Interviewer
Kevin Proescholdt, Jonathan "Jon" Dettmann
Files
Description
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 and the effects on the communities and their opinions. Brandborg talks about Bob Marshall and Gifford Pinchot when he was a child and the influence it had on his conservation efforts. He also talks about his thesis research on mountain goats while working for the Idaho Fish and Game Commission. Brandborg describes how he became an employee of the National Wildlife Federation and moving his family to Washington D.C. He details the Echo Park Dam fight, then his transfer to the Wilderness Society when the Federation showed signs of dissolving. He discusses the lobbying efforts of the Wilderness Society, in particular Howard Zahniser, to get a wilderness bill passed.
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Document Type
Oral History
Subjects
United States. Wilderness Act; Conservation of natural resources--Montana--Bitterroot River Valley--Societies, etc.; Conservation of natural resources--United States; United States. National Environmental Policy Act of 1969; Environmental policy—United States; Environmentalism--United States--Societies, etc.; Wildlife conservation--Law and legislation--United States; Wildlife conservation--United States--Societies, etc; Conservation of natural resources--Montana--Bitterroot River Valley--Societies, etc.: Conservation of natural resources--United States; Conservation of natural resources--West (U.S.)--Societies, etc.: Timber--Bitterroot National Forest (Mont. and Idaho)--Management Wildlife conservation--Law and legislation--United States; Mountain goat; University of Idaho; Brandborg, Stewart (1925-2018); Brandborg, G. M. (Guy Mathew), (1893-1977); Marshall, Robert (1901-1939); Pinchot, Gifford (1865-1946); Zahniser, Howard; Stong, Benjamin; Brower, David (1912-2000); Callison, Charles H. (1913-1993); Margaret E. Murie; Olaus J Murie (Olaus Johan), 1889-1963; Oberholtzer, Ernest C. (Ernest Carl), 1884-1977; Sigurd, Olson F. (1899- ); Broome, Harvey (1902-1968); United States. Forest Service; Idaho. Fish and Game Dept.; Friends of the Bitterroot; Montana. Dept. of Fish and Game; National Wildlife Federation; United States. National Park Service; United States. Department of Interior; University of Idaho. Idaho Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit; Wilderness Society (U.S.); Missoula (Mont.); Bitterroot National Forest (Mont. and Idaho); Trans-Alaska Pipeline (Alaska)--Environmental aspects; Selway River Watershed (Idaho); Conservationists--United States; Environmentalists--United States
Original Date
4-23-2007
Time Period
Twentieth century
Geographic Coverage
Montana; Idaho; Washington, D.C.
Language
eng
Original Collection
Voice of the Wilderness: Stewart Brandborg Oral History Project, OH 424
Holding Institution
University of Montana. Mansfield Library. Archives and Special Collections
Digital Publisher
University of Montana--Missoula. Mansfield Library
Rights Statement
Rights Holder
Copyright to this collection is held by the interview participants by the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, University of Montana-Missoula. Permission may be required for use. For further information please contact Archives and Special Collectionsat the University of Montana, Mansfield Library.
Oral History Number
OH 424-001
Media Type
Sound; Text
Original Format
Audio cassettes: analog + 1 transcript (29 pp: 28 cm.)
Digital Format
audio/mp3; application/pdf
Run Time
02:22:20 minutes
Local Filename
OH_424_001.mp3; OH_424_001.pdf
Citation
Brandborg, Stewart, "Stewart Brandborg Interview, April 23, 2007" (2007). Voice of the Wilderness: Stewart Brandborg Oral History Project. 1.
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/stewartbrandborgwilderness_oralhistory/1