NWRC Institutional Records --
Scope and Contents
Materials in this collection are dated from 1920-2016. Materials are mostly paper documents and bound reports which include budget records, building plans, publications, research, safety records, conference and meeting agendas, and history of the NWRC. Other materials in this collection are photographs, slides, images, video, transparencies, and digital files.
Dates
- Creation: 1920-
Creator
- National Wildlife Research Center (U.S.) (NWRC) (Organization)
Biographical / Historical
The National Wildlife Research Center can trace its beginning to July 1, 1885 and the establishment of the USDA/Division of Entomology/Section of Economic Ornithology. The Economic Ornithologist was tasked with studying the food habits of birds and their migration in relation to insects and plants. A year later the section expanded to include mammal research and became the Division of Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy still within the USDA. After a decade it was believed a name change would better reflect the research being conducted, so in 1896, the Division became the Division of Biological Survey which was upgraded to the rank of Bureau in 1905 with three Divisions: Economic Investigations, Geographic Distribution, and Game Preservation.
Over the next 35 years, The Bureau of Biological Survey (BBS) expanded the original mission to include not only studying and controlling wildlife in relation to agriculture and horticulture in America. The BBS had several research districts throughout the United States where local scientists furthered its mission.
In 1921, the Predatory Animal Research Laboratory was moved to Denver, CO, brought under the BBS Division of Economic Investigations (later the Division of Predatory Animal and Rodent Control), and renamed Control Methods Research Laboratory (CMRL). The laboratory investigated poisons and their preparation and use to control predators and rodents. An additional laboratory was established in Denver in 1931 under the Division of Food Habits Research to study food habits and bird control.
As part of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, federal agencies were reorganized and consolidated in 1939 and 1940. The USDA/BBS and USDI/Bureau of Fisheries were merged to form the USDI/Fish and Wildlife Services (FWS). In Denver, the Control Methods and Food Habits units and laboratories were merged to become the Denver Wildlife Research Laboratory (DWRL). In the 1950s, FWS was reorganized again, the Branch of Predator and Rodent Control was renamed the Division of Wildlife Services, and the DWRL was renamed the Denver Wildlife Research Center (DWRC). In 1967, DWRC was assigned international research programs to aide in protecting world food crops from pests. Several name changes, reorganizations, abolishments, and creations in the 1970s caused the DWRC to be shifted several times, finally settling in the Division of Animal Damage Control (ADC).
Because ADC and DWRC research was closely related to agriculture, livestock, and food production, attempts were made to move ADC back to the USDA through the mid-1980s. Finally, in April 1986 legislation was passed that transferred the DWRC to USDA/APHIS/ADC.
DWRC built Building 16 at the Denver Federal Center (DFC) in Lakewood, CO in 1964 to be its headquarters. Evaluation of the DWRC in the mid -1980s found the facilities to be inadequate, substandard, and in need of total renovation. General Service Administration (GSA) restriction of animals housed at the DFC meant DWRC would need to relocate its animal facilities. Colorado State University (CSU), which had been considered as a location for DWRC headquarters back in 1964, was chosen for the relocation and a lease for 43 acres at the foothills campus was signed in 1990. Construction began in 1993 and was completed in the early 2000s. The 1990s also saw two final name changes to reflect changes in mission and location: ADC became Wildlife Services (WS) and DWRC became the National Wildlife Research Center (NWRC). In addition to NWRC headquarters, several field stations across the US are a part of WS.
Today the work of the NWRC supports WS’s mission to provide Federal leadership and expertise to resolve wildlife conflicts to allow people and wildlife to coexist. Partnerships with other government agencies, stakeholders, and cooperators in the US and internationally further NWRC’s research into avian conflicts with livestock and aviation, invasive species, and wildlife diseases such as rabies.
The Institutional Records Collection captures the NWRC’s transitions, research, and operations throughout its long history. This collection captures the institutional history of the Center through records created and/or collected in the course of doing business at the NWRC. These records reflect daily operations at the NWRC, research and outreach done, and the history of the Center and originated in the Director’s Office, budget office, human resources, facilities, safety officer, laboratories, and field stations.
Full Extent
40 linear feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The NWRC Institutional Records were originally produced and/or collected in various offices at the NWRC including the Director’s Offices, Safety Office, Administrative Unit, Information Services Unit, Human Resources, and Research Laboratories. The records in Series I came to the archive between April 2009 and April 2016. Series II does not have any records and will house future records as they are accrued. Records in the NWRC Institutional Records collection are no longer active and have lasting historical significance to the NWRC and support its mission and research.
Arrangement
The NWRC Institutional Records collection is arranged into two series and each series is further arranged into subseries. Series I: Institutional Records, 1920-2016 is arranged into thirteen subseries titled according to APHIS Records Management schedule codes. Further series will be added to accommodate accruals to the collection.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The records in NWRC 0020 came to the archive from several offices and departments in NWRC. The majority of records arrived from the Director’s Offices. Budgetary records came from the Administration Unit. ENQL records came from the Safety Officer and Chemistry Section. Many of the records in INF came from the Public Affairs Office.
Separated Materials
Oversized materials were separated from the collection and rehoused in a large flat box numbered Box 101 of 101 with the collection in Room A206A and in Map Case A, Drawer 09, in Room A205B.
Digital Materials were migrated to the archives server.
Legal Status
Copyright restrictions may apply. User is responsible for all copyright compliance.
Processing Information
Folder titles were supplied by originating offices and provided by archivist when needed. Originally this collection consisted of approximately 48 LF of materials. During processing, photographs and slides were placed in protective sleeves, oversized items were moved into a large flat box or a map case drawer, and all digital files were migrated to the archives server. Duplicate materials were removed and some records were moved to other collections.
Processing of what is now NWRC 0020 began in April 2009 as a records management project. Nancy Freeman, Records Manager/Archivist, and Jeff Glans, Director’s office, worked together to organize and weed administrative records with the goal of bringing those records into alignment with APHIS records management retention schedule. Records of historic significance were then accessioned into the Archives. This initial project was completed in spring of 2010 and named the Admin DO Collection. Other accessions in the Archives were added to the Admin DO Collection, and records from several NWRC offices were added to the collection over time.
In January 2016, all unaccessioned and found in collection records in the Admin DO Collection were accessioned and the collection was renamed NWRC 0020 – NWRC Institutional Records. Original Records Management codes were maintained purely for arrangement purposes. The Uncoded subseries was created for materials that had not been previously assigned records management codes. These materials were brought to the archive, weeded by the previous archivist, and then added to the Admin DO collection in unprocessed records boxes. When uncoded materials matched coded folders such as publications or patents they were given the same code and added to the appropriate subseries. Processing of Series I was completed in March 2016.
Source
- NWRC Administrative Unit (Organization)
- NWRC Director's Offices (Organization)
- NWRC Safety Office (Organization)
Subject
- United States. Department of Defense (DoD) (Organization)
- United States. Department of Defense. Legacy Resources Management Program (Organization)
Cultural context
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Administrative management
- Animal rights activists
- Bait stations
- Baits
- Brown tree snakes
- Budgets
- Compound 1080
- Conferences
- Cooperative research
- Coyotes
- DRC-1339
- Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
- Environmental assessment (EA)
- Field Stations
- Hazardous waste
- Invasive Species Research Building (ISRB)
- Needs assessment
- Prairie dog control
- Quelea
- Research priorities
- Wildlife Science Building (WSB)
- These folders have been removed from the collection and transferred to the NARA Denver Federal Records Center. Chemical and Hazardous Waste Disposal, 1988-1992 Chemical and Hazardous Waste Disposal and Move from Eastbrook, 1999 January Hazardous Waste Disposal, 1988-1991 Hazardous Waste Disposal, 1988 April Hazardous Waste Disposal, 1988 September Hazardous Waste Disposal, 1989 March Hazardous Waste Disposal, 1989 October Hazardous Waste Disposal, 1990 March Hazardous Waste Disposal, 1990 August Hazardous Waste Disposal, 1991 March Hazardous Waste Disposal, 1991 July Hazardous Waste Disposal, 1992 February Hazardous Waste Disposal, 1992 August Hazardous Waste Disposal, 1993 February Hazardous Waste Disposal, 1993 August Hazardous Waste Disposal, 1994 June Hazardous Waste Disposal, 1995 June Hazardous Waste Disposal, 1996 May Hazardous Waste Disposal, 1997 April Hazardous Waste Disposal, 1998 May Hazardous Waste Disposal, 2000 March Hazardous Waste Disposal, 2001 March Hazardous Waste Disposal, 2002 March Hazardous Waste Disposal, 2003 January Hazardous Waste Disposal, 2004 January Hazardous Waste Disposal, 2005 February Hazardous Waste Disposal, 2006 April Hazardous Waste Disposal, 2007 May Hazardous Waste Disposal, 2008 April Hazardous Waste Disposal, 2009 January Hazardous Waste Disposal, 2009 July Hazardous Waste Disposal, 2010 February Hazardous Waste Disposal, 2010 August Hazardous Waste Disposal, 2011 February Hazardous Waste Disposal, 2011 September Hazardous Waste Disposal, 2012 April Hazardous Waste Disposal, 2012 August Hazardous Waste Disposal, 2013 February Hazardous Waste Disposal, 2013 August Hazardous Waste Disposal, 2014 February Hazardous Waste Disposal, 2014 September Hazardous Waste Disposal, Hilo Field Station, 2015 April Hazardous Waste Disposal, 2015 April Hazardous Waste Disposal, 2016 January Hazardous Waste Disposal, 2017 January Hazardous Waste Disposal, 2017 July Hazardous Waste Disposal, 2018 May Hazardous Waste Disposal, 2019 February Hazardous Waste Disposal, 2022 November Hazardous Waste Disposal, 2024 March Hazardous Waste Disposal Processes and Procedures, 1990, 1992 Hazardous Waste Disposal: B-16 Chemical Storage, 1986-1991 Hazardous Waste Disposal: Chemistry Section Records, 1987-1988 Hazardous Waste Disposal: Chemistry Section Records, 1989 Hazardous Waste Disposal: Chemistry Section Records, 1990 Hazardous Waste Disposal: Chemistry Section Records, 1991 Hazardous Waste Disposal: Chemistry Section Records, 1991 August Hazardous Waste Disposal: Chemistry Section Records, 1992 February Hazardous Waste Disposal: Chemistry Section Records, 1992 August Hazardous Waste Disposal: Chemistry Section Records, 1993 Hazardous Waste Disposal: Field Station, Logan, 2006 February Hazardous Waste Disposal: Field Station, Olympia, 1994 Hazardous Waste Disposal: Field Station, Olympia, 2009 September Hazardous Waste Disposal: Field Station, Sandusky, 2009 August Hazardous Waste Disposal: Field Station, Starkville, 1994 Hazardous Waste Disposal: SRM, 1988 (1 of 2) Hazardous Waste Disposal: SRM, 1988 (2 of 2) Hazardous Waste Disposal: SRM, 1989 (1 of 2) Hazardous Waste Disposal: SRM, 1989 (2 of 2) Marco of Iota, 1988-1998 (1 of 2) Marco of Iota, 1988-1998 (2 of 2)
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the National Wildlife Research Center Archives Repository