This fifty-six box collection consists of the professional papers of Senator John Holmgren and concern his political activities during the period of 1981 to 1989. His papers consist of correspondence, reports, personal notes, legal papers, and various other papers. The topics documented in this collection include Utah's economy, agriculture, water, energy, the environment, the storage of nuclear waste, and other similar topics. Although the materials primarily pertain to Utah as a whole, some materials in this collection concern Cache Valley, such as the controversy of widening the highway which passes through Logan Canyon. The collection also contains materials that concern other western states, such as finding a proposed site to store nuclear waste in Nevada and Colorado.