Ira N. Gabrielson, Wildlife Management Institute papers, 1919-1974.

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Ira N. Gabrielson, Wildlife Management Institute papers, 1919-1974.

Personal correspondence, pamphlets, articles and Wildlife Management Institute material. Includes speeches and radio scripts from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and copies of Aldo Leopold's game surveys. Correspondence includes letters from Charles Lindbergh regarding the World Wildlife Fund.

18 linear ft. (16 boxes, 1 OV box; 1 AV envelope; 1 vault envelope)

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Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974

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Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974) was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, and activist. At the age of 25 in 1927, he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by winning the Orteig Prize for making a nonstop flight from New York City to Paris. Lindbergh covered the ​33 1⁄2-hour, 3,600-statute-mile (5,800 km) flight alone in a purpose-built, single-engine Ryan monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis. While the first non-...

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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is a bureau within the Department of the Interior. Its mission is to work with others to conserve, protect and enhance fish, wildlife and plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people. A 1940 reorganization plan in the Department of the Interior consolidated the Bureau of Fisheries and the Bureau of Biological Survey into one agency to be known as the Fish and Wildlife Service. The Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife was created...

Gutermuth, Clinton Raymond, 1900-1987

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Leopold, Aldo, 1886-1948

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Leopold was born in Burlington, Iowa and received a Master of Forestry degree from Yale University. In 1909 he joined the U.S. Forest Service and from 1914-1924 he supervised national forests in Arizona and New Mexico. He established the first wilderness area in the Gila National Forest, New Mexico and was a founder of The Wilderness Society. In 1933, he accepted the chair of Game Management at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he taught until his death on April 21, 1948....

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Gabrielson, Ira Noel, 1889-1977

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Gabrielson worked for the U.S. Bureau of Biological Survey from 1915 to 1940, becoming Chief in 1934. In 1940, the Survey became the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Gabrielson served as director until 1946. From 1946 to 1970, he served as President of the Wildlife Management Institute, then as chairman of the Board from 1970 to 1977. He helped organize the World Wildlife Fund (U.S.) and served as a trustee for the World Wildlife Fund (International). Gabrielson died in 1977. Clinton Raymond ...