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General information sheet on MORRC. Materials concerned with the basic activities of MORRC: correspondence, reports, budgets, news releases. Financial statement (July 1, 1964

Reports, questionnaire, review of appropriations, and other papers concerning ‘Operation Hindsight’ budget review for 1965.

Minnesota Senate voting record, 1965. Election Calendar, 1966. Recommendations of Republican task force, especially concerning conservation policies.

Materials mainly involving the Fort Snelling State Park: government reports and pamphlets, map, news clippings, news releases, correspondence. Minutes- Fort Snelling special subcommittee (Nov., 1965; Feb., 1966). Pamphlet on proposed restoration. Material on making the Fort a national monument.

Meeting schedules and agendas: letters, news releases and memos regarding meetings.

Series of studies done on the state parks, prepared for the inspection trips of the Parks Subcommittee.

Cancellation notices, news releases, and agendas relating to MORRC Hunting and Fishing Seminar at St. John’s College. Proposed meeting schedule, 1966. Correspondence involving sportsmen’s clubs, constituents, conferences, meetings.

Materials mainly relating to the state wetlands programs: correspondence, summary of discussion, reports, budgets, articles.

Wildlife practices: Agriculture Conservation. Chippewa National Forest. State legislation relating to Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act. University of Minnesota agricultural extension work.

Pertaining mainly to MORRC and its programs, Minnesota parks, and land use.

Reports and outline of Minnesota land and problems by Parker Anderson (1964). Correspondence on “cottage use study”- Minnesota Lakeshore League. 1964-1967 budget- Department of Administration, Land Acquisitions Division.

Minutes of Rules Committee. Request from Rules Committee to Civil Administration Committee for more funds.

Materials pertaining to the merger of SCAD with the Governor’s Commission on Human Rights, and the problems involved.

Study on the federal Grants-in-Aids and Planning Programs in Minnesota. Report on the profession of teaching at university level.

Deputies of state planning director. Proposed rules and regulations of the agency (1966). Copies of the bill and executive order creating the agency (1965).

Pamphlets no. 1-6, Developing Human Resources for Economic Growth.

Minutes- Unemployed Compensation Insurance Sub-Committee (1964). State reports on unemployment insurance and research and planning.

Reports and papers on water pollution throughout the state prepared by the Minnesota Water Pollution Commission. Resume on the federal program of study in the Upper Mississippi area.

Minutes of the Senate Public Welfare Standing Committee and the Sub-Committee on Public Welfare and Corrections.

Letter concerning the Mille Lacs-Kathio site. (Elden Johnson, state archeologist). Memo regarding the Minnesota Archaeological Society.

Correspondence. Secretary of Agriculture’s (Orville Freeman) Regulation and Administrative Guidelines. Maps showing timber zones and outboard motor and snowcraft use areas. Proposal for international sailing regatta on Lake of the Woods.

State and federal reports on traffic safety. Correspondence concerning the

Reports and news release concerning control of aquatic nuisance organisms in the state.

Minutes (February, 1964; April, 1966). Report concerning a proposed youth-resources programs and sub-committee a proposed youth-resources program and a sub-committee on par inspection.

Report: Third hearing on the park, Friday, June 18, 1965. Coverage of MORRC inspection trip. Correspondence concerning possible alternative sites. Editorial: Robert W. Bushnell, “Voyageur Park Respective”.

The Harren Papers contain mainly correspondence, government reports and pamphlets, news releases, clippings, minutes of various committees and subcommittees, legislative acts and bills, and special study reports that relate to the Senator’s legislative work. The majority of the items date between 1963 and 1966. The collection consists of three series: legislative subject files, Minnesota Outdoor Recreation Resource Commission (MORRC) subject files, and Miscellaneous Booklets and Pamphlets.

The legislative subject files relate to Harren’s work as a Minnesota state senator. They consist mainly of materials pertaining to the committees and subcommittees on which he served, and to special interests topics from his home district, such as the Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, and the Stearns County Planning Commission. Other major topics covered are conversation and natural resources, air and water pollution, unemployment, state aid, the State Planning Commission, the State Commission Against Discrimination (SCAD), and the Governor’s Commission on Human Rights, land ownership and exchange, the 1965 Home Remedies Bill, the State Electricity Board, and education in Minnesota.

The Minnesota Outdoor Recreation Resource Commission (MORRC) is a bi-partisan legislative commission designed to give active legislative leadership in guiding the state’s program to preserve and accelerate the development of its natural recreational resources. The MORRC files consist mainly of subject folders concerned with conservation in Minnesota, particularly parks and recreational areas. They include the 1963 legislative act creating MORRC, the 1965 amended version of the act, several folders containing the correspondence of various commission members and consultants, folders dealing with the administrational workings of the commission. There are files relating to major topics, such as state parks, historic sites, water resources, the Boundary Water Canoe Area, Voyageurs’ National Park, and the Board of Outdoor Recreation. The minutes of the commission’s meetings for the years 1963-1966 are also included.

The third series contains miscellaneous booklets and pamphlets from the years of 1954 to 1966. It includes geological surveys, MORRC Reports, air and water pollution materials, Minnesota Agricultural Experiment reports, and other miscellaneous pamphlets and booklets.

Correspondence and agendas of the department. Department booklet- Planning for Minnesota Communities

Materials mainly concerning land concepts, programs, and developments within the state, especially development of state parks, in cooperation with MORRC. Conservation Department Report.

List of sub-committee chairmen. Correspondence on appointment and acceptances.

Correspondence concerning meetings and speakers, generally involving urban renewal and development. Statement on water pollution control legislation, long-range plan and program including reorganization of Health Department. Proposed budget (1963-1964).

Reorganization of Game and Fish Division, and opposition by Minnesota Game Wardens

Reports and correspondence concerning city and county planning in Minnesota, especially pertaining to the city of Freeport and Stearns County.

Correspondence, reports, and newspaper clippings involving the filling of this post.

Proposed reform of Minnesota Electrical Law (1966). Director of State and Municipal Inspectors. Minutes—October, 1965.

MORRC study on location for permanent meeting and convention area for Girl and Boy Scouts, campers, hikers, etc. Correspondence on 1968 Girl Scout Round-up.

Correspondence concerning 1966 platform committee decisions.

Mainly correspondence between Governor Rolvaag and Harren pertaining to the Citizen Advisory Council of MORRC.

Pamphlet, The Expanding Role of History- A Legislative View by Richard W. Fitzsimons. Resignation of Russell W. Fridley as Director of the Society (2 letters, Oct. 6, 1965)

Materials concerned mainly with a proposed merger of the Governor’s Commission on Human Rights and State Commission Against Discrimination.