Research


Scope and Content Note

This series contains mainly correspondence, reports, studies, and project proposals involving the commission. The majority of the correspondence is either to or from the commission's executive secretary, Harold Jerry, Jr.; involves letters of support or concern, requests for reports, personnel issues, and letters to Governor Nelson Rockefeller; or accompanies recommendations, reports, meeting agendas, forms, maps, and newspaper clippings. Significant topics that appear repeatedly in recommendations, proposals, and letters of concern are public and private land, wildlife, water resources, quality and pollution, snowmobiles, hunting, the Gooley Dam, airplanes, scenic easements, logging, zoning, boating, camping, and fishing.

The commission reports and studies range from preliminaries and first drafts to revisions and final products with many pertaining to transportation, recreation, economics, research, and sign control while others are technical, field and consultant reports. Other records include travel vouchers, resumes, budget lists, financial statements, contracts, and Department of the Interior news releases. In addition, there is significant information pertaining to the New York Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1971, the Cornell Conference, and the State Conservation Council's Legislative Report.