Guide to the Charles E. Little Papers, 1975-1990

Collection Number MC 214

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Collection Information
Abstract:

A former advertising executive, Charles Little became a writer and advocate for land conservation and community planning. His writings include books, published papers, and articles all of which have had significant impact on conservation policies of federal, state, and local governments. The collection includes chapter by chapter typeset drafts of Little's "Greenways for America" (1990) and research files and background materials regarding greenway projects across the nation. The latter files contain reports, plans, drawings, maps, assessments, and pamphlets documenting various conservation projects, especially greenway projects. This material was deposited with the Univerisity Archives to serve as the basis for a national greenway archive.

Contact Information:
Processed by
Jane V. Charles
Date Completed
June 1999
Encoded by
Nancy J. Kaiser; Katherine M. Wisser

Descriptive Summary

Creator

Little, Charles E.

Title

The Charles E. Little Collection, 1975-1990

Call Number

MC 214

Extent

18 archival boxes , 8 Linear Feet

Location

For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Special Collections Research Center Reference Staff.

Information for Users

Restrictions to Access

This collection is open for research; access requires at least 24 hours advance notice.
Acquisitions Information

Gift of Charles E. Little through George F. Thompson, editor for Johns Hopkins University Press: February 28, 1991.
Preferred Citation

[Identification of Item], Charles E. Little Collection, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Copyright Notice

North Carolina State University does not own copyright to this collection. Individuals obtaining materials from the NCSU Libraries' Special Collections Research Center are responsible for using the works in conformance with United States copyright law as well as any donor restrictions accompanying the materials.

Biographical and Historical Note


Charles E. Little, a native Californian, attended Wesleyan University in 1955, and served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Although he began his career as an advertising executive in New York City, Little decided in his mid-thirties to resign from advertising to become a full-time environmental activist, author, journalist, and policy analyst. Since then he has helped pass both federal and state legislation on open space, parks, and agricultural land preservation. He has also held several research and management positions in non-profit organizations and government agencies. These include: executive director of the Open Space Institute in New York, senior associate at the Conservation Foundation in Washington D.C., and head of natural resources policy at the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress. In 1978, Little established and became president of the American Land Forum in order to develop policy on land conservation.

Little has written a number of books and magazine articles that have led to numerous changes in conservation policy, which include better approaches to cooperative planning for landscape areas, as well as national legislation for farmland protection. Books by Little include: "Challenge of the Land" (1968), "Space for Survival: Blocking the Bulldozer in Urban America" (1971), "Green Fields Forever: the Conservation Tillage Revolution in America" (1987), "Greenways for America" (1990), "Hope for the Land" (1992), "The Dying of the Trees: the Pandemic in America's Forests" (1995), and "Discover America: the Smithsonian Book of the National Parks" (1995). Little and W. Wendell Fletcher co-authored "The American Crisis: Why U.S. Farmland is Being Lost and How citizens and Governments are Trying to Save What is Left" (1982). Little edited "Louis Bromfield at Malabar: Writings on Farming and country Life" (1988). In addition, Little co-edited "An Appalachian Tragedy: Air Pollution and Tree Death in the Highland Forest of Eastern North America" (1998) with Havard Ayers and Jenny Hager. Little has contributed numerous articles about land conservation, community planning, and natural resources to the following magazines: "Smithsonian", "Garden, Business and Society Review", "Air and Space", "Country Journal", and "Wilderness", for which he contributed a whole-issue essay on the "Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem" in 1987. Little has also written pieces for the "Capital Ideas" department in "Harrowsmith", and "Conservation Commentary" in the "Journal of Soil and Water Conservation". In addition, Little has both edited and published two periodicals: "Open Space Action" and "American Land Forum", the prize-winning magazine that he founded in 1980. He also edited the John Hopkins series "American Land Classics". Little currently resides in Kensington, Maryland with his wife, Ila Dawson Little, professor of English literature.

Scope and Content Note


This collection consists of reference materials that Little compiled and used to write his book, "Greenways for America" (1990), which the Conservation Fund of Washington D.C. commissioned him to write in 1988. "Greenways for America" represents the first comprehensive compilation of information pertaining to greenways, a result of Little's extensive surveying of national greenways (both on-site and via mail), and countless interviews with individuals whose efforts have made these greenway projects come to fruition. Little defines greenways as (1.) linear open spaces established along natural corridors, such as riverfronts, stream valleys, ridgelines and railroad right-of-ways converted to scenic roads, recreational use, or canals, (2.) natural or landscaped trails for pedestrian or bicycle passage, (3.) open-space connectors that link parks, cultural features, nature reserves, or historic sites with each another and populated areas, and (4.) local strips and linear parks designated as parkways or greenbelts (parkway, a term that Frederick Law Olmsted probably coined, and greenbelt, a British term, are frequently used interchangeably with the term greenway in the United states. According to Little, Edmond Bacon, a landscape designer, likely coined the term greenway, as discussed in William H. Whyte's "Securing Open Space for Urban America" (1959).

In "Greenways for America" Little traces the history of the greenway movement both here and abroad. He attributes the present American greenway movement to Olmsted, who designed the grounds for the University of California's Berkley Campus in 1865, as well as the parkways, or green, linear corridors, which Olmsted envisioned cutting through Prospect Park in Brooklyn, N. Y. in 1866. Olmsted oversaw several other projects that resulted in preserved strips of parkland for pathways and scenic drives, including the famous "Emerald Necklace" of Boston, a parkway of open space proposed in 1887. According to Little, the concept and construction of modern greenways took shape in the 1960s in the name of open-space action. The national movement to convert abandoned rails to trails also began in the 1960s. Although efforts to secure open, green spaces declined in the 1970s and early 1980s, the greenway movement experienced a boon in the mid 1980s when a lack of federal funds forced concerned citizens to take matters into their own hands. As a result, proactive Americans have established scores of diverse greenways across the land. In two major chapters Little profiles a number of these greenway projects, and describes the efforts of several people who have created and preserved greenways throughout the United States. Many citizens tout these greenways as sorely needed networks of green that provide exercise, recreation, preservation of natural corridors for wildlife migration, protection of scenic and historic routes from commercial development, economic prosperity and growth, and an improved environment. Little subsequently devotes five chapters to the basic types of greenways: riverfronts and urban river greenways, paths and trails, ecological corridors, scenic drives and historic routes, and greenway network programs. According to Little, the idea of linking greenways together, thus creating a nationwide system of greenways, has become at present an integral component of the movement. Linkage, Little notes, is an important concept to greenway advocates because of its potential to take local grass-roots efforts to a higher level. These advocates believe that the creation of trails and open spaces connecting towns, cities, and parks from one end of the country to the other will eventually build a truly cohesive community, offering both ecological and social benefits for all. Finally, in the closing chapters of his book, Little pragmatically outlines and discusses the step-by-step process of developing greenways, as well as the overarching theme of the greenways imperative: to raise environmental consciousness.

Organization of Collection


The first series of the collection, Chapter Files, contains reference material and drafts of chapters for "Greenways for America". A copy of Little's bibliographic data base search for articles on greenways, as well as the various greenway maps included in the book, are also housed here. The second series, Project Files, consists of professional correspondence, newspapers articles, essays, studies, reports, surveys, design projects, maps, plans, proposals, brochures, flyers, pamphlets, assessments, newsletters, magazine articles, and journals that Little amassed in order to depict the various greenway projects across America. The third series, Reference Files, consists of general reference material, such as reports, foundation lists, magazines, brochures, essays, articles, conference programs, and newsletters. These papers contain information relating to local, state, and national organizations and programs. Reference Files also contains correspondence pertaining to the progression of the greenway projects, and information on related conservation and environmental interest groups.

Online Catalog Headings

  • Beveridge, Charles E.
  • Flink, Charles A.
  • Flournoy, William L., Jr.
  • Hay, Keith G.
  • Little, Charles E.
  • Lusk, Anne
  • Olmsted, Frederick Law
  • Reichenbach, Kristina
  • Schuyler, David
  • Thomas, Darlene K.
  • Thompson, George F.
  • City planning -- United States.
  • Conservation of natural resources -- United States.
  • Environmental ethics -- United States.
  • Environmental law -- United States.
  • Environmental policy -- United States.
  • Environmental protection -- United States
  • Environmentalism -- United States.
  • Environmentalism -- United States -- History.
  • Greenbelts -- United States.
  • Greenways -- United States.
  • Historic preservation -- Law and legislation -- United States.
  • Historic sites--United States -- Conservation and restoration.
  • Human ecology -- United States.
  • Land use -- Law and legislation -- United States.
  • Land use -- United States -- Planning.
  • Landscape architecture -- United States -- History.
  • Landscape architecture -- United States -- Conservation and restoration.
  • Landscape design -- United States -- History.
  • Landscape ecology -- United States.
  • Landscape protection -- United States.
  • National parks and reserves -- United States.
  • Natural Areas -- United States.
  • Nature Conservation -- United States.
  • Open spaces -- United States.
  • Outdoor recreation -- United States.
  • Parkways -- United States.
  • Public lands -- Recreational use -- United States.
  • Regional planning -- Citizen participation -- Law and legislation -- United States.
  • Rivers -- Law and legislation -- United States -- Recreational use.
  • Stream conservation -- Law and legislation -- United States.
  • Urban beautification -- United States.
  • Urban ecology -- United States.
  • Wildlife conservation -- United States.
  • Zoning -- United States.

Related Material

The NCSU Libraries' Greenways Archive

Detailed Description of the Collection


  • MC 214 Series 01:Chapter Files


    5 Hollinger boxes , 2.5 linear feet

    These include several drafts of the chapters in "Greenways for America", with comments and corrections from Little's colleagues. This series also contains material that Little referred to in order to write the book, such as drawings, essays, reports, maps, Little's notes and outlines, information on the Olmsted Historic Landscape Act, a master list of the Olmsted Firm's Design Projects, 1857-1950, professional correspondence, articles, newsletters, various publications, pamphlets, plans, manuals, reports, press releases, conference programs, court cases, brochures, business cards, journals, fact sheets, studies, and a Land Trust manual. Maps of the various greenways featured in the book, as well as a copy of Little's bibliographic data base search, are housed in this series. The chapters are arranged in chronological order. Placement of other papers in this series reflects subject matter arrangement (e.g., the bibliographic data base search is located before the chapter files; the greenway maps are located at the end of the series).

    "Note: chapter arrangement corresponds with how Little numbered the chapters in the final version of his book."

    • Bibliographic Data Base Search [MC 214 Box 1]
    • Front Material and Introduction [MC 214 Box 1]
    • Chapter One-Reference Material [MC 214 Box 1]
    • Chapter One-Reference Material-Olmsted [MC 214 Box 1]
    • Chapter One-Reference Material-Olmsted Design Projects [MC 214 Box 1]
    • Chapter One-Comments and Drafts [MC 214 Box 1]
    • Chapter Two-Reference Material [MC 214 Box 1]
    • Chapter Two-Comments and Drafts [MC 214 Box 1]
    • Chapter Three-Comments and Drafts [MC 214 Box 1]
    • Chapter Four-Reference Material [MC 214 Box 1]
    • Chapter Four-Reference Material [MC 214 Box 2]
    • Chapter Four-Comments and Drafts [MC 214 Box 2]
    • Chapter Five-Reference Material [MC 214 Box 2]
    • Chapter Five-Reference Material [MC 214 Box 2]
    • Chapter Five-Reference Material [MC 214 Box 2]
    • Chapter Five-Reference Material [MC 214 Box 2]
    • Chapter Five-Reference Material [MC 214 Box 2]
    • Chapter Five-Reference Material [MC 214 Box 2]
    • Chapter Five-Comments and Drafts [MC 214 Box 2]
    • Chapter Six-Reference Material [MC 214 Box 2]
    • Chapter Six-Reference Material [MC 214 Box 3]
    • Chapter Six-Reference Material [MC 214 Box 3]
    • Chapter Six-Reference Material [MC 214 Box 3]
    • Chapter Six-Comments and Drafts [MC 214 Box 3]
    • Chapter Seven-Reference Material [MC 214 Box 3]
    • Chapter Seven-Reference Material [MC 214 Box 3]
    • Chapter Seven-Reference Material [MC 214 Box 3]
    • Chapter Seven-Comments and Drafts [MC 214 Box 3]
    • Chapter Eight-Reference Material [MC 214 Box 3]
    • Chapter Eight-Reference Material [MC 214 Box 3]
    • Chapter Eight-Reference Material [MC 214 Box 4]
    • Chapter Eight-Comments and Drafts [MC 214 Box 4]
    • Chapter Nine-Comments and Drafts [MC 214 Box 4]
    • Chapter Ten-Reference Material [MC 214 Box 4]
    • Chapter Ten-Reference Material [MC 214 Box 4]
    • Chapter Ten-Reference Material [MC 214 Box 4]
    • Chapter Ten-Reference Material-Land Trust Manual [MC 214 Box 4]
    • Chapter Ten-Reference Material-Land Trust Manual [MC 214 Box 4]
    • Chapter Ten-Comments and Drafts [MC 214 Box 5]
    • Chapter Eleven-Reference Material [MC 214 Box 5]
    • Chapter Eleven-Comments and Draft [MC 214 Box 5]
    • Appendix-Comments and Draft [MC 214 Box 5]
    • Greenway Maps [MC 214 Box 5]

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  • MC 214 Series 02:Project Files


    Information pertaining to the various greenway projects that Little researched, visited, and outlined in his book is included here. As outlined in the Introduction of "Greenways for America", Little identifies five major types of greenways. They are: (1.) urban riverside greenways, (2.) recreational greenways, which feature trails and paths that are based on natural corridors, canals, abandoned railbeds, and other public rights-of-way, (3.) ecologically significant natural corridors established along rivers, streams, and ridgelines, which provide wildlife migration, nature study, and hiking, (4.) scenic and historic routes along roads, highways, and waterways, and (5.) comprehensive greenway systems or networks, usually based on natural landforms, designed to create an alternative municipal or regional green infrastructure. Little assembled information about greenway projects in the following states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. Types of material housed here include: plans, reports, studies, surveys, assessments, maps, correspondence, business cards, newsletters, transcribed interviews, with greenway developers and advocates, Little's notes, taken while visiting greenways throughout the United States, Little's greenway project surveys, brochures, pamphlets, flyers, a masters thesis, press releases, guides, and other publications. Several newspaper, magazine, and journal articles are also located in this series. This series is arranged alphabetically, according to the state that the greenway is located in, followed by the name of the greenway project. Note: "Linking Countryside and City: the Uses of Greenways," an article by Charles Little that appeared in the May-June 1987 issue of the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, is located in folder # 30, labeled Chapter Eight-Reference Material, in Box #3. Two photographs of Charles E. Little are located in the folder labeled Oconee River Greenway, Georgia in box #8. Also, two copies of greenway bylaws are located in folders labeled Yakima Greenway, Washington, and Platte River Greenway, Wyoming in box 214.16.

    • Pima County River Parks, Arizona [MC 214 Box 6]
    • Pima County River Parks, Arizona [MC 214 Box 6]
    • Pima County River Parks, Arizona [MC 214 Box 6]
    • Pima County River Parks, Arizona [MC 214 Box 6]
    • Pima County River Parks, Arizona [MC 214 Box 6]
    • Pima County River Parks, Arizona [MC 214 Box 6]
    • Pima County River Parks, Arizona [MC 214 Box 7]
    • Pima County River Parks, Arizona [MC 214 Box 7]
    • Tempe Rio Salado, Arizona [MC 214 Box 7]
    • American River Parkway, California [MC 214 Box 7]
    • Bay and Ridge Trails, California [MC 214 Box 7]
    • Bay and Ridge Trails, California [MC 214 Box 7]
    • Big Sur Viewshed, California [MC 214 Box 7]
    • Davis Greenway, California [MC 214 Box 7]
    • Lindo Channel/Bidwell River Park, California [MC 214 Box 7]
    • Los Gatos Creek Trail, California [MC 214 Box 7]
    • Moore Creek Canyon/Antonelli Pond, California [MC 214 Box 7]
    • San Joaquin River Parkway, California [MC 214 Box 7]
    • Santa Margarita River, California [MC 214 Box 8]
    • Arapahoe Greenway, Colorado [MC 214 Box 8]
    • Arkansas Riverwalk, Colorado [MC 214 Box 8]
    • Boulder Creek Trail, Colorado [MC 214 Box 8]
    • Clear Creek River Trail, Colorado [MC 214 Box 8]
    • Colorado River Trail, Colorado [MC 214 Box 8]
    • Monument Valley Trail, Colorado [MC 214 Box 8]
    • Platte River Greenway, Colorado [MC 214 Box 8]
    • Platte River Greenway, Colorado [MC 214 Box 8]
    • Pueblo River Greenway, Colorado [MC 214 Box 8]
    • Uncompahgre Recreational Corridor, Colorado [MC 214 Box 8]
    • Farmington Canal Greenway, Connecticut [MC 214 Box 8]
    • Monroe Greenway, Connecticut [MC 214 Box 8]
    • Redding Greenbelts, Connecticut [MC 214 Box 8]
    • Redding Greenbelts, Connecticut [MC 214 Box 8]
    • White Clay Creek-Middle Run Corridor, Delaware [MC 214 Box 8]
    • Canopy Roads Linear Parkway, Florida [MC 214 Box 8]
    • Canopy Roads Linear Parkway, Florida [MC 214 Box 8]
    • Oconee River Greenway, Georgia [MC 214 Box 8]
    • Snake River Greenbelt, Idaho [MC 214 Box 8]
    • Illinois Greenways-Masters Thesis [MC 214 Box 9]
    • Illinois and Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor, Illinois [MC 214 Box 9]
    • Thirty-First Street Greenway, Illinois [MC 214 Box 9]
    • Cedar Valley Lakes, Iowa [MC 214 Box 9]
    • Cedar Valley Nature Trail, Iowa [MC 214 Box 9]
    • Chichaqua Valley Trail, Iowa [MC 214 Box 9]
    • Cinder Path, Iowa [MC 214 Box 9]
    • Comet Trail, Iowa [MC 214 Box 9]
    • Great River Road (Mississippi Parkway), Iowa [MC 214 Box 9]
    • Great Western Trail, Iowa [MC 214 Box 9]
    • Heritage Trail, Iowa [MC 214 Box 9]
    • Iowa River Greenbelt, Iowa [MC 214 Box 9]
    • Pioneer Trail, Iowa [MC 214 Box 9]
    • Saylorville-Des Moines River Trail, Iowa [MC 214 Box 9]
    • Mill Creek Streamway Park, Kansas [MC 214 Box 9]
    • Red River Trail, Louisiana [MC 214 Box 9]
    • Bangor-Orono-Old Town Greenway, Maine [MC 214 Box 9]
    • Island Trail, Maine [MC 214 Box 9]
    • Maine Coast Heritage Trust, Maine [MC 214 Box 9]
    • Capital Crescent Trail, Maryland [MC 214 Box 9]
    • Northeast Creek/Western Back River Greenway, Maryland [MC 214 Box 9]
    • Patapsco Greenway, Maryland [MC 214 Box 9]
    • Patapsco Greenway, Maryland [MC 214 Box 9]
    • Seligson Farm, Maryland [MC 214 Box 9]
    • Weems Creek Greenway, Maryland [MC 214 Box 9]
    • Wildlife Overlay District, Maryland [MC 214 Box 9]
    • Youghiogheny River, Maryland [MC 214 Box 9]
    • Bay Circuit Greenway, Massachusetts [MC 214 Box 9]
    • Cape Cod Ridgeline, Massachusetts [MC 214 Box 9]
    • Charles River Greenway, Massachusetts [MC 214 Box 9]
    • Emerald Necklace Parks, Massachusetts [MC 214 Box 9]
    • Housatonic River Greenway, Massachusetts [MC 214 Box 9]
    • Nashua River Greenway, Massachusetts [MC 214 Box 9]
    • Northern Route 128 Corridor, Massachusetts [MC 214 Box 10]
    • Proctor Brook and South Middleton Branch Trails, Massachusetts [MC 214 Box 10]
    • Quincy Quarries Greenway, Massachusetts [MC 214 Box 10]
    • Southwest Corridor Park, Massachusetts [MC 214 Box 10]
    • Stockbridge Yokun Ridge Reserve, Massachusetts [MC 214 Box 10]
    • Worcester Greenways, Massachusetts [MC 214 Box 10]
    • Gateway to Harbor Springs, Michigan [MC 214 Box 10]
    • Grand Trunk Trail, Michigan [MC 214 Box 10]
    • Lake Front Park, Michigan [MC 214 Box 10]
    • Katie River Trail, Missouri [MC 214 Box 10]
    • Meramec Greenway, Missouri [MC 214 Box 10]
    • Lincoln Creek Parkway, Nebraska [MC 214 Box 10]
    • Papio Trail, Nebraska [MC 214 Box 10]
    • Bayshore Waterfront Park, New Jersey [MC 214 Box 10]
    • Delaware and Raritan Canal, New Jersey [MC 214 Box 10]
    • Manumuskin River Watershed, New Jersey [MC 214 Box 10]
    • Patriots' Path and Lenape Trail, New Jersey [MC 214 Box 10]
    • Stony Brook Greenway, New Jersey [MC 214 Box 10]
    • Bronx River Parkway, New York [MC 214 Box 10]
    • Brooklyn-Queens Greenway, New York [MC 214 Box 10]
    • Brooklyn-Queens Greenway, New York [MC 214 Box 11]
    • Delaware and Hudson Canal, New York [MC 214 Box 11]
    • Greenway Trail, New York [MC 214 Box 11]
    • Hudson River Valley Greenway, New York [MC 214 Box 11]
    • Hudson River Valley Greenway, New York [MC 214 Box 11]
    • Hudson River Valley Greenway, New York [MC 214 Box 11]
    • Hudson River Valley Greenway, New York [MC 214 Box 11]
    • Hudson River Valley Greenway, New York [MC 214 Box 11]
    • Hudson River Valley Greenway, New York [MC 214 Box 11]
    • Hudson River Valley Greenway, New York [MC 214 Box 11]
    • Hudson-Mohawk Urban Cultural Park, New York [MC 214 Box 11]
    • Mohonk Preserve, New York [MC 214 Box 12]
    • Staten Island Greenway/Amundsen Trailway, New York [MC 214 Box 12]
    • Monadnock Highlands, New Hampshire [MC 214 Box 12]
    • Monadnock-Sunapee Greenway, New Hampshire [MC 214 Box 12]
    • Capital Area Greenway, North Carolina [MC 214 Box 12]
    • Capital Area Greenway, North Carolina [MC 214 Box 12]
    • Cary Greenways, North Carolina [MC 214 Box 12]
    • Circle the Triangle Trail, North Carolina [MC 214 Box 12]
    • Emerald Isle, North Carolina [MC 214 Box 12]
    • French Broad Riverfront, North Carolina [MC 214 Box 12]
    • French Broad Riverfront, North Carolina [MC 214 Box 12]
    • French Broad Riverfront, North Carolina [MC 214 Box 12]
    • French Broad Riverfront, North Carolina [MC 214 Box 12]
    • French Broad Riverfront, North Carolina [MC 214 Box 13]
    • High Point Greenway, North Carolina [MC 214 Box 13]
    • Little Cross Creek Streamway, North Carolina [MC 214 Box 13]
    • Mecklenberg County Greenways, North Carolina [MC 214 Box 13]
    • Neuse River Corridor, North Carolina [MC 214 Box 13]
    • Raleigh Area Greenways, North Carolina [MC 214 Box 13]
    • Raleigh Area Greenways, North Carolina [MC 214 Box 13]
    • Cuyahoga Valley, Ohio [MC 214 Box 13]
    • Forty Mile Loop, Oregon [MC 214 Box 13]
    • Forty Mile Loop, Oregon [MC 214 Box 14]
    • Portland Area Projects, Oregon [MC 214 Box 14]
    • Willamette River Greenway, Oregon [MC 214 Box 14]
    • Willamette River Greenway, Oregon [MC 214 Box 14]
    • Brandywine Greenway, Pennsylvania [MC 214 Box 14]
    • Lancaster County Plan, Pennsylvania [MC 214 Box 14]
    • Lock Port Heritage Greenway, Pennsylvania [MC 214 Box 14]
    • Nockamixon Cliffs, Pennsylvania [MC 214 Box 14]
    • Schuylkill River Greenway, Pennsylvania [MC 214 Box 14]
    • Valley Creek Corridor, Pennsylvania [MC 214 Box 14]
    • Wissahicken Creek Greenway, Pennsylvania [MC 214 Box 14]
    • Blackstone River and Canal Heritage State Park, Rhode Island [MC 214 Box 14]
    • Wood Pawcatuck Rivers, Rhode Island [MC 214 Box 14]
    • "The South Carolina Rivers Assessment," South Carolina [MC 214 Box 14]
    • Big Sioux River Greenway, South Dakota [MC 214 Box 14]
    • Kingsport Greenbelt, Tennessee [MC 214 Box 15]
    • North Chickamauga Creek Greenway, Tennessee [MC 214 Box 15]
    • Tennessee Riverpark, Tennessee [MC 214 Box 15]
    • Tennessee Riverpark, Tennessee-Master Plan [MC 214 Box 15]
    • Tennessee Riverpark, Tennessee-Master Plan [MC 214 Box 15]
    • Allen Greenbelt, Texas [MC 214 Box 15]
    • Open Space Collin County, Texas [MC 214 Box 15]
    • Open Space Collin County, Texas [MC 214 Box 15]
    • Open Space Collin County, Texas [MC 214 Box 16]
    • Battenkill River, Vermont [MC 214 Box 16]
    • Stowe Recreation Path, Vermont [MC 214 Box 16]
    • Virgin River Corridor Greenways, Vermont [MC 214 Box 16]
    • Warrenton-Casanova Trail, Virginia [MC 214 Box 16]
    • Bear-Evans Creek, Washington [MC 214 Box 16]
    • Burke-Gilman Trail, Washington [MC 214 Box 16]
    • Friends of Ravine, Washington [MC 214 Box 16]
    • Hood Canal, Washington [MC 214 Box 16]
    • Palouse Path, Washington [MC 214 Box 16]
    • San Juan Preservation Trust, Washington [MC 214 Box 16]
    • Spotted Owl Corridor, Washington [MC 214 Box 16]
    • Yakima Greenway, Washington [MC 214 Box 16]
    • Appalachian Greenway, West Virginia [MC 214 Box 16]
    • Dane County Greenbelt, Wisconsin [MC 214 Box 16]
    • Ice Age National Scenic Trail, Wisconsin [MC 214 Box 16]
    • Janesville Greenbelts, Wisconsin [MC 214 Box 16]
    • Platte River Parkway, Wyoming [MC 214 Box 16]

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  • MC 214 Series 03:Reference Files


    General reference information is housed here. Included in this series is an extensive list of national, regional, and state foundations, all potential funding sources for greenway projects. A toolbook called Tools for the Greenbelt: A Citizen's Guide to Protecting Open Space is also located here. This guide contains information on greenway policies, development procedures, and case studies. General reference material includes information on national, regional, and state organizations and agencies. Such materials include lists, brochures, studies, essays, plans, newspaper articles, professional correspondence, newsletters, reports, flyers, and a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers list. Information on national organizations and agencies represented in this series includes: American Farmland Trust, American Trails Network, Bureau of Outdoor Recreation, Bureau of Land Management, Rails-to-Trails, American Rivers, United States Department of Agriculture, New England Forestry Foundation, the Conservation Fund (Greenways for America Program), National Park Service, National Center for Nonprofit Boards, National Endowment for the Arts, the Conservation Foundation, National Parks and Conservation Association, and the Land Trust Exchange. A list of greenway-related organizations, such as the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Nature Conservancy, the National Institute for Urban Wildlife, and the Walkways Center, which includes addresses and telephone numbers, is also located in this series. This series is arranged alphabetically, with general reference material placed at the end of the series.

    • Referenc Material--Foundations [MC 214 Box 17]
    • Reference Material--Foundations [MC 214 Box 17]
    • Reference Material--Foundations [MC 214 Box 17]
    • Reference Material--"Tools for the Greenbelt" [MC 214 Box 17]
    • Reference Material--"Tools for the Greenbelt" [MC 214 Box 17]
    • Reference Material--General [MC 214 Box 17]
    • Reference Material--General [MC 214 Box 17]
    • Reference Material--General [MC 214 Box 17]
    • Reference Material--General [MC 214 Box 17]
    • Reference Material--General [MC 214 Box 17]
    • Reference Material--General [MC 214 Box 17]
    • Reference Material--General [MC 214 Box 17]
    • Reference Material--General [MC 214 Box 18]
    • Reference Material--General [MC 214 Box 18]
    • Reference Material--General [MC 214 Box 18]
    • Reference Material--General [MC 214 Box 18]
    • Reference Material--General [MC 214 Box 18]

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