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Editor - Glen Collins - glendone@aol.com

In 1993, the Public Lands Foundation established an Archives to be a permanent repository for documents and materials related to the history of the BLM, its employees and the management of the public lands of the United States. This PLF Archives is located at the BLM's National Training Center, and is managed by the Phoenix Chapter of the Public Lands Foundation.

The PLF Archives contains a growing collection of books, papers, photographs, BLM and DOI publications, personal recollections, video and audio interviews with BLM retirees, PLF generated documents, and other historical memorabilia that have been donated by retirees and their families or obtained from BLM offices.

The PLF recognizes that the BLM's "official" records are kept in the National Archives and in legislative files, and that many articles and books have been written on the history of the agency. What was lacking was the means to collect and store the individual personal involvement in, and perspectives of, BLM's history; background information on how past public land policies and programs were implemented; and how they contributed to the resource controversies that BLM deals with today and in the future. The purpose of the PLF Archives is to capture these experiences and memories. The Archives was established to store and make the collected information available to BLMers, public land historians and others.

If you are interested in contributing to or utilizing the Archives, contact PLF Archives, c/o BLM National Training Center, 9828 North 31st Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85015-2517, or Archives Manager Glen Collins at glendone@aol.com. Copies of Archives materials will be provided upon request. There may be a charge to defray the cost of reproduction and mailing. A fee of $25 per hour will be charged for reproducing large numbers of copies. If you like the work we are doing in the PLF Archives and want to help support the project, tax deductable financial donations to help pay for filing cabinets and other supplies may be sent to the PLF Archives at the address listed above

The lists of materials in the PLF Archives is displayed in a 0000 to 9000 Subject Code system that is patterned after the BLM subject/function filing system. Historical materials are listed in the following major groupings:

0000 series: Public Lands Foundation history, by-laws, publications, policies, awards, conferences, etc. materials.

1000 series: BLM publications, administrative, personnel, planning, programing, budgeting, etc. materials.

1700 series: BLM history and personal recollections of retirees.

2000 series: Lands program materials.

3000 series: Minerals program materials.

4100 series: Grazing program materials.

4700 series: Wild Horse and Burro program materials.

5000 series: Forestry program materials.

6000 series: Wildlife and Fisheries program materials.

6800 series: Threatened and Endangered program materials.

7000 series: Soil, Water and Air program materials.

8000 series: Recreation Management program materials.

9000 series: Technical Resource programs - Engineering, Fire, Trespass, Law Enforcement, Appraisal, Aviation, and Cadastral Survey program materials.

Click on these headings to view the list of Archives materials in each of these categories. The information about each item contains the Subject Code and Subject Name; the Archives Material Title which describes the item; the media (paper, print, photo, etc); the State involved, or "BW" for bureau-wide; the date of the material, if known; and the PLF Archives File Number in the last column. Requests to review or obtain copies of PLF Archives materials should cite the PLF Archives File Number.

0000-PUBLIC LANDS FOUNDATION (PLF)

0100-PLF Charter/Bylaws

0200-PLF History

0300-PLF Membership and BLM Retiree Registers

0400-PLF "THE PUBLIC LANDS MONITOR"

0510-PLF Position Statements

0520-PLF Advocacy Statements

0600-PLF National Meetings

0700-PLF BLM Remembers

0800-PLF Awards

0900-PLF General

1000-BLM GENERAL MANAGEMENT