Contains correspondence and reports referring to the Saline Water Conservation Program from 1955 to 1956 as well as newspaper clippings from 1956 to 1957. Also included are the Third Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior from January 1955 and the congressional record and reports concerning the Saline Water Conservation Program from 1956 to 1958.

Contains correspondence from 1955 to 1958 concerning the Colorado River Storage Project in the Western United States and water policy, proposals, statements, congressional records, reports, bills, and newspaper clippings from 1954 to 1959, and brochures and notes regarding water policy.

Contains hearings, proposals, and statements referring to water resources from 1956 to 1958, papers concerning resource development of the United States, Soviet Union, and Red China from 1957 to 1958, brochures about world power from 1956 to 1958, and newspaper clippings on water resources, dams, power, and flooding from 1956 to 1957.

Contains the congressional record and reports regarding developments in water rights from May 23, 1957, information on the Colorado River water rights in the Western United States from March 31, 1949, congressional reports from March 19 to 27, 1956, and news clippings from 1956 to 1958.

Contains correspondence, statements, and addresses from 1956 to 1957 regarding S. 863 and a congressional record and report from 1955 to 1957 also regarding S. 863.

Contains correspondence from 1954 to 1956, congressional records and reports from 1956, and news clippings from September 14, 1953 to January 24, 1956 concerning the watershed program in the Western United States. Also included are reports by and about the National Watershed Congresses from 1954 to 1955 and miscellaneous notes, reports, and information from 1955 to 1956 on public law dealing with the Watershed Bills.

Contains reports and information from 1956 to 1957 concerning the waterfowl program.

This collection contains the personal and professional papers of W. Franklin Richards. These papers include newspaper clippings, pamphlets, programs, postcards, poems, plays, magazine articles, reports, business cards, sketches, correspondence, architectural drawings, and various other papers, dated circa 1918-1972.

John D. Stark papers on soil and water conservation, 1949-1979.

The collection contains typewritten reports on surveys relating to land use planning, erosion, surveys, and irrigation in the West United States. Many of these reports include maps of the areas under discussion. These materials were compiled by John A. Widtsoe in 1925.