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.