A collection of letters, telegrams, a map, notes, news clippings & a resolution. Examples are: a letter (1/1/59) from Conrad L. Wirth (Dir., National Park Service) & Wilson’s reply (1/6/59) re/ Wilson receiving an Annual Pass to the National Park System; a letter (1/30/59) from constituent Dr. Milton H. Ivans & Wilson’s reply (2/10/59) re/ Dr. Ivans’ ideas on an international medical center & an international sanctuary tied to the Border Park area; 10 letters from 5th grade students at Dewey School (Rm. 22), responses from Wilson & Richard E. McArdle (Chief, Sequoia, U.S. Forest Service) – March 1959 re/ the students’ environmental concerns over unnecessary logging in the Kern River Watershed and resultant damage - the Forestry Service remained pro timber harvesting; letters & news clippings (Mar.-Apr. 1959) re/ Imperial Beach, the border with Mexico, Ream Field, the Navy & other political disputes & controversies; a stapled packet of corresp. (Jan. – Apr. 1959) re/ a scheme to develop a cable car from the south rim of the Grand Canyon to the bottom of the canyon, which was opposed by the Secretary of the Interior and the National Parks; a copy of Attorney Edw. E. Marsh, Jr. (Clodfelter, Graves, Hewins & Marsh, El Cajon) letter (3/10/59) to Wilson & Wilson’s letter (3/25/59) to Secretary Seaton re/ Wilson’s support for this scheme to establish a cable car to the floor of the Grand Canyon; 5 letters & Wilson’s replies (Mar.-Apr. 1959) re/ opposition to the Forest Service’s road building plans for the Kern Plateau Forest to expand timber sales in this area close to Sequoia National Park; letters & Wilson’s reply (Jan.-Apr. 1959) re/ San Diego Chapter of the Sierra Club’s opposition to logging on the Kern River Watershed; a letter (5/16/59) & attached map from Irwin J. Naus (Clairemont Town Council) & Wilson’s reply (5/22/59) re/ a proposal to the City of San Diego “urging that San Clemente Canyon . . . be acquired for a public park site;” letters (Apr.-May 1959) from San Diego constituent Leo Finegold, Wilson & Walter W. Littell (Dir. of Policy and Research, Office of the American National Exhibit in Moscow) re/ Mr. Finegold’s application to serve as a guide for the exhibit in Moscow was not successful. There were over 700 applicants and 75 were accepted; phone message & Wilson’s reply (6/11/59) re/ El Cajon constituent Mrs. Ruth Knudsen’s “interest in opening a restaurant at the Cabrillo National Monument;” letters (6/59) re/ opposition to logging on the Kern River; letters (May-June 1959) re/ a San Diego constituent, Col. K. W. Stott (US AR. Ret.), complains about accommodations at Yosemite Park & the Park Service responds; letters (June-Sept. 1959) re/ responses to Boulder Oaks Resort owner Mrs. Pauline Peterson’s complaint against the Forest Service’s request to remove a service station neon sign; letters, typed copies of news articles & photocopy (Sept.-Oct. 1959) re/ details & complicated history of the Old Border Monument between Mexico and Imperial Beach; a letter (10/9/59), attached Resolution (9/25/59) & Leon Parma’s reply (10/21/59) re/ the County Supervisors Assn. of California’s resolution supporting “a full implementation of the multiple use program for the national forests.”