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Correspondence, clippings, videotape (1977-1985)
Manuscript Collection 560
About
the Arkansas Wilderness Act
Don
Hamilton, a Little Rock attorney, has served on the Board of
Directors of the Arkansas Wildlife Federation since 1981. He
is also a member of the Wilderness Steering Committee, which
is involved with the management of the wilderness areas in Arkansas's
two national forests. In 1977, Hamilton and the Arkansas Wildlife
Federation actively pursued the preservation of wilderness areas
within Arkansas national forests. In 1983, Dale Bumpers and
David Pryor proposed the Arkansas Wilderness Act which required
that certain undeveloped national forest lands in the Ouachita
and Ozark - St. Francis National Forests be preserved as wilderness
areas. The Arkansas Wilderness Act became law in 1984.
About
the Collection
The
papers consist of correspondence, policy studies, newspaper
clippings and a videotape pertaining to the passage of the
Arkansas Wilderness Act of 1984. Mr. Hamilton bound much of
the material together into volumes. These volumes consist
mostly of correspondence to and from Mr. Hamilton as well
as other individuals involved with the passage of the Arkansas
Wilderness Act. Volumes 5-6, R.A.R.E., consist of papers pertaining
to Roadless Area Review Evaluations.
The U.S. Forest Service conducts these studies prior to designating
forest lands as wilderness areas.
Don Hamilton, of Little Rock, Arkansas, donated papers pertaining
to the Arkansas Wilderness Act of 1984 to the University of
Arkansas on July 29, 1986.
Processed by Anthony J. Wappel, Special Collections, University
of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, Arkansas, in September
1988.
Contents
of the Collection - 2
boxes (243 items + 6 volumes)
Box
1
1. Newspaper clippings, 1979-1982.
2. Newspaper clippings, 1983.
3. Newspaper clippings, 1984-1985.
4. Paper entitled "How Congress Came to Designate Wilderness
Areas in Arkansas," 1986.
5. VHS videocassette containing:
1)
Congressman Ed Bethune's speech in the U.S. House of Representatives
regarding his Arkansas Wilderness Bill given in October 1983.
2) Passage of the Arkansas Wilderness Act of 1984 in the U.S.
House of Representatives in October 1984.
3) Channel 4 (Little Rock) coverage of Senator Bumpers's award
by the Arkansas Conservation Coalition in February 1985.
4) Channel 11 (Little Rock) coverage of Senator Bumpers's
award by the Arkansas Conservation Coalition in February 1985.
Box 2
Volume 1. Arkansas Wilderness Act, Jan 1983 - Jun 1983.
Volume 2. Arkansas Wilderness Act, Jul 1983 - Dec 1983.
Volume 3. Arkansas Wilderness Act, Jan 1984 - Dec 1984.
Volume 4. Arkansas Conservation Coalition Wilderness Study
Task Force Report, March 1982.
Volume 5. R.A.R.E. II, 1977-1981.
Volume 6. R.A.R.E. II, 1982.
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