natural resources

Content Description The Abraham D. Stoesz Papers are composed of approximately 1,100 35mm slides. Subjects of the slides include soil and soil erosion, plants, and flowers, as well as tourism photographs from Washington, D.C., New York City, and other cities and universities. Many slides are clearly labeled with the date, location, and subjects. The slides represent locations across the United States. The collection also contains approximately 50 of Stoesz's field notebooks, which include notes from...

Content Description The Alvin L. Young Collection on Agent Orange contains correspondence, newspaper articles, journal reprints, conference papers, technical reports, congressional hearing testimony, government documents, monographs, and other research materials concerned with phenoxy herbicides, TCDD (2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin, a toxic impurity found in Agent Orange, and often referred to as dioxin), and related chemicals. Much of the collection focuses on, or is related to Agent Orange, a phenoxy...

Content Description The American Agricultural Economics Association Records contain the organization's constitution, bylaws, correspondence, handbooks, directories, ledgers, invoices, newsletters, black and white and color photographs, membership lists, reports, policies, student chapter papers, publications, and papers of various committees. A majority of the records are drafts of articles for the American Journal of Agricultural Economics. Includes files of the Committee on Women in...

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The Cedar Valley Land Company Records consist of two volumes of the company's contracts and records of land sales.

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The Charles C. Plitt Collection consists of a series of journals resulting from weekly botany field trips, which Plitt referred to as "tramps," ranging in date from about 1898 to 1922. Plitt led these tramps through many areas around Baltimore, such as Loch Raven, Glen Burnie, Towson, Curtis Bay, and Ellicott City. The collection also includes biographical data, correspondence, photographs, and a book.

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The Charles Edwin Kellogg Papers contain scripts of Kellogg's speeches, articles, reviews, reprints, correspondence, field notes, journals, slides, photographs, soil maps, and publications relating to soil science and agriculture. Publications include many of the rare works of soil science pioneers such as Glinka, Ruffin, Evelyn, Young, and Marbut.

Content Description The Charles Farquharson Stewart Sharpe Papers consist of copies of articles, translations, and publications relating to geomorphology and erosion. Materials include correspondence and other records produced in the course of Sharpe's work for the Climatic and Physiographic Division of the Soil Conservation service. There are also research notes and draft reports of physiographic studies in which Sharpe was involved, copies of published reports authored by Sharpe, and photographs and lantern...

Content Description The Collection of U.S. Forest Service Slide Presentations and Lassie Memorabilia contains informational presentations and promotional materials. The Forest Service presentation materials contain slides with accompanying audio recordings on cassettes and reel tapes. Topics of the presentations include environmental programs, the eruption of the Mount Saint Helens volcano in 1980, and the Resource Planning Act (RPA). The Lassie portion of the collection includes materials promoting forest...

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The CPC Catalog contains bibliographic citations for plants and soils, mostly referring to articles, and the cards mostly carry the National Agricultural Library (NAL) cataloging system numbers. The cards are filed alphabetically by last name of author and by type of crop. Includes early horticultural literature from 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. There are both U.S. and foreign citations. Additions to the catalog may have ceased in the 1940s.

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The Douglas Helms Collection contains articles, books, reports, correspondence, photographs, films, oral histories, speeches, and research materials related to the history of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Soil Conservation Service, and its successor agency, the Natural Resources Conservation Service.