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Scope and Content From the Collection: The collection contains a scrapbook created by Illing's family to honor his achievements. It also includes articles, correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs and maps associated with Richard G. Illing's fight to keep the Sandia Mountains in the Cibola National Forest from being overdeveloped. The Ellis Loop Forest Highway is a central theme of the collection and includes a paper written about the road. There are also various articles pertaining to forest conservation issues and...

Scope and Content From the Collection: The collection contains a scrapbook created by Illing's family to honor his achievements. It also includes articles, correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs and maps associated with Richard G. Illing's fight to keep the Sandia Mountains in the Cibola National Forest from being overdeveloped. The Ellis Loop Forest Highway is a central theme of the collection and includes a paper written about the road. There are also various articles pertaining to forest conservation issues and...

Scope and Contents Notebook containing 16 original watercolor paintings by Donald Waskey. The paintings comprise the political platform of Waskey, also known as Ulysses S. Grant, who campaigned as an independent candidate for governor of New Mexico in 1970. Waskey gave the notebook to the Illing family for safe-keeping in 1970. Added to the notebook by the Illing family are a December 1970 newspaper clipping relating to two murders at a Placitas commune committed by Waskey and a photocopy of a 1988 newspaper...

Scope and Contents 20 black and white photographs of Richard Illing and dogs near Sandia Crest, site of the proposed Ellis Loop Road, where timber had been cut and the road graded, January 1971.