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Ward Shepard Correspondence: United States Department of Agriculture

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• HF-ID: HFCor-924
• Category: Correspondence
• Creator:
  • Catchings, Benjamin
  • Cline, Albert C.
  • Eisenhower, Milton
  • Englund, Eric
  • Hartley, Carl
  • Morrell, Fred
  • Shepard, Ward
  • Tolley, Howard R.
  • Williams, William K.
  • Wilson, Milburn L.

• Associated Person:
  • Appleby, P.
  • Black, A.G.
  • Campbell, William A.
  • Diffenbach, Rudolph
  • Fracker, S.B.
  • Goodell, Bertram C.
  • Silcox, Ferdinand A.
  • Stillman, Calvin W.

• Date: 1936-1938
• Media: Paper
• Contents:
  • Letters from Ward Shepard are unsigned carbon copies of typewritten letters.

• Abstract:
  • Correspondence with various departments of the United States Department of Agriculture about cooperatives as an approach to the farm woodland problem; forestry and hydrology; Harvard Forest work by Dr. Campbell; C.C.C. funds; request for farm woodland benefit payments under the A.A.A. for use of the Land Use Seminar; reference for student, Arthur MacGregor; seeking authorization to ship eastern white pine seedlings; forest policy for New England; recommendation for Calvin Stillman; Soil and Forest Conservation Districts Bill draft
  
  
  • Includes 1936 report, "Organization Principles as applied to Reorganization of Governmental Functions in Conservation and Agriculture"

• Archives Location: Map Room, stack 6, drawer 5
• Access: Restricted