This collection contains Linda Lear's research materials gathered for her biography Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature. It also contains published works by and about Carson.

This collection documents the work of the Conservation and Research Foundation records primarily documenting the grants that were awarded by the Foundation between 1953 to 2003.

This collection contains case studies, clippings, conference materials, correspondence, notes, photographs, presentations, publications, reports, and research documenting the life and work of ecologist William A. Niering.