This collection includes three interviews detailing Stewart Brandborg’s conservation activism and involvement in the wilderness movement, starting in the late 1940s until his death in 2018. The interviews were conducted in 2007 by Kevin Proescholdt and Jonathan Dettmann. Brandborg discusses his education in wildlife biology and the influence of his father Guy M. Brandborg, a U.S. Forest Service employee, as well as his tenure at the National Wildlife Federation, the Wilderness Society, and various other conservation organizations. Most of the interviews in this collection focus on Brandborg’s involvement in the drafting and passage of the Wilderness Act of 1964. He also details the leadership seminars that he coordinated to train grassroots conservation activists how to mobilize and fight for change. The original interviews are held as Oral History collection OH 424 at Archives and Special Collections, Mansfield Library, University of Montana-Missoula.
This collection includes 3 interviews.
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Stewart Brandborg Interview, April 23, 2007
Stewart Brandborg
Stewart Brandborg discusses the role of Guy M. Brandborg, his father and a U.S. Forest Service employee, in his awareness of conservation policy and activism. Brandborg discusses the controversy over clear-cutting in the Bitterroot Valley and his father’s investigations of big mining and big lumber ... Read More
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Stewart Brandborg Interview, July 14, 2007
Stewart Brandborg
Stewart Brandborg details the groundswell of support that the wilderness bill received and talks about the years leading up to the passage of the 1964 Wilderness Bill. He talks at length about his role in the Wilderness Society before and after Howard Zahniser’s death. Brandborg ... Read More
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Stewart Brandborg Interview, July 15, 2007
Stewart Brandborg
Stewart Brandborg discusses the issues of clearcutting in Montana, and his father Guy Brandborg’s decision to call news reporters to publicize the issue. Brandborg recalls Ernest Oberholtzer’s humorous interactions with other members of the Wilderness Society. He details the conservation efforts to combat Trans-Alaska Pipeline, ... Read More