Defenders of Wild Cumberland records

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

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.


Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

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


Related Materials and Subjects

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Series Descriptions and Folder Listing

 
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11DWC Organization - Business
 
12Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation
 
13Planning process, 1995
 
14Goals, 1995
 
15History, 1995
 
16Population numbers, 1995
 
17Bibliography, 1995
 
18Management Plan packets
 
19Emory University Law Clinic
 
110Jack Kingston
 
111Superintendent Art Frederick, 1999
 
112Grover Henderson
 
113O'Leary - Vehicle use
 
114Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center
 
115Mullet Wrapper
 
116Cumberland Island Museum newsletter
 
117Musgrove Conference - Sapelo Foundation
 
118Wilderness Watch
 
119The Wilderness Society
 
120W.J. Bunkley
 
121Maps, pictures
 
122Cumberland Island, Georgia - map prepared for Lucy C. Carnegie estate, 1965
 
123Superintendent Denis Davis, 1996-1999
 
124Cumberland Island Historic Foundation, Inc.
 
125National Park Service - Island meetings
 
126Cumberland Island management practices
 
127Cumberland Island - Little Cumberland Island
 
128Notes, correspondence - Cumberland - NPS
 
129Correspondence
 
130Cumberland Island - Park boundaries and jurisdiction
 
131Cumberland issues
 
132Retained rights - Shepherd Clinic - Doc Jenkins
 
133National Park Service VIP (Volunteer in Park) - Defamation on blog
 
134CARA - Conservation & Reinvestment Act
 
135Darwinism
 
136Cumberland Island - Current
 
137Rhett Lawrence
 
138General
 
139National Park Service documents
 
140Public comments - General
 
141National Park Service correspondence
 
142Cumberland Preservation Act
 
143Administration
 
144Access to North End
 
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21Defenders of Wild Cumberland
 
22Defenders of Wild Cumberland - Incorporation, 1996
 
23Defenders of Wild Cumberland - Board of Driectors meeting, 2000
 
24DWC newsletter
 
25C. Robert "Bob" Shoop
 
26Wall Street Journal - Turner Environmental Law Clinic/DWC
 
27Creative Loafing
 
28The Year in Review, 1999
 
29Town Creek
 
210Montgomery
 
211Turner Foundation proposal, 2000
 
212The Home Depot
 
213Conservation Alliance - Perception Kayak
 
214Grant proposal - Turner Foundation - Cumberland
 
215Turner Foundation grant - DWC, 1998
 
216Funding
 
217Turner Foundation - Progress report, proposal, 2000-2001
 
218Dissolution of DWC, 2003
 
219Funding and Support - Cumberland
 
220Membership
 
221Island Monthly News - Ruckdeschel, 2001
 
222Ruckdeschel
 
223Ruckdeschel and National Park Service
 
224Ownership History and Nature - Legal Battles Over Cumberland Island
 
225Correspondence, notes
 
226-27Fundraising
 
228Interview notes - Hal Wright with Kerry Gathers
 
229Cumberland Island real estate transaction - Tract 5N
 
230-32Cumberland Island National Seashore - Retained rights
 
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31Sapelo Foundation grant proposal, 1999
 
32Sapelo Foundation progress report, 1999
 
33Sapelo Foundation, 2001
 
34Sapelo Island Foundation
 
35-9Press clippings
 
310Fax cover sheets
 
311Lebensraum
 
312Cumberland Island management policies
 
313Transportation management plan
 
314Condemnation of lands for public uses
 
315National Park Service scientific collecting permits - Ruck, Shoop
 
316Fire management
 
317National Park Service permits
 
318Special Use permits
 
319Cumberland Island carrying capacity
 
320Georgia Rose property
 
321Personal watercraft
 
322Management plans - General
 
323Cumberland FOIA - Construction, retained rights
 
324-26NPS - Case incident records, 1978-2000
 
327Access - Plum Orchard and the Settlement - Minimum requirements determination
 
328Cumberland Island Wilderness - Boundary Adjustment Act, 2001
 
329Senate Bill 1462-2003 - Cherry stemming CUIS
 
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41CUIS - Bobcats
 
42Chimneys at Stafford
 
43Report of the Coastal Marsh Hammocks Advisory Council, 2002
 
44Cumberland Island exotic plant survey, 2005
 
45Chinese Tallow tree
 
46Environment - Gopher tortoises
 
47UGA Hog-Horse management plan
 
48Deer, horses study
 
49Telephone service - TDS, 2001
 
410Alberty/Henderson house project
 
411Cumberland Island wilderness planning chronology
 
412Cumberland Preservation Act correspondence
 
413Wilderness planning meeting, 1998 April
 
414Correspondence, notes with National Park Service
 
415Wilderness planning meeting, 1998 December
 
416Directory
 
417Wilderness management planning process, 1997-1998
 
418Cumberland Island - The Wilderness
 
419"Potential" Wilderness
 
420Wilderness management
 
421Wilderness management - Law reviews
 
422Wilderness management plan - Retained rights
 
423Wilderness Management Act v. Historic Preservation
 
424National Park Service strategic plan, 1997
 
425National Park Service management policios, 2001
 
426Wilderness preservation & management - NPS Res. Manual 41
 
427Wilderness management - Cumberland issues
 
428Cumberland Island Enabling Legislation
 
429Cumberland Island - NEPA
 
430Disposal of dredge materials on Cumberland Island National Seashore - Permit application, 1996
 
431Statement for Management, Basic Operations Statement - Cumberland Island National Seashore, 1990
 
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51Wilderness Management Plan - Draft, Appendix I
 
52Notes - Wildlife Management Plan
 
53General Management Plan - Cumberland Island National Seashore, 1984
 
54Land Protection Plan - Cumberland Island National Seashore, 1985
 
55National Park Service - National Seashore Environmental Impact Study, 1980
 
56Cumberland Island National Seashore - Environmental Imapct Statement, v.1, 2000
 
57Cumberland Island National Seashore - Environmental Imapct Statement, v.2, 2000
 
58Comments on draft EIS, 2001
 
59Cumberland Island National Seashore - Retained rights
 
510Cumberland Island National Seashore Committee
 
511H.R. 4713, 1981
 
512-13Pleading file - Defenders v. Babbitt, et al
 
514Wilderness Watch & Peer v. Mainella, U.S. Interior - 11th Circuit, 2004
 
515Orders - Wilderness Watch, et al v. Mainella, NPS, and Greyfield - regarding Driving in wilderness, 2003
 
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61Wilderness Watch v. Mainella - Notes, correspondence
 
62Wilderness Watch v. Mainella - Documents regarding
 
63Wilderness Watch v. Mainella - Memorandum opinion
 
64Wilderness Watch v. Mainella - Plaintiffs' Memorandum of Points and Authorities in support for a motion for prelimininary injunction
 
65Wilderness Watch v. Mainella - Plaintiffs' Memorandum of Points and Authorities in support for a motion for prelimininary injunction
 
66Wilderness Watch v. Mainella - Answer of defendant, Greyfield Inn Corp.
 
67Wilderness Watch v. Mainella - Appellants' brief, 2003
 
68Wilderness Watch v. Mainella - Litigation
 
69The Agreement - Comments by Wilderness Watch
 
610Draft environmental assessment - Special Use Permit - Greyfield Ltd.
 
611Greyfield Special Use Permit - Vehicular touring in wilderness, 2002
 
612Greyfield Limited
 
613Federal Advisory Committee Act - FACA
 
614Agreement, comments - Ruckdeschel
 
615Press - Greyfield purchase, agreement
 
616Greyfield tract
 
617Draft EA on proposed land swap between Greyfield Ltd. and NPS, 2003
 
618The agreement - Comments on withdrawal
 
619Greyfield N. tract - Purchase, reserved rights agreements
 
620Greyfield purchase and Cumberland wilderness
 
621The Agreement - Greyfield purchase
 
622The Agreement withdrawal, 1999
 
623Greyfield - financial
 
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71-2Plum Orchard
 
73Plum Orchard litigation - Memorandum of Agreement
 
74Gift of Plum Orchard
 
75Plum Orchard litigation - Motion to dismiss
 
76Plum Orchard litigation - Motion for Attorneys' fees
 
77Plum Orchard lawsuit - Pleadings - Rhett Lawrence's file (duplicates)
 
78Billing and administrative - Cumberland
 
79Plum Orchard property - Request for proposals
 
710Plum Orchard press release, 1992 February
 
711Notes - Cumberland - National Park Service
 
712Plum Orchard litigation
 
713Plum Orchard - Preliminaries and MOA
 
714Plum Orchard - Preliminaries to litigation
 
71560 Day Notice letter - ESA - Cumberland
 
716DWC board meeting, 2000
 
717Litigation, strategy - Cumberland issues
 
718Caretta Caretta research project
 
719Legal research cases - Caretta Caretta
 
720DWC v. NPS - Depredation of Sea Turtles - Planning, preliminary notes, 2000
 
721Loggerhead Turtle v. County Council of Volusia County, Florida
 
72260 Day notice letter - Loggerhead (Caretta Caretta) v. NPS, 2000
 
723Petition to NMFS to reclassify Northern and Florida panhandle sub populations of Caretta Caretta as distinct populations and endangered under sea, 2002
 
724Environment - Endangered species - Caretta Caretta recovery plan
 
725Caretta Caretta - Miscellaneous
 
726Peter Pritchard
 
727Turtle
 
728Loggerhead nesting reports - Cumberland Island
 
729Sea Turtle nesting - 2001 season - Georgia, NPS
 
730Exhibits
 
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81Cumberland Island Loggerhead Turtles
 
82Sea Turtles
 
83Widecast
 
84Sea Turtle nest monitoring
 
85Sea Turtle management
 
86-7Sea Turtles - Exhibits
 
88Caretta Caretta - Civil action, 2001
 
89Caretta Caretta - Litigation
 
810Cumberland Island endangered species
 
811Ecology of unmanaged deer herds
 
812Georgia Outdoor News - NPS - White tailed deer
 
813Expenses - Georgia Outdoor News
 
814CUIS - Whitetail deer
 
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91Deer studies, reports
 
92Ossabaw Hogs Committee - Caretta Caretta - TEDS
 
93Feral Hogs - Management, 2009
 
94Correspondence - NPS - Feral hog management, 2009
 
95Feral hog population control - Environmental assessments, 2000-2003
 
96Environment Wildlife - Feral hogs
 
97EA - Protection of Caretta Caretta from hogs, 1992
 
98Humane Society comments on hunts
 
99Hog control MOU and Outfall, 1992
 
910Hog control project request, 1993
 
911General information - Other parks
 
912Georgia Conservancy hog report
 
913Public comments
 
914Press
 
915Management plans
 
916-18Feral hogs - Research, reports
 
919Feral animal paper
 
920Feral animals on Cumberland - A project of Defenders of Wild Cumberland, 2000 November
 
921Cumberland Island feral animals
 
922CUIS - Management, planning, impacts of horses
 
923Budgets - Project planning
 
924Horse counts - Results
 
925Wild horse and burro analysis
 
926National Park Syatem - Liability for horses
 
927DWC - Horse stuff
 
928Feral horse - technical experts
 
929Feral horses
 
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101Feral horses - Research, reports
 
102Feral horses - Papers
 
103Scoping process, 1995
 
104Scoping comments - No action-don't remove
 
105Scoping comments - Manage-control-adopt
 
106Scoping comments - Remove
 
107Comments - Pro-Removal
 
108Comments - Reduce, manage herd
 
109Comments - No action
 
1010EA, alternatives, mailing list
 
1011EA compliance with other government agencies
 
1012EA - Public hearings - Brunswick and Fernandina
 
1013EA comment summaries
 
1014Comments - FWS (remove)
 
1015Comments - HSUS (manage)
 
1016Correspondence to National Park Service from public
 
1017Correspondence with Georgia Conservancy - Hillrie Quin
 
1018General - Response to complaints
 
1019EA meeting with island residents
 
1020Opinion survey forms
 
1021Cumberland Island fire management
 
1022Fire management plan - CUIS, 2004
 
1023CUIS - Willow Pond fire FOIA request
 
1024-28CUIS - Willow Pond fire FOIA materials
 
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111Scoping meeting comments, 1998
 
112Trip folder
 
113Aff'd by OCGA 12-2-1 (90 day hearing rule)
 
114Origins of beach driving dispute
 
115Research
 
116Correspondence
 
117Notes
 
118Pleadings
 
119Beach driving panel
 
1110Beach driving - Correspondence
 
1111Beach driving - Litigation
 
1112Beach driving - Wright v. Georgia Shore Protection Committee - Motion for Graves, et al for attorney fees, 2000
 
1113Factual and Procedural setting
 
1114Beach driving - Petition for hearing on rules - Public Interest Review
 
1115Beach driving - Round 2
 
1116Beach driving - Round 2 - Litigation
 
1117Margaret Graves
 
1118Beach driving - Authorizations
 
1119Beach driving - Research
 
1120Beach driving - Briefs
 
1121Cumberland Island beach driving permit

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