The Florida environmental records of Roy E. Bazire consist of ten and one half linear feet of manuscripts that date from 1955 to 1997. They are arranged in four separate series: 1) Sanibel, Florida; 2) Environmental Confederation of South West Florida; 3) Conservation Organizations; and 4) Documents. The divisions and folder titles are basically those used by Roy Bazire as he collected and organized these records. Material relating to certain subjects and organizations (such as Sanibel Island, the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation, the National Audubon Society, etc.) appear in more than one series, as per the donor's original arrangement. The first series relates more or less directly to the conservation efforts on Sanibel Island. The Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation, Inc., was a grassroots organization that set out to preserve the islands and control development. It was the direct successor of the J.N. "Ding" Darling Memorial Committee that worked with the Sanibel-Captiva Audubon Society as well as the Florida Audubon Society to create the J.N. "Ding" Darling Wildlife Refuge in the 1960s. The activities of these organizations are well documented with committee minutes and reports, correspondence from such notable people as Marjory Stoneman Douglas, land acquisition records, maps, etc. Roy Bazire's personal papers relating to Sanibel are also included here. The next section concerns the Environmental Confederation of South West Florida (ECOSWF). ECOSWF was organized in 1969 as a five-county coalition to protect the conservation interests in South West Florida. This section makes up the bulk of the collection and traces the coalition's history from the first planning conference, through annual records, by-laws, finances, and membership rolls. Projects, research, and workshops sponsored by ECOSWF are included as well. The third series documents an amazing number of Conservation organizations that formed in Florida during the 1960s and 1970s. Most were citizen environmental groups, ranging from Florida Defenders of the Environment to the Junior Museum & Planetarium of Lee County. The materials gathered in the final section under the title "Documents" consist primarily of published articles, papers, reports, newsletters, etc., documenting the Florida environmental scene. There are also preliminary reports, conference papers, and legislative statements filed in this series. An addendum was added in 1998, which includes a cross section of materials.