ANRA. Agriculture and Natural Resources

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Robert R. Owen served as president of Great Western Sugar Company (GWS) from 1968 to 1975. He was instrumental in the formation of the cooperative which tried to buy out the company in the mid-1970s. The collection includes personal and working papers, daily desk notes, scrapbooks, numerous publications related to sugar production, photographs, and artifacts from Owen's personal life and his time with GWS.

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Memoranda, plans, publications, and reports related to National Park Service management.

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Brochures, correspondence, and publications related to the Forest and Range Experiment Station, as well as the United Campgounds near Mesa Verde

Abstract Warren H. Leonard (1900-1966), a professor of agronomy from 1929 to 1966 at the land-grant college that became Colorado State University, published numerous scholarly papers and co-authored three major textbooks on cereal crops, field plot techniques, and field crop production. During World War II, Leonard served on General Douglas MacArthur's staff as Chief of the Agriculture Division, Natural Resources Section, General Headquarters in Tokyo, Japan. He later worked with the Japanese land...

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Eugene Ammon Hancock (1886-1967) worked as the managing editor of the Fort Collins Express-Courier (now the Coloradoan) from 1920 until 1935. After his retirement from the publishing business, Hancock opened Hancock Studios in Loveland and continued working as a professional photographer. This collection consists of nineteen photographs of sugar beet fields and factories, train boxcars, and factory workers loading bags of sugar.

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Sherri Mabe is a photographer residing in the Colorado Springs area. This collection consists of one CD of 60 digital photographs related to the Black Forest and Waldo Canyon forest fires.

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Materials donated by several individuals with connections to CSU's Mountain Campus form this collection. Current and retired faculty of the Warner College of Natural Resources provided historical photographs, oral history transcripts, articles, clippings, publications, student projects, DVDs and floppy disks, and audio and video cassette tapes. Facilities personnel added grant proposals, drawings, and project plans for the historic restoration of numerous buildings.

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Material Subject Matter: Boulder County Extension, Colorado Extension Homemakers Council, Colorado County Agents Association; Material Types: Clippings, Photographs, Reports, Scrapbooks

Abstract For nearly a century, the Colorado Cooperative Extension has served as the agricultural and home management outreach arm of Colorado State University, a land-grant institution, by bringing the results of university research to rural populations. The organization has its roots in early farmers' institutes conducted off-campus starting in 1879. The passage of the Smith-Lever Act in 1914 officially established Extension as a cooperative effort between the USDA, land-grant institutions, and...

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This collection includes annual reports, bulletins, clippings, enrollment records, plans of work, and scrapbooks related to the activities of the Logan County Extension office (4-H, agriculture, and homemaking).

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Annual reports, Club work files, minutes, publications, and scrapbooks related to Extension and 4-H work in Montezuma County, Colorado.

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This collection consists of non-current records and publications pertaining to rangeland and natural resources, family and consumer sciences, Pueblo County Extension and 4-H.

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The collection includes correspondence, meeting minutes, publications, and a USB drive related to the activities of the Association of National Park Rangers.

Abstract The Colorado 4-H, an educational program of the Colorado Extension, is Colorado State University's youth outreach in agriculture, mechanic arts, and home economics. The Colorado 4-H manages events, members, leaders, and agents of the National 4-H program in Colorado. This collection contains documents and artifacts from the 4-H office of Colorado Extension, including meeting minutes, newsletters, reports, site and program planning documents, reference documents, pamphlets and booklets,...

Abstract The Agricultural Experiment Station was established as the original research component of Colorado's land-grant college. Even before classes began at Fort Collins in 1879, experimental research had been instituted on a college farm. The federal Hatch Act, passed in 1887, became effective in Colorado a year later. Funding enabled the college to establish regional substations, thereby allowing it to address distinctive local problems. This collection includes project records, reports, office...

Abstract The Colorado Beekeepers Association (also known more recently as the Colorado State Beekeepers Association) was organized in 1938 and has provided information and resources for commercial beekeepers as well as hobbyists. To support better beekeeping methods and a more unified system of apiculture in the state, the association invited local and national experts to speak at annual association meetings, promoted legislation related to apiary inspections and honey marketing, and cooperated with...

Abstract The Colorado Cattle Feeders Association was established in 1955 to gather, analyze, and distribute facts relative to the cattle feeding business. The Colorado Cattle Feeders Association's goals were to maintain the cattle industry on a sound economic footing through research, promotion, and education. In 1998, the Association was restructured and became the Colorado Livestock Association (CLA). The collection files include committee reports, correspondence, minutes, news releases, and...

Abstract Collaborating with the National Cattlemen's Beef Association and the Colorado Beef Council as well as county and local affiliates, the Colorado Cattlemen's Association (CCA) works with state and national legislators, media representatives, and consumers to protect and promote the Colorado cattle industry. Standing committees formed after a 1950 reorganization represent member interests including transportation, water and grazing rights, taxes, branding and registration, livestock health,...

Abstract The Colorado Extension Homemakers Council is active in programs to provide education to rural Coloradans about nutrition, home furnishings, clothing, home management, and home budget formation. It was established in 1932 as the Colorado Home Demonstration Council. The name was changed in 1964 to the Colorado Extension Homemakers Council, in accordance with the name change of the national organization. The collection includes awards, publications, newspaper clippings, photographs, programs,...

Abstract The Colorado Flower Growers Association was founded in 1928 to support the production and marketing of greenhouse flowers grown commercially in the state. In 1979 the organization changed its name to the Colorado Greenhouse Growers Association to reflect the increasing diversification of the industry. The Colorado Greenhouse Growers Association merged with the Colorado Nursery Association in 2005 to form the Colorado Nursery & Greenhouse Association. The collection consists of documents...