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Davis, Jack E., papers,

Abstract: Jack E. Davis was a South Puget Sound environmental activist with a particular interest in bird populations and their protection.

Biography: Jack E. Davis (1923-1998) came to Washington in 1970 and settled in Thurston County. Long interested in birds, he and his wife, Ada, were founding members of the Black Hills Chapter of the National Audubon Society in 1973, and remained lifelong active members.

Davis was an expert, self-taught birder with a particular interest in species protection. He was credited with single handedly restoring the purple martin populations to southern Puget Sound when they were on the brink of extinction. They turned their property into a wildlife sanctuary, which became a part of the Capitol Land Trust.

Davis was one of South Puget Sound’s leading environmental activists. He was considered to be a thorn in the side of developers who were determined to eradicate many pristine landscapes. In an interview he stated, “The bottom line is: there’s too many people. Growth, growth, growth—it’s like God’s word to developers and local politicians.” Davis was instrumental in the creation of several county parks, the Bowerman Basin National Wildlife Refuge in Grays Harbor County, and the Woodard Bay Natural Area Preserve.

Scope and Content: The papers consist of correspondence, subject files, newsletters, and miscellaneous reference materials, including clippings, pamphlets, environmental impact statements, and brochures, etc.

Davis incorporated all of his correspondence into the various subject files and that has been retained. Files include incoming and outgoing correspondence to public officials and communications to and from the many environmental organizations in which he played an active role.

The papers provide a rich resource for the study of a local environmental activist.

Inclusive dates: 1971-1993

Restrictions: None

Volume: 9 l.f.

Accession Number: 2003.123.1

Box 1

Folder Contents

Bowerman Basin/Friends of the Earth/Grays Harbor City

1 Bowerman Basin 1983-1985

2 Bowerman Basin 1984

3 Bowerman Basin Film Funding 1983

4 Bowerman Basin Information/Publicity 1980-1986

5 Bowerman/Point New NWR 1986-1987

6 Bowerman Basin National Wildlife Refuge 1987

7 Bowerman Basin NWR 1988

8 Bowerman Basin Wetlands/FOBB 1986

9 F.O.E. Alerts Grays Harbor 1983-1988

10 Friends of the Earth 1976-1995

11 Friends of the Earth/ Corps of Engineers/Taskforce Grays Harbor 1984-1987

12 Friends of the Earth/Corps of Engineers/Grays Harbor Request for Permits and Public notices 1982-1983

13 Grays Harbor- articles 1981-1983

14 Grays Harbor Estuary Management 1978-83

15 Grays Harbor Estuary Management Plan Preliminary Draft 1978

16 Grays Harbor Estuary Management Comments etc. 1987-1989

17 Grays Harbor maps

18 Grays Harbor news clippings 1981-1987

19 Grays Harbor National Wildlife Refuge #1 1987-1988

20 Grays Harbor NWR #2 1989

21 Grays Harbor refinery Quartz Hill Molybdenum Draft State and Federal Environmental Impact Statement 1986

22 Grays Harbor – US Borax - Molybdenum 1987

23 Hoquiam Permit Appeal 1982-1987

24 USF and WS Refuges 1990-1992

Lewis County

25 Centralia – Chehalis Flood Reduction Study (F&WS) 1980

Nisqually

26 Nisqually Basin Luhr Beach Facility 1981

27 Nisqually Basin Luhr Beach Facility Development Timeline 1981

28 Nisqually Delta 1981-1985

29 Nisqually Reach Nature Center 1990

30 Nisqually NWR Birds 1984-1987

31 Nisqually River Task Force 1986

32 Nisqually River “Glacier to the Sound” 1983

Box 2

Folder Contents

Thurston County

1 Black River Heli-port 1985

2 Camp Kenneydale County Park 1984-1985

3 Clearing Ordinance – Thurston County 1984-1985

4 Deschutes Falls 1986

5 DNR-Conservation Areas 1986

6 Environmentally Sensitive Areas – Thurston County 1985

7 EQC (Thurston County Environmental Quality Council) 1985

8 Gull Harbor – “Back Door Conversion” 1985

9 Illegal Filling 1984-1986

10 Inlet Protection “Geologically Sensitive Areas” 1985

11 Lawrence Lake 1977-1987

12 Marine Structures 1982-1989

13 Maytown Wildlife Preserve 1987

14 McAllister Springs Hatchery 1978-1980

15 McAllister Springs Protection 1988-1990

16 Olympia-Tumwater Shorelines Capitol Lake Project 1982-1990

17 Percival Cove (Fish versus Birds) 1984-1985

18 Port of Olympia 1988-1989

19 Rolling Hills 1984-1988

20 Spurgeon Creek 1989

21 Thurston County Comprehensive Plan 1985-1991

22 Thurston County Planning 1979-1981

23 Thurston County Wetland

24 Urban Growth Management Committee 1991

25 Watershed Program/PSWQ 1987

26 Wetland Draining 1986-1990

27 Wetlands 1985-1987

28 Woodland Creek

Box 3

Folder Contents

Birds

1 Birdathons 1986-1997

2 Bluebirds 1984-1988

3 Bluebirds and Weyerhaeuser 1976-1982

4 Breeding Bird Atlas 1984-1988

5 Christmas Bird Count #1 1982-1989

6 Christmas Bird Count #2 1978-1982

7 Kavanaugh Band-Tailed Pigeons 1990-1992

8 Kestrels 1985-1982

9 Local Bird Species 1980-1992

10 Old Growth-Spotted Owl 1985-1991

11 Olympia Christmas Bird Count 1986-1991

12 Point Reyes Bird Observatory 1989

13 Purple Martins #11981-1992

14 Purple Martins #2 1978-1995

15 Purple Martins #3 1978-1985

16 Purple Martins #4 1994-1998

17 Shorebird Migration 1990

18 Spotted Owl Listing-ESA 1986

19 Spotted Owl 1979-1983

20 Wetlands and Waterbird Conservation 1987

Coastal

21 Coast Alliance 1989-1992

22 Coastal Barrier Beaches #1 1978-1991

23 Coastal Barrier Beaches #2 1985-1988

24 Coastal Zone Management 1988-1991

25 Coastal Zone Management-Washington Department of Ecology

Box 4

Folder Contents

1 Commencement Bay Mess – Superfund Sites and Clean Up 1981-1992

2 C.U.S.P. Shorelines, CZM etc. 1982-1988

3 Pierce County Shoreline

4 Puget Sound Dredge Proposal 1987-1990

5 Ocean Shores Seawall 1992

6 Seaports

7 Shore (MIS) Management 1971-1990

Forest/Timber/Wildlife

8 Backyard Wildlife

9 Department of Wildlife #1

10 Department of Wildlife #2

11 Department of Wildlife #3

12 Endangered Species

13 Evergreen Wolf Reintroduction

14 Forest/Floods, etc.

15 Forest Land Management Plan 1983

16 Forest Practices

17 Highway Wildlife Project

18 Juniper Forest – BLM

19 Livestock Grazing – Public Lands 1989-1991

20 Marine Mammals

21 New Wildlife Department

22 Olympic National Forest

23 Outdoors West

24 Sea Otters

25 Timber, Fish and Wildlife (TFW) 1990

26 Urban - Suburban Wildlife

27 Washington Wildfire 1987-1991

Environmental Issues/Water policy/Energy

28 Columbia Basin Project-Bureau of Reclamation

29 Conboy Lake-NWR

30 Cyprus Island Issue

31 Energy #1 1980-1991

32 Energy #2 1975-1980

33 ECON News 1990-1991

Box 5

Folder Contents

1 Hazardous Waste

2 National Environmental Policy Act Regulations 1978

3 National Environmental Policy Act Revised Implementing Procedures 1981

4 Natural Heritage Program

5 New Hydroelectric Dams

6 Northwest Coalition Pesticides #1 1990-1992

7 Northwest Coalition Pesticides #2 1988-1989

8 Northwest Coalition Pesticides #3 1986-1987

9 Public Lands

10 Puget Sound Water Quality Authority

11 Sec. 303 and 208-Water Quality

12 SEPA-State Environmental Policy Act and DOE 1981-1983

13 Siouxon - Integrated Resource Project 1990-1993

14 Trash and Garbage Disposal

15 Use of Chemicals

16 Washington Environmental Council 1981-1987

17 Washington State Environmental Issues

18 Washington Toxics Coalition 1986-1989

19 Water Quality-Pollution Control/ Hope and Talbot – Port Ludlow 1984

Associations

20 Action Alert-NAS

21 Black Hills-Business

22 Black Hills-Publicity

23 Black Hills (BHAS) Board Meetings 1982-1987

24 Black Hills Board Meetings 1988-1990

25 Council for a Livable World

26 Defenders of Wildlife

27 Earthfirst

28 Earth Island Institute #1 (Dave Brower 1991-1992)

29 Earth Island Institute #2 1989-1990

Box 6

Folder Contents

1 Earth Island Institute #3 1988

2 Earth Island Institute #4 1985-1987

3 Greenpeace

4 Leadership Conference 1981

5 League of Conservation Voters

6 National Audubon Society-Washington

7 NARFE

8 Sierra Club

9 The Nature Conservancy 1977-1995

10 Wilderness Society

Out of State Subject Files

11 Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

12 Malheur Lake/NWR

13 Mono Lake

14 Mono Lake Newsletter 1988-1991

15 Redwood National Park

16 Tongas National Forest

Miscellaneous-cartoons/articles/correspondence/people

17 Cartoons

18 Correspondence

19 Daily Olympian Stories

20 Daily “O” QUED

21 Dixy Lee Ray - The Saga of a Fathead

22 Ethics and the Environment

23 Wolf, Hazel

24 Jobs, Work, and the Rejected Talent

25 Magazine articles published and letters 1972-1976

26 Miscellaneous articles for publication

27 Miscellaneous news clippings

28 Personal letters from Vicki Mercer

29 Personal letters, etc., from Walter Rue

30 Re: Endrin-newspaper article

31 Speech (Puget Sound Environmental Education Clearinghouse)

32 Subjects for articles

33 Tyra Lindquist Workstudy Program 1981

34 Miscellaneous correspondence and articles