Folder 1: Correspondence and other Conservation Groups, 1961-1970

- 1961 A Serious Analysis of the Delaware River Basin Compact (Authorized by Congress 1961) by Nancy Shukaitis - 1965 March 8 80th Congress 1st Session S. 1446 A BILL to reserve public lands for a National Wild Rivers System - 1965 April from Mrs. Fred Egger to Wayne B. Aspinall, Ralph Rivers RE: Tocks Island National Recreation Area proposal 1965 April 12 from Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs U.S. House of Representatives TOCKS ISLAND HEARING SLATED BY HOUSE COMMITTEE - 1965 April 19 [letterhead] Congress of the United States House of Representatives - Ralph J. Rivers to Mrs. Frederick W. Egger RE: schedule to testify at hearing on Tocks Island National Recreation Area proposal - 1965 April 19 [letterhead] congress of the United States House of Representatives - Richard L. Ottinger to Mrs. Eleanor Egger - Scarsdale, New York RE: Hudson Highlands National Scenic Riverway Bill (enclosed) - 1965 May 3 Congressional Record 89th Congress 1st Session - The Hudson: A River In Peril: Excerpt from speech by Hon. Richard L. Ottinger, Hon. Robert F. Kennedy, Hon. Jacob K. Javits - 1965 May 19 [letterhead] U.S. Dept of the Interior to Mrs, Eleanor Egger RE: mandatory Public hearings wherever private land is required by the Dept. of the Interior for Recreational purposes - 1965 June 6 Rockefeller Plan: Nation’s Biggest Park - Hudson River Valley Scenic and Historic Corridor New York Herald Tribune - 1965 July 1 [letterhead] Congress of the United States - Richard L Ottinger RE: hearings Of National Parks and Recreation Subcommittee - Hudson River Valley - 1967? Feb-March Supreme Court Refuses to hear DVCA Suit: Gov’t Can’t be Sued Against Will The Landowners Trying Times, American Landowners Association - 1967 April-May Condemnation for Park Opposed - Potomac Basin Park The Landowners Trying Times - 1967? Nov-Dec-Jan Draft Compact Widely Criticised = Potomac River Basin Compact The Landowners Trying Times - 1969 May 24 from American Landowners Association - Charles ?(P. Thompson) to Mrs. Egger RE: desire to meet with a Congressman and discuss her queries [handwritten note],envelope, Statement of Charles P. Thompson, American Landowners Association - 1970 April 13 from Delaware Valley Conservation Assn., Inc. to the Governors of Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and Delaware and other worthy officials Concerned with the environment and sound investment in the future - 1970 April 30 Congressional Record 91st Congress, 2nd Session - Address by Senator Gravel, at University of Wisconsin entitled “Radiation” the Ultimate Pollution - 1970 May 13 from Lenni Lenape League - Glenn Fisher to Mr. Fred Egger RE: Pilgrimage Sunfish Pond May 30 and 31, 1970 - 1970 May 15 Fred S. Burroughs - North Jersey Chapter Trout Unlimited Statement Before the Appropriations Subcommittee on Public Works of the United States Senate Regarding Proposed Construction of the Tocks Island Reservoir - 1970 June Irreparable Environmental Consequences Seen in Proposed Tocks Island Dam by Fred S. Burroughs The Sportsmen’s Newsletter - 1970 August 3 from Wendy Mazer RE: persons concerned with environmental arising From proposed pumped storage project at the Tocks Island Dam - 1970 August SCIENCE VERSUS ATOMIC ENERGY Dr. Edward H. Teller interview With CBS News - 1970 November Into the Clearing - Corps of Engineers enemy of conservationists Camping Journal - ???? TOCKS ISLAND NATIONAL RECREATION AREA four bills pending Congressional action: Fred B. Rooney, H.R. 688; John P. Saylor, H.R. 542; Frank Thompson, Jr., William B. Widnell H.R. 5500 and late Francis E. Walter - ???? [2 bumper sticker] NIX ON TOCKS … join the Delaware Valley Conservation Assn. - ???? [brochure] THE NEW CONSERVATION The Wilderness Society