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New York State Archives
Title NY Environmental Affairs Documentation Project Description The State Archives is working to identify the issues, people, organizations, and events in environmental affairs that are most critical to document in New York State. The document provides an overview of the documentation project including scope of the project parameters, matrix, and products.

Thousand Islands Land Trust
Title Archival Planning and Protection Project for TILT Historic Records Description The trust is identifying and developing a plan to preserve its records of lasting value, which document the organization's efforts to preserve natural areas in the Thousand Islands region.

Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society
Title Love Canal Contamination Documentation Description The society arranged and created finding aids to three collections, one of which documented citizen reaction and scholarly research into the contamination of Love Canal.

New York Public Library, The
Title New York State's Environmental and Ecological Organizations Description In an effort to address the lack of a statewide plan to collect, preserve, and make accessible to users the records of environmental organizations and ecology groups, the library hosted a conference designed to heighten awareness of the importance of documenting twentieth-century environmental history.

Marist College
Title Scenic Hudson Collection Arrangement and Description Project Description The college archives arranged and described its collection of records from Scenic Hudson, a significant environmental organization in New York State.

Earth Day New York
Title Arrangement and Description of Earth Day New York's and Pamela Lipp's Files Description The organization analyzed records and developed a plan for their arrangement and description.

University at Albany, University Libraries
Title Capital District Environmental Survey Description The University undertook a documentation survey of environmental organizations in the greater Capital District.

Alfred University - Herrick Memorial Library
Title Low Level Radioactive Waste in Allegany County: A Documentation Planning Project Description The university, in cooperation with Alfred State College and Allegany County, undertook a survey planning project to document local activities in opposition to a state proposal siting a low-level radioactive waste storage facility in the county.

Hudson Fisheries Trust, Inc.
Title Survey/Collection of Archival Materials Relating to the History of Commercial Fishing in the Hudson Description The trust undertook the documentation of fisheries and the lifestyle of fishing on the Hudson River.

Alfred University - Herrick Memorial Library
Title Low Level Radioactive Waste in Allegany Co - A Documentation Project Description The Library proposes a second phase to its survey project to continue documenting the local struggle of the people of Allegany County with New York in the State's efforts to locate a low-level radioactive waste site in the county.

Rensselaer County Historical Society
Title Documenting Compassion: A Survey Project Description The Rensselaer County Historical Society conducted a survey of charitable agencies and organizations in Troy, Rensselaer and Hoosick Falls, New York.

University at Albany, University Libraries
Title Environmental History Documentation Project Dept/Division Special Collections and Archives Description The project continued the University's efforts to document environmental affairs in the greater Capital District.