Defenders of Wild Cumberland records

Descriptive Summary
Title: Defenders of Wild Cumberland records
Creator: Wright, Hal
Inclusive Dates: 1965-2010
Bulk Dates: 1996-2004
Language(s): English
Extent: 11 Linear Feet 11 Boxes
Collection Number: ms4441
Repository: Hargrett Library

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Collection Description

Historical Note

Defenders of Wild Cumberland was incorporated by attorneys Hal Wright and Skipper StipeMaas in 1996 as an "organization committed to monitoring, promoting, and protecting the Wilderness and biodiversity of Cumberland Island." The organization filed for dissolution in 2003.

Scope and Content

This collection contains research, litigation files, organizational correspondence and notes regarding cases and issues that effected wildlife, wilderness areas, and the environment of Cumberland Island. It includes subjects ranging from feral horses, hogs and deer to property issues with Plum Orchard and Greyfield Ltd., driving on the beach, permits, fire management, and National Seashore designation.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

[Item, box, folder], Defenders of Wild Cumberland records, ms4441, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

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Related Materials and Subjects

Subject Terms

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Series Descriptions and Folder Listing

 

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1

DWC Organization - Business

 

1

2

Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation

 

1

3

Planning process, 1995

 

1

4

Goals, 1995

 

1

5

History, 1995

 

1

6

Population numbers, 1995

 

1

7

Bibliography, 1995

 

1

8

Management Plan packets

 

1

9

Emory University Law Clinic

 

1

10

Jack Kingston

 

1

11

Superintendent Art Frederick, 1999

 

1

12

Grover Henderson

 

1

13

O'Leary - Vehicle use

 

1

14

Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center

 

1

15

Mullet Wrapper

 

1

16

Cumberland Island Museum newsletter

 

1

17

Musgrove Conference - Sapelo Foundation

 

1

18

Wilderness Watch

 

1

19

The Wilderness Society

 

1

20

W.J. Bunkley

 

1

21

Maps, pictures

 

1

22

Cumberland Island, Georgia - map prepared for Lucy C. Carnegie estate, 1965

 

1

23

Superintendent Denis Davis, 1996-1999

 

1

24

Cumberland Island Historic Foundation, Inc.

 

1

25

National Park Service - Island meetings

 

1

26

Cumberland Island management practices

 

1

27

Cumberland Island - Little Cumberland Island

 

1

28

Notes, correspondence - Cumberland - NPS

 

1

29

Correspondence

 

1

30

Cumberland Island - Park boundaries and jurisdiction

 

1

31

Cumberland issues

 

1

32

Retained rights - Shepherd Clinic - Doc Jenkins

 

1

33

National Park Service VIP (Volunteer in Park) - Defamation on blog

 

1

34

CARA - Conservation & Reinvestment Act

 

1

35

Darwinism

 

1

36

Cumberland Island - Current

 

1

37

Rhett Lawrence

 

1

38

General

 

1

39

National Park Service documents

 

1

40

Public comments - General

 

1

41

National Park Service correspondence

 

1

42

Cumberland Preservation Act

 

1

43

Administration

 

1

44

Access to North End

 

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2

1

Defenders of Wild Cumberland

 

2

2

Defenders of Wild Cumberland - Incorporation, 1996

 

2

3

Defenders of Wild Cumberland - Board of Driectors meeting, 2000

 

2

4

DWC newsletter

 

2

5

C. Robert "Bob" Shoop

 

2

6

Wall Street Journal - Turner Environmental Law Clinic/DWC

 

2

7

Creative Loafing

 

2

8

The Year in Review, 1999

 

2

9

Town Creek

 

2

10

Montgomery

 

2

11

Turner Foundation proposal, 2000

 

2

12

The Home Depot

 

2

13

Conservation Alliance - Perception Kayak

 

2

14

Grant proposal - Turner Foundation - Cumberland

 

2

15

Turner Foundation grant - DWC, 1998

 

2

16

Funding

 

2

17

Turner Foundation - Progress report, proposal, 2000-2001

 

2

18

Dissolution of DWC, 2003

 

2

19

Funding and Support - Cumberland

 

2

20

Membership

 

2

21

Island Monthly News - Ruckdeschel, 2001

 

2

22

Ruckdeschel

 

2

23

Ruckdeschel and National Park Service

 

2

24

Ownership History and Nature - Legal Battles Over Cumberland Island

 

2

25

Correspondence, notes

 

2

26-27

Fundraising

 

2

28

Interview notes - Hal Wright with Kerry Gathers

 

2

29

Cumberland Island real estate transaction - Tract 5N

 

2

30-32

Cumberland Island National Seashore - Retained rights

 

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3

1

Sapelo Foundation grant proposal, 1999

 

3

2

Sapelo Foundation progress report, 1999

 

3

3

Sapelo Foundation, 2001

 

3

4

Sapelo Island Foundation

 

3

5-9

Press clippings

 

3

10

Fax cover sheets

 

3

11

Lebensraum

 

3

12

Cumberland Island management policies

 

3

13

Transportation management plan

 

3

14

Condemnation of lands for public uses

 

3

15

National Park Service scientific collecting permits - Ruck, Shoop

 

3

16

Fire management

 

3

17

National Park Service permits

 

3

18

Special Use permits

 

3

19

Cumberland Island carrying capacity

 

3

20

Georgia Rose property

 

3

21

Personal watercraft

 

3

22

Management plans - General

 

3

23

Cumberland FOIA - Construction, retained rights

 

3

24-26

NPS - Case incident records, 1978-2000

 

3

27

Access - Plum Orchard and the Settlement - Minimum requirements determination

 

3

28

Cumberland Island Wilderness - Boundary Adjustment Act, 2001

 

3

29

Senate Bill 1462-2003 - Cherry stemming CUIS

 

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1

CUIS - Bobcats

 

4

2

Chimneys at Stafford

 

4

3

Report of the Coastal Marsh Hammocks Advisory Council, 2002

 

4

4

Cumberland Island exotic plant survey, 2005

 

4

5

Chinese Tallow tree

 

4

6

Environment - Gopher tortoises

 

4

7

UGA Hog-Horse management plan

 

4

8

Deer, horses study

 

4

9

Telephone service - TDS, 2001

 

4

10

Alberty/Henderson house project

 

4

11

Cumberland Island wilderness planning chronology

 

4

12

Cumberland Preservation Act correspondence

 

4

13

Wilderness planning meeting, 1998 April

 

4

14

Correspondence, notes with National Park Service

 

4

15

Wilderness planning meeting, 1998 December

 

4

16

Directory

 

4

17

Wilderness management planning process, 1997-1998

 

4

18

Cumberland Island - The Wilderness

 

4

19

"Potential" Wilderness

 

4

20

Wilderness management

 

4

21

Wilderness management - Law reviews

 

4

22

Wilderness management plan - Retained rights

 

4

23

Wilderness Management Act v. Historic Preservation

 

4

24

National Park Service strategic plan, 1997

 

4

25

National Park Service management policios, 2001

 

4

26

Wilderness preservation & management - NPS Res. Manual 41

 

4

27

Wilderness management - Cumberland issues

 

4

28

Cumberland Island Enabling Legislation

 

4

29

Cumberland Island - NEPA

 

4

30

Disposal of dredge materials on Cumberland Island National Seashore - Permit application, 1996

 

4

31

Statement for Management, Basic Operations Statement - Cumberland Island National Seashore, 1990

 

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5

1

Wilderness Management Plan - Draft, Appendix I

 

5

2

Notes - Wildlife Management Plan

 

5

3

General Management Plan - Cumberland Island National Seashore, 1984

 

5

4

Land Protection Plan - Cumberland Island National Seashore, 1985

 

5

5

National Park Service - National Seashore Environmental Impact Study, 1980

 

5

6

Cumberland Island National Seashore - Environmental Imapct Statement, v.1, 2000

 

5

7

Cumberland Island National Seashore - Environmental Imapct Statement, v.2, 2000

 

5

8

Comments on draft EIS, 2001

 

5

9

Cumberland Island National Seashore - Retained rights

 

5

10

Cumberland Island National Seashore Committee

 

5

11

H.R. 4713, 1981

 

5

12-13

Pleading file - Defenders v. Babbitt, et al

 

5

14

Wilderness Watch & Peer v. Mainella, U.S. Interior - 11th Circuit, 2004

 

5

15

Orders - Wilderness Watch, et al v. Mainella, NPS, and Greyfield - regarding Driving in wilderness, 2003

 

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Wilderness Watch v. Mainella - Notes, correspondence

 

6

2

Wilderness Watch v. Mainella - Documents regarding

 

6

3

Wilderness Watch v. Mainella - Memorandum opinion

 

6

4

Wilderness Watch v. Mainella - Plaintiffs' Memorandum of Points and Authorities in support for a motion for prelimininary injunction

 

6

5

Wilderness Watch v. Mainella - Plaintiffs' Memorandum of Points and Authorities in support for a motion for prelimininary injunction

 

6

6

Wilderness Watch v. Mainella - Answer of defendant, Greyfield Inn Corp.

 

6

7

Wilderness Watch v. Mainella - Appellants' brief, 2003

 

6

8

Wilderness Watch v. Mainella - Litigation

 

6

9

The Agreement - Comments by Wilderness Watch

 

6

10

Draft environmental assessment - Special Use Permit - Greyfield Ltd.

 

6

11

Greyfield Special Use Permit - Vehicular touring in wilderness, 2002

 

6

12

Greyfield Limited

 

6

13

Federal Advisory Committee Act - FACA

 

6

14

Agreement, comments - Ruckdeschel

 

6

15

Press - Greyfield purchase, agreement

 

6

16

Greyfield tract

 

6

17

Draft EA on proposed land swap between Greyfield Ltd. and NPS, 2003

 

6

18

The agreement - Comments on withdrawal

 

6

19

Greyfield N. tract - Purchase, reserved rights agreements

 

6

20

Greyfield purchase and Cumberland wilderness

 

6

21

The Agreement - Greyfield purchase

 

6

22

The Agreement withdrawal, 1999

 

6

23

Greyfield - financial

 

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Plum Orchard

 

7

3

Plum Orchard litigation - Memorandum of Agreement

 

7

4

Gift of Plum Orchard

 

7

5

Plum Orchard litigation - Motion to dismiss

 

7

6

Plum Orchard litigation - Motion for Attorneys' fees

 

7

7

Plum Orchard lawsuit - Pleadings - Rhett Lawrence's file (duplicates)

 

7

8

Billing and administrative - Cumberland

 

7

9

Plum Orchard property - Request for proposals

 

7

10

Plum Orchard press release, 1992 February

 

7

11

Notes - Cumberland - National Park Service

 

7

12

Plum Orchard litigation

 

7

13

Plum Orchard - Preliminaries and MOA

 

7

14

Plum Orchard - Preliminaries to litigation

 

7

15

60 Day Notice letter - ESA - Cumberland

 

7

16

DWC board meeting, 2000

 

7

17

Litigation, strategy - Cumberland issues

 

7

18

Caretta Caretta research project

 

7

19

Legal research cases - Caretta Caretta

 

7

20

DWC v. NPS - Depredation of Sea Turtles - Planning, preliminary notes, 2000

 

7

21

Loggerhead Turtle v. County Council of Volusia County, Florida

 

7

22

60 Day notice letter - Loggerhead (Caretta Caretta) v. NPS, 2000

 

7

23

Petition to NMFS to reclassify Northern and Florida panhandle sub populations of Caretta Caretta as distinct populations and endangered under sea, 2002

 

7

24

Environment - Endangered species - Caretta Caretta recovery plan

 

7

25

Caretta Caretta - Miscellaneous

 

7

26

Peter Pritchard

 

7

27

Turtle

 

7

28

Loggerhead nesting reports - Cumberland Island

 

7

29

Sea Turtle nesting - 2001 season - Georgia, NPS

 

7

30

Exhibits

 

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Cumberland Island Loggerhead Turtles

 

8

2

Sea Turtles

 

8

3

Widecast

 

8

4

Sea Turtle nest monitoring

 

8

5

Sea Turtle management

 

8

6-7

Sea Turtles - Exhibits

 

8

8

Caretta Caretta - Civil action, 2001

 

8

9

Caretta Caretta - Litigation

 

8

10

Cumberland Island endangered species

 

8

11

Ecology of unmanaged deer herds

 

8

12

Georgia Outdoor News - NPS - White tailed deer

 

8

13

Expenses - Georgia Outdoor News

 

8

14

CUIS - Whitetail deer

 

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1

Deer studies, reports

 

9

2

Ossabaw Hogs Committee - Caretta Caretta - TEDS

 

9

3

Feral Hogs - Management, 2009

 

9

4

Correspondence - NPS - Feral hog management, 2009

 

9

5

Feral hog population control - Environmental assessments, 2000-2003

 

9

6

Environment Wildlife - Feral hogs

 

9

7

EA - Protection of Caretta Caretta from hogs, 1992

 

9

8

Humane Society comments on hunts

 

9

9

Hog control MOU and Outfall, 1992

 

9

10

Hog control project request, 1993

 

9

11

General information - Other parks

 

9

12

Georgia Conservancy hog report

 

9

13

Public comments

 

9

14

Press

 

9

15

Management plans

 

9

16-18

Feral hogs - Research, reports

 

9

19

Feral animal paper

 

9

20

Feral animals on Cumberland - A project of Defenders of Wild Cumberland, 2000 November

 

9

21

Cumberland Island feral animals

 

9

22

CUIS - Management, planning, impacts of horses

 

9

23

Budgets - Project planning

 

9

24

Horse counts - Results

 

9

25

Wild horse and burro analysis

 

9

26

National Park Syatem - Liability for horses

 

9

27

DWC - Horse stuff

 

9

28

Feral horse - technical experts

 

9

29

Feral horses

 

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Feral horses - Research, reports

 

10

2

Feral horses - Papers

 

10

3

Scoping process, 1995

 

10

4

Scoping comments - No action-don't remove

 

10

5

Scoping comments - Manage-control-adopt

 

10

6

Scoping comments - Remove

 

10

7

Comments - Pro-Removal

 

10

8

Comments - Reduce, manage herd

 

10

9

Comments - No action

 

10

10

EA, alternatives, mailing list

 

10

11

EA compliance with other government agencies

 

10

12

EA - Public hearings - Brunswick and Fernandina

 

10

13

EA comment summaries

 

10

14

Comments - FWS (remove)

 

10

15

Comments - HSUS (manage)

 

10

16

Correspondence to National Park Service from public

 

10

17

Correspondence with Georgia Conservancy - Hillrie Quin

 

10

18

General - Response to complaints

 

10

19

EA meeting with island residents

 

10

20

Opinion survey forms

 

10

21

Cumberland Island fire management

 

10

22

Fire management plan - CUIS, 2004

 

10

23

CUIS - Willow Pond fire FOIA request

 

10

24-28

CUIS - Willow Pond fire FOIA materials

 

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1

Scoping meeting comments, 1998

 

11

2

Trip folder

 

11

3

Aff'd by OCGA 12-2-1 (90 day hearing rule)

 

11

4

Origins of beach driving dispute

 

11

5

Research

 

11

6

Correspondence

 

11

7

Notes

 

11

8

Pleadings

 

11

9

Beach driving panel

 

11

10

Beach driving - Correspondence

 

11

11

Beach driving - Litigation

 

11

12

Beach driving - Wright v. Georgia Shore Protection Committee - Motion for Graves, et al for attorney fees, 2000

 

11

13

Factual and Procedural setting

 

11

14

Beach driving - Petition for hearing on rules - Public Interest Review

 

11

15

Beach driving - Round 2

 

11

16

Beach driving - Round 2 - Litigation

 

11

17

Margaret Graves

 

11

18

Beach driving - Authorizations

 

11

19

Beach driving - Research

 

11

20

Beach driving - Briefs

 

11

21

Cumberland Island beach driving permit