University of California Natural Reserve System

history & archive project

Hastings Management Collection

Abstract

This collection consists of administrative records for the Frances Simes Hastings Natural History Reservation, the oldest UC natural reserve. Due to the volume of the collection, it has been broken down into series based largely on physical location at the site (this tends also to correspond roughly to chronology and authorship).

The Administrative and Management I series includes: (1) advisory committee records from 1971-90, (2) operations records including facilities, equipment, purchasing, (3) article reprints, (4) records pertaining to research administration, (5) reports created by reserve manager and caretaker Jean M. Linsdale, and (6) historical accounts of the area from 1893 and 1904.

The Data and Research I series includes: (1) datasets with handwritten notes and cover sheets by researchers, compiled from 1963-2005), the largest of which includes grazing data from 1963-78, (2) species lists, (3) a file on mammals including monitoring reports, hand drawn graphs, and collection data from 1946, (4) research files created by resident researcher James Griffin from 1982-92, (5) species subject files, including notes and correspondence, from 1938-45, (6) temperature and precipitation data from 1939-95), Jamesburg weather data from 1928-39, and vegetation data collected by Mark Stromberg and Keith L. White.

The Administrative and Management II series includes: (1) records from education programs including “Hands On for School Teachers,” (2) files pertaining to reserve policy, events, fundraising, manager's meetings, reserve committees, and neighboring properties, (3) historical materials related to Fanny Arnold, Frances Hastings’s daughter, (4) files related to the Coast Ranges Oak Woodland Network research project, (5) records related to Hastings’s consideration for inclusion in the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Program in 1988, (5) annual reports and associated materials including collated user data, (6) files related to the California Native Grass Association and Organization of Biological Field Stations from 2002, (7) information on GIS projects at Hastings, (8) restoration projects, and (9) waives from 1993-2013.

The Administrative and Management III series includes information on facilities, roads, equipment and vehicles, personnel and volunteers, budgets, purchasing, clippings, environmental health and safety, fires, land acquisitions, and a series of Hastings’s annual reports. Of special note are: (1) a file on trespassing from 1973-80s, (2) a Hastings management plan from 1985, (3) historical documents reprinted from Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ) collections, including Jean Linsdale’s reports on the Hastings Reservation from the 1940s-60s.

The Data and Research II series includes: (1) researcher files including unaccepted proposals, (2) publications lists and use statistics, (3) correspondence, and (4) James Griffin's original vegetation and plot data. Files also include some correspondence about research projects, maps, photographs of the plots, and species lists, mostly from 1974-90.

The Administrative and Management IV series includes: (1) files on OBFS membership from 1982-2010 including meeting information, memos, and newsletters, (2) reference information on neighboring properties including correspondence with neighboring landowners, BLM land issues, and a use agreement with Oak Ridge Ranch, (3) historical file with information on Hastings administration and the reserve’s relationships with the UC and MVZ, (4) information on HNH open houses, (5) copies of permits for species collections, (6) information on reserve boundaries and acquisitions.

Location: Where to Find It

Reserve Manager's Office

Creators/Contributors

Dates

1938 to 2013

Types

Arrangement

Subject and alphabetical

Physical Description

25.5 linear feet of documents in 5 filing cabinets