NATURAL RESOURCES DEPARTMENT: DIVISION OF FISH AND WILDLIFE:

An Inventory of Its Wollan (Gordon) Subject Files at the Minnesota Historical Society

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Creator: Minnesota. Division of Fish and Wildlife.
Title:Wollan (Gordon) Subject Files.
Dates:1938-1973.
Language:Materials in English.
Abstract:Subject files kept by Director Wollan documenting the division's administration and management.
Quantity:5.0 cubic feet (5 boxes).
Location: See Detailed Description for shelf locations.

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Containing correspondence, memoranda, reports, notes, and financial documents, the files cover such topics as legislation, budget, buildings, hunting, licenses, pheasant and duck populations, reorganization, wild rice, and the Legislative Advisory Committee. There are also directors' and field supervisors' meeting files.


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Availability:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Minnesota. Division of Fish and Wildlife. Wollan (Gordon) Subject Files. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

Accession Information:

Accession numbers: None; 976-47

Processing Information:

Catalog ID number: 001706686


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DETAILED DESCRIPTION

Location
103.H.6.1BAccomplishments, 1961.
Administration Division, 1954.
Administration: Monthly balance sheets and financial reports, 1947-1953.
Appropriation notes, Wollan, 1969.
Arrest reports, 1953-1955.
Herman E. Auer, Jr. (deceased), 1957, 1960.
Beaver seal materials, 1966.
Includes sample beaver, muskrat, and otter tags.
Biennial budget information, 1963-1969.
Biennial program budget: Game and Fish, 1972-1973.
Biennial report, 1956-1960.
Biennial request, 1971-1973.
Biennium financing, 1967-1969.
Biennium requests: New buildings, 1967-1969.
Building program, 1971-1973.
Building program 10 years, 1965.
Bounties, 1967-1972.
Budget and miscellaneous, 1958-1969.
Budget information, circa 1961-1965.
Budget information, 1963-1967.
Budget information, unit of measure (production), 1964.
Capital improvements by counties, 1957.
Central Conservation Association meeting, September 9, 1962.
Commissioner of Conservation, 1953-1967.
Contains Commissioner's Orders and reports.
Commissioner's orders, seasons, synopsis, 1971.
Miscellaneous correspondence and reports, circa 1960s.
Correspondence, 1954-1965. 2 folders.
Location
103.H.6.2FDeer license problems, 1972.
Delegation orders, 1963.
Directors meetings, 1968-1969. 2 folders.
Directors memos, 1953-1954.
Ditch assessments, 1959-1965.
Duck depredations, Roseau, 1959.
Ducks, oil on Mississippi and Minnesota rivers, 1963.
Economic opportunity act [A.P.P.], 1963-1964.
Engineering, 1964-1965.
Field supervisors meeting, November 25, 1963.
Field supervisors meeting, April 29-30, 1964.
Field supervisors meeting, June 1965.
Finances 1967 session, 1967.
Statistics on finances and personnel, 1959. 1 volume.
Financial operations committee, 1962.
Financial report, 1957-1958. 1 volume.
Financial statements, 1951-1963. 2 folders.
Fish management activities, Bureau of Fisheries, 1959. 1 volume.
Section of Game, 1963.
Game and Fish bills passed, 1967 legislative session, 1963.
Game and Fish information, 1939-1952.
Game and Fish legislative bills, 1957.
Game season meeting, July 23, 1956.
Hunting information, 1954-1955, 1959. 3 folders.
Notes for Commissioner's orders on hunting regulations, 1969.
Hunting synopsis material, 1969-1970. 2 folders.
Indian Affairs Commission, 1966.
Indian suit: treaty rights, reference file, 1970-1973.
In-service training, St. Cloud College, August 25-26, 1964.
Legislation, 1951-1965.
Information for legislative committee meetings, 1951.
Legislative proposals, 1955.
Legislation, 1959-1961. 2 folders.
Land and Water Conservation Fund Act, 1964.
Game and Fish legislative bills (department bills), 1965.
Legislative material, 1965.
Location
103.H.6.3B1967 Legislative bills in rough [draft], 1967.
1967 Legislative file, 1967.
1967 Legislature, miscellaneous information, 1967.
Log of Game and Fish legislation, 1967.
Proposed Legislative bills, 1969.
Proposed legislation, 1971.
Legislative Advisory Committee, 1954, 1958, 1965, 1967-1968. 3 folders.
Legislative Commission meeting, 1958.
Legislative Interim Commission on Conservation Laws, 1957.
L.R.C. [Legislative Research Committee] report, 1954.
License fee increases, resolutions by clubs, 1958-1962.
License problems, 1954-1955.
Little Winnibigoshish Lake, Itasca County, 1961-1963.
Minnesota Conservation Federation, 1961.
Miscellaneous, 1943-1968.
Contains documents such as correspondence, memoranda, reports, background material, and other related records from the Conservation/Natural Resources Department and the Game and Fish Division.
Documents have been loosely sorted into general categories when possible, and otherwise have been organized chronologically.
1943-1962. 5 folders.
Location
103.H.6.4F 1962-1968. 3 folders.
Budget- and finance-related files, circa 1950-1969. 2 folders.
Related to Land, land acquired, game farms, etc., circa 1950-1969.
Legislation-related files, circa 1950-1969.
Natural Resources, 1966.
Organization charts, undated, 1935-1950.
Ramsey County pheasant damage, plan for permit hunting, 1957-1958.
Pheasant hunting preserves, 1954-1955.
Planning material, circa 1960s.
Policies, 1968.
Pollution, 1963.
Public access, 1962, 1964-1965.
Public access acquired, 1961-1966.
Public works and economic development, 1965.
R.C.D., 1965.
Summary of receipts, disbursements and transfers, Game and Fish Division, 1950-1966. 1 volume.
Red Lake Fishery, William Kues case, circa 1955-1968.
Contains photocopies of court exhibits and other documents from 1919-1940s.
Location
103.H.6.5BRegional managers meetings, 1969.
Rent, State-owned housing, 1962-1964.
Reorganization, 1953-1954.
Reorganization of Conservation department (1965 Senate File 748), 1963-1966.
Reorganization bills, 1967.
1963 Season meeting, 1963.
Self-survey project, 1959.
Senate Committee on Finance information, 1969-1971.
Small game license increase, 1969.
Spawning bed acquisition program, 1961-1965.
Staff meetings, 1960, 1963-1967. 2 folders.
Statistics, 1951-1952.
Supervisors meetings, 1965-1968.
Supervisory Training School manual, 1958-1961. 1 volume.
Teal [duck] information, 1965.
Warden service reorganization, 1956.
Warden school, 1954.
Wetlands, 1954.
Wild rice files, 1953-1956, 1959, 1963-1967. 7 folders.
Wildlife lands acquired, 1961-1966.
Wildlife acquisition funds, 1964.
Wollan (Gordon), 1957-1961.
Wollan (Gordon), Division of Game and Fish, speaking material, 1964.
WPA status reports, Game and Fish, 1938-1939.

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This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics:
Ducks -- Minnesota.
Fish and game license -- Minnesota.
Fishery management -- Minnesota.
Hunting -- Minnesota.
Pheasants -- Minnesota.
Wild rice -- Minnesota.
Wildlife management -- Minnesota.
Persons:
Wollan, Gordon.
Organizations:
Minnesota. Legislature. Legislative Advisory Committee.
Minnesota. Department of Natural Resources.

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