Records, 1983-1989.

ArchivalResource

Records, 1983-1989.

Correspondence, reports, studies, speeches, interviews, press releases, legal documents and newspaper clippings related to the Bloody Run Valley highway project and the attempts by the Committee to halt its construction.

.7 linear ft. (2 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7659846

Iowa State Historical Society

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Iowa. Dept. of Transportation.

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Dubuque Audubon Society.

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Mason, Timothy I., 1955-

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Committee to Save Bloody Run.

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The Committee to Save Bloody Run was formed (1983?) to fight a proposed re-alignment of U.S. Highway 18 around Marquette and McGregor, Iowa. The Iowa Department of Transportation and the Army Corps of Engineers argued that the project was necessary to hasten the flow of traffic along Highway 18 and to reduce heavy grain truck traffic through the business districts of McGregor and Marquette, Iowa. The Committee and its supporters argued that the potential environmental impact on Bloody Run Creek,...

Iowa Conservation Commission

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National Audubon Society. North Midwest Regional Office.

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McGregor (Iowa)

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Wilson, Larry C., 1950-

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United States. Army. Corps of Engineers

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The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is an engineer formation of the United States Army that has three primary mission areas: engineer regiment, military construction, and civil works. The day-to-day activities of the three mission areas are administered by a lieutenant general known as the commanding general/chief of engineers. The chief of engineers commands the engineer regiment, composed of combat engineer army units, and answers directly to the chief of staff of the army. Comba...

Wilson, Larry Jon

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