Preliminary Report and Working Plan for the Bates Forest, undated

The records of the Bates Forestry Department contain correspondence, reports, maps and drawings, and financial and legal documents. These records detail the activities concerning the operation of the Department as well as the forest lands owned by Bates College. Much of the correspondence is to and from President Clifton D. Gray. Included herein are files pertaining to a suit brought by the town of Lyman, Maine, as well as the action that eventually ended the existence of the Bates Forest and the Forestry Department.