University of California Natural Reserve System

history & archive project

Printed Photographs

This collection consists of slide photographs from the Jack and Marilyn Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center (SGM). Most slides are undated and uncredited, but significant portions are attributed to Jim Andre, Richard Norris, D. Lee, Teresa...View Record

This collection contains slide and print photographs of 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 through UCSB. Most of the...View Record

This collection consists of historical materials pertaining to Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve. It includes three series:

The Pre-Natural Reserve System Materials series includes: (1) materials from or about the donor Ethel Stunt (d....View Record

This collection consists of legal documents related to the ownership and use of what is now the Sedgwick Ranch Reserve, from the 1850s through 2006.

This collection includes four series:

The Administrative Records series includes...View Record

This collection consists of administrative documents for the Motte Rimrock Reserve and its satellites: the Box Springs and Emerson Oaks reserves. Created mainly by reserve director Barbara Carlson with some later additions, this collection includes...View Record

This collection consists of maps and other large format documents pertaining to the Frances Simes Hastings Natural History Reservation, including: (1) architectural drawings from 1968-2003, (2) aerial Photos from 1949-95, (3) vegetation from 1941 and topographic maps from 1969,...View Record

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...View Record

This collection contains administrative and management files for the Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve (LHBC). It includes subject files, legal documents and Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs), clippings, scientific data, reference files pertaining to reserve operations, photographs,...View Record

This collection, created by former reserve director John Smiley, contains administrative files for the Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve (LHBC). These include correspondence, reference materials, reprints, data, and reserve use waivers. These files provide insight into...View Record

This collection documents the history of the Desert Club—the current site of the Steele/Burnand Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center—from its founding in 1950 as a country club through several phases of ownership and use before it joined...View Record