This was the paper in which Warfield presented the ideas he put into the UVA Environmental Education project in the following two years.. The talk manuscript "OEE CONTRACTS" is a description of three projects funded by U.S. Office of Environmental Education - the Arizona project, the Far West Lab project and the University of Virginia Consortium - along with Warfield's development of a conceptual structure of what defines a national system of environmental education, with goals and methods, for use in effective curriculum development and teacher training, on a local, a regional and a national basis, systematically integrated.

For several years Warfield thought he had lost this manuscript, although he often remembered it and wondered what had happened to it. Rose Warfield found it, in the mid-nineties while looking for other stuff. It had been used by Warfield as an APPENDIX to his Fourth Quarterly Report, and saved in a basement filing cabinet along with a lot of other OEE documents. When Rose noticed the paper in the 4th Quarterly report, she made a photocopy to keep as a separate document in Warfield's MANUSCRIPTS files. The full, citation for the manuscript "OEE Contracts" should read: "In: Volume 9, 4th Quarterly Report, A Descriptive Analysis of Environmental Education, Appendix A: OEE Contracts, pp 159-178. University of Virginia, School of Engineering & Applied Science, RLES Report No. UVA/522032/EE78/113 (October 1978) pp. 159-178. Project title: Development of an Interpretive Structural Model and Strategies for Implementation Based on Descriptive and Prescriptive Analysis of Resources for Environmental Education/Studies. Contract #300-700-4028, submitted to the Office of Environmental Education, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, D.C." This paper is part of the Fourth Quarterly report, and as such, it is available from ERIC on microfiche: ERIC ACCESSION NO.: ED173172; Clearinghouse number: SE028440; AVAILABILITY: EDRS Price - MF01/PC06 This material was shipped to Fenwick Library Special Collections, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA on 23 October 2000. r.w. circa 2001, updated 15 April 2015.