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Series: 9/25/10-11: Forest Service Records
View digitized contents of this series. During the years of Mr. Leopold's employment with the US Forest Service, 1909-1928,
most of his correspondence, memoranda, and reports were official government documents,
and were retained in Forest Service files. Many of these files were apparently destroyed
or lost over the years. Most of the remaining records are scattered through scores of
boxes or folders in the National Archives, various federal record centers, and USFS
offices, and are virtually never identified in indexes as pertaining to Aldo Leopold.
For this reason, the UW-Madison Archives has undertaken to secure Xerox or microfilm
copies of such records as could be found. There is one box of material in this series (Box 001) from Mr. Leopold's own files,
containing the Carson Pine Cone newsletter and handbooks
that he prepared for District 3. Xeroxed and microfilmed records comprise the remainder of the series. There are Xeroxed
reports and miscellaneous items dating from AL's years on the Apache and Carson National
Forests and in the district headquarters, found in various repositories, principally the
Federal Record Center, Denver (Box 002); copies of the inspection reports filed by
Leopold when he was District 3 Chief of Operations (Box 003); a Xerox copy of AL's
atlas-size Grand Canyon Working Plan (Folio 001); and two microfilms--one of his
official federal personnel record, the other of selected documents from US Forest
Service records in the National Archives. The location of the original documents is
indicated on the copies. Other Forest Service materials from AL's files but not in this series are his official
diaries, included with other diaries and journals in 9/25/10-7, Box 001; a few
manuscripts filed with his writings, especially in the "Forestry and Land Use" folder,
9/25/10-6, Box 016; some correspondence in the species and subject files, 9/25/10-4; and
correspondence from these years in the family correspondence files, 9/25/10-8, Boxes
007-009 (these folders also contain occasional manuscripts and memoranda that AL sent
along with his letters). See also Forest Service photographs in Iconography files,
Series 3/1; particularly Box 86, folders 2 and 5, and Box 87, album 3.
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box 001
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box 001
folder 001
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Carson Pine Cone, June 1911-July
1912
View digitized contents of this folder. : The Carson Pine Cone was a monthly mimeographed
bulletin intended for Forest Service use only and designed to unite and inform the
members of the Carson National Forest staff. AL joined the Carson staff as Deputy
Forest Supervisor (later, Supervisor) in June 1911, and was instrumental in
founding and editing this paper, which contained editorials, poems, news items,
personal notes, etc. A number of items were signed by AL, including poems and
several letters to the staff that he wrote while on extended leave. AL's set is
not complete, but it has been augmented by Xerox copies of issues available at the
Carson National Forest headquarters in Taos, NM, donated by Mr. Don Seaman, Forest
Supervisor. AL's set was deposited by Mrs. Leopold.
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box 001
folder 002
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Carson Pine Cone, July 1912-March
1914
View digitized contents of this folder. : Further issues of the Carson Pine Cone . Also
included is Roderick Nash's original (1961) list of issues extant in the
papers.
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box 001
folder 003
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Carson Pine Cone, Cover Tracings and
Prints
View digitized contents of this folder. : Copies of a number of sketches by AL for covers of issues of the Carson Pine Cone . They were deposited by Mrs. Leopold,
who apparently retained some of the original drawings.
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box 001
folder 004
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Game and Fish Handbook, 1915
View digitized contents of this folder. : Bound volume containing a 109p mimeographed handbook, with AL's penciled
notations for revision, reports on game and fish 1913-1917, and various notes by
AL. Although unsigned, the handbook was prepared by AL for USFS District 3 in
1915; and some of the reports may also have been prepared by him. The handbook
apparently received fairly wide distribution within the District and beyond.
Another copy has been located, in the National Agricultural Library, and an
additional copy surfaced in the Forest Service records kept by the Sharlot Hall
Museum in Prescott, Arizona. The UW-Madison Archives' copy is presently on
indefinite loan to the UW Department of Wildlife Ecology, where it is on display
in the departmental library display case. Records indicate that AL also prepared a
term permit handbook for the District around 1916-1917, but there was no copy in
his files and no trace of it has been found elsewhere.
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box 001
folder 005
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Watershed Handbook, 1923
View digitized contents of this folder. : This is a bound mimeographed handbook, 28p + 4 figures. It was apparently
prepared by AL, although unsigned, and was issued in December 1923 as the first
section of a proposed "Lands Handbook" for the Southwestern District (D3), USFS.
There is no indication that the complete "Lands Handbook" was ever issued, but in
the National Agricultural Library in Washington, D.C., are copies of the Watershed Handbook (1923) and revisions of 1933 and 1934,
to which AL apparently contributed at least an Appendix VII, "Watershed
Bibliographies." Donated by A. Starker Leopold.
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box 002
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box 002
folder 001
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Apache National Forest, 1909-1911
View digitized contents of this folder. : Includes planting reports by AL, November 1909 and November 1910; report on a
timber sale and related documents, April 1910; an Apache newsletter of May 1910
signed by AL; and a report on a requested elimination, March 1911. AL was Forest
Assistant. All materials are from FRC, Denver.
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box 002
folder 002
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Apache Ranger Meeting, 8-10 September 1910
View digitized contents of this folder. : 42-page report on a meeting in which AL participated. The report was xeroxed from
a mimeographed copy in the office of J. Morton Smith, I & E, USFS-R3,
Albuquerque.
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box 002
folder 003
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Carson National Forest, 1911-1913
View digitized contents of this folder. : Contains material on the Carson National Forest, where AL was Forest Supervisor,
1911-13. Included are correspondence and memoranda on proposed boundary
changes.
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box 002
folder 004
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Uses -- Recreation
View digitized contents of this folder. AL was in charge of recreational uses and term permits for District 3 from
1915-17. Included are a report on Lake Mary public use area and a map for the Oak
Creek area in the Coconino National Forest. [From FRC, Denver.] See also Grand
Canyon Working Plan (Folio 1). AL apparently made a number of other studies and
reports, and prepared a term permit handbook for the District, but these have not
been found. 1916f
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box 002
folder 005
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Carhart Memo
View digitized contents of this folder. 4-page "Memorandum for Mr. Leopold, District 3," supplementing a conversation
between Arthur H. Carhart and AL, 6 December 1919, on wilderness. It was Xeroxed
from the files of the Conservation Library Center, Denver Public Library, November
1968. 10 December 1919
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box 002
folder 006
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Report on D-1 Trip
View digitized contents of this folder. 19-page report by AL on a trip he made June 15-July 23, 1926, to look for chances
for Forest Products Laboratory cooperation in National Forest management work in
D-1. Xeroxed from copy at Conservation Library Center, Denver Public Library,
November 1968. June 15-July 23, 1926
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box 003
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Forest Service Records: Inspection Reports, 1919-1923
View digitized contents of this box. From August 1919 to June 1924, AL served as Chief of Operations (Assistant District
Forester in Charge of Operations) for District 3 of the US Forest Service. His
primary responsibility in this position was to conduct inspection tours of the
individual forests within the district and to prepare inspection reports for the
district forester. During his tenure in this position, AL prepared thirteen reports;
copies of all thirteen reports are in this box. The reports offer a unique and valuable view not only into the development of
Forest Service administration, but into the evolution of AL's understanding of
conservation. These were crucial years in AL's changing ideas and activities
involving game management, soil erosion and range management, recreation and
wilderness protection, forest administration, and conservation philosophy. The
inspection reports allow us to trace many of these new directions back to his field
experiences in the Southwest. Reports are arranged chronologically in the box and are labeled by the area
surveyed. In addition to the reports themselves, the folders contain related
correspondence, filed with the reports, between AL, the District Forester, Forest
Supervisors, and Washington officials. The later reports include a substantial
amount of dark and difficult to read pages; these are facsimiles of the original
inspection tally sheets which AL developed, used during inspection, and included in
his reports. Many pages also include margin notes by various readers, particularly
the District Forester. (Later margin notes are those of Curt Meine, AL's
biographer.) The overall quality of the copies varies. Two of the reports (Datil 1919 and
Manzano 1920) were copied from originals at the Federal Records Center in Denver by
Dr. Susan Flader. The others are Xerox copies of Xerox copies; the originals of the
aforementioned reports and the other eleven turned up, after having been presumed
lost, in the files of the Tonto National Forest at forest headquarters in Phoenix,
Arizona. They were located there by Forest Archaeologist Martin MacAllister, and
copies were placed in the UW-Madison Archives in December 1988. An additional folder
contains miscellaneous inspection-related memos and correspondence.
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box 003
folder 001
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box 003
folder 002
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box 003
folder 003
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box 003
folder 004
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box 003
folder 005
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box 003
folder 006
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box 003
folder 007
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box 003
folder 008
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box 003
folder 009
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Inspection Report: Gila National Forest, 1922
View digitized contents of this folder. While AL was inspecting the Gila National Forest (21 May to 27 June, 1922), a
series of intense fires broke out. The inspection report includes AL's "Notes on
Gila Fires." It was also on this trip that AL, with Forest Supervisor Fred Winn,
formalized plans for setting aside the Gila Wilderness Area. The report includes a
map of the proposed roadless area, an extensive plan and policy discussion under
Section I (Lands), and a copy of AL's "Report on Proposed Wilderness Area" of 2
Oct. 1922. 30p, correspondence, maps, misc.
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box 003
folder 010
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box 003
folder 011
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box 003
folder 012
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box 003
folder 013
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box 003
folder 014
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folio 1 (F01)
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Grand Canyon Working Plan (Xerox)
View digitized contents of this folio. Bound copy of a report, "Grand Canyon Working Plan: Uses, Information, Recreational
Development," by Don P. Johnson, Forest Supervisor and AL, Forest Examiner, December
1916. Dr. A. Starker Leopold deposited the Xerox copy in the UW-Madison Archives on
17 Oct. 1967, shortly after it was discovered at the Grand Canyon (where the
original remains). It is atlas-size, 18" x 21", typed in 2 columns and organized in
numbered paragraphs. The report deals with zoning for various classes of service at the Canyon and
general principles pertaining to relations between government and private interests.
The appendix is specific, dealing with particular concessions, operators, trails,
administrative problems, etc., and recommends immediate steps toward implementing
the zones in the plan. Handwritten notations by FCWP (Frank Pooler) and TEW (T. Earl
Wylder) indicate what actions were taken. Xerox maps and exhibits are bound with the report: included are "Supplemental plan
for development of the Village of Grand Canyon" by Frank A. Waugh, Collaborator,
1918; "A plan for the Development of the Village of Grand Canyon, Arizona," by Frank
A. Waugh, Collaborator, 1918 (23 p.); and "Plans and sketches: proposed
developments, rim and Indian Gardens, by Santa Fe Land and Improvement Co.," (maps
and drawings, 8 p.).
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reel 1 (MF1)
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Forest Service Records: Official Federal Personnel Record
[microfilm]
View digitized contents of this reel. : Microfilm record of material in the Aldo Leopold Official Federal Personnel folder,
apparently located at the Federal Records Center, St. Louis. Permission to microfilm
was granted by Mr. Donald G. Coleman, US Forest Products Laboratory, January 1962.
The record on this roll consists of two chronological series, the first being AL's
official employment papers (appointments and resignations), and the second being his
official FS correspondence, 1919-29. The latter also includes some letters of
condolence to Mrs. Leopold, 1948 and later.
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reel 2 (MF2)
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Forest Service Records: Selected Documents (National Archives)
[microfilm]
View digitized contents of this reel. : All records on this film are from Record Group 95, Records of the Forest Service,
National Archives, and were selected in August 1968 by Susan Flader. Included are
whatever relevant documents could be turned up in a random examination of Forest
Service records. A total of 305 pages were filmed. Included are records from the
divisions of operations, range management, information and education, and wildlife
management, as well as three different research compilation files. Specific records
pertain to Carson National Forest game management and protection, fire protection,
and grazing. There is material about a 1915 article by AL and Charles H. Jennings,
"Applied science in forest fire fighting," as well as AL's articles, "Restocking the
National Forests with elk," 1917; "Wanted--National forest game refuges," 1919; "The
wilderness fallacy," 1917; and "Forestry and game conservation," 1917.
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