Citizens Against Clearcutting in the Asheville Watershed (CACAW) Papers – M2016.04

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Summary Information

Repository
UNC Asheville Special Collections and University Archives
Title

Citizens Against Clearcutting in the Asheville Watershed (CACAW) Papers

ID
M2016.04
Date [inclusive]
1986-2016
Extent
5.5 Linear feet
Description note
The collection contains correspondence, press releases, news clippings, government reports, maps, photographs, and other documents.
Location note
Boxes 1-7 in Special Collections, Row 5, Section 1. Boxes 8-11 in Row 3, Section 5.
Language
English
Abstract
The Citizens Against Clearcutting the Asheville Watershed (CACAW) was a citizens group that worked to stop clearcutting in the Asheville watershed beginning in the late 1980s. The CACAW Papers contains correspondence, press releases, news clippings, and other materials that document the group’s actions.

Citation

[Identification of item], Citizens Against Clearcutting the Asheville Watershed Papers, D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804.

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Scope and Contents

The Citizens Against Clearcutting in the Asheville Watershed (CACAW) Papers were donated by Monroe Gilmour, who led the group’s efforts to stop clearcutting in the Asheville watershed. The papers document the group’s activities in various capacities, including meeting with Asheville city and water officials, attending City Council and other public meetings, writing public officials, holding informational meetings, gathering signatures, writing press releases and letters to the editor, soliciting support from individuals such as Hugh Morton (of Grandfather Mountain) and agencies such regional tourism boards, debating issues via correspondence and in public meetings, and raising public awareness of the issue.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

UNC Asheville Special Collections and University Archives

Ramsey Library, CPO # 1500
One University Heights
Asheville, North Carolina, 28804-8504
828.251.6645
speccoll@unca.edu

Access note

The collection is available for research.

Custodial History

The collection was donated by Monroe Gilmour in April 2016, with additional materials (boxes 8-11) donated in 2019..

Accruals note

Additional accruals are not expected.

Processing Information

Processed by Gene Hyde (boxes 1-7) and Michael Dennis (boxes 8-11).

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Collection Inventory

Box 1: CACAW 1987-1991 

  • Folder 1: Asphalt
  • Folder 2: Audubon Society, 1991
  • Folder 3: Watershed Allies, 1991
  • Folder 4: Alternative Watershed
  • Folder 5: Alternative Plan, 1992
  • Folder 6: Alternative Plan Coalition, 1991
  • Folder 7: General CACAW information
  • Folder 8: Newspaper Clippings (packets)
  • Folder 9: CACAW newspaper clippings
  • Folder 10: Conservation ads, 1993
  • Folder 11: CACAW mailings
  • Folder 12: 2/15/92 “Logging recommended again”
  • Folder 13: Citizens for Safe Drinking Water
  • Folder 14: CACAW allies
  • Folder 15: City Council Election, 1991
  • Folder 16: County Commissioners Resolution, 1991
  • Folder 17: CACAW meeting with city manager
  • Folder 18: CACAW history, 1998
  • Folder 19: Pro-clearcutting news clippings
  • Folder 20: CACAW history, 1989
  • Folder 21: CACAW “evidence”

Box 2: CACAW 1987-1991

  • Folder 1: CACAW Public Meeting
  • Folder 2: Blue Ridge Parkway
  • Folder 3: Blue Ridge Parkway statement on clearcutting
  • Folder 4: Black Mountain- Swannanoa Chamber statement on clearcutting
  • Folder 5: Talk at Black Mountain Presbyterian Church, 3/7/1990
  • Folder 6: Correspondence, 1990
  • Folder 7: Deceptions – Water Department
  • Folder 8: Action Sheet
  • Folder 9: “Draft” plan for North Fork
  • Folder 10: Article on draft watershed plan, May 1991
  • Folder 11: USDA report: oak decline areas
  • Folder 12: Earth First
  • Folder 13: Fire Report
  • Folder 14: Forester job duties
  • Folder 15: Foresters support clearcutting article
  • Folder 16: Guggenheim letter
  • Folder 17: Huff’s “issues” memo
  • Folder 18: Heiman study (North Fork Watershed)
  • Folder 19: Help us bring an end to clearcutting” letter, Charlotte Observer, 1991
  • Folder 20: Haywood Community College
  • Folder 21: Janes letter
  • Folder 22: Jocassee Watershed
  • Folder 23: “Don’t let it happen” letter
  • Folder 24: Maps, water authority, 1991

Box 3: Cacaw 1987-1991

  • Folder 1: McClintock
  • Folder 2: NC Natural Heritage
  • Folder 3: NC Forestry Association
  • Folder 4: NC Health Department Letters
  • Folder 5: “Notice”
  • Folder 6: Lead / Occupational Health
  • Folder 7: Powell Wholesale Lumber Company
  • Folder 8: Powell letters
  • Folder 9: Picnic Tables
  • Folder 10: Price McNab ads
  • Folder 11: Price
  • Folder 12: Watershed department salaries
  • Folder 13: Sierra Club – watershed
  • Folder 14: Road tour/ watershed tour
  • Folder 15: Quality Forward
  • Folder 16: Timber harvest report
  • Folder 17: CACAW budget letter

Box 4: Asheville Watershed 2003 Fight & Earlier Information  

  • Folder 1: Asheville Watershed 2003
  • Folder 2: Watershed easement
  • Folder 3: 1992 Asheville Watershed Management Plan
  • Folder 4: Meeting with mayor, 9/12/2006
  • Folder 5: Greenville watershed
  • Folder 6: Asheville Watershed “Forest Management Plan” comments
  • Folder 7: Blue Ridge Parkway foundation
  • Folder 8: Parkway photo (Photoshopped)
  • Folder 9: Asheville Watershed Working Group – Public
  • Folder 10: Mayor Worley
  • Folder 11: Water Authority – Wendell Begley
  • Folder 12: Access – Day Lighting Roads
  • Folder 13: Bryson City Watershed
  • Folder 14: Miscellaneous

Box 5: Asheville Watershed 2003 Fight & Earlier Information

  • Folder 1: Asheville Watershed 2003
  • Folder 2: Watershed easement
  • Folder 3: 1992 Asheville Watershed Management Plan
  • Folder 4: Meeting with mayor, 9/12/2006
  • Folder 5: Greenville watershed
  • Folder 6: Asheville Watershed “Forest Management Plan” comments
  • Folder 7: Blue Ridge Parkway foundation
  • Folder 8: Parkway photo (Photoshopped)
  • Folder 9: Asheville Watershed Working Group – Public
  • Folder 10: Mayor Worley
  • Folder 11: Water Authority – Wendell Begley
  • Folder 12: Access – Day Lighting Roads
  • Folder 13: Bryson City Watershed
  • Folder 14: Miscellaneous

Box 6: Rod & Gun Club and other materials 

  • Folder 1: “Drinking Water from Forests and Grasslands: A Synthesis of the Scientific Literature,” US Forest Service General Technical Report SRS-39, 2000
  • Folder 2: Miscellaneous. Includes 2004 talk by Monroe Gilmour, “Logging Municipal Watersheds: The Public’s Perspective.”
  • Folder 3: SAMAB (Southern Appalachian Man and the Biosphere)
  • Folder 4: “Clubhouse” (Rod and Gun Club) News Release
  • Folder 5: “Clubhouse” Mountain XPress, October 1997
  • Folder 6: “Clubhouse” News clippings
  • Folder 7: “Clubhouse” – Assorted documents
  • Folder 8: News clippings, correspondence

Box 7: Maps and Petition

  • Item: 5 maps of the Asheville Watershed produced by the Southern Appalachian Forest Coalition
  • Item: Petition to stop clearcutting – multiple pages taped together to form a continuous roll. The petition was presented by letting the sheets unroll.

Box 8:

  • Folder 1: File List
  • Folder 2: CACAW Flyer
  • Folder 3: CACAW Photos
  • Folder 4: CACAW Photos
  • Folder 5: CACAW Photos
  • Folder 6:CACAW Photos
  • Folder 7: Slides and Negative film
  • Folder 8: Script for presentation to the Asheville Buncombe water authority June 28th 1988
  • Folder 9: Francis Antony Turner Affidavit 1/29/2002
  • Folder 10: Newspaper clippings on clearcutting 2001
  • Folder 11: Correspondence With Tom Frederick
  • Folder 12: Letters and Photos, May 29th 1996
  • Folder 13: Asheville Watershed Conservation Easement 1996
  • Folder 14: CACAW Papers 1989-1991
  • Folder 15: Examples of Deception and Negative attitudes towards the public by the Asheville Buncombe Water authority
  • Folder 16: Newspaper clippings 1986-1991
  • Folder 17: Letters opposing the clearcut 1990-1991
  • Folder 18: Letter to Paul Bradley, Sprout Timber Sale, 9/2/1997
  • Folder 19: Oral History with Kathy Newfont Transcript, 8/21/1998
  • Folder 20: Cunningham Award, 97/99, Mary Kelly
  • Folder 21: Willamette  Chip Mill

Box 9: 

  • Folder 1: Tennessee Valley Authority chip mills, Nickajack port, 1991
  • Folder 2: Rutherfordton chipping Mill 1995
  • Folder 3: CACAW photos
  • Folder 4: Laurel Branch land advocacy, 1995
  • Folder 5: Laurel Branch
  • Folder 6: Bob Padgett 1987-11/25/1993
  • Folder 7: Republicans for Environmental Protection, recruitment, 11/18/1996
  • Folder 8: Toe Cane valley clear cut activism 1994-1997
  • Folder 9: Toe Cane

Box 10: 

  • Folder 1: “Vista Viewers” article by Bob Scott, 10/22/1987
  • Folder 2: USFS fees 9/19/1996
  • Folder 3: WNCA training materials
  • Folder 4: Walton Smith’s paper
  • Folder 5: Walton’s response 1991-1992
  • Folder 6: Walton’s green papers 1989-1992
  • Folder 7: Walton’s meeting 2/7/90
  • Folder 8: Glenda and Bob Zahner
  • Folder 9: Beetree road land sale 12/30/1991
  • Folder 10: Watershed activities report 1992
  • Folder 11: Wilderness Society (Richard Rice) 1991
  • Folder 12: Water Authority conservation program August 1991
  • Folder 13: Water Authority packet, Jewels Tour
  • Folder 14: Water Department Training Materials
  • Folder 15: Watershed Boils, WNCA Accent 6-1991

Box 11: 

  • Folder 1: Water Quantity report, 6/19/1990
  • Folder 2: Watershed Less Secure, Article by Betty Ballew, 10/10/1990
  • Folder 3: Watershed Clippings by Monroe Gilmour, 1991
  • Folder 4: Water Not Timber packet
  • Folder 5: Wilderness Society, Mountain Treasures at Risk
  • Folder 6: Thoughts for article
  • Folder 7: Warren Wilson paper on watershed by
  • Folder 8: Thomas Waldrop, Recent forestry publications 4/1991
  • Folder 9: “Best Source Available” by Daniel Okum, 3/1991
  • Folder 10: Light Hawk Pamphlet