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Durward Allen papers

 Collection — Box: Communal Collections 14, Placement: 10
Identifier: MSF 16

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of two articles that contain information about Professor Allen:

From Las Vegas Review Journal, May 21, 1990; "Yellowstone wants its wolves back".

From above publication; "Heed Call of Wild and Bring Wolves Back to Yellowstone, Say Experts".

From Salt Lake City Tribune, May 21, 1990, "Let Wolves Howl in Yellowstone, Experts Advise."

Dates

  • 1990

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material is in English.

Access Information

This collection is open for research.

Copyright and Use Information

Copyright held by original creators (journals, newspapers).

Biographical Information

Durward Leon Allen was a professor of Forestry and Conservation at Purdue University. He was born on October 10, 1910 in Uniondale, Indiana, and died of a heart attack on October 17, 1997, in West Lafayette, Indiana. Allen graduated from the University of Michigan in 1932 and completed his Ph.D. in 1937 at Michigan State College (now Michigan State University), where his doctoral research focused on the vertebrate fauna of lower Michigan farmland. He established his reputation in wildlife research while with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources from 1935-1946, studying the ecology of small game animals. Following military service with the Army in Europe from 1943-1945, Allen moved east to direct studies of wildlife on agricultural lands for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, eventually serving as acting director of research in 1953-1954. In 1954 Allen accepted an academic post in the Department of Forestry and Conservation (now Forestry and Natural Resources) at Purdue University, and in the same year he published a revolutionary critique of wildlife management, Our Wildlife Legacy (Funk and Wagnalls Co.). This book emphasized the need to maintain wildlife diversity for a multitude of values and was popular as a college text for 25 years. He went on to accomplish many more things in his career, and is noted as helping to establish wildlife conservation as a science.
Source: Rolf O. Peterson, L. David Mech, Harmon P. Weeks, Jr., and Charles M. Kirkpatrick. Wildlife Society Bulletin, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Spring, 1999): 239-240.

Extent

0.025 Cubic Feet (One folder)

Additional Description

Processing Information

Material has been placed into acid-free folder and box.

Related Names

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title
Durward Allen papers
Status
In Progress
Author
Amanda Rumba and Archives Staff
Date
2020-04-02
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
English
Edition statement
Second edition. Collection edition first completed by Archives Staff.

Revision Statements

  • 2020-04-02: Collection description updated by Amanda Rumba to more fully meet standards.

Physical Storage Information

Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the Purdue University Archives and Special Collections Repository

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