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The series comprises mainly typed minutes of meetings of the executive committee, discussing issues such as afforestation, the designation of special areas of Wales as national parks, national park administration, road and bridge schemes, preservation of historic buildings, planning regulations, housing and industrial developments, coastal development, siting of radio and television stations, construction of power stations and electricity lines, reservoir and hydro-electric schemes, nuclear energy, pollution, protection of wildlife and natural habitats. Recurrent high profile issues include Trawsfynydd nuclear power station, 1954-1965, 1975, Llyn Brianne, 1966-1969, 1973-1976, the Rio Tinto Zinc Corporation, 1966-1971, pumped water storage schemes at Dinorwic (Dinorwig), 1971-1973, 1976-1981, and the Severn Barrage, 1981-1989. The minutes include circulars concerning CPRW constitution and policy, annual events, conferences and representation on other bodies such as the National Trust and Nature Conservancy Council.

The file comprises articles, some of them accompanied by Condry's notes and correspondence with editors, on miscellaneous subjects, including Africa, autumn, birds and their habitats, birdwatching, migration, forests and woodlands, mammals, nature reserves, historical roads, mountains and moorlands, the Brecon Beacons, Snowdonia, Snowdonia National Park, other national parks, Housman's Shropshire, Walden in the USA, 44 articles for the Liverpool Post entitled 'A Welsh Nature Note', some dated between 1952 and 1959, untitled pieces on Gilbert White, William and Catherine Hutton, the 18th century Birmingham travellers, and the script of a radio programme involving a search for the Black Woodpecker in 1963. The file also includes a photocopy of 'The Breeding Birds of an Area of Central Wales', a report to the West Wales Field Society, which was published in The Naturalist in 1950.