Richard M. Leonard
Subtitle: mountaineer, lawyer, envionmentalist
By: tape recorded interview conducted 1972-1973 by Susan R. Schrepfer for the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California,
Contributors: Leonard, Doris Frances Corcoran.; Schrepfer, Susan R.; Farquhar, Francis Peloubet, 1887-; Kuhn, Marshall H., 1916-1978.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 1972
Subjects: Brower, David Ross, 1912-2000; Sierra Club; United States. Forest Service; United States. National Park Service; California. Governor's Redwood Park Commission; Conservation Associates (San Francisco, Calif.); Sierra Club Foundation; Trustees for Conservation; Lawyers -- California; Conservation of natural resources -- United States; Mountaineering -- United States; Forest conservation -- California; Nuclear energy -- United States; World War, 1939-1945; Wilderness areas -- United States; Water conservation -- United States; Dams; Logging -- West (U.S.); Diablo Canyon (Calif.)
Other titles: Sierra Club Oral history series.
Description: Some remarks by Doris Leonard, his wife, also included. Study of law, University of California, Berkeley; service during World War II; long association with Sierra Club (serving also as secretary and president) with information on the Club's main battles (dam construction, water and power rights, and logging in national parks, recreation facilities in wilderness areas, nuclear energy and power plants, multiple use and clearcutting in national forests), on the David Brower controversy, on Club litigation with lumber companies, and on more recent Club concerns; experiences mountaineering and the formation of the Club's Committee on Rockclimbing; work with U.S. National Park and Forest Services, and as a member of the Governor's Redwood Park Commission, and with other conservation organizations; organization of the Sierra Club Foundation and the Trustees for Conservation; the Wilderness Act and its impact.

Also included: comments by Doris Leonard on the role of Conservation Associates in the acquisition of Nipomo Dunes, Point Reyes and redwood forests. Photographs and copies of documentary material inserted and appended.
Table of contents: title: Reel 1: Nov. 10, 1972. Track 1: 920 ft., track 2: 918 ft.; title: Reel 2: Nov. 10, 1972. Track 1: 383 ft., track 2: blank; title: Reel 3: Dec. 5, 1972. Track 1: 1042 ft., track 2: 1041 ft.; title: Reel 4: Dec. 12, 1972. Track 1: 1050 ft., track 2: 1047 ft.; title: Reel 5: Dec. 12, 1972. Track 1: 662 ft., track 2: blank; title: Reel 6: Jan. 24, 1973. Track 1: 1012 ft., track 2: 944 ft.; title: Reel 7: Jan. 24, 1973. Track 1: 1016 ft., track 2: blank; title: Reel 8: Mar. 12, 1973. Track 1: 1050 ft., track 2: 1048 ft.; title: Reel 9: Mar. 27, 1973. Track 1: 1016 ft., track 2: 1019 ft.; title: Reel 10: Mar. 27, 1973. Track 1: 725 ft., track 2: blank; title: Reel 11: May 1, 1973. Track 1: (1 7/8 ips) 894 ft., track 2: 321 ft.; title: Reel 12: May 9, 1973. Track 1: 1018 ft., track 2: 1019 ft.; title: Reel 13: May 9, 1973. Track 1: 753 ft., track 2: blank; title: Reel 14 (cassette): Oct. 16, 1973. Track 1: 671 ft., track 2: 733 ft.; title: Reel 15 (cassette): Oct. 16, 1973. Track 1: 673 ft., track 2: blank; title: Reel 16 (cassette): Oct. 19, 1973. Track 1: 483 ft., track 2: 414 ft.; title: Phonotapes :