Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries
Preliminary Guide to the Society for Range Management, Pacific Northwest Chapter Records
1950-2000
MSSM.012
Table of Contents
Summary Information
- Repository
- Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries
- Source
- Society for Range Management. PNW Section Society for Range Management. PNW Section
- Title
- Preliminary Guide to the Society for Range Management, Pacific Northwest Chapter, records
- ID
- MSSM.012
- Date [inclusive]
- 1950-2000
- Extent
- 8 linear feet, 8 boxes.
- Location
- (MASC Staff Use: MS.1992.57: 2-9-16-7; MS.1993.54: 2-7-17-5; MS.1994.58: 2-2-4-6; MS.1996.01: 2-2-5-6; MS.2004.07: 2-14-7-1; MS.2012.09: 2-14-15-1)
- Language
- Collection materials are in English.
- Language
- Materials are in English.
- Abstract
- This collection includes papers and materials for the Pacific Northwest section of the Society for Range Management (SRM), from 1950 to 2000.
Biography/History
The American Society for Range Management was officially formed in 1948 (named changed to Society for Range Management or SRM in 1970) to provide educational services to promote a better understanding of rangeland stewardship to its members and the public. The Pacific Northwest Chapter of the SRM was approved in 1949.
Scope and Content
This collection includes papers and materials for the Pacific Northwest section of the Society for Range Management (SRM), from 1950 to 2000. It consists of meeting minutes, council records, and reports for the planning committee, professional affairs committee, curriculum committee, student affairs committee, and public affairs committee, individual chapters' by-laws, copies of the Article of Incorporation, as well as financial records including: bank statements, audit reports, accounting ledgers, and cancelled checks. The collection also contains papers pertaining to youth camps and programs, land planning commissions, exhibits and displays, range land research, fundraising events, membership directories, and a technology park. Additionally, the collection includes: a journal, booklets, maps, and photographs concerning the SRM summer range tours, SRM handbooks, their newsletter "The Trail Boss", incoming and outgoing correspondence, as well as projector slides and several maps of the Pacific Northwest showing land use, locations of rangeland, potential native vegetation, miscellaneous posters, and maps for the Washington Range Land Assessment.
Arrangement
This is an unprocessed collection. Any arrangement reflects either a pre-existing order from the records' creators or previous custodians, or preliminary sorting performed by staff.
Preliminary inventory:
[Materials in MS.1992.57]
Meeting minutes
Council records
Reports for: the planning committee, the professional affairs committee, the curriculum committee, the student affairs committee, and the public affairs committee
Newsletters
Correspondence
SRM handbooks
Membership lists
Range tours
Financial records
Individual chapters' by-laws
Copies of Article of Incorporation
Papers pertaining to exhibits and displays
[Materials in MS.1993.54]
A journal, booklets, maps, and photographs of range tours
American Society of Range Management handbooks Incoming and outgoing correspondence
Newsletters "The Trail Boss"
Meeting minutes
Committee reports
Membership lists
Financial records
Papers pertaining to youth camps and programs, land planning commissions, range land research, fundraising events, and a technology park
Photographs: slides of rangelands in the Pacific Northwest
[Materials in MS.1994.58]
Meeting minutes
Financial records
[Materials in MS.1996.01]
Committee reports
Newsletters
Correspondence
Papers pertaining to range land research, fundraising events, and a technology park
Membership directories
[Materials in MS.2004.07]
Several maps addressing land use, locations of rangeland, potential native vegetation, as well as maps for the Washington Range Land Assessment, and miscellaneous posters
[Materials in MS.2012.09]
One binder of documents related to chapter governance and operations (articles of incorporation, by-laws, treasurer's book, etc.), and two files on HB 1309.
Administrative Information
Publication Information
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries
http://www.libraries.wsu.edu/masc/
Terrell Library
P.O. Box 645610
Pullman, WA, 99164-5610 USA
509-335-6691
mascref@wsu.edu
Restrictions on Access
This collection is open and available for research use.
Acquisition Information
These materials were donated to the Washington State University Libraries in multiple installments by the Society for Range Management, Grant Harris, and Linda Hardesty with the Department of Nature Resource Science at WSU beginning in 1992 (MS.1992.57, MS.1993.54, MS.19954.58, MS.1996.01, MS.2004.07, MS.2012.09).
Names and Subjects
Corporate Name(s)
Fmo(s) :
- Society for Range Management. PNW Section
Subject(s)
- Grazing
- Ecology
- Agriculture--Washington (State)
- Range management
- Agriculture