004
Delta, 1941

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Correspondence concerns the origins of AWI support of research work at Delta, with AL in his role as chairman of the Institute's Technical Committee; Delta finances; administrative matters pertaining to Hochbaum as University of Wisconsin student; policy discussions with Pirnie, Rowan, et al.; and preparation of Delta reports, especially "Bulletin No. l."

100 letters

box 003
folder 005
Delta, 1942-Feb. 1943

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Letters relate to running Delta on a reduced wartime budget, and Hochbaum's possible resignation.

80 letters, 1942-February 1943

box 003
folder 006
Delta, April 1943-1948

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Note

Correspondence between AL and Hochbaum concerns new ideas on traditions of waterfowl, activities of Ducks Unlimited, etc.

50 letters, 1943-1948

box 003
folder 007
Leopold-Hochbaum Correspondence

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Note

Contains handwritten letters from AL, copies of which were not in AL's own files (Folder 006). Hochbaum deposited this folder in the UW-Madison Archives on 4 March 1968. In July 2007, Dr. Susan Flader deposited several letters between AL and Hochbaum, dated 6 May 1942.

35 letters, 1939-1948

box 003
folder 008
Delta, Technical

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Note

Contains carbon copies (concerning technical research matters) sent to AL for his files.

5 letters, 1941-1942

box 003
folder 009
Delta Bulletin No. 1

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Note

Most of this correspondence dates from October 1941-November 1942 and concerns AL's editing of Hochbaum's manuscript. A few letters concern the book in proofs (October-November 1943) and published (March-November 1944).

65 letters, 1941-1944

box 003
folder 010
Delta Bulletin No. 1, Drawings

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box 004
Organizations, Committees: F-L

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box 004
folder 001
Farm Foundation

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Alexander Legge established the Foundation in 1933 to promote "the general welfare of the rural population of the United States ... in such ways as the Board of Trustees may from time to time determine." AL was asked to make a study for the trustees. Included here are AL's "Proposed Survey for the Farm Foundation" and "The Farm Foundation and Land Conservation." AL's study was made in April-May 1935. See "Report to the Farm Foundation on the Role of Conservation in Farm Life" in Leopold folder, Dean's Personnel File, 9/1/1-9, Box 002.

2 manuscripts 1934(?)

box 004
folder 002
Florida Deer-Tick Controversy

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AL acted as the Audubon Society's representative in an investigation by Roy Komarek (preliminary study by Herbert Stoddard, E. V. Komarek, and Roy Komarek) of the biological facts in the controversy between federal departments over extermination of deer on the Seminole Reservation in the interest of cattle fever tick control. In addition to AL's correspondence on the issue, this folder contains carbon copies of correspondence and memoranda between John Baker, Herbert Stoddard, the Komareks, and various government officials. Also included are about 11 exhibits, consisting of correspondence and statements.

60 letters and misc., 11 exhibits, 1940-1941

box 004
folder 003
Florida Deer-Tick Controversy

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A copy of the first draft of Roy Komarek's "An Investigation of the South Florida Deer Cattle Fever Tick Situation" (50 pp) is included.

80 items, 1942-1944

box 004
folder 004
Forests

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According to the letterhead, this was "a nation-wide organization dedicated to the production of wood for war and peace without devastating forests or the land on which they grow." AL recommended personnel, but apparently he held no official position.

2 letters and map, 1943

box 004
folder 005
Foundation for the Study of Cycles

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Note

AL was nominated (in 1943?) as an associate of the Foundation for the Study of Cycles, which apparently was an outgrowth of the Matamek Conference. One of the letters is from Ellsworth Huntington.

3 letters, 1943; mimeo, 1949

box 004
folder 006
Friends of the Land

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Contains several prospectuses and correspondence with Russell Lord, editor of The Land . AL was asked to serve on the Board of Directors for Friends of the Land, organized in March 1940. He also suggested Carl Sauer. AL was elected one of 8 vice-presidents for a 4-year term, and in 1943 was elected an honorary member.

30 letters, February 1940-1941; a few items, 1948

box 004
folder 007
Getaways

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Note

This was a local Madison group to which AL was elected a member in 1930, and of which he was the head, or "Cookee," in 1946-1947. For a nearly complete set of the elegantly fashioned log of the Getaways, including a few talks by AL, see the H. L. Russell papers, UW-Madison Archives, 9/1/1/22-3, Boxes 001-002.

Papers here are copies deposited by Roark and Meine.

10 letters and membership lists, 1944-1948

box 004
folder 008
Getaways -- Selected Entries from the Log Book

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1926-1949

Includes Xerox copies of various entries concerning AL, from the Log of the Getaways. These copies were compiled by Bill Roark, son of AL's friend and fellow Getaway member Ray Roark, in January 1988, and deposited in the Leopold archives in November 1988.

box 004
folder 009
William T. Hornaday Memorial Foundation

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Correspondence with John Ripley Forbes in 1938 describes AL's acceptance of a position on the sponsoring committee for the William T. Hornaday Memorial Fund. The foundation was established in 1943. Included here are Hornaday Fund data, three publications, and six letters, 1946-47, when AL asked to be taken off the committee (no action indicated).

15 items, 1938-1947

box 004
folder 010
Huron Mountain Club

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The club had 15,000 acres of hemlock-hardwood forest west of Marquette, Michigan. Dr. William P. Harris Jr. asked AL to make recommendations concerning land management for the club's forests, wildlife, and aesthetic values, and potential research projects. AL made a preliminary report in June 1938 after a short visit, and another trip (and report?) in August 1938. He continued as advisor to the club and to Richard H. Manville, who was investigator in wildlife research at the club, from 1939-1942(?). See printed pamphlet, "Report on Huron Mountain Club" (1938?), in 9/25/10-6.

80 letters and reports, 1937-1940

box 004
folder 011
Inter-American Conference on Conservation of Renewable Natural Resources (Denver, Colorado, 7-20 September 1948)

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Note

Had he lived, AL might have attended the Inter-American Conference on Conservation of Renewable Natural Resources (Denver, Colorado, 7-20 September 1948). William Vogt, as secretary-general for the conference, had invited AL to act as discussion leader of the education section, but AL died before the conference was held. (Mr. Hickey apparently attended.) Correspondence and several prospectuses are included.

18 letters, misc., 1946-1948

box 004
folder 012
Interstate Prairie Grouse Project

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Note

AL proposed the Interstate Prairie Grouse Project in December 1946, while at the same time, Walter A. Gresh of the US Fish and Wildlife Service was planning a prairie grouse conference. Contents of this folder do not indicate subsequent developments.

10 letters, 1946-1947

box 004
folder 013
Isle Royale

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Contains AL's correspondence with Victor Cahalane, Sigurd Olsen, Olaus Murie, Charles E. Shevlin, et al., about a Park Service study concerning excess moose and beaver on Isle Royale and the possibility of introducing wolves there. Eye trouble prevented Leopold from making the trip.

25 letters, 1946-1947

box 004
folder 014
Izaak Walton League of America (IWLA) -- National, 1931

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Note

AL served for a time as chairman of the Izaak Walton League of America's Committee on National Projects in Conservation. Included are an undated committee report; miscellaneous materials related to a report on IWLA which AL prepared for the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute (SAAMI) in 1931 (see copy in 9/25/10-6, Box 016); and correspondence for the years during which AL was conservation consultant to the Izaak Walton League of America (IWLA), ca. 1938-1948.

40 letters, 1937-1948

box 004
folder 015
IWLA -- Wisconsin

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Contains additional IWLA materials. A batch of letters from 1925-1930 relates largely to the Conservation Bill (1927) that established the Wisconsin Conservation Department. AL (along with William Aberg) belonged to the IWLA Legislative Committee that played a major role in the drafting and passage of the bill. AL was also a state IWLA director, 1932-(?). Correspondence between 1932-1934 concerns troubles of the Wisconsin chapter, which may have become defunct for a time. AL was vice-president for the Mendota District from 1940-48, when correspondence covers conservation issues.

misc., 1925-1930; 10 letters, 1932-1934; 30 letters 1940-1948

box 004
folder 016
Kumlien Club

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Note

Letters, membership lists, and manuscripts of the Kumlien Club (a local ornithological club organized by many friends and students of AL) are included. Leopold was on the club's project committee (1937), membership committee, and program committee(?). See also Kumlien Club minutes in Robert McCabe Files, 9/25/11.

15 items, 1937-1945

box 004
folder 017
Lake Mendota Association

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Note

AL was on the Technical Council (Wildlife Committee) of this group, organized in 1946.

2 letters, misc., 1946

box 005
Organizations, Committees: M-N

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box 005
folder 001
Madison and Wisconsin Foundation, Tree Committee

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Contains material related to the Madison and Wisconsin Foundation's Tree Committee. This committee was appointed in 1939 to recommend a program for Madison street trees. The folder contains one report, which indicates AL was a committee member.

1939

box 005
folder 002
Matamek Conference on Biological Cycles, June 1931

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Contains correspondence, clippings, and notes regarding the Matamek Conference on Biological Cycles, June 1931. A bound set of AL's pencil notes on speeches given at the conference is also included. This conference, among the most significant AL ever attended, was financed by Copley Amory and attended by Charles Elton, Ellsworth Huntington, Alfred O. Gross, et al.

30 items, 1931-1934

box 005
folder 003
Midwest Wildlife Conference

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Programs and some correspondence relating to Midwest Wildlife Conferences from the years 1936, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1946, and 1948.

1936-1948

box 005
folder 004
More Game Birds in America Foundation

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Contains correspondence with Joseph P. Knapp of the More Game Birds In America Foundation concerning AL's criticism of the organization's prospectus.

4 letters, September 1930

box 005
folder 005
National Association of Audubon Societies

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Contains correspondence from 1935-1940, mostly with Executive Director Baker and dealing mainly with issues and policy. AL may have been on the board of this organization (see AL to John Baker, 6 October 1941, regarding dropping from director spot in Audubon Society, in Florida deer-tick folder, Box 004 002 above).

60 letters, 1935-1940

box 005
folder 006
National Association of Audubon Societies

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Contains correspondence from 1941-1948, mostly with Baker and Richard H. Pough, and carbons sent to AL for his information.

45 letters, 1941-1948

box 005
folder 007
National Audubon, War-Meat Discussion

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Note

Correspondence with Baker, December 1942-February 1943, is followed by correspondence with David Thompson and the National Research Council, February-April 1943, concerning meat hunting during wartime.

December 1942-April 1943

box 005
folder 008
National Association of Conservation Education and Publicity

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Note

In 1948 AL served as judge for an award to be given by the National Association of Conservation Education and Publicity. He wanted to nominate Roberts Mann.

8 letters, 1948

box 005
folder 009
National Council of State Garden Clubs

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AL was asked to serve on the National Advisory Committee of the National Council of State Garden Clubs.

7 letters, 1947-1948

box 005
folder 010
National Deer Committee (Walter Taylor, Chairman)

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Contains materials concerning the National Deer Committee, chaired by Walter Taylor. This committee of three--AL, Taylor, and Thomas Schroeder--was organized in 1944 at the 9th North American Wildlife Conference; a prepared statement was signed by 17 scientists across the nation. Correspondence from 1947 concerns a "Committee on Deer Monograph," composed of Einarson, Gabrielson, and AL, with Taylor as chairman and editor. It is not clear whether this was an extension of the 1944 committee or a committee of an organization (e.g., WMI or WLS, Box 009). AL was to contribute a chapter on Wisconsin, but it was not in the book as published (Taylor, ed., The Deer of North America , 1956).

12 letters and statements, 1944; 12 letters, 1947

box 005
folder 011
National Land Use Planning Committee, Technical Advisory Committee No. V, "Forests, parks, recreation and wildlife areas"

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This group was chaired successively by E. A. Sherman(?), Fred Morrell, and L. F. Kneipp. AL was an out-of-town member, along with Zon, Dana, Storer, Grange, Stoddard, Dixon, et al.

10 letters and 10 drafts or mimeo reports, February[?] 1932-June1933

box 005
folder 012
National Park Service (NPS)

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Contains two batches of letters concerning the National Park Service. Correspondence from the early period (1934-1936) involves positions offered to AL and conservation issues. During the later period (1944-1948), correspondence deals with issues such as wolves of Mt. McKinley, the Tioga Road in Yosemite, and the wolves of Isle Royale.

20 letters, 1934-1936; 20 letters, 1944-1948

box 005
folder 013
NPS, Yellowstone Elk Survey

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Note

AL was asked by NPS in 1943 and again in 1944 to undertake an overall review of the bison and elk situation in Yellowstone, but he declined both times--too busy. His appointment as collaborator, NPS, 7 October 1943 is enclosed.

25 letters, 1942-1944

box 005
folder 014
National Wildlife Federation (Conservation Education Program? Publication Committee?)

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Note

Correspondence with Rudolf Bennitt of the National Wildlife Federation concerns the establishment of an advisory committee. Also in this folder is 1941 correspondence with Mary Melrose, Supervisor of Elementary Science, Cleveland Board of Education, regarding texts for school conservation education, for which AL was on an advisory committee. It is not clear whether the 1939 and 1941 materials are related.

4 letters, March 1939; 6 letters, 1941

box 005
folder 015
North American Wildlife Conference

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Contains correspondence, papers, and clippings regarding the 12th (1947) and 13th (1948) North American Wildlife Conferences. Included is a corrected carbon of the summary AL gave at the 12th conference. At the 13th, Robert McCabe presented AL's "Why and How Research." Mimeos are in the file.

10 letters, misc., ms., 1946-1948

box 006
Organizations, Committees: NRC Committees

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Note: Box 006 continues organizational and committee records, specifically those of the National Research Council. AL was a member and chairman of at least two committees of the council: the Committee on Wild Life, 1931-1936, and the Committee on Aircraft vs. Wilderness, 1945-1947. (He was also apparently a member of a forestry committee in the late 1920s, but no records have been found.) Materials in this box consist of two folders from AL's own files, one on each committee, and a number of folders with correspondence and reports Xeroxed in September 1968 from committee folders in the files of the NRC Division of Biology and Agriculture, located in the archives of the National Academy of Sciences. The latter appear to be files of the chairman of the Division, Ivey F. Lewis et al. (1931-1936), and Robert F. Griggs (1945-1947).
box 006
folder 001
National Research Council, Wild Life Committee

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This folder is AL's file, with a notation in his hand, "culled 12/38." Included are minutes of an organizational meeting in which AL participated; AL's "Proposed Game Survey," 1931; "Function of the Wildlife Committee" by AL, 1932; his undated "Proposal for a Conservation Inventory of Threatened Species;" a committee report drafted by AL "On the proposed wildlife research program of the USBS," 1935; AL's report for 1935; and other items. Most of these reports were not in the committee files in the NAS Archives (see paragraph above), but have since been supplied.

9 reports, 1931-1936

box 006
folder 002
Committee on Wild Life: General

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Contains mostly correspondence, with a few memoranda and reports, concerning general affairs of the committee from its inception following the suggestion of AL and L. J. Cole in a letter of 6 June 1930, to its termination following AL's March 1936 request to be relieved of the chairmanship (in order to avoid conflict with his chairmanship of the AWI Technical Committee). Members of the committee as organized December 1931 were John C. Merriam (chairman), Charles C. Adams, H. E. Anthony, Harold C. Bryant, E. A. Goldman, AL, and V. E. Shelford. Included here are meeting minutes; discussion of the functions of the committee; correspondence concerning AL's appointment as chairman in June 1934; discussion concerning coordination with other organizations and agencies; and discussions about the preservation of rare and endangered species.

123 pp, 1930-1936 (NAS Archives)

box 006
folder 003
Committee on Wild Life: Subcommittee on Training Men for Administrative and Educational Work in Wildlife Problems

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AL and P. S. Lovejoy were members of this subcommittee, which was chaired by A. G. Ruthven. Correspondence concerns subcommittee reports and discussion of same among members of the Committee on Wild Life.

22 pp, 1933-1935 (NAS Archives)

box 006
folder 004
Committee on Wild Life: Biological Survey Research Units

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The Committee on Wild Life had been asked by J. N. Darling, Chief of the USBS, to provide advice on a proposed game research program of the USBS. Correspondence in this folder concerns a draft report prepared by AL.

46 pp, April-August1935 (NAS Archives)

box 006
folder 005
National Research Council, Aircraft Committee

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This folder is AL's own file; it contains committee correspondence, memos, and reports for the period after he relinquished the chairmanship to Olaus Murie until the committee made its final report (copy enclosed) and was disbanded. The committee had been organized in May 1945 in response to a request from Chief Forester Lyle F. Watts of the United States Forest Service for advice concerning the proper control of the use of airplanes over wilderness areas. Committee members were AL (chairman), Shirley W. Allen, John H. Baker, Frederick Law Olmstead, and Kenneth A. Reid, with Olaus Murie and W. J. P. Aberg added later. When AL stepped down as chairman (due to the press of graduate students at the University of Wisconsin), he apparently sent his entire file to Mr. Murie.

20 items, March 1946-April 1947

box 006
folder 006
Committee on Aircraft vs. Wilderness

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Materials here were also photocopied from the NAS Archives. Included is Robert Griggs' correspondence concerning nomination of members for the committee, in addition to general committee correspondence. Apparently included in the material AL sent to Murie, but not present in this folder, were preliminary reports from individual members of the committee and AL's rough manuscript draft of a report.

118 pp (NAS Archives) 1945-1947

box 007
Organizations, Committees: O-R

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box 007
folder 001
Oberlaender Trust

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Contains correspondence concerning AL's trip to Germany in August-November 1935, financed by the Oberlaender Trust, and subsequent articles and follow-up. Adalbert Ebner correspondence is also included.

30 letters, 1935-1942

box 007
folder 002
Oberlaender Trust -- German Trip

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Included are further items relating to the 1935 German trip: L. Kneipp's daily itinerary, with entries from 2 August-3 November; miscellaneous notes on German forestry from Kneipp's notebook; correspondence between members of the group (all copied from Kneipp Papers at the Arizona Historical Society); and an excerpt from transcript of interview with C. L. Forsling (from Forest Products Laboratory Library).

4 letters, 4 misc.

box 007
folder 003
Outdoor Life

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Note

AL was on the advisory board of Outdoor Life . Included here is correspondence with Harry McGuire, editor, et al., concerning the bag limit issue, 1930. AL served on the awards committee and also received the Outdoor Life Conservation Medal for 1930.

20 letters, 1929-1932

box 007
folder 004
Pelee Island

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AL was on the Board of Supervisors of the Ontario Pheasant Demonstration, located on Pelee Island in Lake Erie. The demonstration was a cooperative venture of the University of Wisconsin (through Allen Stokes of UW, in cooperation with the Wisconsin Conservation Department), the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests, and the Wildlife Management Institute. Correspondence with Stokes, Gutermuth of WMI, et al., and pheasant data are included.

50 letters, 1947-1948

box 007
folder 005
Porcupine Wilderness Area

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Correspondence, heaviest in 1941-1942, is between AL, Philip Miles, and H. C. Bradley, concerns an informal association to preserve the Porcupine Mountains Area. The folder also contains reprints, maps, etc.

50 letters, misc., 1941-1945

box 007
folder 006
President's Committee on Wild Life Restoration

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Note

In early 1934 AL served on the President's Committee on Wild Life Restoration with Jay N. Darling and Thomas H. Beck (chairman). Correspondence concerns the committee report, and was Xeroxed from originals on file in offices of the US Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington, D.C., on 31 May 1966. Also in the folder is AL's typescript copy of the report, dated 8 February 1934. The Archives collection does not contain the printed version of the report.

5 letters, report, January-February 1934

box 007
folder 007
Quetico-Superior

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Note

Folders 007 and 007a contain correspondence related to the Quetico-Superior area. These letters, many of them several single-spaced pages in length, include a number of carbons, some going back to 1934, sent to AL by H. H. Chapman to keep him informed. The folders also contain correspondence with Ernest Oberholtzer (President, Quetico-Superior Council, of which AL was representative or advisory member), Jay Price, Ovid Butler, Robert F. Griggs (NRC), W. S. Cooper, Chester S. Wilson (Minnesota Commissioner of Conservation), Kenneth Reid (IWLA), Frederick Winston, Otto Doering, Olaus Murie, et al. AL's connection is not obvious -- probably personal interest -- but the Q-S Council, Wisconsin Conservation Commission, Ecological Society of America, National Research Council, and other organizations may have contributed to his involvement.

1934-1944

box 007
folder 007a
Quetico-Superior

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In June 2007 the Quetico-Superior file was split into folders 007 and 007a for better preservation of the physical contents.

1945-1948

box 007
folder 008
Remington Game Club

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Note

Included is the verbatim transcript (53 pp) of a meeting of the club held at Babcock, Wisconsin, on 31 Jan. 1942. It includes a speech by Wallace Grange on the Sandhill game farm and the deer problem, and in the discussion a statement by Clarence Searles in defense of his position regarding a deer-tight fence. AL was a friend of both men.

transcript, 1942

box 007
folder 009
Resettlement Administration

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Contains letters, memos, and reports on projects in Wisconsin on which AL was asked to consult, including introduction of snowshoe hares, timber on flowages, and the Greendale Project Area.

10 items, 1936-1937

box 007
folder 010
Rockford Deer Area -- Paul B. Riis

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Note: Paul B. Riis was superintendent for Howard D. Colman, who owned forest land near Rockford and retained AL as consultant. AL made 2 reports, 1936 and 1937, but most of the later correspondence is with Riis, who was doing browse studies. In the early 1950s, these materials were lent to Lyle R. Pietsch who wrote a deer report, in part dealing with the work of Riis.
box 008
Organizations, Committees: S-U

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box 008
folder 001
Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute, Research Fellowships

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AL was a member of SAAMI's Committee on Restoration and Protection of Game and was employed by the Institute from 1928-1932 to conduct game surveys and to supervise several game research fellowships financed by SAAMI. Game survey and fellowship correspondence may be found in the state files, species and subject files, and writings (9/25/10-6, Box 003). This folder contains a "Prospectus for a Demonstration in Natural Quail Farming" (7 pp mimeo, perhaps by AL, ca. 1928) which indicates that the SAAMI fellowships, an outgrowth of the game survey, were to be modeled on the Georgia Quail Investigations. Also included are four memoranda of agreement between SAAMI, the USBS, and the Universities of Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, and Arizona; and an "Outline of Proposed International Migratory Bird Study," 1931, which may also have been prepared by AL.

6 items, 1928-1931

box 008
folder 002
Sigma Xi

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Note

Correspondence concerns AL's nominations of Stoddard, Errington, Hickey, Buss, McCabe, and Hochbaum for membership.

10 letters, 1929-1930, 1943-1944

box 008
folder 003
Society of American Foresters

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In 1934 the Society of American Foresters established a Committee on Forest Game Policy, with AL serving as chairman until December 1937. About 80 letters, 1934-1937, are correspondence with committee members: Ralph T. King (University of Minnesota), P. S. Lovejoy (Michigan Conservation Dept), C. E. Rachford (Assistant Forester, United States Forest Service), Walter P. Taylor (USBS, Texas Cooperative Wildlife Service) and H. H. Chapman (ex-officio as President of the Society). There is 1 letter, c. 1945, indicating AL was associate editor for wildlife management for the Journal of Forestry. AL was elected fellow of the society in 1945. There are 8 letters concerning other fellows, 1947. AL was a member of the Committee on Forestry Award, 1944-1947, for which there are 17 letters; G. A. Pearson was chairman. There are also 7 miscellaneous letters, 1945-47, and 5 letters, 1948, concerning posthumous publication of AL's "Why and How Research."

120 letters, 1934-1948

box 008
folder 004
Soil Conservation Society of America

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AL joined the Soil Conservation Society of America in August 1947, and asked to receive the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation which began publication in July 1946. The national secretary, Melville H. Cohee, was an associate of AL's on the Coon Valley project (see Folder 013 below).

3 letters, 1947-1948

box 008
folder 005
United Nations Scientific Conference on the Conservation and Utilization of Resources

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Note

On 27 February 1948 AL was invited by J. A. Krug, Secretary of the Interior, to be on an advisory committee on American participation in the United Nations Scientific Conference on the Conservation and Utilization of Resources. AL's death came before he was able to take part in the conference.

5 letters and mimeos, 1948

box 008
folder 006
US Biological Survey

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Note

Contains correspondence, especially concerning SAAMI game fellowships, with Paul Redington (Chief of the USBS, 1928-1933), W. B. Bell, W. L. McAtee, and Ira Gabrielson (Chief, 1935-?). Stoddard supervised the fellowships for the United States Biological Survey until 1930, after which W.B. Grange took over. AL was a US deputy game warden (USBS) until 1936 (see Official Federal Personnel Record, 9/25/10-11, MF1), but there is no record of any activity. This folder also contains letters and comments concerning several manuscripts: "Conservation Economics" (AL, 1934), "The Forester's Role in Game Management" (1930), McAtee's alternate report on wildlife restoration (1934), and "The Biological Survey in Relation to Game Management" (1934).

85 letters, ms., 1928-1936

box 008
folder 007
US Forest Service (USFS)

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Correspondence concerns the Pisgah (North Carolina) public shooting ground, AL's memo on the Copeland Resolution and "Plan for Revenue-Producing Conservation on Mixed Lands in Wisconsin," and a "position" for AL. A 1947 letter to Senator McCarthy opposes removal of the Wildlife Management Division of the United States Forest Service. See also the United States Forest Service Records series (9/25/10-11).

10 letters, 1932; 1 letter, 1947

box 008
folder 008
USFS -- Milwaukee Office

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Contains correspondence with R. E. Trippensee (Technical Supervisor, Fish and Game), Albert Van S. Pulling (Technician), Earl S. Pierce (Assistant Regional Forester), et al., mostly concerning policy and game activities in Wisconsin, especially deer management and soil erosion control. Several USFS mimeos concerning game are also included.

35 letters, misc., 1934-1935

box 008
folder 009
USFS -- Erosion Control Work, Region 3

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AL was asked to inspect conservation camps in the Southwest, May-July 1933, with respect to soil erosion. Contents include a map of camps and erosion areas; AL's digests of several relevant publications; records of percolation studies on sample plots; ca. 10 bulletins, memos, or releases of USFS, several with sections by AL; and AL's "Erosion Theory for the Southwest" (December 1935).

25 items, 1933

box 008
folder 010
USFS, Erosion Control [Service?], Wisconsin

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Contains blueprints of farm plans, including one by AL; AL's "Memo on Vegetation for Erosion Control -- Wisconsin Energy Conservation Work (ECW) Camps"; M. E. Deters' "Report of Inspection on ECW Flood Control Camps, 9/24/1933"; and 2 letters.

blueprints, reports, 2 letters, 1933

box 008
folder 011
US Senate Committee on Conservation of Wildlife

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Note

In May 1930, the United States Senate established a Committee on Conservation of Wild Life, which included Senators Frederick C. Walcott, Harry B. Hawes, Key Pittman, Charles L. McNary, and Peter Norbeck. Senator Hawes wrote the first general report on 21 Jan 1931, apparently incorporating suggestions made by AL (in a statement for Senator Hawes dated 19 December 1930; see Writings, 9/25/10-6, Box 016).

25 letters, misc., 1930-1934; 1 letter, 1935; 2 letters, 1940

box 008
folder 012
US Soil Erosion Service (US-SES)

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Ten letters (1934) concern AL's statement of opposition to Harold Icke's abandonment of game management on SES projects. The remaining correspondence, with H. H. Bennitt, W. C. Lowdermilk, and Charles C. Collier, all of the SES, concerns policy and the role of the University of Wisconsin in research.

25 letters, 1934-1935

box 008
folder 013
US-SES, Coon Valley

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Note

Contains several notes from AL's visits to Coon Valley, 1933-1934, and copies of game censuses by Starker Leopold, 1934-1935. It is extremely unfortunate that there is not more material on Coon Valley in AL's files, since documentation of the nationally significant developments there seems generally to have been destroyed. There is, however, a small quantity of material on Coon Valley in General Files, O. R. Zeasman, 9/22/10, Box 001.

1933-1935

box 008
folder 014
US Soil Conservation Service

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Note

Correspondence for 1936 involves proposals for a wildlife project at the Wisconsin Erosion Experiment Station and discussion of Van Dersal's "Handbook of Native Woody Plants," in which AL would have liked more attention given to ecology. The foregoing may have been related to AL's appointment as Collaborator, SCS, on 6 September 1939. Correspondence and mimeo in 1940 concern wildlife and soil conservation in Wisconsin.

20 letters, 1936-1940

box 008
folder 015
UW Committees

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Note

Contains requests to serve on various university committees, but no record of action: 1941, Committee on Limnology; 1943, Committee to select Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation visiting lecturers; 1944, Lecture and Forum Committee of the University Club; 1947, Conservation Major advisory committee; 1947, University Committee on Lake and Stream Investigations; 1948, Arboretum Committee.

1941-1948

box 008
folder 016
University Committee on Recreation Curriculum (President's Committee on Major in Community Leadership in Recreation)

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Note

AL was a member of an advisory group to this body in 1945. The folder contains mostly mimeos concerning proposed curriculum.

1945

box 008
folder 017
UW College of Agriculture Post-War Planning Committee -- Subcommittee on National and State Policies Affecting Wisconsin Agriculture

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Note

This group was a subset of the College of Agriculture's Post-War Planning Committee, chaired by R. K. Froker. Included are several drafts of a report on public policies for Wisconsin, including rewrites of the conservation section by AL in several drafts, and other related papers and correspondence.

1944-1945

box 009
Organizations, Committees: V-W

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box 009
folder 001
The Wilderness Society (WS), 1934-1940

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Note

In 1934, Robert Marshall, Harvey Broome, Benton MacKaye, and Jerome Frank asked AL and five others to serve as an organizing committee; AL accepted. On 27 March 1935 he was asked to be the first president, but declined, feeling that the president ought to live in Washington, D.C. He was on the Council from the start until his death.

Correspondence, mostly with Marshall and Robert Sterling Yard, is heaviest during 1934-36 and concerns Society policy and issues, including the Green Mountain Parkway, Okeefenokee Swamp, Porcupine Mountains, Gila Wilderness, and Escalante Wilderness. Materials in the folder run through June 1940--up to the death of Bob Marshall and the Marshall Commemorative Issue of The Living Wilderness.

125 letters, 1934-1940

box 009
folder 002
WS, 1940-1945

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Correspondence with Robert Sterling Yard on Glacier Peak, Quetico-Superior, and definitions of wilderness areas.

75 letters, 1940-1945

box 009
folder 003
WS, July 1945-1947

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Note

AL was elected vice president of the Wilderness Society in July 1945. Correspondents include Howard Zahniser (executive secretary), MacKaye (president), Olaus Murie (director), Harvey Broome, and Ernest Griffith.

90 letters, July 1945-1947

box 009
folder 004
(WS), Robert Marshall Wilderness Fund

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Note

Robert Marshall's will established the fund in 1939 to provide continuing support for Wilderness Society activities. AL was selected as trustee to take Yard's place in 1945. Official correspondence, memos to trustees, auditors' reports, and financial reports are included.

1945-1948

box 009
folder 005
Wildlife Management Institute

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Note

Correspondence, mostly with C.R. Gutermuth (vice president), concerns AL's summarization of the 12th North American Wildlife Conference (see Box 005, folder 005), fellowships, and positions for students, etc.

20 letters, 1947-1948

box 009
folder 006
The Wildlife Society (WLS)

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Note

Correspondence and papers concerning the organization of the society (established 1936) indicate that AL was a councillor, chairman of the names and purposes committee, and member of the committee on qualifications for affiliation. Permanent organization was completed in Feb. 1937. AL was on the Advisory Committee.

Correspondence with Ralph King, Stoddard, McAtee, Bennitt, et al., concerns the Journal of Wildlife Management , members, etc.

60 items, 1936-1940; 35 items, 1940-1948

box 009
folder 006a
The Wildlife Society 1938-earlier

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Note

Includes pre-1938 correspondence of the Wildlife Society.

During the 2007 digitization process, folder 006 was split in due to its sheer bulk.

box 009
folder 007
WLS, Awards Committee

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Note

The committee was established in 1940, with Ward McAtee, editor of the Journal of Wildlife Management , as chairman (later Storer, et al.). AL was a member. Correspondence, mostly with McAtee, concerns policy and criticism of various publications being considered for awards. Fred Hamerstrom took over during 1940-47 due to AL's bad eyes.

40 letters, 1940-1947

box 009
folder 008
WLS, Committee on Foreign Relations

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Note

AL was chairman and Charles Elton, et al., were members of this committee (established 1946). Correspondence deals with policy on foreign memberships and cooperation. AL's "Report of the Committee on Foreign Relations" is included.

25 letters, 1946-1947

box 009
folder 009
WLS, Committee on Professional Standards

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Note

This committee was established in 1938 with Rudolf Bennitt as chairman. AL, who had been on the original Qualifications for Membership Committee, would have been chairman but for his bad eyes. He may have been in charge, however, of a subcommittee to draft a statement.

Included are discussions on "What is a wild life manager?" and the evolution of AL's manuscript, "Academic and Professional Training in Wildlife Work," with comments on various drafts by Stoddard. Correspondents include Taylor, Bennitt, Elton, et al.

70 items, 1938-1939; 15 items, 1940-1943

box 010
Organizations, Committees: W-Z

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box 010
folder 001
Wilson Ornithological Club

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Note

Correspondence concerns a proposed symposium on wildlife management to be chaired by AL at the annual meeting, 1940. (Did it occur?) In 1948, AL was appointed to a conservation committee chaired by Hochbaum and a committee chaired by Emlen for the meeting of the WOC in Madison. Much of the correspondence is with Olin S. Pettingell, Jr., who was secretary in 1940 and president in 1948.

30 letters, 1928-1948

box 010
folder 002
Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters -- Natural Resources Committee

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Note

This committee was established in 1942 with AL as chairman and Norman Fassett and E.F. Bean as members. Included is correspondence on the deer issue; manuscripts of "Deer Irruptions;" and a few items relating to Subcommittees on Distribution of Wisconsin Trees (Fassett, chairman) and Ecology of the Wolf in Wisconsin (Feeney as chairman, Clarence Searles, Ernest Swift).

35 letters, 1942-1944

box 010
folder 003
Wisconsin Conservation League

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Note

The League was organized in 1940. AL was member at large on the Executive Committee and a member of the Public Relations and Education Committees (1941). He resigned as member at large in 1942, disapproving of President Radke's aggressive and political policy in the Catlin-Heil affair. Two letters in 1947 concern AL's suggestion for a committee to map the future of the League.

23 letters, 1940-1942; 2 letters, 1947

box 010
folder 004
Wisconsin (Geological and) Natural History Survey

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AL was a member of the Faculty Division of Biological Sciences committee on the organization and function of a revived Natural History Survey. Correspondence, reports, and AL's proposals for publications are included.

6 items, 1946-1947

box 010
folder 005
Wisconsin Society for Ornithology

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Note

Correspondence with Walter Scott concerns honorary membership for AL in 1942 and the Passenger Pigeon Monument in 1947.

2 letters, 1942; 3 [letters], 1947

box 010
folder 006
Wisconsin Conservation (Commission) Department

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Note

AL was employed by the WCD during parts of 1932-33 to survey game management and public hunting areas. There are about 30 reports and letters, including a "Report on game management demonstration."

In 1933 AL was appointed to the newly established Game Committee (with Grimmer as chairman, and MacKenzie) and also to the Fisheries Committee. The folder contains correspondence with General Ralph Immell (WCD Director), MacKenzie, Grimmer, et al. Also included are materials concerning UW-WCD cooperation on game management, including trapping and banding permits and a proposal for wildlife research under the Federal Aid to Wildlife Restoration Act.

30 items, 1932-1933; 80 items, 1933-1943

box 010
folder 007
(Wisconsin) Conservation Commission -- Minutes and Agenda

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box 010
folder 008
Wisconsin Conservation Commission -- Correspondence

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Note

AL was appointed Conservation Commissioner as of 21 June 1943. Correspondence is with department officials, other commissioners, and citizens around the state, mostly concerning deer. There is some correspondence with WCD from AL in his role as professor regarding UW-WCD cooperation in game management.

135 letters, 1943-1948

box 010
folder 009
WCC Minutes

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Note

Contains Xerox copies from bound volumes of WCC minutes in the Wisconsin State Archives, WSHS. Portions selected include speeches or comments by AL (quoted, paraphrased, or simply reported) on Commission matters with which he was particularly concerned, including deer management, waterfowl regulations, etc. Minutes of certain meetings during 1943-44 were too light to be xeroxed.

1943-1948

box 010
folder 010
WCC Budget

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Note: Bound volume, 1 July 1947 - 30 June 1948
box 010
folder 011
(WCD) Citizen's Deer Committee

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Note

This committee was appointed by the commission in Fall 1942. AL was selected as chairman. A June 1943 report, largely written by AL, and a May 1944 report not signed by AL, are included. (A note on the folder says, "Rest of material sent Jacobson when he was made new chairman," perhaps when AL was appointed to the commission.)

8 letters and statements, 1942-1944

box 010
folder 012
(WCD) Wisconsin Committee on Natural Areas

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AL wrote a Conservation Commission resolution of 13 Feb. 1945 creating this committee. He was chosen to represent the WCD (as temporary chairman?), Fassett the UW, and Albert Fuller the Milwaukee Public Museum. Discussions concern Cedarburg Bog, Faville Grove, and Parfrey's Glen.

20 letters, 1945-1946

box 010
folder 013
WCD Natural Areas Committee

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Note

Donated by Emily Earley in 1985.

10 letters, 1939, 1946, 1948

Series: 9/25/10-3: County, State, and Foreign Files

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Scope and Content Note

Mr. Leopold apparently set up the County, State, and Foreign Files when he began his game surveys for the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute (SAAMI) in 1928. Since the surveys were originally intended to cover the entire country, he began filing clippings on game matters from newspapers, state conservation bulletins, and the DuPont Conservation News ; digests of and extracts from books and articles he had read; maps, data, reports, and other materials, all designated miscellaneous. He also used the miscellaneous files to store extra outline maps, most of which have been removed.

The correspondence in these files is of about equal bulk with the miscellaneous materials for each state, and includes letters to and from cooperators of the survey, officials of SAAMI and its Committee on Restoration and Protection of Game (especially Stewart Commeaux, John M. Olin, Elliott C. Dill, and L. W. T. Waller, Jr.), and other friends. It concerns game matters, potential game surveys, and conservation issues in the various states. The files contain additional correspondence and data for states actually surveyed by Mr. Leopold -- Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin. SAAMI game research fellowships are the subject of correspondence with David Gorsuch in Arizona (quail), R. E. Yeatter in Michigan (ring-necked pheasant and Hungarian partridge), and Ralph King in Minnesota (ruffed grouse and cycles). Materials relating to Paul Errington's fellowship at the University of Wisconsin (quail) are not found in this series, but there is some material in the Bobwhite folder (9/25/10-4 002 004).

Some correspondence describes private consulting by Mr. Leopold in the period between the termination of his support by SAAMI in early 1932 and his faculty appointment in August 1933, but after 1933 materials in the state files begin diminishing gradually to about 1940.

The Wisconsin files, arranged by county, contain correspondence and notes, reports, maps, reprints, clippings, and other materials on wildlife history and game management, gathered mostly during the game survey and the early years of Mr. Leopold's faculty position, about 1929-1939. Some folders contain plat books, land economic inventory maps, wildlife management plans by Mr. Leopold and others, student papers on various areas, and consulting reports.

The foreign files contain correspondence and articles from about 1930-1940 on wildlife and conservation philosophy.

Arrangement of folders is alphabetical by county (Wisconsin), state, or country. Material within folders is arranged chronologically. Little or no description of the contents is available for most folders. Empty folders have been noted.

box 001
County, State, and Foreign Files: Counties (Wisconsin), A-K

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box 001
folder 001
Adams County

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Note

Correspondence and manuscripts concerning the Monroe Center Game Cooperative 1933-1935, and correspondence 1941-1943 with Donald Brown of Friendship concerning sandhill cranes and other wildlife.

15 letters, 5 ms., 1933-1943, 1956

box 001
folder 002
Ashland County

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Note: 1 misc., 1934
box 001
folder 003
Barron County

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Note: 2 letters, 5 misc., 1934-1948
box 001
folder 004
Bayfield County

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Note: 4 misc., maps
box 001
folder 005
Brown County

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Note: 2 misc.
box 001
folder 006
Buffalo County

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Note: 3 letters, 1941; 4 misc.
box 001
folder 007
Burnett County

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Note: (empty)
box 001
folder 008
Calumet County

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Note: 1 map, 1942.
box 001
folder 009
Chippewa County

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Note: (empty)
box 001
folder 010
Clark County

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Note: (empty)
box 001
folder 011
Columbia County

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Note: (empty)
box 001
folder 012
(Columbia County) Agency House, Portage

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Note

Contains two letters, a report by AL, and a blueprint pertaining to the possibility of reestablishing a prairie on the property.

4 items, 1941-1942

box 001
folder 013
Crawford County

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Note: (empty)
box 001
folder 014
Dane County

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Note: 15 manuscripts and misc., 1933-1948
box 001
folder 015
Dodge County

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Note

Contents pertain largely to Horicon Marsh and to a game management plan prepared by AL and Ralph Conway for the Beaver Dam Conservation Club.

20 items, 1935-1937, 1947

box 001
folder 016
Door County

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Note: Report (on Rock Island), 1937
box 001
folder 017
Douglas County

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Note: 4 letters, 1936-1937; 10 misc.; maps
box 001
folder 018
box 001
folder 019
Eau Claire County

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Note: (empty)
box 001
folder 020
Florence County

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Note: 2 misc.
box 001
folder 021
Fond du Lac County

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Note: maps
box 001
folder 022
Forest County

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Note: 2 misc.
box 001
folder 023
Grant County

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Note: 4 SCS reports, 1936-1938; misc.
box 001
folder 024
Green County

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Note: 1 letter, map, 1942.
box 001
folder 025
Green Lake County

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Note: Report (on White Creek Marsh) 1934, misc.
box 001
folder 026
box 001
folder 027
box 001
folder 028
Jackson County

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Note

Reports on a deer range of Saddle Mound area by AL, 1944, and W. S. Feeney, 1943.

8 items

box 001
folder 029
Jefferson County

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Note: 3 misc.
box 001
folder 030
Juneau County

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Note: 3 letters, 1939; maps
box 001
folder 031
box 001
folder 032
Kewaunee County

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Note: (empty)
box 002
County, State, and Foreign Files: Counties (Wisconsin), L-W

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box 002
folder 001
LaCrosse County

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Note

Here are included Paul Errington's correspondence with John P. Bird of LaCrosse and pages from Mr. Bird's shooting journal, sent to AL for his files.

10 letters, journal pp., 1929-1937

box 002
folder 002
Lafayette County

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Note: map
box 002
folder 003
Langlade County

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Note: maps, misc.
box 002
folder 004
Lincoln County

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Note: (empty)
box 002
folder 005
Manitowoc County

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Note: 1 letter, 1940; map; student paper
box 002
folder 006
Marathon County

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Note: (empty)
box 002
folder 007
Marinette County

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Note: 2 letters, 2 misc., 1942-1945
box 002
folder 008
Marquette County

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Note: 5 misc., ms.
box 002
folder 009
Milwaukee County

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Note: 2 letters, misc., 1929-1936
box 002
folder 010
Monroe County

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Note: (empty)
box 002
folder 011
box 002
folder 012
Oneida County

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Note: memo, 1934
box 002
folder 013
Outagamie County

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Note: 4 items, 1936-1938
box 002
folder 014
Ozaukee County

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Note: misc.
box 002
folder 015
Pepin County

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Note: 2 misc.
box 002
folder 016
Pierce County

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Note: (empty)
box 002
folder 017
box 002
folder 018
Portage County

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Note

Included are F. J. W. Schmidt materials on Stockton Marsh.

8 misc.

box 002
folder 019
Price County

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Note: 1 misc.
box 002
folder 020
Racine County

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Note: 1 letter, 1941; map
box 002
folder 021
Richland County

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Note: 1 letter, 1932
box 002
folder 022
Rock County

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Note: 1misc., 1939
box 002
folder 023
Rusk County

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Note: 4 letters, 1936; misc., maps
box 002
folder 024
St. Croix County

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Note: 1 letter, 1935; map
box 002
folder 025
Sauk County

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Note: 4 letters, 8 misc., 1929-1947
box 002
folder 026
Sawyer County

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Note: 4 letters, 5 misc., maps, 1932-1947
box 002
folder 027
Shawano County

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Note: misc.
box 002
folder 028
Sheboygan County

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Note: 4 misc.
box 002
folder 029
Taylor County

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Note: (empty)
box 002
folder 030
Trempealeau County

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Note: 2 letters, 1929; 4 misc.
box 002
folder 031
box 002
folder 032
Vilas County

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Note: 4 letters, 1941-1946; misc., maps
box 002
folder 033
Walworth County

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Note: 5 misc.
box 002
folder 034
Washburn County

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Note: 5 misc.
box 002
folder 035
Washington County

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Note: (empty)
box 002
folder 036
Waukesha County

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Note

An ecological history of Waukesha County written by Howard Young is included.

5 letters, 1928-1938; misc., maps

box 002
folder 037
Waupaca County

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Note: 2 misc.
box 002
folder 038
Waushara County

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Note: 4 letters, 1938-1940; misc.
box 002
folder 039
Winnebago County

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Note: 3 misc.
box 002
folder 040
Wood County

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Note

Contains the undated manuscript for "A proposed Central Wisconsin Foundation," written by AL.

1 ms.

box 003
County, State, and Foreign Files: States, Alabama-Georgia

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box 003
folder 001
Alabama, Miscellaneous and Correspondence

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Note: 4 letters, 1930; 9 [letters], 1936-1937; 12 misc., 1928-1931
box 003
folder 002
Alaska

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Note: 3 misc., 1932; 1948
box 003
folder 003
Arizona, Miscellaneous and Correspondence

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Note

Correspondence with W. P. Taylor, D. M. Gorsuch, Fred Winn et al., concerns Arizona reorganization, etc. Miscellaneous materials regarding Kaibab are also included.

20 letters, 1928-1935; 3 [letters], 1944-1947; 20 misc., 1929-1936

box 003
folder 004
Arizona Fellowship

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Note

Contains correspondence with David Gorsuch, fellow; Charles T. Vorhies, University of Arizona faculty member in charge; Walter P. Taylor, USBS-Tuscon; H. L. Shantz, President, University of Arizona; and H. L. Stoddard, United States Biological Survey supervisor. Correspondence with David Gorsuch, 18 September 1934, concerns efforts to continue financing through ECW.

115 letters, 1928-1936

box 003
folder 005
Arkansas, Miscellaneous and Correspondence

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Note: 6 letters, 1930, 1935, 1943; 6 misc., 1928-1930
box 003
folder 006
California, Correspondence

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Note

Contains correspondence with Tracy Storer on quail, Joseph Dixon on deer, and Joseph Grinnell on the California condor; and a 1938 letter to Carl Sauer on research in the Southwest.

85 letters, 1928-1947

box 003
folder 007
California, Miscellaneous

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Note

Most of the material is from 1929-32. AL was considering a possible game survey.

75 misc., 1926-1936

box 003
folder 008
Colorado, Miscellaneous and Correspondence

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Note: 25 letters, 1928-1938; 5 misc., 1929
box 003
folder 009
Connecticut, Miscellaneous and Correspondence

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Correspondence with H. H. Chapman and Henry Graves (Yale Forest School) and Arthur L. Clarke (Supt., State Board of Fish and Game Commissioners) concerns a game program at Yale and a possible survey of Connecticut. Miscellaneous items include A.L. Clarke's Rural Homes Plan (1933).

50 letters, 1928-1937; 5 misc., 1930-1933

box 003
folder 010
Delaware, Miscellaneous

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Note

Miscellaneous items include William Vogt's "Death and Transfiguration in Delaware" (mimeo, undated).

5 letters, 1930-1935; 5 misc.

box 003
folder 011
District of Columbia

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Note: (empty)
box 003
folder 012
Florida, Miscellaneous and Correspondence

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Note

Miscellaneous items mainly concern the Everglades.

10 letters, 1928-1938; 10 misc.

box 003
folder 013
Georgia, Miscellaneous and Correspondence

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Note: 25 letters, 1930-1944; 10 misc., 1928-1939
box 004
County, State, and Foreign Files: States, Idaho-Massachusetts

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box 004
folder 001
Idaho, Miscellaneous and Correspondence

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Note: 10 letters, 1929-1932; 10 misc.
box 004
folder 002
Illinois, Correspondence

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Note

Includes 1938 correspondence about quail and prairie chicken studies.

60 letters, 1929-1946

box 004
folder 003
Illinois, Miscellaneous

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Note: 40 items
box 004
folder 004
Illinois, Original Maps and Charts (Game Survey, 1929)

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box 004
folder 005
Indiana, Correspondence

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Note

Correspondence with Richard Lieber (director, Department of Conservation), A. E. Andrews (assistant editor, The Indiana Farmer's Guide ) and others concerns a SAAMI survey (1929), hawk trapping (1931), and a possible game survey (1933).

70 letters, 1929-1935

box 004
folder 006
Indiana, Miscellaneous

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Note: 20 items, 1929-1934
box 004
folder 007
Indiana, Original Maps and Charts (Game Survey, 1929)

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box 004
folder 008
Kansas, Correspondence

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Note

Correspondence regarding a possible SAAMI fellowship in 1929 is included.

22 letters, 1928-1936

box 004
folder 009
Kansas, Miscellaneous

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Note: 8 items, 1929-1934
box 004
folder 010
Kentucky, Correspondence

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Note

Correspondence for 1932 concerns a possible survey.

20 letters, 1929-1933, 1936

box 004
folder 011
Kentucky, Miscellaneous

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Note: 3 items
box 004
folder 012
Louisiana, Correspondence

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Note: 15 letters, 1930-1935
box 004
folder 013
Louisiana, Miscellaneous

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Note: 20 items, 1928-1934
box 004
folder 014
Maine, Correspondence

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Note

Correspondence concerns A. O. Gross's prairie chicken and deer studies in Maine (1931 and 1943 respectively).

8 letters, 1931, 1943

box 004
folder 015
Maine, Miscellaneous

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Note: 5 items, 1930-1936
box 004
folder 016
Maryland, Correspondence

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Note

Contains correspondence with Bob Marshall concerning wilderness and Brazier Howell concerning predator control.

13 letters, 1930-1936

box 004
folder 017
Maryland, Miscellaneous

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Note: 10 items, 1930-1936
box 004
folder 018
Massachusetts, Correspondence

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Note

Includes correspondence with Arthur L. Clark, 1928 (Game Restoration Department, The National Sportsman); John C. Phillips, 1929-1930 (President, Massachusetts Fish and Game Association); Frank Waugh (Massachusetts State College); David Aylward; Hugh M. Raup (Arnold Arboretum, Harvard) on ecology and climatic change; and others, on the possibility of a New England game survey.

80 letters, 1928-1938

box 004
folder 019
Massachusetts, Miscellaneous

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Note: 15 items
box 005
County, State, and Foreign Files: States, Iowa

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Note: Materials from AL's 1928 SAAMI survey of Iowa are apparently not included. Rather, this series of files deals with his later game survey of Iowa, 1931-1932, and follow-up to it. (The survey was undertaken by AL as a facet of the Iowa 25-year Conservation Plan coordinated by Jacob L. Crane, Jr., planning consultant.)
box 005
folder 001
Correspondence

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Note

Correspondence with Gordon Leavitt, John N. Ball, E. S. Parker, Chance S. Hill, and others involves preliminaries and follow-up to the second Iowa survey.

125 letters, 1931-1939

box 005
folder 002
Correspondence with Fish & Game Commission

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Note

Correspondents include I. T. Bode, State Fish and Game Warden; William Schuenke, Chief Supervisor, Game and Wardens; W. C. Boone, Chairman Fish and Game Commission; Arther E. Rapp, Secretary Fish and Game Commission; and Jacob L. Crane, Jr., Planning Consultant.

160 letters, 1931-1935

box 005
folder 003
Game Research at Ames (Errington)

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Note

Includes correspondence with Paul Errington, SAAMI fellow under AL at the UW, 1929-1932. Errington was recipient of a 3-year grant from J. N. Darling (matched by funds from Iowa State College, Ames, and the Iowa Fish and Game Commission) for scientific research bearing on execution of the Iowa Conservation plan, 1932-1935.

80 letters, 1929, 1931-1940

box 005
folder 004
Publication of Handbook and Report

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Note

In spring 1932, AL prepared a handbook, Management of Upland Game Birds , which was distributed in pamphlet form. The report "Game Survey of Iowa" (summer 1932) was never fully published. Correspondence with I. T. Bode, W. C. Boone, Jacob L. Crane, Jr., Cal Johnson (editor, Outdoor America ) and others, concerns various schemes for publication. (See also "Game Survey of Iowa" in 9/25/10-6, Box 010, Folder 003.)

60 letters; 1932-1933

box 005
folder 005
Report on Iowa Game Survey

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Note

Folder 005 contains reprints of chapters 1-3 of the 1933 report on the Iowa Game Survey, along with typed drafts of chapters 3, 6-9, and Preface. (Chapters 1-4 were published in Outdoor America .) Also included is correspondence (August-October 1933) concerning suspension of the magazine and consequences for AL's report.

7 letters, 1933; reprints and mss.

box 005
folder 006
Miscellaneous

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Note

Unpublished reports by AL.

50 items, 1931-1939

box 005
folder 007
Supporting Data for Report

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Note

Correspondence, maps, charts, reports, clippings, etc. Contents were unbound for digitization in 2007 and are kept in the order in which they were bound.

80 items, 1931-1932 (bound file folder)

box 005
folder 008
Prints and Originals of Maps and Charts

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Note: most [items]1931-1932
box 006
County, State, and Foreign Files: States, Michigan-Minnesota

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box 006
folder 001
Michigan, Correspondence

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Note

Correspondents include P. S. Lovejoy, Michigan Department of Conservation, Division of Game; S. T. Dana, Dean, University of Michigan School of Forestry and Conservation; Victor H. Cahalane, Conservation Department -- Deer Investigations; H. M. Wright, Assistant Professor of Forest Zoology, University of Michigan; Miles D. Pirnie, Ornithologist, Game Division; H. D. Ruhl, Game Division; Carl Hubbs, University of Michigan Institute for Fisheries Research; et al. Correspondence for 1937 concerns efforts to continue the research of William H. Long, Jr.

60 letters, 1928-1934; 20 [letters], 1937

box 006
folder 002
Michigan, Williamston Project

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Note

Contains reports, articles, etc. on a cooperative farmer-sportsman arrangement, supported by Michigan IWLA.

20 misc., 1929-1932

box 006
folder 003
Michigan, Miscellaneous

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Note: 60 items, 1927-1935
box 006
folder 004
Michigan, Fellowship

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Note

Correspondence relates to R. E. Yeatter's study of ring-necked pheasant and Hungarian partridge in Michigan.

80 letters, 1929-1934

box 006
folder 005
Minnesota, Correspondence

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Note

Includes correspondence with Charles L. Horn, President, Federal Cartridge Company, concerning predation, 1933-1934.

110 letters, 1928-1940

box 006
folder 006
Minnesota, Miscellaneous

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Note

Contains early Quetico-Superior clippings and miscellaneous items (1928-1940).

55 items, 1928-1940; 1 letter, 1951

box 006
folder 007
Minnesota Fellowship

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Note

Contains correspondence with Ralph T. King, fellow studying ruffed grouse and cycles; R.N. Chapman, faculty supervisor; and Dr. Green.

110 letters, 1928-1934

box 007
County, State, and Foreign Files: States, Mississippi-New Jersey

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box 007
folder 001
Mississippi, Correspondence

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Note: 40 letters, 1928-1931
box 007
folder 002
Mississippi, Miscellaneous

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Note: 25 letters, 1927-1930
box 007
folder 003
Mississippi, Original Maps and Charts (Game Survey, 1929)

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box 007
folder 004a
Missouri, Correspondence

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Note

Contains correspondence with Elora Blaettner and others on the game survey; with W. O. Nagel and Rudolf Bennitt on teaching conservation; and on the Irish Wilderness of Missouri (wild turkey country), 1937.

200 letters, 1934-1940

box 007
folder 004b
Missouri, Correspondence

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Note

In June 2007 folder 004 was divided for better preservation of the physical contents.

1928-1933

box 007
folder 005
Missouri, Miscellaneous

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Note

Several reports by Wallace Grange are included.

30 items, 1929-1940; 1 misc., 1943

box 007
folder 006
Missouri, Original Maps and Charts (Game Survey, 1930)

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box 007
folder 007
Montana, Correspondence

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Note: 25 letters, 1926-1935
box 007
folder 008
Montana, Miscellaneous

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Note: 12 items, 1929-1934
box 007
folder 009
Nebraska, Correspondence

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Note: 20 letters, 1928-1934, 1940
box 007
folder 010
Nebraska, Miscellaneous

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Note: 20 items, 1928-1936
box 007
folder 011
Nevada, Correspondence

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Note: (empty)
box 007
folder 012
Nevada, Miscellaneous

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Note: 1 misc., 2 maps
box 007
folder 013
New Hampshire, Correspondence

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Note: 8 letters, 1928-1930
box 007
folder 014
New Hampshire, Miscellaneous

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Note: 7 misc., 1928-1930
box 007
folder 015
New Jersey, Correspondence

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Note

Some correspondence concerns a possible survey, 1932.

45 letters, 1928-1938

box 007
folder 016
New Jersey, Miscellaneous

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Note: 10 items, 1930-1939
box 008
County, State, and Foreign Files: States, New Mexico-North Dakota

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box 008
folder 001
New Mexico, Correspondence

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Note

Contains correspondence concerning the reorganization of New Mexico's conservation agencies; game matters; and personal matters. Includes correspondence with Elliott and Omar Barker, R. Fred Pettit, Edgar L. Perry (State Fish and Game Warden), Frank C. W. Pooler (USFS District 3 Forester), Arthur Sisk, J. Stokely Ligon (State Department of Game and Fish), John D. Clark (Professor at the University of New Mexico), et al.

120 letters, 1925-1941

box 008
folder 002
New Mexico, Miscellaneous

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Note

Several AL articles are included, along with materials on game, the Gila area, etc.

40 items, 1919-1937

box 008
folder 003
Pattie's Journal

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Note

AL intended to write a paper on Southwestern ecology, using James O. Pattie's journal as a major source.

10 letters and 2 annotated maps, 1924-1926

box 008
folder 004
New York, Correspondence

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Note

Correspondents include Davis Quinn on predation; Arthur Allen, Cornell; Gardiner Bump (New York Conservation Department) and Ralph Hosmer (Professor of Forestry at Cornell) concerning possible lectures or surveys in New York, 1932; Mrs. Rosalie Edge, Emergency Conservation Committee; Helen Willis et al. concerning newspaper articles on AL's work; and Ray Holland, editor of Field and Stream .

140 letters, 1928-1939

box 008
folder 005
New York, Miscellaneous

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Note: 30 items, 1917-1940
box 008
folder 006
North Carolina, Correspondence

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Note: 25 letters, 1928-1937
box 008
folder 007
North Carolina, Miscellaneous

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Note: 40 items, 1928-1931, 1940
box 008
folder 008
North Dakota, Correspondence

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Note: 7 letters, 1931-1938
box 008
folder 009
North Dakota, Miscellaneous

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Note: 17 misc., 1929-1937
box 009
County, State, and Foreign Files: States, Ohio-Tennessee

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box 009
folder 001
Ohio, Correspondence

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Note

Correspondents include E. L. Wickliff, Ohio Department of Agriculture -- Conservation Division; Lawrence Hicks, Ohio Game Survey; and S. Prentice Baldwin, et al. Subjects include possible Ohio fellowships and a predator controversy in Ohio, 1932-1934.

130 letters, 1928-1947

box 009
folder 002
Ohio, Miscellaneous

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Note: 40 items, 1929-1941
box 009
folder 003
Oklahoma, Correspondence

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Note: 13 letters, 1928-1931, 1940
box 009
folder 004
Oklahoma, Miscellaneous

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Note: 12 items, 1925-1935
box 009
folder 005
Oregon, Correspondence

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Note

Correspondence with Earl Fry (DuPont in Seattle), et al., on the possibility of AL's conducting an Oregon game survey; John D. Guthrie; Walter J. Perry; and others.

50 letters, 1928-1941

box 009
folder 006
Oregon, Miscellaneous

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Note: 18 items
box 009
folder 007
Pennsylvania, Correspondence

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Note

Includes correspondence with W. Gard Conklin (Board of Game Commissioners), Ed C. M. Richards, Richard Gerstell, Seth Gordon, Gifford Pinchot (1940), L. W. T. Waller, Jr., William R. Van Dersal, Morris L. Cooke, et al.

100 letters, 1928-1940

box 009
folder 008
Pennsylvania, Miscellaneous

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Note

Many items concern deer.

107 items, 1927-1942

box 009
folder 009
Rhode Island, Correspondence

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Note: 1 letter, 1931
box 009
folder 010
Rhode Island, Miscellaneous

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Note: 2 misc., 1929-1930
box 009
folder 011
South Carolina, Correspondence

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Note

Includes correspondence about a game management course in South Carolina, and with George L. Barrus on fire, brush, and quail.

22 letters, 1930-1935

box 009
folder 012
South Carolina, Miscellaneous

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Note: misc., 1928-1938
box 009
folder 013
South Dakota, Correspondence

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Note: 35 letters, 1929-1934
box 009
folder 014
South Dakota, Miscellaneous

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Note: 15 items, 1929-1941
box 009
folder 015
Tennessee, Correspondence

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Note

Includes letters regarding quail studies and a possible forestry job with Tennessee Valley Authority.

35 letters, 1929-1944

box 009
folder 016
Tennessee, Miscellaneous

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Note: 5 items, 1929-1932
box 010
County, State, and Foreign Files: States, Texas-Wyoming; Foreign

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box 010
folder 001
Texas, Correspondence

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Note

Correspondents include William J. Tucker (Secretary of the Texas Game, Fish, and Oyster Commission), H. H. MacDonald, Walter P. Taylor, Phil Goodrum, et al.

34 letters, 1930-1943

box 010
folder 002
Texas, Miscellaneous

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Note: 17 items, 1930-1938
box 010
folder 003
(Texas) King Ranch

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Note

AL was invited to visit this ranch 6-7 February 1947, immediately after a WMI conference in San Antonio, held 3-5 February. Subjects discussed in correspondence include deer, quail (Errington's research), and predators.

13 letters, January-April 1947; photos

box 010
folder 004
Utah, Correspondence

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Note

Contains correspondence with S. B. Locke of the Intermountain Experimental Station regarding deer, and with T. G. Taylor of Utah State Agricultural College, who asked for a SAAMI fellowship and for information on a game survey for Utah.

50 letters, 1928-1936

box 010
folder 005
Utah, Miscellaneous

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Note

Materials on Kaibab are included.

17 items, 1928-1941

box 010
folder 006
Vermont, Correspondence

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Note: 3 letters, 1937-1938
box 010
folder 007
Vermont, Miscellaneous

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Note: 2 misc., 2 maps
box 010
folder 008
Virginia, Correspondence

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Note

A discussion of farmer cooperation with M. D. Hart, and AL's rates for a game survey in Virginia.

17 letters, 1929-1935

box 010
folder 009
Virginia, Miscellaneous

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Note: 8 misc., 1928-1938
box 010
folder 010
Washington, Correspondence

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Note

Correspondents include D. J. Leffingwell, Washington State College, Pullman (concerning a possible quail fellowship); Earl Fry; and F. S. Henika, Pullman.

55 letters, 1928-1942

box 010
folder 011
Washington, Miscellaneous

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Note: 13 items, 1929-1936
box 010
folder 012
West Virginia, Correspondence

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Note: 3 letters, 1931-1934
box 010
folder 013
West Virginia, Miscellaneous

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Note: 5 misc., 1930-1934
box 010
folder 014
Wyoming, Correspondence

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Note

Includes correspondence with M. W. Rush concerning an elk study in Yellowstone; and with Olaus Murie about predators, gulls, and ducks.

18 letters, 1928-1940

box 010
folder 015
Wyoming, Miscellaneous

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Note: 10 misc., 1929-1932
box 010
folder 016
(Wyoming) Sagehen Study

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Note

Correspondents include S. B. Locke, Conservation Director, IWLA; C. L. Forsling, Director of the Intermountain Forest and Range Experimental Station, Ogden; John W. Scott, professor of zoology, University of Wyoming; George Girard, student.

40 letters, 1932-1935

box 010
folder 017
Canada

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Note: 1 letter, 1932; 2 misc.
box 010
folder 018
Alberta

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Note: 1 letter, 1931; 2 misc.
box 010
folder 019
British Columbia

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Note: 4 misc.
box 010
folder 020
Manitoba

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Note: 1 letter, 1930; 3 misc.
box 010
folder 021
Maritime Provinces

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Note: 3 misc.
box 010
folder 022
Ontario-Quebec

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Note

Correspondence with Harrison Lewis (Chief Federal Migratory Bird Officer, Ontario and Quebec) and Hoyes Lloyd concerning wildlife matters and conservation philosophy.

45 letters, 1930-1939; 2 misc.

box 010
folder 023
Saskatchewan

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Note: 3 letters, 1934, 1939; 2 misc.
box 010
folder 024
Europe

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Note

Correspondents include T. M. Rasek; Charles Elton and A. D. Middleton (Bureau of Animal Population, Oxford); Oscar De Beaux (Italy); and V. Generosoff (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics).

45 letters, 1930-1940; 3 misc.

box 010
folder 025
Germany

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Note

Correspondents include Franz Heske and Adalbert Ebner.

12 letters, 1935-1936; 12 misc., 1934-1936

box 010
folder 026
Africa

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Note: 1 letter, 1937
box 010
folder 027
South America

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Note: 1 misc.
box 010
folder 028
Mexico

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Note: 4 letters, 1936-1941; 10 misc.
Series: 9/25/10-4: Species and Subjects

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Scope and Content Note

AL apparently set up the species and subject files in the early 1920s in connection with his proposed book, "Southwestern Game Fields" (ms. 1927), later titled "Deer Management in the Southwest" (ms. 1929). See Southwestern book manuscripts in 9/25/10-6, Box 10.

Correspondence in the files indicates that after Mr. Leopold left the Southwest for Madison in 1924, he continued to send clippings, notes, and other items "for the files" to his co-authors in New Mexico, J. Stokely Ligon and R. Fred Pettit. It is not clear whether he ultimately brought those files to Madison (perhaps after his deer-hunting trip to New Mexico in November 1929, by which time work on the joint manuscript seems to have ceased), or whether he retained copies in back-up files of his own. At any rate, materials in the species and subject files in the UW-Madison Archives seem to have been written or collected almost entirely by AL.

The earliest material (to about 1929) relates largely to the "Southwestern" book and to a few of Mr. Leopold's early articles on game management. Some material in these files (1928-1930) pertains to general or summary aspects of the Report on a Game Survey of the North Central States (1931), although most material for individual state surveys is in the state files. A good deal of correspondence and other material, especially 1930-1931, concerns various sections of Leopold's textbook, Game Management (1933). After 1933, content of most of the folders is of a more miscellaneous nature and diminishes in quantity. Exceptions are certain species and subjects, such as upland game birds, whitetail deer, rabbits, cycles, food patches, etc., on which AL's research interests centered during the 1930s. In such folders, there is considerable correspondence with students and colleagues, as well as data and occasional working papers for articles. (See also the research area and project files, 9/25/10-5, and research manuscripts working papers, 9/25/10-6, Boxes 007 and 012.)

The species and subject files originally contained about equal quantities of correspondence and miscellaneous material. At the time the files were deposited by the University of Wisconsin Department of Wildlife Ecology, however, most of the published items (except for occasional duplicates) were removed, along with materials filed after 1948. (A few folders accessioned earlier are included in this series, and may include some published items.) Published materials removed from the files were mostly clippings and articles from state game bulletins and popular outdoor magazines, such as Outdoor Life . Certain folders containing solely published items were not accessioned, and contents of a few folders have been consolidated, but the series is arranged substantially as it was originally.

The correspondence in this series indicates the breadth and character of AL's contacts with sportsmen, wildlife researchers and administrators, government officials, businessmen, and various individuals throughout the country in other professional and private roles. It also indicates the extent to which certain of his research efforts consisted of synthesizing heterogeneous data and observations and experiences of others. In addition to correspondence, the files contain extracts from letters filed elsewhere; AL's notes on his own field observations (including many made while on forest inspection trips in the Southwest) and on observations reported to him by others; extracts from published sources; AL's "digests" of books and articles; a few clippings from mimeographed serials, such as United States Forest Service daily bulletins; occasional cross-references to material in other files; and manuscripts, charts, maps, checklists, and other working papers by AL.

Species folders are arranged by type of species: Big Game (Boxes 001-002), Upland Game Birds (Boxes 002-003), Songbirds (Box 003), Waterfowl (Box 004), Predators and Furbearers (Box 004), and Rodents, Fish, Exotics (Box 005). Subject folders follow in alphabetical order (Boxes 006-008).

Material within each folder is arranged chronologically, although in many cases the "original" AL material (correspondence, notes, manuscripts) is filed first and all miscellaneous (and often undated material) is filed at the end of each folder.

box 001
Species and Subjects: Big Game

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box 001
folder 001
Big Game: Antelope

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Note: 10 letters, misc., mss., 1915-1930f
box 001
folder 002
Big Game: Bears -- Black

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Note: 2 letters, misc., 1921-1944
box 001
folder 003
Big Game: Bears -- Grizzly & Large

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Note

Includes correspondence re AL's article, "The Grizzly--A Problem in Land Planning," Outdoor America (April 1942).

10 letters, notes, mss., 1921-1942

box 001
folder 004
Big Game: Buffalo

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Note: 10 letters, misc., mss., 1918-1936
box 001
folder 005
Big Game: Caribou

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Note

Concerns especially woodland caribou in the Red Lake District, Minnesota.

20 letters, misc., 1930-1943

box 001
folder 006
Big Game: Deer -- Blacktail

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Note: 2 letters, misc., mss., 1921-1929f
box 001
folder 007
Big Game: Deer -- Mule

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Note: 15 letters, misc., mss., 1922-1936f
box 001
folder 008
Big Game: Deer -- Whitetail

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Note: 35 letters, misc., mss., 1919-1948
box 001
folder 009
Big Game: Deer -- Data on Census, Kill, Increase, Decrease, Antler Classes, etc.

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Note: 90 letters, misc., mss., 1916-1940f (most 1923-1929)
box 001
folder 010
Big Game: Elk

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Note: 5 letters, misc., mss., 1915-1946 (most 1921-1931)
box 001
folder 011
Big Game: Forest Service Reports of Game

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Note: 20 letters, misc., mss., 1915-1936
box 002
Species & Subjects: Big Game; Upland Game Birds

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box 002
folder 001
Big Game: Moose

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Note: 5 letters, misc., mss., 1925-1943
box 002
folder 002
Big Game: Mountain Sheep

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Note: 12 letters, misc., mss., 1916-1938
box 002
folder 003
Big Game: Misc. Mammals

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Note

Musk ox, javelina, mountain goat.

3 letters, misc., 1922-1934

box 002
folder 004a
Upland Game Birds: Bobwhite

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Note

Materials concerning game surveys and studies undertaken by AL, Paul Errington, Starker Leopold, Arthur Hawkins, and various UW researchers supervised by AL. These folders (004a and 004b) comprise some 360 letters, plus miscellaneous documents and manuscripts.

1915-1933

box 002
folder 004b
Upland Game Birds: Bobwhite

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Note

In June 2007, folder 004 was divided for better preservation of the physical contents.

1934-1948

box 002
folder 005
Upland Game Birds: Quail Shortage of 1930

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Note

Contents are mostly replies to AL's request for data, probably used for his paper, "The Quail Shortage of 1930" (no drafts).

30 letters, misc., 1930-1931

box 002
folder 006
Upland Game Birds: Quail Sex Ratio Tally

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Note

This folder contains replies to AL's annual requests for data about quail sex ratio from game survey cooperators in the north central states, 1929-37, and tabulations. The study was apparently by AL in connection with Paul Errington's quail studies in Wisconsin..

100 letters, misc., 1929-1938

box 002
folder 007
Upland Game Birds: Quail -- California Valley

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Note: 5 letters, misc., 1925-1936
box 002
folder 008
Upland Game Birds: Quail -- Gambel, Scaled, Mearns

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Note

A few items, including reports (1922-24), pertain to the Quail Committee of the Albuquerque Game Protective Association, of which AL was chairman.

10 letters, misc., mss., 1920-1942

box 002
folder 009
Upland Game Birds: Doves & Pigeons

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Note: 3 letters, misc., mss., 1920-1945
box 002
folder 010
Upland Game Birds: Red Grouse

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Note: 13pp PY notes, misc., ca. 1930-1931
box 002
folder 011
Upland Game Birds: Ruffed Grouse

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Note: 35 letters, misc., mss., ca. 1928-1947
box 002
folder 012
Upland Game Birds: Other Grouse -- Ptarmigan, Spruce Hen, Sage Hen, Blue Grouse, etc.

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Note: 20 letters, misc., 1921-1944
box 003
Species & Subjects: Upland Game Birds; Songbirds

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box 003
folder 001

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Note: 20 letters, misc., mss., 1928-1942
box 003
folder 002
Upland Game Birds: Prairie Chicken (Pinnated & Sharp-Tailed Grouse)

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Note: 45 letters, misc., mss., 1928-1946
box 003
folder 003
Upland Game Birds: Ringneck Pheasant

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Note: 75 letters, misc., mss., 1928-1948
box 003
folder 004
Upland Game Birds: Pheasant Repellent

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Note: 15 letters, 1945-1946
box 003
folder 005
Upland Game Birds: Turkey

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Note: 30 letters, misc., mss., 1916-1942
box 003
folder 006
Upland Game Birds: Miscellaneous Birds

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Note

Included are lists of birds seen, 1912-13, at Tres Piedras, New Mexico, and Burlington, Iowa; and other items on miscellaneous species.

8pp notes, 1912-1913; 6 letters, misc., 1919-1947

box 003
folder 007
Songbirds: Cardinal Song Record

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Note

Contains "pin-up" tally sheets for days on which cardinals sing, filled in for AL by various cooperators in Wisconsin, and related correspondence.

letters, forms, 1946-1948

box 004
Species & Subjects: Waterfowl; Predators & Furbearers

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box 004
folder 001
Waterfowl in General

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Note

Correspondence with officials of the United States Biological Survey and others concerning waterfowl policy and administration. Also included are materials pertaining to miscellaneous species and research.

35 letters, misc., mss., 1921-1948

box 004
folder 002
Waterfowl: River Ducks, Diving Ducks

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Note: 10 letters, misc., mss., 1920-1948
box 004
folder 003
Waterfowl: Canada Geese, Other Geese

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Note: 15 letters, misc., 1922-1948
box 004
folder 004
Waterfowl: Jacksnipe, Woodcock, & Shorebirds

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Note

Among other materials are some pertaining to AL's paper, "The decline of the Jacksnipe in southern Wisconsin," Wilson Bulletin (1930).

25 letters, misc., mss., 1927-1944

box 004
folder 005
Waterfowl: Sandhill Crane

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Note: 30 letters, misc., mss., 1929-1947
box 004
folder 006
Waterfowl: Swans

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Note: 5 letters, 1934-1943
box 004
folder 007
Predators & Furbearers: Beaver

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Note: 2 letters, misc., 1921-1947
box 004
folder 008
Predators & Furbearers: Bobcat, Lynx

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Note: 5 letters, misc., 1922-1948
box 004
folder 009
Predators & Furbearers: Crows, Magpies, Ravens

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Note: 15 letters, misc., mss., 1918-1942
box 004
folder 010
Predators & Furbearers: Eagle

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Note: 10 letters, misc., 1921-1947
box 004
folder 011
Predators & Furbearers: Red & Gray Fox

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Note: 10 letters, misc., 1929-1947
box 004
folder 012
Predators & Furbearers: Hawks & Owls

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Note: 8 letters, misc., 1928-1948
box 004
folder 013
Predators & Furbearers: Housecats

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Note: 15 letters, misc., 1928-1930f
box 004
folder 014
Predators & Furbearers: Mountain Lion, Cougar, Jaguar

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Note: 20 letters, misc., 1917-1947
box 004
folder 015
Predators & Furbearers: Porcupine

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Note: 2 letters, misc., 1923-1945
box 004
folder 016
Predators & Furbearers: Wolves & Coyotes

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Note: 15 letters, misc., mss., 1919-1947
box 004
folder 017
Miscellaneous Predators & Furbearers

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Note: 30 letters, misc., mss., 1923-1947
box 005
Species & Subjects: Rodents; Fish; Exotics

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box 005
folder 001
Rodents: Rabbit -- Cottontail & Swamp

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Note: 15 letters, misc., 1930-1947
box 005
folder 002
Rodents: Cottontail Scarcity Study, 1936-1939

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Note: Folders 002 and 003 contain field observation forms filled out by cooperators in Wisconsin and related correspondence pertaining to a study of rabbit abundance in which AL was apparently engaged as early as 1926.
box 005
folder 003
Rodents: Cottontail Scarcity Study, 1939-1941

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box 005
folder 004
Rodents: Rabbit -- Jack

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Note: misc., 1928-1946
box 005
folder 005
Rodents: Rabbit -- Snowshoe

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Note: 20 letters, misc., 1927-1947
box 005
folder 006
Rodents: Squirrels

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Note: 25 letters, misc., 1922-1947
box 005
folder 007
Rodents -- General

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Note: 5 letters, misc., mss., 1939-1947
box 005
folder 008
Fish: Trout

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Note: 12 letters, misc., 1916-1934
box 005
folder 009
Fish: Carp

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Note: 2 letters, misc., mss., 1928-1939
box 005
folder 010
Fish: Game Fishes -- Miscellaneous

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Note: misc., 1923-1942
box 005
folder 011
Exotics: European Hare and Rabbit

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Note: 6 misc., ca. 1931
box 005
folder 012
Exotics: Red Deer, Roe Deer

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Note: 12 misc., 1934-1936
box 005
folder 013
Exotics: Black Game

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Note: 10 misc., 1930-1937
box 005
folder 014
Exotics: Capercailzie (Capercaillie)

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Note: 7 misc., 1932-1938
box 005
folder 015
Exotics: Other Exotic Game

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Note: 10 letters & misc., 1929-1942
box 006
Species & Subjects: Subjects A-E

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box 006
folder 001
Accidents

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Note: 40 letters, misc., 1928-1948
box 006
folder 002
Breeding & Nesting Habits

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Note: 5 letters, charts, misc., 1935-1944
box 006
folder 003
Census

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Note: 10 misc., 1933-1940
box 006
folder 004
Cycles, 1928-1932

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Note: 60 letters, misc., mss., charts
box 006
folder 005
Cycles, 1933-1948

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Note: 40 letters, misc., mss.
box 006
folder 006
(Cycles) WPA Newspaper Search

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Note

This is AL's file of correspondence with Leonard Wing and others concerning a WPA-financed newspaper search for game notes for a wildlife cycle study. See official WPA file below.

40 letters, misc., 1938-1939

box 006
folder 007
Leopold -- Wildlife Cycles (WPA Files)

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Note

Contains official correspondence, project proposals, work progress, summary reports, and miscellaneous items pertaining to the WPA-financed Wildlife Population Study, University Social Research, supervised by AL.

1937-1940

box 006
folder 008
Cycles -- Cartwright & Bach Correspondence

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Note

Includes correspondence initiated by B.W. Cartwright of Ducks Unlimited in response to AL's 1943 pheasant paper, discussing cyclic theory, particularly in relation to predation and population turnover. Roy N. Bach was working on the same problem independently.

15 letters, 1944

box 006
folder 009
Diseases -- General

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Note: 10 letters, charts, misc., 1925-1938
box 006
folder 010
Economic Value of Game

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Note: 10 letters, misc., mss., 1929-1943
box 006
folder 011
European Methods of Management

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Note: 15 misc., 1928-1935
box 007
Species & Subjects: Subjects F-O

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box 007
folder 001
Flock Habits

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Note: 3 letters, 1935
box 007
folder 002
Food Habits

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Note: 5 letters, misc., 1933-1944
box 007
folder 003
Food Selection & Palatability

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Note

Correspondence with Stoddard, McAtee, and Errington concerns AL's proposal for research on wildlife food selection.

5 letters, mss., 1936

box 007
folder 004
Food Yields

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Note: 3 letters, misc., mss., 1936-1940
box 007
folder 005
Forestry

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Note: 2 letters, misc., 1940-1946
box 007
folder 006
Game Bird Population Mechanisms

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Note

Contents concern research on criteria of breeding by I. Buss, C. Kabat, and Dr. R.K. Meyer.

10 letters, misc., 1942-1944

box 007
folder 007
Game and Fire

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Note

Most of the correspondence dates from 1922-23 and concerns AL's article, "Wild Followers of the Forest," American Forests (September 1923).

50 letters, misc., mss., 1922-1944

box 007
folder 008
Game Food and Cover

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Note

Contents deal mostly with foods of Southwestern deer.

35 letters, misc., mss., 1922-1941

box 007
folder 009
Game Food Patches

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Note: 35 letters, misc., mss., 1933-1938
box 007
folder 010
History of Conservation in Europe & Asia

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Note

Included are materials relating to AL's article, "The forestry of the prophets" (1920), and his 1935 trip to Germany.

5 letters, misc., mss., 1920-1940

box 007
folder 011
Medieval Wildlife Management History

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Note

AL was interested in the possibility of joint research with A.G. Solalinde.

15 items, 1930-1934

box 007
folder 012
History of American Game Management

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Note: 3 letters, misc., 1937-1940
box 007
folder 013
History of Game -- Wisconsin

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Note

Materials pertain to organization for research by the Wisconsin Conservation Commission (AL was apparently a member of the Research Bureau, ca. 1932). Working drafts and a corrected copy of the published version of AL's "Wisconsin Wildlife Chronology" (1940) are also included.

10 letters, misc., mss., 1929-1944

box 007
folder 014
Legislation

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Note: 5 bills, 1939-1949
box 007
folder 015
Longevity

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Note: misc., 1931-1943
box 007
folder 016
Mechanical Devices

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Note: 8 letters, sketches, mss., 1931-1938
box 008
Species & Subjects: Subjects P-Z

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box 008
folder 001
Palatability Tests

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Note

Materials concern a cooperative study (apparently supervised by AL) by A.S. Hawkins of the Illinois Natural History Survey and William Feeney of the University of Wisconsin Arboretum.

15 letters, reports, 1939-1940

box 008
folder 002
Physiology

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Note: 2 items, 1944-1947
box 008
folder 003
Planting, Nursery Stock, etc.

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Note: 27 letters, misc., 1934-1940
box 008
folder 004
Poison, Repellents

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Note: 15 letters, misc., 1940-1947
box 008
folder 005
Predator Control, Predation

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Note: 10 letters, misc., 1929-1941
box 008
folder 006
Psychology

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Note

Correspondence with Stoddard, McAtee, and J.C. Phillips concerns instinct in birds and an article by K. Lorenz.

6 letters, notes, 1937

box 008
folder 007
Range Tallies

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Note: 15 tally sheets and summaries, 1931-1939
box 008
folder 008
Raptor Techniques

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Note: 1 letter, 1937
box 008
folder 009
Rare Species

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Note: 10 letters, maps, misc., 1940-1942
box 008
folder 010
Record Game Heads of North America

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Note

Includes correspondence with Alfred Ely, Chairman of Records of North American Big Game, about measurement of big game heads in Wisconsin by William Elder.

15 letters, forms, misc., 1936-1938

box 008
folder 011
Research -- General

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Note: maps, charts, misc., 1936-1938
box 008
folder 012
Rodent Management

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Note

Contains records and correspondence about AL's travels through the West in the summer of 1939 as a consultant to the Soil Conservation Service, focusing especially on rodent control. Correspondence with Jean M. Linsdale, Ira Gabrielson, Leo Couch, Albert Day, A.E. Borell, [F.E. Garlough], et al., concerns AL's efforts to promote rodent management (environmental control) as an alternative to poisoning.

25 letters, mss., 1939-1940

box 008
folder 013
Salt, Mineral, & Grit Requirements

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Note: misc., 1932-1943
box 008
folder 014
Sex & Age Criteria and Ratios

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Note: 10 letters, misc., 1933-1944
box 008
folder 015
Snowbreaks: Vegetation on Rights-of-Way

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Note: 20 letters, mss., 1931-1934
box 008
folder 016
Songbird Management

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Note: misc., 1915-1934
box 008
folder 017
Streambank Improvement for Wildlife Management

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Note

Contains a report prepared by Otis Bersing of the Wisconsin Conservation Department, along with AL's criticisms.

1944

box 008
folder 018
Tularemia

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Note: 10 letters, misc., 1928-1939
box 008
folder 019
Water Requirements

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Note: 25 letters, misc., mss., 1928-1943
box 008
folder 020
Weather Records

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Note: 3 items, 1929-1941
box 008
folder 021
Weights of Game

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Note: 3 letters, misc., mss., 1920-1941
box 008
folder 022
Wilderness Areas

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Note

This is AL's wilderness file, containing correspondence, memos, maps, manuscripts, clippings from the United States Forest Service Bulletin (mimeo), and other miscellaneous items pertaining to establishment of the Gila Wilderness, general wilderness area policy, and the wilderness idea.

20 letters, 2 memos, 2 maps, 6 manuscripts (by AL), 18 clippings, & misc., 1922-1940

box 008
folder 023
Wildflower Management

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Note: Original AL material that had been sent to J.T. Curtis was replaced in the Leopold Papers in August 2007.
Series: 9/25/10-5: Research Areas and Projects

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Scope and Content Note

Most of the areas and projects in this series represent ongoing research efforts instituted by Mr. Leopold, usually in cooperation with others, and carried on under his supervision by a succession of graduate students. Mr. Leopold's primary emphasis with his students was on field work and the capacity to carry a research project through to publication, even at the masters level. His main focus during the 1930s was on applied ecology, the development of actual techniques and practices of game management, and demonstration on the land -- hence these research areas, on which he delegated actual land management responsibilities to his more advanced students. The Riley and Faville Grove areas served, in addition, as demonstration areas in farm game management organization.

The bulk of the material pertains to research accomplished before World War II forced curtailment. Included are AL's personal files of correspondence and records on the various areas and projects; area atlases containing reports, data, correspondence, and other records of historical value; such actual student research notes, manuscripts, and correspondence as were retained in Mr. Leopold's files; and banding records coordinated through the chair and later the department.

Major categories include the University of Wisconsin Arboretum (001), Faville Grove (002-004), Prairie du Sac (005), Riley (006), Prairie Chicken Investigations (007-009), and general banding (010). See also files for Delta (9/25/10-2, Box 003) and working papers for AL's own research manuscripts (9/25/10-6, Boxes 007-008, 012-013). Other related materials may be found scattered throughout the species and subject files, the Wisconsin county files, and in a few organization folders, such as Pelee Island and US Soil Erosion Service -- Coon Valley.

box 001
Research Areas and Projects: University of Wisconsin Arboretum

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Note: AL's appointment to the chair of game management created by WARF in 1933 provided for part of his time to be spent as director of all research on the newly established University of Wisconsin Arboretum. In 1940, John Curtis became director of plant research and Leopold became director of animal research. In addition to the Arboretum papers from AL's own files in this box, see the extensive files of the Arboretum itself (Record Group 38, UW-Madison Archives.)
box 001
folder 001
Arboretum, Administration and Personnel

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Note

Documents are concerned with administrative and personnel matters. Included are minutes of Arboretum Committee meetings, correspondence with members of the committee and others concerning general Arboretum matters, and personnel correspondence, especially regarding students of AL who worked on the area. AL must have had a similar file for the period 1933-1938, but it was not among his materials as accessioned.

125 items, 1938-1948

box 001
folder 002
University Arboretum Wild Life Management Plan

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Note

Included is the University Arboretum Wild Life Management Plan, a 15-page mimeo document with added maps, inventory lists, and appendices, prepared by AL as Research Director.

25 October 1933

box 001
folder 003a
Arboretum, Research and Technical, 1933-1939

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Note

Box 001, Folders 003 through 005 contain correspondence, memos, project proposals, data, and reports concerning ecology, habitat management, and wildlife research supervised by AL. Included are materials on food patch experiments, 1934-1936, 1939; plantings on prairie, marsh, etc.; soil survey and ecology (S. A. Wilde); game census reports; pheasant mobility and survival studies; birds of the Arboretum, 1934-1941 (Anderson, Feeney, Sperry, Catenhausen); raptor observations, 1937-1938 (Feeney); shore-bird census, June 1939 (Winkler, Meyer, Glassberg); miscellaneous bird projects on robin, blackbird, wren, mallard, wood duck, etc.; spring mammal trapping study; plant succession, 1942; conversion of worn-out woodlots to red cedar, 1942; oak reproduction, 1943-1944; forestry research, 1945; flora of Ho-ne-um [sic] Pond, 1943 (Breitenbach); propagation of prairie flora (McCabe); browse data from the McCabe four oak plots, May 1944 (Schenck); cottontail projects, 1945 (Hale); United States Biological Survey plans, 1935; AL draft for proposed leaflet, 1941; research plan for land animals, 1948 (AL and Emlen); wildlife bibliography; and other miscellaneous materials.

In June 2007 this folder was divided for better preservation of physical contents.

1933-1936

box 001
folder 003b
Arboretum, Research and Technical, 1933-1939

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Note: 1937-1939
box 001
folder 004a
Arboretum, Research and Technical, 1940-1942

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Note

In June 2007 folder 004 was divided for better preservation of physical contents.

1942

box 001
folder 004b
Arboretum, Research and Technical, 1940-1942

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Note: 1940-1941
box 001
folder 005a
Arboretum, Research and Technical, 1943-1948

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Note

In June 2007 folder 005 was divided for better preservation of the physical contents.

1946-1948

box 001
folder 005b
Arboretum, Research and Technical, 1943-1948

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Note: 1943-1945
box 001
folder 006
Rock Island Project

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Note

Includes a letter and a report by AL concerning the possible acquisition of Rock Island as an Arboretum substation.

2 items, 1937

box 002
Research Areas & Projects: Faville Grove, General

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Note: Contains materials related to the Faville Grove Wildlife Area. In 1934 AL was instrumental in establishing this wildlife area, comprised of a group of cooperating farms in Waterloo Township (Jefferson County). It was named in honor of Stoughton W. Faville (1852-1951), a pioneer farmer and naturalist who encouraged and aided University of Wisconsin research efforts on the area. Among students who worked on the area were Judson Kempton, Ralph Conway, Arthur Hawkins, Hilbert Siegler, I. O. Buss, Lyle Sowls, C. T. Black, and R. A. McCabe. Student materials (Boxes 003-004) bulk largest for the years 1936-1938, when Arthur Hawkins was area manager. Contents and labels of folders are as found.
box 002
folder 001
Faville Grove Atlas

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Note

This binder contains clippings, notes, reports, and publications, with sections as follows: general area business, hunting regulations adopted by members, pheasant kill records, annual pheasant drives, census material, Faville Grove mast ice study, ice breakup in Rock Lake, area projects, and Faville Grove reprints.

1933-1942f

box 002
folder 002
Material from Old Faville Grove Atlas

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Note

Included are large scrapbook pages with clippings, photographs and other historical records, as well as some 1936 area survey maps.

16 pp, 1934-1937

box 002
folder 003
Faville Grove Area, to July 1940

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Note

Included are AL's correspondence with cooperators and students at Faville Grove, the Conservation Department, and others; minutes of annual meetings and other documents; and research notes, data, and manuscripts.

1935-1940

box 002
folder 004
Faville Grove Area, July 1940-

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Note

Letters largely concern the Faville Prairie Preserve, deeded to University of Wisconsin by Mr. and Mrs. Philip Miles in 1945.

1940-1947f

box 002
folder 005
Faville Grove Prairie Preserve

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Note

Materials relate to administration of the preserve: letters to E.B. Fred, Otto Lange, and [William] Gallistel, along with drafts of administrative plans and a copy of Norman Fassett's "Nature Areas for Research Reserves," donated by Emily Earley in 1985.

7 letters, misc., 1946-1948

box 002
folder 006
Faville Grove Plans and Records

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Note

Includes correspondence of AL and student Hawkins with various cooperators in the Faville Grove work, and a few miscellaneous items.

50 letters, misc., 1935-1938

box 002
folder 007
Faville Grove Technical

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Note

Includes items from 1940-42, when R.A. McCabe was the student in charge.

1936-1946

box 002
folder 008
Faville Grove -- Mrs. Blaine

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Note

Correspondence, principally with Robert Ferry and P.E. McNall, concerns an unsuccessful attempt to get a donor to fund a purchase, lease, and 5-year management program in the Faville Grove area. Also included are air photos, several drawings, and drafts of a proposal, possibly prepared by AL.

50 letters, misc., 1938-1940

box 003
Faville Grove, Pheasant & Hun[garian Partridge] Studies

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Note: Contents include student field notebooks and other data in folders, the titles of which adequately indicate their contents.
box 003
folder 001
Nest Maps, 1935-1937

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Note: Folder
box 003
folder 002
Nest Data, 1936?

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Note: Folder
box 003
folder 003
Hungarian Partridge Study, June-July 1936

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Note: Folder; daily field notes (Siegler)
box 003
folder 004
FG Data (Hun survey?)

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Note: Folder (Hawkins), July-August1936
box 003
folder 005
Hun (and quail?) Nesting Records, 1937

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Note: Folder
box 003
folder 006
Hun, Farm Nesting sheets, 1938

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Note: Folder
box 003
folder 007
Hun Nests, 1938

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Note: Folder
box 003
folder 008
1938 -- Hun Study

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Note: Folder; Hawkins material
box 003
folder 009
Hun Partridge Nesting Records, 1938

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Note: Notebook (Hawkins)
box 003
folder 010
Nesting Data (Huns), 1936

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Note: Notebook
box 003
folder 011
Hun Nesting, 1937

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Note: Notebook
box 003
folder 012
Pheasant Survival, 1938-1939

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Note: Folder (correspondence and records)
box 003
folder 013
Specimen Records, 1936-1938

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Note: Folder (pheasant, rabbit, et al.)
box 003
folder 014
Specimen Records -- pheasants shot, Fall 1938

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Note: Folder (Sowls)
box 003
folder 015
Faville Pheasant banding, 1938; Acknowledgment of Returns, 1938-1939

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box 003
folder 016
Pheasant banding, 1937-1938

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Note: Notebook
box 003
folder 017
Hungarian Partridge Correspondence

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Note: Folder; 20 letters, 1938-1940 (AL, Hawkins, Sowls, et al.)
box 004
Research Areas & Projects: Faville Grove, Miscellaneous Records

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Note: Contents include mostly student field notebooks and other data in folders, the titles of which adequately indicate their contents.
box 004
folder 001
Reports, 1936-1937

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Note: Folder (Hawkins)
box 004
folder 002
WPA, 1935-1937

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Note: Folder; 20 letters and forms
box 004
folder 003
Early Natural History of FG [Faville Grove] Area

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Note: Notebook (Hawkins)
box 004
folder 004
Historical and Miscellaneous Game Management Notes

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Note: Notebook (Hawkins?)
box 004
folder 005
Natural History, Southeastern Wisconsin

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Note: Notebook (Hawkins?)
box 004
folder 006
Wildlife History of Faville Grove

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Note: Folder; manuscripts (Hawkins)
box 004
folder 007
FG [Faville Grove] Land Utilization Data, 1935-1937

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Note: Folder
box 004
folder 008
Crop Phenology, 1936-1937

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Note: Folder
box 004
folder 009
Planting Plans & Projects, 1935-1937

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Note: Folder
box 004
folder 010
Planting, 1937

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Note: Folder; maps and data
box 004
folder 011
Planting, 1938

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Note: Folder
box 004
folder 012
Cover Planting Records

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Note: Folder; Inventory, 1940
box 004
folder 013
FG [Faville Grove] Mast Study, 1941

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Note: Folder
box 004
folder 014
FG [Faville Grove] Bird Migration

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Note: Folder; Census, misc., 1936
box 004
folder 015
Winter Feeding, 1936-1937

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Note: Folder
box 004
folder 016
Crop Maps, 1937-1939

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Note: Folder
box 004
folder 017
Feeding Data, 1936

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Note: Notebook
box 004
folder 018
Nesting Off-Area, 1936

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Note: Notebook
box 004
folder 019
Game Birds, Winter 1936-1937

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Note: Notebook
box 004
folder 020
Brood Data, 1936

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Note: Two notebooks are included. One bears the initials H. R. S. [Hilbert Siegler?]
box 004
folder 021
General Data, FG [Faville Grove], 1935-1936

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Note: Notebook
box 004
folder 022
WPA Nesting Survey Field Notes, 1937

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Note: Notebook
box 004
folder 023
Field Notes, 1937-1938

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Note: Notebook
box 004
folder 024
Daily Field Notes, 1937

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Note: Notebook
box 004
folder 025
Census Data, 1936-1937

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Note: Notebook; Seasonal chronology and migration records
box 004
folder 026
Miscellaneous Notes, 1936

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Note: Notebook
box 004
folder 027
Plant List, 1936

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Note: Notebook
box 004
folder 028
Willow Plantings

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Note: 1937
box 005
Research Areas & Projects: Prairie du Sac

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Note: Paul L. Errington began research at Prairie du Sac, including an annual wildlife census and studies of the northern bobwhite quail, in 1929 as a SAAMI fellow at the University of Wisconsin (under AL's general supervision, but for a Ph.D. in 1932 under Professor George Wagner). See the "Bobwhite" folder (9/25/10-4 002 004) for a few letters and items pertaining to Errington's early studies. The wildlife censuses were continued after 1932 by a local woodsman, Albert Gastrow, under the joint supervision of AL and Errington; several graduate students also worked on the area at times. See also materials relating to a proposed joint manuscript by AL and Errington analyzing the results of the censuses (9/25/10-6, Box 013).
box 005
folder 001
Prairie du Sac Correspondence and Notes

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Note

Includes correspondence, principally with Paul Errington, concerning data and research manuscripts; Albert Gastrow's logs of field observations, typed from his notebooks (the notebooks themselves have not been found); field data, charts, graphs, and reports by AL, Errington, and various other researchers in the area; and a few manuscript drafts. These materials, bound after AL's death, cover the same years as items in Folder 002 below, but may originally have been included in an atlas.

Bound volume, 1936-1948

box 005
folder 002
Prairie du Sac Area

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Note

AL's project file contains administrative correspondence, financial requests, research reports, and census data. Correspondence with Errington, Gastrow, various Wisconsin Conservation Department men, Russell Turk, and students Cyril Kabat and Donald Thompson are also included.

165 items, 1937-1948

box 005
folder 003
Prairie du Sac, Animal Pyramid Project (Harold Hanson), 1940-1943

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Note: Contains material about the Animal Pyramid Project: research requests and reports, charts, graphs, and supporting data compiled by AL, 1927-1942; and a few of Harold Hanson's notes.
box 005
folder 004
Prairie du Sac, Winter Bird Census (Harold Hansen)

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Note: The year of the Winter Bird Census data (Harold Hansen again) is not certain, but was probably 1941-1942.
box 006
Research Areas & Projects: Riley

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Note

The Riley Game Cooperative was established in 1931, largely through the efforts of AL and R. J. Paulson, a farmer near Riley in western Dane County, and was licensed as a shooting preserve. The group consisted of about 11 farm members who furnished land and grain and 5 town members (of whom AL was "spokesman") who furnished operating funds. Graduate students assigned to the area, 1936-1939, were Ellwood Moore, H. Albert Hochbaum, Lyle Sowls, and Bruce Stollberg.

Some of the items in this box, including the Atlas, were on loan to the Department of Wildlife Ecology as of July 2007. These items were made available for digitization but have yet to be reaccessioned in the UW-Madison Archives.

box 006
folder 001
Riley Game Cooperative (Atlas)

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Note

Included are memos to members, reports, proposed and final rules, chronologies of management activities, financial statements, pheasant release records, kill records, planting and winter feeding records, observations and notes, and newsletters 1939-48.

Binder, 125 items, 1931-1948

box 006
folder 002
Riley Area, to July 1938

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Note: 130 items, 1931-1938
box 006
folder 003
Riley Area, July 1938 to June 1940

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Note: The original, printed finding aid did not list a folder 003. During the reorganization of the papers for the digitization project in 2007-08 a new folder 003 was created.
box 006
folder 004
Riley Area, July 1940-

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Note

These are AL's files of correspondence and records concerning the status of Riley under Wisconsin's shooting preserve law, raising and releasing of pheasants, food and cover plantings, finances, meetings and reports to members, banding, and student research.

150 items, 1940-1948

box 006
folder 005
Newsletters to Members of the Riley Game Cooperative

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Note: 6 newsletters, 1941-1946
box 006
folder 006
Riley Game Cooperative (Roark?)
Note

This may have been R.J. Roark's file, consisting of correspondence, memos, and newsletters. Roark was apparently "spokesman" for town members in Fall 1935 while AL was in Germany and from 1950-53, after AL's death.

The Roark folder is missing as of 2007.

box 007
Research Areas and Projects: Prairie Chicken Investigations, 1930-1935

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Note

Materials relate to prairie chickens in Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Prairie Chicken Investigations were begun by Dr. A.O. Gross for the Wisconsin Conservation Department in 1928. In 1930, F.J.W. Schmidt acted as Dr. Gross's assistant, then took charge and was carried by WCD until May 1933, when he was appointed to a research assistantship supported by the chair of game management at the University of Wisconsin. On 8 Aug. 1935 Schmidt, one of AL's first Ph.D. candidates and an ecologist of outstanding promise, was killed in a fire which also destroyed his notes, photographs, and manuscripts, about 8 of which he was readying for publication.

Box 007 contains what remains of Schmidt's work, consisting mostly of early reports and notes, and early versions of some of the papers, as well as a few manuscripts on miscellaneous topics not directly related to the prairie chicken investigations.

Folders 005 through 011 hold Schmidt's drafts, notes, and correspondence on a variety of topics. Folders 012 through 019 hold Schmidt's correspondence and notes covering selected subjects related to game birds, but no manuscripts.

box 007
folder 001
Franklin Schmidt Grouse Investigation

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Note: AL's file about Schmidt's grouse investigations.
box 007
folder 002
Schmidt, Miscellaneous

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Note: Correspondence and a few notes.
box 007
folder 003
Winter Food Manuscript

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Note: Schmidt's Winter Food manuscript had been ready for publication prior to his death and was published in 1936. Also included is an obituary of Schmidt by AL, notes, early drafts of the manuscript, and correspondence pertaining both to Schmidt and to AL.
box 007
folder 004
Unpublished Manuscripts

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Note

1931-1935

Most of these manuscripts by Schmidt had been in the WCD files and are extra copies of some of the manuscripts in the folders that follow.

box 007
folder 005
Bogs, Swamps and Marshes

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Note: Drafts for Botany seminar, March 1935
box 007
folder 006
Reptiles and Amphibians

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Note: Draft, notes, correspondence, March 1935
box 007
folder 007
Artificial Propagation of Prairie Chickens

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Note: Draft, 1932?
box 007
folder 008
Feeding Stations

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Note: Drafts, notes, correspondence, 1930-1932
box 007
folder 009
Prairie Chicken Courtship

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Note: 1 letter; 2 maps; Radio talk, 18 January 1932
box 007
folder 010
Prairie Chicken Cycle

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Note: Drafts, 1931?, 1933; notes, correspondence, 1929-1935
box 007
folder 011
Area Grouse Investigations

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Note: Reports, notes
box 007
folder 012
Parasites and Disease in Game Birds

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Note

Correspondence, 1921-1935 (no mss.)

Folders 12-19 contain Schmidt's correspondence and notes, but no manuscripts.

box 007
folder 013
Banding, Game Birds

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Note: Correspondence, 1931-1935
box 007
folder 014
Crop Records

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Note: Stomach analysis data and correspondence, 1930-1935
box 007
folder 015
Grouse Nests

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Note: Correspondence and notes, 1921-1934
box 007
folder 016
Seasonal Shifts of Grouse

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Note: Notes, maps, correspondence, 1929-1934
box 007
folder 017
Sharptail Range

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Note: Correspondence, 1929, 1935
box 007
folder 018
Iowa Game Birds

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Note: Notes and correspondence, 1934
box 007
folder 019
Small Mammals and Hawks

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Note: 1 letter, 2 maps, misc.
box 008
Research Areas & Projects: Prairie Chicken Investigations, misc., 1936-1938

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box 008
folder 001
Prairie Chicken Distribution Questionnaires

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Note: Folders 001 and 002 contain questionnaires and related correspondence, 1929, apparently sent by W.B. Grange, WCD Superintendent of Game, but included with the Schmidt papers.
box 008
folder 002
Game Questionnaires

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Note: Mimeo blanks, 1929, 1934
box 008
folder 003
Topographic Maps

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Note: Mostly Wisconsin (Schmidt's file)
box 008
folder 004
County and Town Outline Maps (Wisconsin)

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Note: These maps, filled out by Schmidt, show grouse distribution.
box 008
folder 005
Prairie Chicken Banding, 1936-1937

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Note

For approximately one year after Schmidt's death, AL coordinated the prairie chicken investigations (at first called the Lake States Banding Cooperative and later renamed the Prairie Grouse Cooperative). AL's student F.N. Hamerstrom, Jr., eventually took over the prairie chicken work. (More of Fred and Frances Hamerstrom's materials can be found in Box 009.)

During this time period much Wisconsin game bird banding was done through the Central Wisconsin Game Project (Resettlement Administration).

box 008
folder 006a
Prairie Chicken Banding, 1937-1938

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Note

Contains banding reports, tables, summaries, maps, and the Sharptailed Grouse Report.

In July 2007 folder 006 was divided for the better preservation of physical contents; banding data is found in 006a and correspondence in 006b.

box 008
folder 006b
Prairie Chicken Banding, 1937-1938

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Note: Contains correspondence.
box 009
Research Areas & Projects: Prairie Chicken Investigations, 1938-1942

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box 009
folder 001
Prairie Chicken Banding, 1938-1939

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Note: Folders 001 and 002 contain correspondence and data of the Lake States Banding Cooperative.
box 009
folder 002
Prairie Chicken Banding, 1939-1940

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box 009
folder 003
Banding Co-op Progress Reports, 1938-1942

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Note: Miscellaneous materials are included. Fred Hamerstrom is the likely author of the Lake States Banding Co-op progress reports found here. Also included are Hamerstrom's correspondence, 1941-43, and a typed manuscript entitled "Progress Report of the Prairie Grouse Co-op," dated 28 Dec. 1942, with a 46-page appendix on traps (updating the 1937 manual).
box 009
folder 004
Prairie Chicken Study -- General

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Note: This is AL's file of correspondence, reports, and requests for funds in regard to the Prairie Chicken Study. Fred and Frances Hamerstrom were Leopold's students until 1940 (Fred, Ph.D.; Frances, M.S.), when they moved to the George Reserve in Michigan. They returned to Wisconsin for a few months each spring to continue the prairie chicken investigations, and came back full-time after the war.
box 010
Research Areas & Projects: General Banding

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Note: Included here are AL's own files of data and correspondence on banding done by students and cooperators.
box 010
folder 001
Banding Returns, 1937-1940

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Note: Contents include returns, miscellaneous notes, and correspondence.
box 010
folder 002
Banding & Migration, 1941-1948

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box 010
folder 003
Material Removed from Banding Book, 1947

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Note

These are AL's files of data and correspondence on banding done by students and cooperators on species other than prairie chicken. Pheasant records bulk large.

1937-1946

box 010
folder 004
Autopsy Records from Banding Book, 1936-1946

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Note: Autopsy records filled out by AL and various students.
box 010
folder 005
Quail Banding Data, 1937-1942

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box 010
folder 006
Pheasant Movements, 1935-1937

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Note: This may have been Arthur Hawkins' file; it contains correspondence and notes for a study covering several game areas.
box 010
folder 007
Bird Banding Records, 1936-1941

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Note

Includes records of the daily trapping of pheasants in the University of Wisconsin Arboretum.

Also included is a notebook, "Pheasant Trapping Nevin Fish Hatcher 1944-45," by Maurice J. Babb.

1936-1941, 1944-1945

box 010
folder 008
University Bay Pheasant Records (Greeley, Kabat, Thompson), 1946-1948

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box 010
folder 009
Series: 9/25/10-6: Writings

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Scope and Content Note

The UW--Madison Archives collection of Mr. Leopold's writings (published and unpublished), related correspondence, and working papers is unusually complete. Materials in this series, most of which were originally in Mr. Leopold's personal files, were deposited by various members of the Leopold family and by the UW Department of Wildlife Ecology.

The first nine boxes of the series pertain to publications, although only Boxes 001-002 contain actual published materials (reprints or clippings). Boxes 003-006 contain correspondence and miscellaneous materials pertaining to publication of Mr. Leopold's four books, copies of which are readily available. Correspondence and working papers for the Report on a Game Survey of the North Central States and Game Management may be found in the species and subject files (9/25/10-4). In Boxes 007-009 are working papers, including correspondence, notes, and drafts, for a number of Mr. Leopold's published articles, reprints of which may be found in Boxes 001-002. Working papers relating to other published items may be found scattered throughout the collection; an attempt has been made in the folder list to identify them where they occur (see also Boxes 016-018 in this series.)

Boxes 010-018 contain mostly unpublished materials, including drafts of Mr. Leopold's proposed book on Southwestern game (Box 010); his state game survey reports (Boxes 010-011); working papers for research manuscripts which were not published (Boxes 012-013); digests, lectures, course materials, notes, and other miscellaneous items (Boxes 013-015); manuscripts, mostly unpublished, which Mr. Leopold kept in his desk (Boxes 016-017); and superseded drafts collected by Dr. Robert McCabe (Box 018).

This series also includes three large folios: one contains a nearly complete set of the Pine Cone , a game bulletin edited by Mr. Leopold and others, 1915-1931; the second contains charts of bird song phenology data for a paper Mr. Leopold intended to write; the third contains original illustrations by artist Byron Jorns, who worked together with Leopold on a series of wildlife management features for the Wisconsin Agriculturalist and Farmer .

Mr. Leopold almost always wrote with pencil on yellow lined paper (PY). After finishing an article or essay he would put it in his "cooling drawer" for several days or weeks, then ask various friends or students for a critical reading, rework it, and have it typed on yellow paper (TY) for further criticism and revision (TYR). A paper might go through several typed yellow drafts before it was finally considered finished and the order given, "Go to white" (TW). Even then it might be further revised (TWR). Exceptions include a few original drafts written in ink on white paper (ink W) and a few final drafts, prior to about 1928, typed on yellow paper.

box 001
Writings: Reprints (bound)

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Note: Contains reprints or clippings of most of Mr. Leopold's published articles kept by him in two scrapbooks, which were deposited by Mrs. Leopold. The items in each volume were bound in roughly chronological order.
box 001
folder 001
Publications of Aldo Leopold: Forestry, Wilderness Areas, and Miscellaneous Ecology

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Note: 122 items
box 001
folder 002
Publications of Aldo Leopold: Game

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Note: 186 items
box 002
box 002
folder 001
Reprints (not in scrapbooks)

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box 002
folder 002
box 003
Writings: Game Survey Book, Correspondence

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Note: Contains mostly correspondence relating to publication of Mr. Leopold's first book, A Report on a Game Survey of the North Central States (1931), a copy of which may be found in the UW--Madison Archives author file. Also included are game survey bulletins (see also Box 019 below).
box 003
folder 001
Game Survey Bulletin

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Note

Contains mimeo bulletins issued by AL monthly (with some months skipped) to inform Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute members and cooperators of the progress of the game survey. The set appears to be complete.

11 issues, October 1930-November 1931

box 003
folder 002
Game Survey Report -- Miscellaneous

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Note

Correspondence with game survey cooperators concerns charts, maps, and data for inclusion in the published report.

40 letters, 1930-1931

box 003
folder 003
Game Survey Report -- Publication

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Note

Includes bidding correspondence with various publishers, as well as specifications, bills, and other materials relating to publication of the report by Democrat Printing Company.

1930-1933

box 003
folder 004
Game Survey Report -- Distribution

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Note

Correspondence concerns methods of distribution, complimentary distribution lists, and correspondence with individuals desiring copies.

October 1930-December 1931

box 003
folder 005
Game Survey Report -- Comments and Reviews

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Note

Included are mimeo excerpts from correspondence, prepared by AL for SAAMI, in addition to reviews and correspondence.

100 letters, April-August 1931

box 003
folder 006
Game Survey Report -- Illustrations

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Note: Contains photographs and correspondence regarding photographs.
box 003
folder 007
North Central Report -- Maps and Negatives

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Note: Maps, charts for the report, and negatives are included.
box 003
folder 008
Photographs -- Miscellaneous

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Note: Included are 8" x 10" photographs that may have been taken by Errington, and charts for the report. Several photos feature the technique of "gullet squeezing."
box 004
Writings: Game Management Book, Correspondence

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box 004
folder 001
Game Management

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Note

Contains a bound copy of the manuscript with editorial changes and comments.

Mss, "copy no. 3," 461+p

box 004
folder 002
Game Management Text, Correspondence

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Note

Includes inquiries about details, permissions to use material, and some bibliographies and subject notes for the text. Most contents are comments by manuscript critics, including Stoddard. There were apparently 5 manuscript copies with comments, only one of which (copy 3) has been found.

115 letters, June 1930-September 1932

box 004
folder 003
Game Management Text, Publication

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Note

Most of the folder contains correspondence with W.G. Low III of Scribner's concerning publication details. Also included are distribution lists and royalty receipts to about 1940.

75 letters, May 1931-May 1933

box 004
folder 004
Game Management Text, Reviews and Comments

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Note: 20 letters, 15 reviews, 1933-1938 (mostly 1933)
box 004
folder 005
Game Management Text, Drawings

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Note

Correspondence is with illustrator Allan Brooks concerning drawings, the text, and discussion about predators.

20 letters, 1931-1932; 5 drawings

box 004
folder 006
Game Management Text, Illustrations

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Note: Folders 7-11, include photographs, maps, charts, and negatives. (Most of the negatives of figures for state game survey reports were destroyed due to the fire hazard of nitrate film.)
box 004
folder 007
[Game Management Materials]: Illinois

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box 004
folder 008
[Game Management Materials]: Indiana

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box 004
folder 009
[Game Management Materials]: Iowa

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box 004
folder 010
[Game Management Materials]: Wisconsin

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box 004
folder 011
[Game Management Materials]: Miscellaneous

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box 005
Writings: A Sand County Almanac, Correspondence and Drafts

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Note: Contains correspondence and drafts (all deposited by Mrs. Leopold) related to Leopold's book, A Sand County Almanac . The manuscript, in various forms, was turned down by several publishers, including Alfred A. Knopf. It was finally accepted by Oxford Press only days before Leopold's death. (He had begun working on it as a collection of essays in 1941.)
box 005
folder 001
Correspondence

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Note

Included is AL's correspondence with publishers, manuscript critics, and illustrators, and correspondence regarding the manuscript during the months after his death when his son Luna was designated as editor.

150 letters, 1941-21 April 1948; 40 letters, April-July 1948

box 005
folder 002
Drafts of Essays in A Sand County Almanac

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Scope and Content Note

Mr. Leopold kept a separate file for drafts and revisions of essays he intended to include in A Sand County Almanac . This file was deposited by Mrs. Leopold. For the original handwritten drafts of some of these essays, see also 9/25/10-6 018 002-003.

The following symbols (indicative of characteristic stages in Mr. Leopold's writing process) are used to describe manuscripts in Boxes 005-018 of this series and in various bibliographies in the appendices:

P
Pencil draft (handwritten)
R
Revisions (usually in pencil)
T
Typewritten draft
Y
Yellow paper
W
White paper

box 005
folder 002
item 001
January thaw
Note: (2pTY)1947-07-12
box 005
folder 002
item 002
January thaw
Note: (2pTW)1947-08-28
box 005
folder 002
item 003
The geese return
Note: (1pPW)
box 005
folder 002
item 004
The geese return
Note: (2pTYR; Wisconsin Agriculturalist & Farmer) 1941-09-11; revised, 1944-06-01
box 005
folder 002
item 005
The geese return
Note: 1946-08-25
box 005
folder 002
item 006
Draba
Note: (1pTWR) 1943-03-16; revised, 1944-06-02
box 005
folder 002
item 007
Bur oak
Note: (2pTYR; Wisconsin Agriculturalist & Farmer ) 1941-04-05; revised, 1947-08-01
box 005
folder 002
item 008
The alder fork
Note: (4pTWR; Outdoor America ) [s.d.]
box 005
folder 002
item 009
Great possessions
Note: (4pTYR; notes by editor at Natural History ) 1943-09-28; revised, 1944-06-02
box 005
folder 002
item 010
Great possessions
Note: (3pTWR) 1944-06-02; revised, [s.d.]
box 005
folder 002
item 011
Great possessions
Note: (3pTW; notes by "Nat. Hist." and Blassingame) 1944-10-31
box 005
folder 002
item 012
The green pasture
Note: (2pTYR) 1945-08-15; revised, [s.d.]
box 005
folder 002
item 013
Ave Maria (The choral copse)
Note: (2pTW) 1947-10-21
box 005
folder 002
item 014
Smoky gold
Note: (3pTYR) [s.d.]; revised, [s.d.]
box 005
folder 002
item 015
Smoky gold
Note: (5pTYR) 1943-10-27, 1944-06-04
box 005
folder 002
item 016
Smoky gold
Note: (4pTW) 1944-06-04
box 005
folder 002
item 017
Too early
Note: (TYR) 1943-11-22; revised, [s.d.]
box 005
folder 002
item 018
Red lanterns
Note: (1pPY)
box 005
folder 002
item 019
Red lanterns
Note: (4pTYR) 1947-07-08; revised, [s.d.]
box 005
folder 002
item 020
If I were the wind
Note: (1pTY) 1943-11-21
box 005
folder 002
item 021
A lesson from the woodlands (A mighty fortress)
Note: (3pTYR; Wisconsin Conservation Bulletin ) ca. 1943-02
box 005
folder 002
item 022
Pines above the snow
Note: (6pTY; notes by [s.n.]) 1944-04-05
box 005
folder 002
item 023
Pines above the snow
Note: (6pTWR) revised, 1947-07-10
box 005
folder 002
item 024
65287 (65290)
Note: (5pTY) 1941-09-11
box 005
folder 002
item 025
The sand counties
Note: (1pTWR) 1947-06-02; revised, [s.d.]
box 005
folder 002
item 026
On a monument to the pigeon
Note: (4pTW) 1946-08-25
box 005
folder 002
item 027
On a monument to the pigeon
Note: (4pTW) 1947-04-10
box 005
folder 002
item 028
Illinois bus ride
Note: (2pTYR) 1944-01-01
box 005
folder 002
item 029
Illinois bus ride
Note: (2pTW) 1944-01-01
box 005
folder 002
item 030
Illinois bus ride
Note: (2pTWR) 1944-01-01; revised, 1947-07-10
box 005
folder 002
item 031
Illinois bus ride
Note: (2pPYTW)
box 005
folder 002
item 032
Red legs kicking
Note: (2pTYR) [s.d.]; revised, [s.d.]
box 005
folder 002
item 033
The white mountain (On top)
Note: (5pTYRP) [s.d.]; revised, [s.d.]
box 005
folder 002
item 034
The white mountain
Note: (5pTW)
box 005
folder 002
item 035
Thinking like a mountain
Note: (3pTY; notes by [s.n.]) 1944-04-01
box 005
folder 002
item 036
Thinking like a mountain
Note: (3pTYR) revised, 1944-06-08
box 005
folder 002
item 037
Thinking like a mountain
Note: (3pTW)
box 005
folder 002
item 038
Escudilla
Note: (R; American Forests)
box 005
folder 002
item 039
Guacamaja
Note: (R; The Condor)
box 005
folder 002
item 040
The green lagoons
Note: (7pTW) 1944-01-11
box 005
folder 002
item 041
The green lagoons
Note: (R)revised, 1945-06-20
box 005
folder 002
item 042
Cheat takes over
Note: (4pTWR; The Land ); revised, [s.d.]
box 005
folder 002
item 043
Clandeboye
Note: (3pTWR; 1pPY) [s.d.] 1944-07-10
box 005
folder 002
item 044
Clandeboye
Note: (5pTW)1944-07-10
box 005
folder 002
item 045
Wilderness
Note: (12pTW)
box 005
folder 003
Great Possessions

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Note: This is the bound manuscript of "Great Possessions" (AL's working title). This manuscript, which contains AL's forward of 4 Mar. 1948, is apparently the version accepted by Oxford Press. Except for the title, it is very close to the published version. Comments on interleaved sheets are by William Vogt, Virginia Kiesal Spence, Estella Leopold, and Luna Leopold.
box 005
folder 004
Great Possessions

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Note: This formerly bound duplicate manuscript contains several Schwartz drawings as well as comments by Joseph Hickey, the Hamerstroms, Robert McCabe, "ahs" [Alice Harper Stokes], Luna Leopold, and perhaps others.
box 005
folder 005
Reviews

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Note: Contains clipped reviews from the time of publication of A Sand County Almanac . Included are reviews by Hal Borland, Gordon MacQuarrie, Sterling North, August Derleth, and many others.
box 006
Writings: Round River; Almanac 1966 ed., Proofs

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Note: Materials in this box were deposited by Luna Leopold (except for the reviews, which came from Mrs. Aldo Leopold).
box 006
folder 001
box 006
folder 002
box 006
folder 003
Mockup for 1966 Edition [of A Sand County Almanac]

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Note: When Round River went out of print, Oxford Press suggested bringing out a new edition of A Sand County Almanac with some of the essays from Round River included.
box 006
folder 004
2 Copies of Almanac, 1949 ed.

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Note: Both copies have publisher's notes for the new edition. One copy has inserted pages from Round River . Due to copyright restrictions only the covers have been digitized.
box 006
folder 005
1966 ed. [of A Sand County Almanac], Galley Proof

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box 007
Writings: Research Manuscripts (published), Working Papers

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box 007
folder 001
The Quail Die-off of 1935-1936

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Note

Included is a copy of "The quail die-off of 1935-1936 in Wisconsin and Iowa," by AL and Paul Errington, xeroxed in November 1968 from an original on file at the Conservation Library Center, Denver Public Library. Also included are correspondence, graphs, and other data pertaining to the manuscript, found in AL's files. Although the manuscript has Errington's name, it was written by AL and published by him alone, without Iowa data, as "The effect of the winter of 1935-1936 on Wisconsin quail" (1937).

8 letters, misc., ms.

box 007
folder 002
The Spread of the Hungarian Partridge in Wisconsin

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Note

In addition to correspondence from the 1929 game survey, this folder holds correspondence, tables, maps, and notes (no draft) for AL's 1940 paper.

1929, 1937-1940

box 007
folder 003
Pheasant Population Turnover

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Note

Included are about two copies each of five drafts, January-December 1942, of a paper published in 1943 by AL, T.M. Sperry, W.S. Feeney, and John A. Catenhusen, "Population Turnover on a Wisconsin Pheasant Refuge." Many of the drafts are corrected with sections rewritten by AL, who probably did most of the original writing as well. Data, charts, and graphs are included, as well as correspondence concerning publication and distribution.

1942-1943

box 007
folder 004
Distribution of Wisconsin Hares

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Note

Contains several typed drafts for Leopold's paper, "Distribution of Wisconsin Hares," published in 1947, as well as correspondence and maps.

1944-1945

box 007
folder 005
Irv Buss's Pheasant Bulletin, Leopold and Grimmer Preface

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Note

Contents include several drafts for a preface to Irv Buss' Wisconsin Conservation Department Pheasant Bulletin (1946). Also included are two drafts of a short preface of 15 Sept. 1943 by AL, discarded in favor of a longer introduction by AL and W.E. Grimmer, "The History and Future of the Pheasant in Wisconsin," for which there are drafts of 15 Feb. 1944, revised 13 July 1944. There is also correspondence and a draft of Buss' "Breeding v. Non-Breeding" section as revised by AL, 1944.

1933-1944

box 008
Phenology Manuscript (published), Working Papers

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Note: Contains AL's writings and working papers on phenology. AL was interested in this subject from childhood (see biographical materials in 9/25/10-8, Boxes 004-007; ornithological, hunting, and Shack journals in 9/25/10-7; and phenology records in 9/25/10-8, Box 002). He capped his research effort with a 1947 publication in Ecological Monographs , "A Phenological Record for Sauk and Dane Counties, Wisconsin, 1935-45," with Sara Elizabeth Jones.
box 008
folder 001
Phenology Ms.: Correspondence

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Note

Correspondence concerns inquiries, publication, and criticisms. The folder also includes miscellaneous data and notes.

30 letters, 1940-1948

box 008
folder 002
Phenology Ms.: Working Papers, Summer 1945 (?)

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Note: Penciled charts and an introduction (PY, typed 6/4/1945).
box 008
folder 003
Phenology Ms.: Phenology Charts, Originals

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Note: Charts are marked "Obsolete, 1-25-46."
box 008
folder 004
Phenology Ms.: Working Papers, Summer 1946 (?)

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Note: Includes penciled charts and TY-PY draft pages, several with notations indicating they were typed in August 1946.
box 008
folder 005
Phenology Ms.: Drafts

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Note: August-December 1946
box 008
folder 006
Phenology Ms.: Final Draft

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Note: Includes a TW carbon with no revisions, probably close to the published version.
box 009
Writings: Misc. Manuscripts (published), Working Papers

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box 009
folder 001
Science Inquiry

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Note

Correspondence and reports mainly concern Bulletin 3, "The University and the Conservation of Wisconsin Wildlife," report of the Committee on Wildlife Conservation (AL chairman) February 1937. Correspondence also addresses forestry and geology (ecology-paleontology). AL was on the committee for the forestry bulletin and apparently wrote most of the erosion bulletin, but materials on these are not in the folder.

Additional materials on the UW "Science Inquiry" project may be found in the records of the Graduate School, Series 6/5/4, Box 001, UW-Madison Archives, and in the papers of C.K. Leith, Series 7/13/12-2, Box 024, UW-Madison Archives.

10 items, 1934-1939

box 009
folder 002
Education (Teaching Conservation in Wisconsin Schools)

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Note

Contains correspondence and drafts of sections, including a few by AL, for a Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction bulletin published in 1937 on the subject of teaching conservation in Wisconsin schools.

10 items, 1937-1938

box 009
folder 003
Wisconsin Agriculturalist and Farmer Series, Manuscripts

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Note

AL wrote a series of columns on farm wildlife management which were published monthly in the Wisconsin Agriculturalist and Farmer , 1938-1942. A selection of columns was reprinted in pamphlet form. Manuscripts for these columns are included here.

1938-1942

box 009
folder 004
Wisconsin Agriculturalist and Farmer Series, Correspondence and Drawings

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Note

Includes correspondence with E.R. McIntyre of the Wisconsin Agriculturalist and Farmer regarding schedules of publication, which were forever being jumbled, and with Byron Jorns, the artist. See also illustrations in Folio 003 of this series.

1938-1942

box 009
folder 005
Lovejoy Obituary

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Note

Contains correspondence and miscellaneous items pertaining to AL's memorial essay about P.S. Lovejoy, which was based largely on Lovejoy's letters to AL (9/25/10-1, Box 002, Folder 004).

1942

box 009
folder 006
Cooperrider Obituary, Correspondence

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Note

Materials related to AL's obituary for Charles K. Cooperrider, pioneer soil erosion ecologist with the United States Forest Service in the Southwest. Cooperrider died in 1944, but his obituary by AL appeared after AL's own death. Correspondence is with friends of Cooperrider concerning biographical details.

1947-1948

box 009
folder 007
Writings

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Note: Bound volume of correspondence and drafts (in rough chronological order) relating to articles written by AL in the 1940s. Deposited by Mrs. Leopold in March 1975; not indexed.
box 010
Writings: SW Book Manuscripts; Iowa Survey (unpublished)

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box 010
folder 001
Southwestern Game Fields

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Note: Ring-bound manuscript for "Southwestern Game Fields," deposited by Starker Leopold on 18 Sept. 1967. The manuscript (typed on yellow paper with pencil revisions in AL's hand) is apparently entirely written by AL, although the published version was intended as a collaboration between AL, J. Stokley Ligon, and R. Fred Pettit. This copy is one of perhaps five copies. Pettit and Ligon also had complete copies, while certain chapters were sent to Cooperrider, Talbot, Wales, and Winn.
box 010
folder 001
item 001
Record of Copies
Note: (1pPW)
box 010
folder 001
item 002
Illustrations
Note: (1pPW)
box 010
folder 001
item 003
Preface
Note: (5pTYR + 2 PY inserts)
box 010
folder 001
item 004
First draft of Chapter I, "Elements of Game Management"
Note: (46pTYR + 1 insert PY), 1927-05-05
box 010
folder 001
item 005
First draft of Chapter II, "The Virgin Southwest and What the White Man Has Done to It"
Note: (28pTYR), 1927-04-10
box 010
folder 001
item 006
First draft of Chapter III, "The Status of Deer and the Chances for Deer Management in the Southwest"
Note: (14pTYR), n.d.
box 010
folder 001
item 007
First draft of Chapter IV, "Normal Deer Stocking and Productivity"
Note: (9pTY), n.d.
box 010
folder 001
item 008
Incomplete draft of Chapter V, "Deer Habits and Management"
Note: (12pTYR), n.d.
box 010
folder 002
Deer Management in the Southwest

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Note: A loose-leaf folder contains working papers for a book by AL, Ligon, and Pettit, ca. March-June 1929, titled "Deer Management in the Southwest." The "Deer Management" manuscript is apparently a later version of "Southwestern Game Fields," but there was probably an intermediate manuscript or addition to the first manuscript of up to 12 chapters.
box 010
folder 002
item 001
Outline of Chapters
Note: (11pPY; outlines of 9 chapters), 1929-03-20
box 010
folder 002
item 002
Outline of Chapters
Note: (10pTY + 4 photographed figures)
box 010
folder 002
item 003
Bibliography for "Deer Management in SW"
Note: (4pTYR + 1pPY instructions for Miss [Vivian] Horn)
box 010
folder 002
item 004
Bibliography for "Deer Management in SW"
Note: (9pTYR + 3 carbons)
box 010
folder 002
item 005
Chapter III, "Breeding Habits of Deer"
Note: (26+2pTYR + 4 figures; instructions for Miss [Vivian] Horn, 1pPY), 1929-05-16
box 010
folder 002
item 006
Fragment of Chapter IV, "Decimating Factors and their Control"
Note: (4pPY; instructions for Miss [Vivian] Horn, 1pPY)
box 010
folder 002
item 007
Chapter IV, "Decimating Factors and their Control"
Note: (4pTY + 1pTW table, "Control costs -- Predatory Animals, New Mexico and Arizona")
box 010
folder 002
item 008
3 tables: Control costs -- Predatory Animals; Normal Deer Kill Per Unit Area; Deer Census Records
Note: (each 1pTY and carbons)
box 010
folder 002
item 009
UW Lecture on Deer Management
Note: (5pTY; lecture notes)
box 010
folder 002
item 010
Scotty [sic; probably Walter Scott] to AL, 5 March 1929, regarding Gila; and Gila game data table, 1/14/1929
box 010
folder 002
item 011
Ligon to AL, 14 June 1929 and 27 June 1929, encl. 8pTY memo on game ranges in southern Arizona from Walter P. Taylor and 6 sections for deer manuscripts (by Ligon)
box 010
folder 002
item 011
item 001
Deer in Olden Days
Note: (4pTW)
box 010
folder 002
item 011
item 002
Predatory Animals and Deer
Note: (9pTW)
box 010
folder 002
item 011
item 003
The Unit Herd (Chapter VIII)
Note: (6pTW)
box 010
folder 002
item 011
item 004
Private Deer Management (under Chapter 2)
Note: (5pTW)
box 010
folder 002
item 011
item 005
Food Habits of Deer
Note: (4pTW)
box 010
folder 002
item 011
item 006
Southwestern Deer Management -- Additional Notes
Note: (3pTW)
box 010
folder 003
Game Survey of Iowa

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Note: Bound volume of AL's original county maps and notes, as well as his typescript report (submitted 12 Sept. 1932) on his game survey of Iowa, October 1931-March 1932, under the direction of Jacob L. Crane, Jr., for the State Fish and Game Commission and State Board of Conservation, with the financial cooperation of SAAMI. The report includes a chapter on pheasants by Wallace Grange, USBS. For correspondence concerning the survey and report, see 9/25/10-3, Box 005.
box 011
Writings: Game Survey Reports (unpublished)

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box 011
folder 001
Game Survey Reports

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Note

This is a bound volume of AL's game survey reports submitted to the Game Restoration Committee, Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers Institute. The individual reports were not published, but many of the findings were summarized in AL's published Report on a Game Survey of the North Central States (1931). The volume in this box contains reports for Mississippi, Missouri, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Minnesota, Iowa, and Michigan; some reports include appendices.

Deposited by Starker Leopold on 18 Sept. 1967.

box 011
folder 001
item 001
Mississippi
Note: 82 numbered pp, 1929-02-01
box 011
folder 001
item 002
Missouri
Note: 186p + app, 1930-03-01
box 011
folder 001
item 003
Wisconsin
Note: 167p + app, 1929-10-01
box 011
folder 001
item 004
Indiana
Note: 74p + app, 1929-06-15
box 011
folder 001
item 005
Illinois
Note: 74p + app, 1929-05-01
box 011
folder 001
item 006
Ohio
Note: 77p, 1928-11-27
box 011
folder 001
item 007
Minnesota
Note: 57p, 1928-09-01
box 011
folder 001
item 008
Iowa
Note: 65p, 1928-08-25
box 011
folder 001
item 009
Michigan
Note: 57p, 1928-07-20
box 011
folder 001
item 010
Report No. 1
Note: 5p, 1928-06-04/1928-06-05
box 012
Writings: Research Manuscripts (unpublished), Working papers

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box 012
folder 001
Forest Inspection as Developed in the Southwest

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Note

Included are an outline of a speech delivered by AL before the New York Forest Club, 25 Nov. 1924, related correspondence, and background materials, most of which were developed by AL for use in the Southwest District, United States Forest Service.

(ASL), 1921-1924

box 012
folder 001
item 001
Printed tally sheets
box 012
folder 001
item 002
Samples of application of tally sheet principles to ranger work (AL, photostat)
box 012
folder 001
item 003
O, Special, Fire Conference: Topic 60
Note: Contains the D3 notebook tally sheet, a combination inspection outline and report (3pTWR)1921-11-10
box 012
folder 001
item 004
D3 inspection standards summary, 1922-02-02
Note: (photostat)
box 012
folder 001
item 005
District 3, Working units, in 10's, 1920 or 1921
Note: (photostat)
box 012
folder 001
item 006
Length & distribution of inspection trips, National Forest, 1923
Note: (AL hdw, photostat)
box 012
folder 001
item 007
Summary of diary analyses, season 1923
Note: 1924-01-15
box 012
folder 001
item 008
Travel schedule, District 3
Note: (photostat), 1924
box 012
folder 002
The Relations of Weight, Body Dimensions, and Sex in Mallard Ducks

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Note

Contains charts and graphs with data, one letter, and two manuscripts.

(ASL); ca. 1925-1926

box 012
folder 003
Properties of Wood in Archery

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Note

In addition to about 20 letters or comments (mostly from 1928) and miscellaneous data items, there are three drafts of a technical note, "Wood for Arrows" (rough draft 7pTY; second draft 9pTWR; third draft 11+2pTYR, probably 1928).

(ASL); 1926-1928, 1937

box 012
folder 004
Weights of Quail

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Note

Data, correspondence with H.L. Stoddard and various magazine editors, and three drafts of an undated article by AL and John N. Ball, "Measuring the quail crop by weighing the bag," n.d.

Drafts include 8pTYR + fig. [March 1931?]; 8pTYR + fig., with comments by Stoddard, 20 Mar. 1931; 8pTYR + fig. + p., 30 Mar. 1931.

(ASL); 20 letters, 10 misc., 5 mss., 1931-1936

box 012
folder 005
Weights of Upland Game Birds

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Note: (ASL); outlines, 25p data1930-1941
box 012
folder 006
The Erosion Cycle in the Southwest

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Note

Contains a 16-page manuscript with tracing, negative, and several copies of a drawing, "Southwestern erosion cycles."

(LBL); ca. 1935

box 012
folder 007
Conservation Economics Projects

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Note

Contains 4 prospectuses for projects. Note that AL's chair was in the Department of Agricultural Economics.

7 items, 1934-1938

box 012
folder 008
Farmers' Handbook

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Note

Contents reflect AL's plans to prepare an extensive farmers' handbook. Apparently the closest he came was the Wisconsin Agriculturalist and Farmer series and pamphlet (see Box 009 above).

17 items, 1934-1937

box 012
folder 009
Hayfield Pheasant Nests

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Note

In addition to some data for a 1936 pheasant nesting study which was published by AL in 1937, this folder contains data, charts, and drafts by AL and Dan Thompson pertaining to a 1936-1940 study of pheasant density and hayfield nests. The study was apparently unpublished.

1936-1940

box 012
folder 010
Hawk and Heron Tally to August 1943

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Note

Headings, totals, and other notations are in AL's hand, but the actual tally entries are not.

(ASL); 7 p data, 1938-1943

box 012
folder 011
Problem Farms: Manuscript & Comments

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Note

Included are comments by Wehrwein, Zeasman, Russell, Wedlake, and Noble Clark regarding a report by AL and Joseph Hickey, "The erosion problem of steep farms in Southwestern Wisconsin," an 88-page typescript prepared for the Wisconsin State Soil Conservation Committee in 1943. A bound copy is included.

6 letters, ms., 1943

box 012
folder 012
Problem Farms: Illustrations

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Note: Original maps and charts.
box 012
folder 013
Grouse Manuscript

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Note

Contains 2 copies of "Ruffed Grouse flushing rates and population levels," 1 Dec. 1942 (11pTY + 2 charts). Also included are lecture notes for a Kumlien Club talk of the same title, 9 Feb. 1943 (3pTY).

15 letters, mss., 1942-1943

box 012
folder 014
Chickadee Manuscript

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Note

Included are penciled and typewritten drafts of AL's "A chicken banding study in Sauk County, Wisconsin" (7p + 2 charts), which reports banding methods and results during 1937-194[?] at the Shack; charts with banding data on downy woodpecker, nuthatch, hairy woodpecker, and chickadee; miscellaneous chickadee data and reprints; 10 letters (1941-42) pertaining to reprints and to AL's proposed chickadee paper; and reports on chickadee and junco (c. 1947, probably not by AL).

10 letters, misc., mss., 1941-1947

box 012
folder 015
Red Pine Phenology Project (with Dave Cook)

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Note

Contains correspondence with Dave Cook of the New York Conservation Department concerning data for a joint project which the two men had hoped to write up.

20 letters, 1943-1947

box 012
folder 016
Leopold-Cook Correspondence

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Note: Letters, charts, and graphs deposited by Mrs. Cook, 23 May 1969. 37 letters, misc., 1942-1946
box 012
folder 017
Planting Manual -- Food and Cover Data

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Note: Notebook of materials relating to wildlife food and cover plants, donated in 1985 by Douglas Wade, a graduate student under Leopold in the 1930s. Wade planned to bring this material together into a publishable manual. AL himself had hoped to complete this project (see folder 008 in this box), but apparently his lack of time convinced him to turn the work and parts of this notebook over to Wade.
box 013
Writings: Prairie du Sac Manuscripts (unpublished); Digests

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Note: Holds unpublished manuscripts related to wildlife censuses in the Prairie du Sac area and a bound volume of Leopold's "digests." From 1941 to 1944 AL and Paul Errington attempted to collaborate on a paper analyzing the results of the Prairie du Sac wildlife census, which dated back to 1929. There were probably four drafts each by AL and Errington, alternating with each other. The final result was a version published by Errington alone in Ecological Monographs (January 1945), "Some contributions of a 15 year local study of the northern bobwhite to a knowledge of population phenomena." Only AL's drafts are in the UW-Madison Archives, along with some related correspondence. See also other Prairie du Sac correspondence and records in 9/25/10-5, Box 005.
box 013
folder 001
Prairie du Sac Paper, Correspondence

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Note

Correspondence (mostly with Errington) and data.

90 items, 1941-1945

box 013
folder 002
Prairie du Sac Quail Census

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Note

Contains two drafts of AL's Prairie du Sac Quail Census report, 1940 (13pPY and 12pT). The latter copy has ink revisions by Errington.

1929-1939

box 013
folder 003
Prairie du Sac Wildlife Census

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Note

Contains one AL draft (TW and PY, 17 July 1941) and three copies (35pTY, 1 Sept. 1941). Notes are by Walter Scott, Irv Buss, Harold Hanson, Fred Hamerstrom, et al.

1929-1941

box 013
folder 004
Animal Populations at Prairie du Sac, 1929-1942 -- Leopold, Errington, and Hanson

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Note: Bound 45pTY draft (dated 18 Jan. 1943; corrected 18 Feb. 1943), with penciled revisions and notations by AL and others. This draft apparently represents AL's extensive rewriting of a 35-page draft by Errington, summer 1942.
box 013
folder 005
Animal Populations at Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin

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Note: [drafts and working papers], 1929-1942
box 013
folder 006
Limits of Summer Gain and Winter Loss in Bobwhite Populations at Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin

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Note: Two Leopold drafts, 12-1-43 TY and PY, and 12-13-43 TY. 1929-1943
box 013
folder 007
Digests

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Note: Bound volume of AL's "digests"--his page references and notes on books or articles. The digests were typed in multiple copies, some of which may be found in relevant folders throughout the files. The number following each item indicates its relative position in the file.
box 013
folder 007
item 001
Abert, J. W., "The Examination of New Mexico," 9.
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Audubon, John J., "Ornithological Biography: Birds of the USA," 5.
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Bailey, Bert H., "The Raptorial Birds of Iowa," 47.
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Bailey, Vernon, "Deer Investigations in Pennsylvania," 72.
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Ball, John N, "The Grouse in Health and Disease," 79.
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Barnitz, S. P., "The Shooter's Companion," 3.
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Beebe, "A Monograph of the Pheasants," 50.
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Bogardus, A. H., "Field, Cover, and Trap Shooting," 16.
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Bourke, John G., "On the Border with Crook," 25.
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Bradshaw, F., "Hungarian or European Grey Partridge," 49.
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Burnham, John B., "Why Grouse are Scarce," 43.
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Carson, [Christopher "Kit"?], "Adventures of Kit Carson and Fremont," 20.
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Carver, Captain Jonathan, "Three Years' Travels through the Interior Parts of N. America for more than 5,000 Miles," 2.
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Chandless, Wm., "A Visit to Salt Lake," 13.
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Chapman, Frank M., "Birds of Eastern North America," 40
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Coues, Elliott, "Birds of the Northwest," 15.
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Coues, Elliott, "New Light on the Early History of the Great Northwest," 23.
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Cozzens, S. W., "The Marvellous Country," 21.
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Crevecoeur, J. Hector St. John, "Letters from an American Farmer," 28.
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Curtis, Paul A., "Better Shooting is Possible," 67.
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Dawson, Wm. L., "Birds of Ohio," 27.
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de Baca, Cabeza, "The Narrative of Cabeza de Baca," 63.
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de Castaneda, Pedro, "The Narrative of the Expedition of Coronado," 64.
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Derivat, "Game Preservation in Germany," 78.
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Detweiler, F. B., "Better Acorns from a Heavily Fertilized White Oak Tree," 106.
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Elder, Wm. H., "Horseshoe Lakes Region, Illinois," 111.
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Elton, Charles, "Voles, Mice, and Lemmings," 102.
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[Escalante Journal in] The Catholic Church in Utah, 33.
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Ficker, C. T., "Advice to Emigrants," 11.
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Forbes, S. A., and Gross, A. O., "Numbers and Local Distribution of Illinois Land Birds," 53.
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Forbush, E. W., "Game Birds, Wild Fowl, and Shore Birds," 80.
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Friedmann, Herbert, "Bird Distribution and Bird Banding," 87.
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Gerstell, R. P., "Winter Feeding," 103.
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Glading, Biswell, and Smith, "Studies on Food of the California Quail in 1937," 96.
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Green, R. A., Reynard, and Murphy, "The Influence of Two Burrowing Rodents ... on Desert Soils in Arizona," 88.
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Harland, John, "The Shuttleworth Accounts," 12.
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Harris, W. R., "The Catholic Church in Utah," 33.
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Haskins, C. H., "Studies in the History of Medieval Science," 66.
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Hatch, P. L., "Birds of Minnesota," 22.
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Hickey, Joseph J. and A. Leopold, "Steep Farms in SW Wisconsin," 105.
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Hicks, Lawrence E., "The Controlled Hunting Areas and the Pheasant Refuge Management System in Northwestern Ohio," 95.
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Hittell, "Adventures of James C. Adams," 14.
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Holbrook, Stewart H., "Burning an Empire," 107.
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Hughes, "Doniphan's Expedition," 8.
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Imlay, George, "The Western Territory of North America," 1.
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Inman, Col. Henry, "The Old Santa Fe Trail," 24.
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Judd, S. D., "The Grouse and Wild Turkeys of the United States," 29.
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Kalm, Pehr, "Description of Maize, How It Is Planted and Cultivated in North America, Together with the Many Uses of This Crop Plant," 93.
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Kelso, Leon H., "Food Habits of Prairie Dogs," 98.
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Kilp, F. G., "Survey of Legal and Illegal Deer Kill," 73.
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Kinzie, Mrs. John, "Waubun," 77.
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Kumlien, L. and N. Hollister, "Birds of Wisconsin," 26.
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Lantz, David, "Raising Deer and Other Large Game Animals in the United States," 35.
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LeCompte, E. Lee, "Winter Feeding of Bob-White Quail and Propagation of Quail," 65.
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Leopold, Aldo, "Population of People and Grouse in Scotland," 81.
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Leopold, Aldo, "Quail Sex Ratio Tally, Season of 1929," 82.
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Leopold, Aldo, "Weights of Quail," 83.
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Leopold, Aldo, "Report of Cooperative Quail Investigation, 1935-1936," 84.
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Leopold, Aldo, "Relation of Food, Cold, and Snow to Winter Quail Losses," 85.
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Leopold, Aldo, "Numbers of Ruffed Grouse, S. New Hampshire and Mass.," 86.
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Leopold, Aldo, "Roosevelt Deer Family," 90.
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Leopold, Aldo, "Lewis and Clark Expedition," 45.
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Lewis, E. J., "The American Sportsman," 19.
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Ligon, J. S., "Wildlife of New Mexico," 41.
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Lunn, W. M., Brown, McMurtrey, and Garner, "Tobacco Following Bare and Natural Weed Fallow and Pure Stands of Certain Weeds," 97.
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Mair, C. and R. MacFarlane, "Limitations of Beaver Kill by Hudson's Bay Company," 31.
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Malcolm, G., A. Maxwell, and C. Black, "Grouse and Grouse Moors," 34.
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Mather, W. W., "Geological Survey of the State of Ohio," 6.
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Maxwell, "Summary of Management of Gray Partridge in 16 English Estates," 70.
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Maxwell, Aymer, "Partridges and Partridge Manors," 36.
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Mershon, W. B, "Recollections of my fifty years hunting and fishing," 52.
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Middleton, A. D., "Factors controlling the population of the Partridge (Perdix perdix) in Great Britain," 92.
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Munro, J. A., "European Gray Partridge in the Okanagon Valley," 59.
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Nelson, E. W, "Status of Pronghorned Antelope," 58.
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Nevins and Meyers, "Geological Survey of Ohio," 18.
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Newsom, William Monypenny, "Whitetailed Deer," 61.
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Nice, M. M., "Studies in the Life History of the Song Sparrow," 94.
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Nice, M. M., "Digest of Song Behavior -- Song Sparrow," 108.
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Niederhof, C. H. and R. Stahelin, "Climatic Conditions Within and Adjacent to a Forest Plantation in the Nebraska Sandhills," 100.
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Olmstead, F. H., "Gila River Flood Control," 44.
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Oregon State Agricultural College, "The China Pheasant in Oregon," 76.
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Ossendowski, Ferdinand, "Beasts, Men, and Gods," 60.
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Page, Richard, "New Ways with Partridges," 56.
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Parkman, "The California and Oregon Trail," 104.
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Parkman, "The Oregon Trail," 101.
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[Pattie, James N.], "Pattie's Personal Narrative," 4.
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Penn. Board of Game Commissioners, "The Pennsylvania Deer Problem," 75.
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Percy, Lord William, "English Method of Restocking with Breeding Ducks," 39.
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Phillips, John C., "Shooting Records, Wenham Lake, 1897-1925," 57.
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Prescott, William H., "History of the Conquest of Mexico," 17.
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[Prince], "Prince's Concise History of New Mexico," 38.
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Quarles, E. A., "The Wild Turkey at Woodmont," 42.
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Reynolds, J. M., "On the Inheritance of Food Effects in the Flour Beetle," 110.
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Robinson, Cyril S., "Notes on the California Condor Collected on Los Padres National Forest," 99.
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Rose Lake Wildlife Experiment Station, "Food Productivity for Wildlife on an Area of Agricultural Land," 109.
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Ruxton, G. F., "Mexico and the Rocky Mountains," 10.
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Schierbeck, Otto, "Forestry vs. Game Cover," 37.
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Seton, Ernest Thompson, "Lives (?)," 32.
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Shepard, Ward, "Notes on German Game Management," 89.
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Shiras, George 3rd, "The Wildlife of Lake Superior," 48.
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Smith, Clinton G., "Management Plan -- Pisgah National Forest," 69.
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Stoddard, H. L., "Report on Quail Investigations," 54.
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Stoddart, A. M., "Ruffed Grouse in New York State," 46.
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Tinan, Clate, "The Vanishing Prairie Hen," 30.
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Treherne, R. C. and E. R. Buckell, "Grasshoppers of British Columbia," 55.
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Trippensee, R. E., "Biology and Management of the Cottontail Rabbit," 91.
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Waller, "Predator Control on Saline Game Refuge," 74.
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Walton, "The Complete Angler," 112.
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Welch, Walter R., "Shooting in California Today and 50 Years Ago," 68.
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Welford, R. G. and J. Bright, "The Game Laws," 7.
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Wight, H. M., "Cooperative Investigation of Privately Owned State Game Refuges of Michigan," 71.
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Wisconsin [State of], "Digest of Wisconsin Conservation Commission Reports," 62.
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Wright, William H., "The Grizzly Bear," 51.
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Writings: Miscellaneous Manuscripts; Lectures; Yale Reports; German Notes

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Manuscripts of Articles

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Note

Contains typescripts of 15 articles published by AL during the 1940s. Donated by Mrs. Leopold.

15 mss., 1940-1947

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Lectures, 1933-1947

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Note: Lecture notes may be typed (T), hand written in pencil (P), written in essay form (E), revised (R), or contain slide lists (S). They are arranged in chronological order, with separate series for undated lectures, 3x5" cards, and radio talks.
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Ecology as an applied science
Note: 5pTRE; Phi Beta Kappa, UNM 5-5-1933
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Wildlife research in Wisconsin
Note: 6pTRE ca. 2-1-1935
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A pheasant drive in Germany
Note: 3pTPS; Midwest Game Conference, Urbana 12-6-1935
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An erosion theory for the southwest
Note: 9pTRSE; Erosion Symposium 12-17-1935
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Deer and forestry in Germany
Note: 5pTRSE; Phi Sigma 12-19-1935
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Nine centuries of deer management in Germany
Note: 9pTPSE; Agriculture Faculty 1-18-1936
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Sketches of land use in Germany
Note: 8pTRSE; Taylor-Hibbard Club 1-22-1936
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Vertical planning for wildlife
Note: 4pPE; Rural Regional Planning 3-25-1936
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European game management
Note: 3pTS; Wildlife Conference 3-4-1937
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Conservation in Germany
Note: 4pPS; Steuben Society 1-28-1937
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The German and his land
Note: 6pTRSE, University Club
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Conservation in the world of tomorrow
Note: 5pTRSE; Tripp Commons; Student Forum 3-29-1937
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History of the pheasant
Note: 3pTPS; Riley Meeting 3-16-1938
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The Faville Grove Wildlife Area
Note: 2pPS/TS; Madison Bird Club 11-16-1938
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Wildlife research
Note: 2pPSE; Prof. Club 1-24-1939
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Game policy model, 1930
Note: 7pTE; Wildlife Conference 2-15-1939
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Greens keepers course
Note: 2pPS 3-8-1939
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Lecture 1: Behavior of bird populations
Note: 3pTSE; Ohio Lectures 8-12-1939
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Erosion economics in the Southwest
Note: 2pTS; Taylor-Hibbard 11-23-1939
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Biotic theories and conservation
Note: 2pTRE; Phi Sigma 2-29-1940
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Biotic theory
Note: 2pPSE
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Diversified farming for wildlife
Note: 2pTS; Marshfield Lecture 7-22-1940
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The farmer cooperatives of Wisconsin
Note: 3pTRS; Wilson Club 11-1940
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Final plan for symposium on Wildlife Management
Note: 1pT
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The erosion problem in the Southwest as compared with Wisconsin
Note: 4pPSE; Farmers Week 2-5-1941
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Conservation of natural resources
Note: 2p mimeo SE; Freshman Forum 5-16-1941
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Deer in Utah, Oregon, and Nevada, Coast
Note: 2pTRS; Seminar 11-24-1941
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Scientific uses of wilderness
Note: 2pTSE; Getaway Club 1-17-1942
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German ecology
Note: 3pPS; Seminar 3-16-1942
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Wildlife manager; erosion engineer
Note: 2pPS; Freshman Forum 5-1-1942
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Conservation of the western ranges
Note: 4pTSE; Phi Sigma 5-14-1942
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Delta duck studies
Note: 3pTS; Dane County Conservation League 5-26-1942
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The last stand of the hardwoods
Note: 3pTRSE 6-25-1942
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Pheasant, Bobwhite, Hungarian Partridge, Cottontail
Note: 2pPS, 2 cards TS; Conservation Congress 7-14-1942
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The prairie: the forgotten flora
Note: 4pTSE; Colonial Dames, Milwaukee 11-6-1942
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History of land-use: western Wisconsin
Note: 3pTE; Seminar with [Joseph] Hickey 11-9-1942
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Pheasant population studies
Note: 4pTPSE; Seminar 12-4-1942
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The excess deer problem
Note: 2pPE; Getaways 1-16-1943
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The deer problem
Note: 5pPS; Deer Committee 1-21-1943
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Animal populations at Prairie du Sac, 1929-1942
Note: 6 pTSRE; Seminar 2-15-1943
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Short summary of the deer problem
Note: 2pTSE; Chm. Citizens' Deer Committee 6-21-1943
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Deer on forced rations
Note: 2pTSE; 4-H Wisconsin Dells 9-10-1943
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Deer on forced rations
Note: 2pTSE; Farm Short Course 1-19-1944
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Birdsong phenology
Note: 3pT; Kumlien [Bird] Club 10-19-1943
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Land-health in southwestern Wisconsin
Note: 10pTRSE; ASCE 11-3-1943
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Arboretum pheasants
Note: 3pTRSE; Arboretum meeting w/ Getaways 11-19-1943
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Prairie du Sac quail, 1929-43
Note: 5pTRSE; Seminar 12-6-1943
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Animal tracks
Note: 2pTS; Short Course 1-10-1944
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Steep farms in southwestern Wisconsin
Note: 1p mimeo, 1pTS: Dodgeville 2-2-1944; Menomonie 2-9-44; LaCrosse 2-11-44
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Pheasant cover in Dane County
Note: 3pTS; Dane County Sportsmen 2-28-1944
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Land-health in southwestern Wisconsin
Note: 3pTRSE; Garden Club 3-7-1944
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Forest browse problems
Note: 4pTRS; Society of American Foresters Milwaukee 3-25-1944
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Seven prongs of the deer dilemma
Note: 5pTRSE [apparently includes "Deer census estimates, national forests, 1921-1942," 1pP] 6-26-1944
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Birdsong phenology
Note: 5pTRS, 1pPE; Kumlien [Bird] Club 11-28-1944
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Birdsong phenology II: Hours of song
Note: 6pTRSE; Seminar 12-4-1944
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Runaway populations
Note: 6pTRSE; Young Ag Club [apparently includes "Some runaway populations in Wisconsin," 1p mimeo, WLE 118] 12-5-1944
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Food and cover techniques
Note: 3pPS; WL Techniques 161 1-4-1945
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Distribution of Wisconsin hares
Note: 2pTRS; Seminar 1-10-1945
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Plant patterns: interspersion theory, patterns
Note: 2pTRSE; WLE 118? 2-17-1945
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The deer problem of northern Wisconsin
Note: 5pTRS; Extension 3-8-1945
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Timber wolf
Note: 1pTE, 3pPE; Getaways 3-17-1945
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The trend of events in American wildlife
Note: 6pTRSE 11-9-1945
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Irruptive deer herds
Note: 5pTSE; University of Chicago 12-3-1945
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Some Wisconsin wildlife problems
Note: 2pTRS; Fr. Engineers Orientation Lecture 2-1-1946
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The farmer as a naturalist
Note: 4pPSE; Short Course 2-4-1946
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Wilderness conservation
Note: 5pTRSE; Friends of the Native Landscape 3-26-1946
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The Wisconsin deer problem
Note: 2pTRSE; Green Lake 9-13-1946
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Summer cruising radius of a quail covey
Note: 1p mimeo; Kumlien [Bird] Club 10-15-1946
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Steps to publication
Note: 1pTE; WL Techniques 161 ["Sample Outline: Age Criteria for cottontail," 1pTE] 12-19-1946
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Wildlife and farm land-use
Note: 3pTRE; Rotary Club 11-5-1947
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Lectures, Undated and 3x5 cards

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Rodent management on southwest ranges
Note: Undated lecture; 3pPE
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The food and cover problem in southern Wisconsin
Note: Undated lecture; 3pTS
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Lecture 5: The cow in the woodlot
Note: Undated lecture; 3pTRSE
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Theories of population
Note: Undated lecture; 3pTE
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Motives for conservation
Note: Undated lecture; 6pTRE, WLE 118
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Tracks
Note: Undated lecture; 1pTS, WLE 118
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Tracks -- extra lecture
Note: Undated lecture; 1pTS, WLE 118
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Biography of a covey
Note: Undated lecture; 2pPS
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Phenology
Note: Undated lecture; 2pPS, 1944, Seminar?
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The Wisconsin deer problem
Note: Undated lecture; 2pTS
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Deer lecture -- general
Note: Undated lecture; 1pPS
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Lecture (15?): Density, carrying capacity
Note: Undated lecture; 6pTRSE
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Historical phenology of southern Wisconsin
Note: Undated lecture; 2pTRSE, 3pPE, early 1946?
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Report on (11th annual wildlife) conference
Note: Undated lecture; 3pPE, 1946?
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Properties of wildlife populations
Note: 3" x 5"; 3 cards TRS(FPL Lecture) 5-6-41
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Conservationist in Mexico
Note: 3" x 5"; 7 cards TRSE (Gamma Alpha) 5-8-41
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"What can I do?"
Note: 3" x 5"; 5 cards TPSE(Garden Club) 10-1-42
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Soil conservation in western Wisconsin
Note: 3" x 5"; 3 cards PS (Sunset Garden Club)
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Biotic land use
Note: 3" x 5"; 7 cards TPE
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Turnover in chickadees (Aldo and Carl Leopold)
Note: 3" x 5"
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"Learn to read"
Note: 3" x 5"; 4 cards
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Chickadee study
Note: 3" x 5"; 3 cards
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Meaning of conservation
Note: 3" x 5"; 8 cards TE
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Conservation commission
Note: 3" x 5"; 4 cards PE
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Radio Talks, 1933-1936

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Note: These are manuscripts of radio talks (mostly over WHA) by AL in the 1930s on wildlife and game management. Deposited by Luna Leopold.
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Leaving food and cover
Note: Radio talk (WHA); 3p 9-8-1933
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Feed early to keep game at home
Note: Radio talk (WHA); 3p 11-2-1933
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Feeding winter birds on the farm
Note: Radio talk (WHA); 3p 12-1-1933
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The farm woodlot and the bird crop
Note: Radio talk (WHA); 4p 12-14-1933
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Coaxing the winter birds
Note: Radio talk (WHA); 3p 1-9-1934
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Game on the modern farm
Note: Radio talk (WHA); 6p 3-18-1934
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The game cycle -- a challenge to science
Note: Radio talk (NBC/Chicago); 9p 8-18-1934
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item 008
Planning winter food and cover
Note: Radio talk (WHA); 3p 9-10-1934
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Food patches for birds
Note: Radio talk (WHA); 3p 10-19-1934
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Feeding birds -- a new winter sport
Note: Radio talk (Homemakers' Program); 5p 2-20-1935
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New methods for game cropping
Note: Radio talk (College of the Air); 7p 2-10-1936
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Preserving Wisconsin's game supply
Note: Radio talk (College of the Air); 6p 2-17-1936
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Papers and Reports, Yale Forest School

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Contains research papers and reports prepared by AL for courses at Yale Forest School. Manuscripts were deposited by Mrs. Leopold.

6 reports, chart, 1908-1909

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Silvical Characters of American Conifers & Yews
Note: Chart (handwritten blueprint) compiled from lecture notes, course in Dendrology, Professor J. W. Toumey, Yale Forest School; also from Sargent's Manual & Silvical Leaflets, US Forest Service 31 October 1908
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18 Problems
Note: 23p handwritten (ink); Course in Forest Valuation, given under course in forest management, by H. H. Chapman, Yale Forest School; Fall term 1908
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Planting Plan for the Woodbridge Reservoir Tract
Note: Made for the New Haven Water Company; 23p handwritten + figures. Field work in June 1908; Report #3, 15 October 1908
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Symbols used in Forest Valuation together with some fundamental conceptions and formulae
Note: 10p hdw; prepared subsequent to course given by H. H. Chapman, Yale Forest School, 1908. References to problems given in the same course. Ind. Work II, 10 December 1908
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Report on the Shasta National Forest
Note: 11pTW + figs.; course in National Forests by R. E. Benedict, United States Forest Service, February 1909. Report #4, 16 February 1909
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item 006
Some Figures on Old Field Pine in Tyler County, Texas
Note: 13pTW; Report #5, May & June 1909
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Working Plan for Tract No. 1, Town of Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut
Note: 26pTW + figs.; prepared in connection with a course in silviculture, Yale Forest School. Field work in May 1908. Report #6, 1 February 1909
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German Notes

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AL bound his notes pertaining to his trip to Germany in August-October 1935. The trip was sponsored by the Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation and the Oberlaender Trust to study German methods of forestry and game management. The notes are on various types and sizes of paper, mostly handwritten. Maps, reprints, and graphs are also included. Subdivisions in the bound volume include: Addresses, Accounts, etc.; Berlin; Dresden, Tharandt (Saxony); Czechoslovakia; Wurtemburg, Baden; Silesia; Ecology; Life History; Digests. The volume was deposited by A. Starker Leopold, 18 Sept. 1967.

bound volume, 1935

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Writings: [University of Wisconsin] Course Materials

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Extension Lectures

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Contains notes for six UW Extension lectures, together with a few handouts.

1934-1937

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Handouts, Game Management 379

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Loose-leaf notebook of handouts--mostly management digests in mimeo form that were prepared by students in Wildlife Management 179 (a course taught by Leopold until his death, and by Hickey thereafter). Deposited by Joseph Hickey.

1946-1951

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Leopold, Lectures in Wildlife Ecology

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Also deposited by Hickey is this loose-leaf notebook containing materials from Wildlife Ecology 118. Hickey took this course as a student of AL in 1943 and taught it jointly with AL in 1948. The 1943 materials include handouts and Hickey's notes on lectures. Copies of AL's own lecture notes for 1948 are interfiled; many notes bear his own marks for revision and questions for oral quizzes in class.

See the Hickey papers, 9/25/11, for Hickey's notebooks of lectures in Wildlife Ecology 118 for the years immediately after AL's death, when he revamped the course.

1943-1948

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Grant Cottam, WLE 118

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Includes photocopied notes and materials of Grant Cottam, who took AL's course in 1946. Cottam typed his notes on AL's lectures and bound them with handouts and exam papers. AL's WLE 118 was a memorable and influential course for many UW students, a number of whom (like Grant Cottam) became prominent ecologists.

1946

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General Collection of Handouts, 188 & 179

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Writings: Unpublished Manuscripts -- AL's Desk File

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Contains some 200 unpublished manuscripts and fragments found in AL's desk file at the time of his death. Some manuscripts contain ideas which he wanted to set down for possible future use. The manuscripts span years from 1917 to 1948, though several are undated. Portions of the material appeared in revised form in AL's published work, including Round River . Also included are articles, speeches, seminar papers, reports, essays, and fragments on the diverse interests of a lifetime.

After AL's death, these manuscripts were sent to Dr. A. Starker Leopold, who inherited his father's library. On 18 Sept. 1967, Starker Leopold deposited the entire corpus in the UW-Madison Archives. An attempt has been made to arrange the manuscripts according to subject and chronology; a bibliography is included in the box. Titles are self-explanatory (see below).

Items indented were stapled or clipped with the items they follow. The numbers associated with most of th eitems correspond with the numbered items in box 17.

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Bibliography [of Unpublished Manuscripts -- AL's Desk File]

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Wildlife and Game Management to 1928

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"Mixing trout in western waters"
Note: For American Fisheries Society 47th Annual Meeting; 4pTW, 79. 8-29-1917
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"Bird plan for University campus -- Memo for Mr. Ikemoto"
Note: 4pTY + 2pPW notes, 19. 9-13-1918
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"The bird life of New Mexico"
Note: From Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce; 6pTY, 15.
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"How to build bird houses"
Note: For Evening Herald , AL, Albuquerque Game Protective Association; 4pTY, 68.
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"How to make the home place attractive for birds"
Note: For Evening Herald , AL, Albuquerque C of C; 2pTY, 78.
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"Birds and cats"
Note: 3pTYR, 197.
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"Reorganizing our national game factory"
Note: AL, United States Forest Service; 6pTY, 12.
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"The next move in public shooting grounds"
Note: For Bulletin of the American Game Protective Association ; 1pTY, 180.
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"The gun club of the future"
Note: 3p ink WR, 165.
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"A remedy for the 'songbird list'"
Note: 4pTY, 168. 1923?
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"Quail and timber as a farm crop"
Note: Drawings; 2pPY, [unnumbered].
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"The conservation press"
Note: 3pTY, 16.
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"Recent developments in game management"
Note: USFS Bulletin IX:9 ; 2p mimeo, 13. 3-2-1925
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"Ten new developments in American game management"
Note: National Game Conference, 8-9 December 1924; 15pTW, [unnumbered]. 4-10-1925
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"History of game protection in New Mexico"
Note: 5pTW, 14. 8-27-1925
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"Duck limits"
Note: 4pTW, 11.
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AL to Will Dilg
Note: Outdoor America , encl[osed]. mss.; 2pTY, pub.? 3-10-1925
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"What needs to be done for the ducks?"
Note: Copy; each has notes by AL and [?], 24pTYR, 171. 11-18-1926
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AL to Ringland
Note: encl. mss. (1pTY) 12-16-1926
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Comments on mss. by [Sheldon?]
Note: (8p ink Y)
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Copy
Note: (8pTW)
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Ringland to AL regarding mss. and Sheldon's comments
Note: (1pTW) 5-12-1927
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John B. Burnham to AL regarding mss.
Note: (3p ink W) 2-20-1928
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"Science and game conservation"
Note: for IWLA Convention, Omaha; 9pTW + 6 figs., [unnumbered]. 4-19-1928
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"Standards of conservation"
Note: 6pPW, 167. 1922?
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"Skill in forestry"
Note: 5pTY, 178.
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Comments by J. C. K.
Note: 1pPY
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Comments by M. M. C.
Note: 1p ink Y
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Comments by R. E. M.
Note: 3pTY 9-13-1922
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Memorandum for Mr. Leopold; by M. W. T.? [Talbot?]
Note: 2pTY 7-20-22
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E. M. K. [E. W. K.?] to AL
Note: 1pTY 6-4-1923
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"Some fundamentals of conservation in the Southwest"
Note: 19pTY, 182.
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Frank A. Waugh to AL
Note: 1pTW; returning mss. 5-26-1923
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Clipping on wilderness (from Fred Winn)
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Map of Gila [Wilderness Area?]
Note: (1 sheet)
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Memo for AL regarding article, from M. M. C.? [Cheney?],
Note: 183. 4-17-1923
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"Forest inspection as developed in the Southwest"
Note: 4pPW, 163.
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AL to Frank [Pooler?] regarding D-3 inspection reports,
Note: 5pTY, 164. 2-2-1925
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"Economic determinism in national forestry"
Note: 2pPY, 179.
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Notes for article, 1pPW
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item 008
"Transmission of spiral in redwood sprouts"
Note: 1pTW, 175.
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"Notes on spiral redwood"
Note: 3pTW, 176.
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"Izaak Walton League and its relation to forestry in Wisconsin"
Note: 48.
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"Proposed joint research program, Forest Products Laboratory-UW"
Note: 4pTY; 2 copies, [unnumbered]. 10-24-1927
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"The virgin Southwest"
Note: 29pTYR; Laboratory of Anthropology, Santa Fe, [unnumbered]. 5-6-1933
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E. Dana Johnson to AL
Note: 1pTW; returning mss. 10-20-????
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"Vegetation for erosion control in the CCC camps of southwestern Wisconsin"
Note: 10p mimeo, 75.
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"The silviculture of erosion and game vegetation"
Note: 2pTW; memo for C. P. Winslow, 72. 5-29-1934
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"Roadside prairies"
Note: 39TW, 118. 8-16-1941
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"Cows and contours: The problem of steep farms in southwestern Wisconsin"
Note: 3pPY; AL and J. J. Hickey, 25.
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"The wilderness fallacy"
Note: 7pTY; AL, USFS; see Kerr to Forester, 15 Dec 1916, transmitting mss., in National Archives, 66.
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"A wilderness area program"
Note: 3pTYR; 63. ca. 1922
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"A plea for wilderness hunting grounds"
Note: 10pTW, and 5p for figures TW; FRC 37759 copy has P note "revised 11-10-24"; for Outdoor Life, 65.
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J.A. McGuire to AL [Letter]
Note: 1pTY, 12-22-1924; accepting article for publication in Outdoor Life
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AL to Northey [Letter]
Note: 1pTY, 5-23-1925; regarding publication of article
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"The vanishing wilderness"
Note: 7pTWR; for Outdoor America, 177.
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[List of] Possible illustrations for "The vanishing wilderness" (1pTW)
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Fragment (1pPY)
Note:
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[Letter], E.H. Ross to AL (1pTW, 3-12-1926; returning mss. for revision
Note:
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"The conservation of wilderness recreation"
Note: 4pTW; Getaway disc., 64. 2-19-1927
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"Notes on wilderness"
Note: 1pTY; 181. [Folder not found in file, 5 February 2003]
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"Wilderness area -- notes"
Note: 1pPY; 162.
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"Wilderness"
Note: 4pPY; 99. 1935
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"Outline for 'Wilderness,'"
Note: 1pPY; 100.
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"Wilderness [notes]"
Note: 1pPW; regarding Darwin, geology, and ecology; on [back of] German stationery, 36. 1935
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"What shrinks wilderness?"
Note: 2pTW; IWLA, not given, 67. 3-29-1940
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Philosophic and Literary to 1940

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"A man's leisure time"
Note: 11pTW; address, UNM Assembly, 173. 10-15-1920
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"A criticism of the booster spirit"
Note: 10+2pTYR; Ten Dons Club, 174. 11-6-1923
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"Blue River"
Note: 1pPY; also copy dated 1948, 81. 6-11-1922
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"The sportsman-naturalist"
Note: 1pPY; AL, USFS [byline]; 169.
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"Thoughts on a map of Liberia"
Note: 2pPY; [addl. 1pPY notes on back of one of those pages -- titled separately], 170.
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"The River of the Mother of God"
Note: 8pTY; 172.
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[Letter from] Wilbur Cross, ed., to AL, 12-16-24; rejecting mss. for Yale Review
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"Sand burs"
Note: 2pTY; for Sportsman's Review, AL, Albuquerque, 193.
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"What is a sportsman?"
Note: 2pPY; notes, 166.
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[Letter] C. Proebstel to AL 10-28-1925; requesting support
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Clipping regarding NMGPA (ca. 1925)
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"Economics of the wild"
Note: 7pTW; AL, 905 University Ave., 6.
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"Goose music"
Note: 9pTY; 194.
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[Letter], Clark McAdams to AL (1pTW, 7-1-?; rejecting mss.; Wild Life Mag. folding
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[Note], M.M.C. to AL (2p PW, regarding mss.)
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"Digest of Sutton article on geese"
Note: 1pTW July 1931
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"Misc. notes on waterfowl study"
Note: 1pPY.
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"Menu -- Canoncito Camp"
Note: 1pTW; misc. notes on reverse side, PW. 5-2-1933
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"Untitled"
Note: 4pPW; [regarding] Sandhill Crane as a supernumary element, 5.
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"Hobbies"
Note: 4pTY; PTA, Randall School, 40. 4-10-1935
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"Dear friend Botts/Dear Judge Botts"
Note: 3pPY; [drafts of 2 letters, relationship unclear], 9.
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"The social consequences of conservation"
Note: 7pPY; 1.
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"Social consequences" material (2pPY)
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"Social consequences" material [same title as previous but a separate entity](2pPY)
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Naturalism and conservation (1pPY; notes)
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Fragment (1pPY)
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Fragment (1pTYR)
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"Deep River"
Note: 1pPY; regarding Ozark Mt. rivers [not in this folder 5 February 2003; see Folder 006]
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"Pathological forces in land use"
Note: 7pTY; Sigma Xi, 49. 4-15-1935
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"Land Pathology"
Note: 8pTYR; Sigma Xi, 94. 4-15-1935
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"Fragment on landscape and bureaus"
Note: 1pPW; 106.
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"Fragment on government vs. private conservation"
Note: 1pTY.
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"Fragment on Germany and international conservation movement"
Note: 1pTY.
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"Fragment"
Note: 1pTYR; from Vietinghoff review?
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"The farm wildlife program: a self-scrutiny"
Note: 8pTWR + 2pPYR; 111.
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Unrevised copy (8pTW; Taylor-Hibbard); 54.
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Notes (1pPY)
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"Conservation inquiry: philosophy, economics, game"
Note: 1pPW; 90.
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"'Cases' for inquiry: motivation for land use, predator control, forestry"
Note: 3pPY; 91.
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"Fragment on foresters and conservation"
Note: 1pPW.
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"Engineering and conservation"
Note: 11pTWR + 1pTY; Engineering College, 98. 4-11-1938
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"Natural history, the forgotten science"
Note: 9pTYR; speech at U. of Mo., [penciled note] "partly to be used by Missouri Conservationist," 109. 4-26-1938
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"Natural history, the forgotten science"
Note: 7pTW; speech at U. of Mo., 51. 4-26-1938
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"A survey of conservation"
Note: 11pTWR; 96.