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"Gentle Ed" Box Turtle Photograph

 Item — Flat File: 4-2

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

Comprised of financial, contractual, and administrative records, framed photographs, photographs, negatives and slides, VHS tapes, CD's, diskettes, cassette tapes, quilts, plaques and other items of memorabilia, realia, ephemera, the McKeever Environmental Learning Center Collection provides an overview of the activities of the center between its inception and closing in 2018. Also contained in this collection are Institute for Environmental Education (IEE) scrapbooks and Pennsylvania Center for Environmental Education (PCEE) records.

Dates

  • 1975 - 2018
  • Majority of material found within 2008 - 2013

Extent

From the Collection: 14.25 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Materials Specific Details

Note on back of photograph reads "Ed is a member of the Nation's 1st Box Turtle project to use perpetual radiotelemetric retrieval, monitoring protection of individual turtles in an effort to rebuild an extirpated box turtle population. This project is hosted by McKeever Center in Sandy Lake.

Repository Details

Part of the Slippery Rock University Archives and Special Collections Repository

Contact:
315 Bailey Library
Slippery Rock University
Slippery Rock PA 16057
724-738-4295