[Events - Travel - Bus Trips]

[various]

Rocky Mountain Farmers Union

Contains 5 photos:

(1) Wyoming coal strip conference, 1974. Water samples tested on the property of farmer Larry Land indicated dangerous contamination by chemical wastes from the Rocky Mountain Arsenal.

(2) RMFU members on a field trip in southeastern Wyoming with Congressman Teno Roncalio, 1973.

(3) Farmers Union Members Gail Prostrollo and Bill Meier watch the 325-foot-long drag line scooping up 55 cubic yards of coal at the Colorado Energy Fuels strip mine near Oak Creek. Nearly 40 RMFU members took a bus tour of the Western Slope in September, 1981 to study the impact of energy development on Western Colorado agriculture. Photo by Steve Holdren (RMFU)

(4) Tour of strip-mining coal, Routt County, c. 1972.

(5) Energy tour, 1974. Routt, Moffat and Rio Blanco County RMFU members visiting oil shale, coal strip mines, and power plants. State Representative Kathleen Sullivan Kelley (future RMFU president) speaking to group.

Colorado State University. Libraries

1972 - 1981

Still Image

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ARMFPPSa100023IIB1

RMFU0477; RMFU0482; RMFU0508; RMFU0524-525

Original: photos; black and white, color; various sizes.

Records of the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union, Colorado Agricultural Archive, Archives and Special Collections, Colorado State University; Photographic Prints Series; Subseries IIB1: Events - Travel - Bus Trips. Finding Aid: "http://lib.colostate.edu/archives/findingaids/agriculture/armf.html"

1972 - 1981