This archive contains five boxes of material donated by former McDowell Sonoran Conservancy Executive Director, Carla. These boxes are a collection of correspondence, meeting minutes and agendas, promotional material for citizen votes, and newspaper articles regarding the McDowell Sonoran Preserve and the Arizona Preserve Initiative.
Box 1 contains Preserve partnerships, Gateway to the Preserve background story, and documents pertaining to Citizen Vote Proposition 400 from May 23, 1995 and the "Save Our McDowells" campaign.
Box 2 contains documents pertaining to the Citizen Vote Proposition 404 from September 10, 1996 and Citizen Vote Propositions 410 and 411 from November 3, 1998.
Box 3 contains information pertaining to the Citizen Vote Question 1 from September 7, 1999 and the Arizona Preserve Initiative from 1998-2003.
Box 4 contains documents pertaining to the Citizen Vote Questions 1 and 2 from May 18, 2004.
Box 5 is a collection of newspaper articles concerning the Preserve from 1993-2012 and 2019.
Carla worked tirelessly for the first 15 years of the Preserve movement resulting in the creation and expansion of Scottsdale’s McDowell Sonoran Preserve. Since Scottsdale is her home, Carla wanted her material to stay in Scottsdale at the Scottsdale Public Library’s Scottsdale Heritage Connection. Attached is a brief biography.
See also digitized photographs, surveys and maps under McDowell Sonoran Preserve Pioneer Collection.
These materials were donated by Carla, Preserve Pioneer.
SCOTTSDALE HERITAGE CONNECTION ITEMS NEED TO BE REQUESTED THROUGH THE "ASK A LIBRARIAN" FEATURE AVAILABLE ON THE LIBRARY HOMEPAGE UNDER THE "SERVICES" HEADING.
Inventories attached.
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