Nat. Nature and Parks
Found in 34 Collections and/or Records:
B-W Greenway Community Land Trust Records
The collection includes administrative records, such as Board of Trustees minutes; land records for specific sites, including deeds, easements, and monitoring reports; publications, including "The Green Heart" newsletter; information about outreach and programming; clippings, primarily from newspapers; and original artwork by a member.
Committee to Preserve Waldruhe Park Records (MFM-21)
Consists of reports, correspondence, newsletters, bulletins, legal briefs, and files of a citizen's group formed to prevent the City of Dayton from cutting trees in a city park.
A Photographic Portfolio of Huffman Flying Field (MS-631)
The collection consists of 11 platinum palladium prints of photographs created at Huffman Prairie, featuring flight and architecture. This portfolio is limited edition set #1 out of 16 sets created.
Grand Lake Restoration Commission Records (MS-635)
The Grand Lake Restoration Commission Records document the efforts of a collaborative, non-profit organization to find economically and environmentally sustainable ways to restore the health of Grand Lake Saint Marys in Mercer County and Auglaize County, near Celina, Ohio. Materials include meeting minutes, reports, project files, news clippings, and photographs.
Explorer Post 72 Records (MS-639)
Explorer Post 72 was chartered in November 1958 by the First Presbyterian Church in Fairborn, Ohio, and was active until 2002. From 1971 onward, the group was coed, and members engaged in a variety of camping trips, outdoor activities, sports, and social gatherings. Records include administrative and financial records, files on trips and other activities, newspaper clippings, photographs and slides, and audiovisual materials.
Archives of the Upper River Fund (MS-652)
The Upper River Fund was an endowment fund established in 1992 by Glenn Thompson and his wife Margaret, to preserve the upper Little Miami and the Mad Rivers. The collection contains meeting minutes and correspondence; financial records and reports, records from easement agreements to buy/sell agreements; and some photographs of prospective areas of land and topographical maps that outline easements along the upper Little Miami and Mad Rivers.
Dr. Robert Riordan Collection of Miami Valley Archaeological Surveys (MS-659)
This collection consists of approximately 70 archaeological surveys undertaken by Dr. Robert V. Riordan Professor Emeritus in the Wright State University Anthropology Department. A portion of the archaeological surveys were completed by Wright State University students through the Anthropology Department’s Archaeological Field School. Dr. Riordan completed the remaining surveys as a private contractor.
David Nolin Huffman Prairie Research Collection (MS-661)
Beaver Creek Wetlands Association Collection
The collection includes business materials, meeting minutes, agendas, reports from the various committees that ran the organization as well as some news clippings, brochures, maps, and newsletters created by and about the Beaver Creek Wetlands Association. Also included is membership and volunteer information such as member lists, volunteer activities, membership committees, and volunteer job descriptions.
Centerville Garden Club Records
The Centerville Garden Club, located near Dayton, Ohio, was established in 1930. The records consist almost entirely of scrapbooks with both internal and external material on the club. The materials are photographs, newspaper clippings, booklets containing a list of events, members and officers, certificates, awards and thank you notes.


