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Shelly and Mary Louise Grossman: the protection of our planet before Earth day
April 22nd is a day to think about, celebrate, and remember the importance of our planet and its conservation. It is called Earth day. This celebration started in 1970, following the oil blowout near Santa Barbara, in January 1969. Its … Continue reading
Do Feed the Bears – The Arthur E. Demaray Collection
Arthur E. Demaray was a National Park Service Administrator who worked as the liaison between the Park Service and Congress. He worked for the park service from 1917 to 1951. Demaray’s writings offer insights into Yellowstone National Park during the … Continue reading
“Knowledge is power as never before:” John F. Kennedy’s Natural Resources Philosophy
Conservation of natural resources was a recurring topic during the administration of President John F. Kennedy. In fact, a favorite book of Kennedy’s was Henry David Thoreau’s Cape Cod, published in 1865. While president, Kennedy, a yachtsman, found restoration by sailing the … Continue reading
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Arthur E. Demaray, National Parks Pioneer
Arthur E. Demaray was a United States government administrator for the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. The American Heritage Center just completed processing this collection and a new online finding aid for the Demaray papers is available! Demaray spent most … Continue reading
Online Finding Aid Available for the Karl C. “Sunny” Allan Papers
Karl C. “Sunny” Allan (1886-1978) was born in Ogden, Utah. He worked as a telephone lineman in the early 1900s, and was part of the Bureau of Reclamation crew that built a telephone line from Ashton, Idaho to Moran, Wyoming. … Continue reading
Frederick “Fritz” Gutheim: Pioneering Planner and Urban Environmentalist
Frederick Gutheim was born on March 3, 1908, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was raised in Washington, D.C., where he attended Sidwell Friends School and later Dr. Devitt’s Preparatory School. He earned a degree from the Experimental College of the University … Continue reading
Edward Ackerman: Sustainability Pioneer
Edward Augustus Ackerman (1911-1973), was a geographer and water resources authority. He earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1939 and was a professor at Harvard from 1940 to 1948. Ackerman served as a technical advisor on natural resources to … Continue reading
Clements Papers Document the History of Ecology
Frederic Edward Clements, a leading botanist of the early twentieth century, was born 16 September 1874 in Lincoln, Nebraska, the son of Ephraim George and Mary Angeline (Scoggin) Clements. He received a B.S. degree from the University of Nebraska in … Continue reading
It’s About Dam Time!
Have you ever passed a dam and paused to think of how it came to be? In the early and mid 20th century, the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation industriously set to altering much of the hydrological … Continue reading
Update on Energy Boom Panel Discussions
The rosters have been finalized for the upcoming series of panel discussions based on the American Heritage Center’s energy boom oral history project. April 4, 2011, 4:30pm – 6:00pm, University of Wyoming, Family Room, Wyoming Union Panelists: Cally McKee … Continue reading