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Register of the Sierra Club California Legislative Office Records, 1970-[ongoing]
BANC MSS 91/1 c
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Collection Title: Sierra Club California Legislative Office Records,
Date (inclusive): 1970-[ongoing]
Collection Number: BANC MSS 91/1 c
Collector: Sierra Club. California Legislative Office
Extent:
Number of containers: 7 cartons
Linear feet: 8.75
Repository: The
Bancroft Library.
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Languages Represented:
English
Collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft
Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which
must also be obtained by the reader.
[Identification of item] Sierra Club California Legislative Office Records, BANC MSS 91/1 c, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.
Title: Sierra Club Records,
Storage Unit: BANC MSS 71/103 c
Title: Sierra Club Members Papers,
Storage Unit: BANC MSS 71/295 c
Title: Sierra Club National Legislative Office Records,
Storage Unit: BANC MSS 71/289 c
Title: Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund Records,
Storage Unit: BANC MSS 71/296 c
Title: Sierra Club Foundation Records,
Storage Unit: BANC MSS 89/230 c
Title: Sierra Club International Program Records,
Storage Unit: BANC MSS 71/290 c
Title: Sierra Club Mountain Registers and Records,
Storage Unit: BANC MSS 71/293 c
Title: Sierra Club San Francisco Bay Chapter Records,
Storage Unit: BANC MSS 71/291 c
Title: Sierra Club Mother Lode Chapter Records,
Storage Unit: BANC MSS 71/292 c
Materials Cataloged Separately
Office newsletter,
The Legislative Agenda, has been transferred to the serials collection of The Bancroft Library.
The Sierra Club California Legislative Office began donating its records to The Bancroft Library in 1991. The office continues
to transfer groups of historical records in appropriate increments.
John Zierold, formerly the head of the California Planning and Conservation League, began advising the Sierra Club on state
legislative matters in the 1960s, and he became a full-fledged lobbyist for the club in 1970. Some of his early successes
included helping to pass the legislation which created the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, the [San Francisco] Bay Conservation
and Development Commission, and the California State Solid Waste Management Board. He also influenced laws on logging and
forestry management, nuclear safeguards, coastal zone management, and California's counterpart to the National Environmental
Policy Act.
When Zierold retired in 1984, his assistant, Michael Paparian, became the state director. Paparian currently supervises a
staff of experts in such areas as ancient forests, public lands, hazardous materials, and energy and water policy legislation.
The Sacramento office also maintains a consultative relationship with Sierra Club California, which is comprised of volunteers
from each California chapter.
The Sierra Club California Legislative Office, located in Sacramento, began in the late 1960s. It was one of the first offices
established to work strictly on state-level environmental legislation.The staff consists of a state director, currently Michael
Paparian, legislative representatives, the editor of the
California Legislative Agenda, and a fund-raising coordinator.
Records were received from the office in December, 1990. Most are files of former staff members. In June, 1991, the office
was destroyed in a fire.
The best-documented issues are energy-related, including liquefied natural gas, nuclear energy, and the California Energy
Commission. Water quality, hazardous substances, pesticides, and all terrain vehicles on public lands are subjects which can
be found in the papers of the state directors, legislative representatives, and the subject files.