River of No Return Wilderness Council records, 1973-1979.

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River of No Return Wilderness Council records, 1973-1979.

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The records of the River of No Return Wilderness Council span the years 1973-1979. Included in the records are the files of RNRWC President Ted Trueblood, Boise Director Tom Davis and McCall Director Nelle Tobias. The RNRWC records also include records of the Friends of the River of No Return Wilderness, an informal coalition of supporting groups created in March 1979. The records of the RNRWC consist of correspondence, mailing lists, news clippings, publications, handouts, minutes of meetings, maps, transcript of the narration of a slide show, and media releases. There is also a videotape of the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness Symposium, "Visions of the Future," from March 1993, including Governor Andrus's historic background presentation from the symposium banquet. Among Ted Trueblood's files there is a copy of the Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 95th Congress, second session, February 1978, dedicated to Ted Trueblood from Senator Frank Church.

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River of No Return Wilderness Council.

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The River of No Return Wilderness Council (RNRWC) was incorporated in 1973 to seek permanent wilderness status to 2.3 million-acres in central Idaho. Its primary goals were to protect the drainage of the Middle Fork of the Salmon River and important game range from roads and logging. The River of No Return Wilderness combined the Idaho and Salmon River Breaks Primitive Areas, created in 1931 and 1936, respectively. The Incorporators of the RNRWC were Ernest E. Day (Boise); Ted Trueblood (Nampa);...

Davis, Thomas R. A. H., 1917-2007

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Tom Davis was an English immigrant to Calif. From the description of Tom Davis letter : San Francisco, Calif., to his mother in England : photocopy of typed transcription, [1974]. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 86128630 ...

Trueblood, Ted, 1913-1982

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Outdoorsman and conservationist; associate editor of Field and Stream magazine. From the description of Ted Trueblood papers, 1913-1982. (Boise State University). WorldCat record id: 42926686 Outdoorsman and conservationist; associate editor of Field and Stream magazine; also wrote columns for Elks magazine and the Pennsylvania game news. From the description of Ted Trueblood collection of columns for the Statewide, 1947-1951. (Boise State University). WorldCat r...

Tobias, Nelle

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Nelle Tobias (May 11, 1906 - April 30, 2005) was a pioneer environmentalist from McCall, Idaho who played a major role in conservation efforts in Idaho for over fifty years. She graduated from the College of Idaho in 1928 and served as a landscape architect for ten years with the National Park Service before opening Edgewater Cabins on the Payette River in McCall. She was a founding member of the Idaho Conservation League and was involved in nearly every preservation effort in Idaho including th...