Preserve, Catalog, and Digitize Oral History, Video, and Film Collections of Yellowstone National Park- Student Internship

Project ID: P18AC01158

Federal Agency: National Park Service

Partner Institution: Western Washington University

Fiscal Year: 2018

Initial Funding: $91,075

Total Funding: $91,075

Project Type: Technical Assistance

Project Disciplines: Interdisciplinary

National Park: Yellowstone National Park

Principal Investigator: Jimerson, Randall

Agreement Technical Representative: James, Thomas

Abstract: This collaborative agreement between Western Washington University (WWU) and the National Park Service (NPS) will assist Yellowstone National Park (YNP) to preserve, catalog, and digitize for security and access approximately 22,000 archival items.
This nationally significant media collection documents a wide array of resources and activities in the world’s first national park. Subjects covered by the media collection include the 1988 fires–a watershed event in fire management not only for Yellowstone, but the entire resource management community; the reintroduction of the wolf–a capstone success for science, conservation, and resource management;
bison management from the early 1930s through the present; and what may be the earliest audio recordings of YNP’s geysers. The records visually and aurally document the status and management of the unique resources for which theYellowstone National Park Protection Act was passed in 1872.