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Scope and Content Note
The central file continued as the department's filing system until about the mid-1980s. Thus, with the exception of the separately filed minutes of the DNR Board (Series 812) and the DNR publications in the SHSW Library, the Central Files are the most important source for the history of the environmental movement in Wisconsin for the decades from 1967 to 1987. For that time period, very few additional record series have been transferred to the Archives by the department. For the late 1960s and early 1970s the files are particularly useful, as they contain a variety of documentation ranging from high level policy papers and correspondence, reports, internal staff memoranda, committee minutes, and original incoming citizens correspondence. Not only is information included from the Madison office, but there are also some documents pertaining to district and field office operations. Over the years, however, the nature and completeness of the papers declined so that by the late 1980s some sections of the file consist only of copies of outgoing correspondence. In addition, not all of the central files were transferred to the Historical Society. For example, few 9000 files were received by the Historical Society.
Overview of the Subject Files
Alphabetical Files, 1967-circa 1971
- Accidents
- Administration
- Advertising
- Awards
- Boundaries
- Conferences
- Contracts
- Cooperation
- Damages
- Education
- Exhibits
- Fish
- Forestry and Forests
- Forms
- Game and hunting
- Lands
- Legislation
- Meetings
- ORAP
- Parks and Recreation
- Poisons
- Programs
- Propagation
- Publicity lists
- Refuges
- Regulations
- Reports
- Research
- Special
- Surveys
- Waste disposal
- Water pollution
- 1000 Organization and Direction
- 1020 Wisconsin Administrative Code
- 1100 Natural Resources Board
- 1200 Departmental organization and responsibilities
- 1400 External Relations
- 1500 Administrative Reports
- 1600 Environmental Impact
- 2000 Land Resources
- 2100 Multiple Uses of Land (Coordination of game, timber, and recreation)
- 2200 Land Control (Acquisition, easements, leases, sale)
- 2300 Game Management
- 2400 Timber Management
- 2500 Recreational use of DNR lands
- 2700 Minerals (Mining rights, permits, sale)
- 3000 Water Resources
- 3100 Multiple uses of water (Coordination of industrial, domestic use)
- 3200 Water Quality Control (Investigation, river drainage basins, aquatic nuisance)
- 3300 Water Supply Systems
- 3400 Wastewater Treatment
- 3500 Water Management (Irrigation, shoreline zoning, obstructions)
- 3600 Fish and Aquatic Life (Surveys, management, culture, stocking)
- 3700 Waterbased Recreation
- 4000 Protection
- 4100 Law Enforcement
- 4200 Pesticides
- 4300 Fire Control
- 4400 Solid Waste Disposal
- 4500 Air Pollution Control
- 8000 Program Services
- 8100 Research
- 8200 Planning
- 8300 Legal services
- 8500 Information services
- 8600 Engineering
- 8700 Air programs
- 9000 Administrative Service
- 9300 Fiscal Control
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