Peter McFerrin Clarke Collection
Manuscript Collection 227

Description

Papers, 1962 – 1970.
2.95 cubic ft.
East Hampton, N.Y., resident active in the Sag Harbor Advisory Council, Southampton Township Preservation Society, Southampton Town Conservation Commission, and the Preservation Society of the East End (which became part of the Suffolk County Conservation Council in the 1970s).
Collection contains: correspondence, minutes, clippings, drafts and notes relating to conservation and preservation of natural resources on the east end of Long Island.

Processed by F. Berenice Baez-Revueltas, September 2005.
Online finding aid by Kristen J. Nyitray, October 2006.

Container Listing

Box 1
Air
Air Pollution
Audibon
Bridge
Bunkers (Porgie, Menhaden)
Clippings
Committee for Coordinated Transport
Comprehensive Plan
Conservation
Conservation material
Con Edison
C.U.L.T.
DDT - Mosquitoes
DDT – Suffolk County
Dredge
Dutch elm disease

Box 2
East End
East End – Economy
East End – Planning
East End – Legal
East Hampton
Farm
Farm – Prices
Gardiners Island
Geyer
Hammer
Harbor Pollution
Jetport
Jetties
John, G.
Landmarks
Levon
Lists (names)
Logo
Long Island
Long Island – Rape
LIRR
McNicol, Douglas
Maps – Soils of Suffolk County
Maps – Southampton
Marine Biology

Box 3
Miscellaneous
National Trust for Historic Conservation
Nature
Nature Conservancy (2 folders)
New County
New PSEE
North Fork
Notice Boards
Pike
Poisons
Pollution
Preservation
PSEE and Local Issues
Press (2 folders)
Progress and History
Projects

Box 4
Publications – The “Best” Buy is Open Space
Publications – Conservation Advisory Agencies
Publications – The Conservationist
Publications – The Effect of Taxes
Publications – Environmental Action
Publications – Environmental Bill of Rights and Planning
Publications – Fish and Man
Publications – Golf Course Easements
Publications – Land Trusts
Publications – Mecox Bay
Publications – The Natural Resources of the East End
Publications – Regulating Population Development
Publications – Subsurface Hydrology and Future Water Supply of Southampton
Publications – SFI Bulletin
Publications – Soil Erosion on Long Island
Publications – Storm Over Storm King
Publications – Water Resources of the Town of Southampton (Dec., 1966)
Radio
Releases
Riverhead (12/7/1966)
Russians

Box 5
Sag Harbor (2 folders)
Sag Harbor – Advisory Council
Sag Harbor – Sewage
SCARE
Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference
Sewers (LI)
Signs
Southampton
Southampton – Master Plan
Southampton – Town Conservation Commission (2 folders)
Southampton – Township Conservation Society
Southampton – Zoning
Suffolk County Conservation Council
Trailers

Box 6
Transportation (LI)
Ugliness
Water (2 folders)
Water Pollution
Wetlands
Wildlife
Wilderness Society

Drawer 13
The New Yorker Magazine. Article by Morton Hunt