Assorted reports, correspondence, testimony transcripts, speeches, maps, circulars, indexes, and related materials mainly documenting aspects of departmental administration, including planning, personnel, organization, and accomplishments. Also files dealing with such varied topics as wildlife restoration (1934), water levels on Big Stone Lake (1939), sportsmen's organizations (1955-1963), receipts and expenditures of department finances in individual counties (1933), Grindstone River fish kill (1959), federal aid funds, state parks, water resources, Minnesota Conservationist cash journal (1931-1939), and Game and Fish Division plans and statistics, including construction costs on the Carlos Avery Game Refuge (1937) and correspondence regarding licensing and regulations.