University of California Natural Reserve System

history & archive project

Bureau of Land Management (BLM)

This collection consists of inactive administrative and other materials generated at the NRS systemwide office. It contains a wide range of materials, including UC system and campus meeting minutes, budget, fund-raising, and financial documents, donor...View Record

This collection contains the papers of Roger Samuelson, a founding figure of the NRS. It also includes papers from other important figures in the early history of the system, including Kenneth Norris and Mildred Mathias,...View Record

This collection consists of Kenneth S. Norris's files from his involvement with the Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve (LHBC), Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center (SGM), Santa Cruz Island Reserve (SCI), and Año Nuevo Island Reserve (ANI),...View Record

This collection contains Jim Andre’s research and service materials. Andre is reserve director for the Jack and Marilyn Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center (SGM). His collection pertains to his own work, as well as...View Record

This collection encompasses the administrative records of the Jack and Marilyn Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center (SGM). Created mostly by former reserve directors Phillipe Cohen and Cindy Stead Cohen, the collection includes the ten...View Record

This collection contains administrative records, data, and documents pertaining to the Valentine Eastern Sierra Reserve's two sites—the Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory (SNARL) and Valentine Camp—which are run as a single unit affiliated with UC...View Record

This collection contains the administrative and operational records of the UC Davis (UCD) NRS Campus Office pertaining to the reserves under its purview—Quail Ridge Reserve (QRR), Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve (SCC), Jepson Prairie Reserve (JPR),...View Record

This collection contains Lloyd Tevis’s papers from his role as the first reserve director for the Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center.

This collection includes: (1) administrative documents pertaining to operations, donations, grants, National Science...View Record

This collection contains materials collected by the Boyd Deep Canyon (BDC) Reserve’s directors. It covers topics from the institutional history of BDC, to BDC's relationships with neighboring landowners, governmental, and nongovernmental agencies, to the natural...View Record

Diverse collection of administrative, operational, and historical records related to the Northern California Coast Range Preserve (NCCRP) and Angelo Coast Range Reserve.

Collection consists of: (1) maps, including property and vegetation maps of the reserve...View Record