Butler, Stuart L. (1931-2006) Added Papers, 1981-2004
Held by The Filson Historical Society
Creator: Butler, Stuart, 1931-2006
Title: Added Papers, 1981-2004.
Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for these papers, contact the Collections Department.
Size of Collection: 2 cu. ft.
Location Number: Mss. A B985a
Scope and Content Note
Papers collected by Butler while being involved in a variety of environmental groups and causes. The groups include The Seirra club and the Buckley Hills Audubon Society. The causes include logging in the Daniel Boone National Forest, the Red Cockaded Woodpecker, Kentucky River clean-up and McConnell’s Spring preservation. There are many letters from Kentucky politicians discussing environmental issues and the labor movement/campaign finance issue involving PACs.
Related collections:
Butler, Stuart L. (1931-2006) Papers, 1966-2006
Biographical Note
Born in Middleboro, Massachusetts in 1931, Stuart Butler moved to Versailles, Kentucky in 1958, where he spent the rest of his life. Although he was employed as an engineer by Texas Instruments until 1991, Butler was also an avid caver and environmental activist. As a member of a local caving “grotto”, Butler led countless trips into caves across Kentucky, including a number of exploratory expeditions for state and local governments, aimed at a better understanding of the region’s karst landscape and its impact on issues such as flooding. Butler was also active in a number of regional environmental organizations, including the Cumberland Chapter of the Sierra Club and the Buckley Hills Audubon Society, and served on a number of citizens’ advisory councils, such as the one for Raven Run Nature Sanctuary, in Lexington, Kentucky. Butler also served as Woodford County’s director of disaster emergency services from 1967 to 1997. Butler died of cancer in 2006, at the age of 75.
Folder List
Box 1
Folder 1: City/County Clean up, 1990.
Folder 2: Minutes of Excom meeting, 1990-1991.
Folder 3: Kentucky River Basin Steering Committee meeting minutes, 1989.
Folder 4: Clean water material, 1995.
Folder 5: Sierra Club, Misc. material, 1988-1989.
Folder 6: Misc. Newspaper clippings, 1980-1983.
Folder 7: Forest File – Daniel Boone National Forest, 1995.
Folder 8: Forest, Misc., 1991-1992.
Folder 9: USFS Letters, etc. – Daniel Boone National Forest material, 1991-1993.
Folder 10: Proposed actions – USFS, 1990-1993.
Folder 11: Sierra Forest Watch, 1989-1990.
Folder 12: Policies USFS, 1989-1992.
Folder 13: Storm Damages USFS, 1990-1991.
Folder 14: USFS Timber Information, 1991.
Folder 15: Boone Karst – Caves in Daniel Boone National Forest, 1991-1992.
Folder 16: Friends of Jessamine Creek, 1993.
Folder 17: USFS – Bankhead District, 1991-1992.
Folder 18: Rescue Ambulance, 1996.
Folder 19: Woodford County Civil Defense, 1997.
Folder 20: Rescue Letter, 1982.
Folder 21: Rescue Equipment Companies, undated.
Folder 22: Misc. Rescue papers, 1974-1998.
Folder 23: ACCA (American Cave Conservation Association) brochures, newsletters and magazines, 1982-1994.
Folder 24: Woodford Hospital monthly reports, 1995.
Folder 25: Census Pay Info, 2000.
Folder 26: Red Cockaded Woodpecker, 1994.
Folder 27: Red Cockaded Woodpecker, Editorials and correspondence, 1993-1994.
Folder 28: Forest Service meeting, 1991.
Folder 29: Forest Watch, spotted owls and clear cutting, 1989-1991.
Folder 30: Heartwood/ASPI, 1991.
Folder 31: Save American Forests – Newsletters, 1989-1992.
Folder 32: Heartwood – Correspondence, etc., 1991-1992.
Folder 33: ASPI (Appalachia – Science in the Public Interest) – Newsletters, 1991-1992.
Folder 34: Mid-South Electric, 1994.
Folder 35: Kentucky Waterways Alliance River Authority, 1993.
Folder 36: Friends of McConnel Springs correspondence, etc., 1995.
Folder 37: Kahn’s Licking River, 1992.
Folder 38: Kentucky River Sweep, 1968-1991.
Folder 39: Tom and Linda House Proposal, 1990-1995.
Folder 40: TI stock information, 1986-1991.
Folder 41: Fair Board – Notes from Woodford County Fair, 1988-1990.
Folder 42: Fayette County Science Fair, 1989.
Box 2
Folder 43: McConnell’s Spring ’75, 1975.
Folder 44: McConnell’s Spring “87”, 1987.
Folder 45: Friends of McConnell’s Spring, 1993-1994.
Folder 46: McConnell Spring notes, 1987-1996.
Folder 47: McConnell’s Spring transparencies, undated.
Folder 48: Wood Duck Program, 1988.
Folder 49: Rock Climb management guide, etc., 1994-1996.
Folder 50: Stanton Ranger District, 1991-2003.
Folder 51: Kentucky River Authority clean sweep materials, 1992.
Folder 52: Copper printing plates – Woodford County maps, undated.
Folder 53: Offutt-Cole Tavern, 1983.
Folder 54: Eagle Creek proposed dam, 1991-1992.
Folder 55: Eagle Creek studies on wildlife, 1991.
Folder 56: 206 Review 12/4/81 forest materials, 1981.
Folder 57: Leatherwood Rav. storm damaged forest, 1994.
Folder 58: Newspaper Articles – O’Rear house, medical aid to Ecuador, and Shopping, 2004.
Folder 59: GRD Water ’93, 1993.
Folder 60: Politician letters Larry Hopkins, Walter D. Huddleston, Wendell Ford, Mitch McConnell and Shirley M. Green, 1981-1991.
Folder 61: Caves of Rockcastle County by James R. Rebmann and Gary A. O’Dell, 1972.
Folder 62: Buckley Hills Audubon Society, 1988-1990.
Folder 63: Ky. For The C’Wealth (KFTC) – Newsletter, 1989-1990.
Folder 64: Information on Bats, 1987-1989.
Folder 65: Audubon Society Stuart Butler Service Recognition certificates, 1997-2002.
Folder 66: Loose papers – Raven Run, etc., 1990-2003.
Folder 67: Kentucky Audubon Council, 1986.
Folder 68: Frankfort Flooding report, 1994.
Folder 69: Daniel Boone National Forest reports and correspondence, 1992-1994.
Folder 70: Misc. Loose Papers, 1993-1994.
Folder 71: Groundwater protection plans and Soil and Water Conservation Peer Group, 1993-1994.
Folder 72: Forestry – Bill Martin, 1993.
Folder 73: Sierra Club – Meeting minutes, correspondence, and newsletters, 1988-1993.
Folder 74: Kentucky Speleofest, 1987, 1992.
Folder 75: Misc. Forestry papers, 1989-1996.
Folder 76: Misc. Correspondence, 1991-2001.
Folder 77: Misc. Booklets and name badges, 1988-1994.
Subject Headings
Audubon societies – Kentucky.
Caves – Kentucky.
Daniel Boone National Forest (Ky.).
Environmentalism – Kentucky.
Ford, Wendell H., 1924-2015.
Forest conservation.
Hopkins, Larry Jones, 1933-2021.
Huddleston, Walter D. (Walter Darlington), 1926-.
McConnel, Mitch, 1942-.
McConnell’s Spring (Lexington, Ky.).
National Speleological Society.
Red-cockaded woodpecker.
Sierra Club. Cumberland Chapter.