RG 022 Conservation Commission

In 1917, the 37th General Assembly created the State Board of Conservation later renamed the Conservation Commission. The commissions primary duties were to make recommendations for acquirement of land for state parks and administer the parks. On July 1986, the Conservation Commission, the Department of Water, Air and Waste Management, Geological Survey and the part of the Energy Policy Council were combined into the newly created Department of Natural Resources. All of these former entities have separate record group designations. The following is a partial list of records from the Conservation Commission in our holdings. A complete list of record series is available at the Research Center in Des Moines.