Jack Van Coevering papers, 1928-1978.

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Jack Van Coevering papers, 1928-1978.

Files of Detroit Free Press outdoor pages and conservation articles, clippings, and photographs, correspondence, and notes on Michigan conservation history, pesticides, pollution, plants and animals, hunting and fishing, parks, rivers and lakes, conservation writing, and ecology; also manuscript of history of conservation in Michigan with background information. And materials gathered for intended biographical study of Michigan conservationists including audio-tapes with transcriptions of interviews with Shirley Allen, Ilo Bartlett, Horace Clark, Samual T. Dana, G. Harold Earle, H.W. Glassen, Lary Gunia, William Harris, Charles Millar, Miles Pirnie, George Raff, Joseph B. Rahilly, Harold Ruhl, Carl M. Saunders, Kenneth Slater, Lee Smits, Joe Stephenson, Gilbert Stewart, Harold Titus, and Fred Westerman.

21 linear ft.Photographs 1 linear ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8211033

Bentley Historical Library

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Slater, Kenneth

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Dana, Samuel Trask,, 1883-1978

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Professor of forestry and dean of the School of Natural Resources at the University of Michigan, member of the Hoover Commission on the Reorganization of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government, and fellow and president of the Society of American Foresters. From the description of Samuel Trask Dana papers, 1893-1970. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34423096 Samuel T. Dana, a specialist in forestry and forest economics, was the first dean of ...

Johnson, Carl T.

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Millar, C. E. (Charles Ernest), 1885-1955

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Bear, Fred.

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Pirnie, Miles David, 1898-

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Westerman, Fred A.

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Van Coevering, Jack, 1900-

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Detroit Free Press outdoor writer and later faculty member in the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources. From the description of Jack Van Coevering papers, 1928-1978. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 78113555 Jack Van Coevering worked for 35 years as an outdoor writer for the Detroit Free Press. During that time he became noted as an authority on Michigan hunting, fishing, conservation, and other outdoor topics. After his retirement, he...

Bartlett, Ilo H.

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Rahilly, Joseph B.

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East, Ben, 1898-1990

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Ben East was a prominent Michigan outdoorsman and outdoor writer who wrote and edited outdoor columns and feature articles for a number of Michigan newspapers as well as the magazine Outdoor Life. From the description of Ben East papers, 1935-1980. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 122938226 Ben East (1898-1990) grew up hunting and fishing on his family's farm outside of Holly, Michigan, but didn't began his career as an outdoor writer until his mid-...

Clark, Horace.

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Hoffmaster, Percy James, 1892-

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Harris, William Lane

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Michigan. Department of Conservation

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The 1925 Clark-McNary Act expanded the provisions of 1911 Federal legislation creating the National Forest System (Weeks Law). It made it easier for the United States Department of Agriculture to buy land from those sellers whose property was located within the National Forest System. The act also enabled the National Forest Service to work with state officials in forest protection and reforestation efforts. From the description of Documentation relating to the acquisition of the Eas...

Lovejoy, Parrish Storrs, 1884-1942.

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Professor in the School of Natural Resources of University of Michigan. From the description of Parrish S. Lovejoy papers, 1918-1941. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 80775974 ...

Titus, Harold, 1888-1967

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Free-lance writer from Traverse City, Michigan and conservation editor of Field and Stream magazine. From the description of Harold Titus papers, 1910-1967. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34421563 Titus, born in Traverse City (Mich.) on Feb. 20, 1888, attended the University of Michigan (UM), 1907-1911. He was a World War I veteran, fruit grower, and pioneer of Michigan's conservation movement. He received an honorary MA from the UM in 1934 and the Wildlife So...

University of Michigan. School of Natural Resources

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Ruhl, H. D.

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Smits, Lee J.

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Raff, George.

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Stewart, Gilbert Ireland, 1897-

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Earle, G. Harold.

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Saunders, Carl M. (Carl Maxon), 1890-1974.

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Carl M. Saunders was born October 26, 1890 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Following graduation from high school, he began his newspaper career as a reporter for the Grand Rapids News (1909). He then moved to the Kalamazoo Telegraph-Press (1911), becoming managing editor in 1912. He was copy editor for the Detroit Free Press (1913-14). The bulk of his career was spent in Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo, Michigan. He served as editorial writer for the Grand Rapids Herald, 1915-1928, associate editor, 1928-...

Stoll, Albert, 1884-

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Allen, Shirley Walter.

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Gunia, Larry.

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Glassen, Harold W., 1906-

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Lansing, Michigan, attorney, member of the Michigan Conservation Commission, and president of the National Rifle Association. From the description of Harold W. Glassen papers, 1947-1968. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34420761 ...

Michigan. Water Resources Commission

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Stephenson, Joe, Dr.

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