Record Details
Colorado First - interview/written history
Mountain Scholar
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Colorado First - interview/written history Colorado First Soil Conservation District oral history interview |
| Creator | Hill, William Earle, Leon Ellgen, Gary |
| Contributor | Colorado Association of Soil Conservation Districts McCormick, Mary |
| Subject | Hill, William -- Interviews Earle, Leon -- Interviews Ellgen, Gary -- Interviews Oral history -- Colorado Soil conservation -- Colorado Soil conservation districts -- Colorado Range management -- Colorado -- Moffat County Irrigation -- Colorado -- Moffat County |
| Description | Bill Hill, Leon Earle, and Gary Ellgen interviewed by Mary McCormick Soil Conservation Service employee Bill Hill and Colorado First board members Leon Earle and Gary Ellgen discuss the history of the first soil conservation district formed in Colorado, the Great Divide Soil Erosion District, later known as the Colorado First Soil Conservation District. The three men provide some information about themselves but primarily discuss the history of Colorado First SCD--its formation, division into Yampa and Moffat, reunification. Controversy surrounding whether or... Transcript -- Tape 1, Side A -- Tape 1, Side B |
| Date | 1983-11-17 2017-08-14T22:45:06Z 2017-08-14T22:45:06Z |
| Type | Audio |
| Identifier | https://hdl.handle.net/10217/183401 |
| Language | English eng |
| Relation | wwdl Colorado First - interview/written history. 1983 Records of the Colorado Association of Soil Conservation Districts. Series 2: Business and financial records. Finding aid: https://lib2.colostate.edu/archives/findingaids/water/wcsc.html |
| Format | Tape 1, Side A: 30 minutes, 10 seconds Tape 1, Side B: 20 minutes, 46 seconds application/pdf audio/mpeg audio/mpeg |
| Coverage | Moffat County (Colo.) Yampa River Watershed (Colo.) 1937-1983 |
| Publisher | Colorado State University. Libraries |
| Source | Original: 1 audiocassette and transcript. 21 p. Administrative and draft material not scanned. |
