Women in Natural Resources (WiNR) was a unique journal in the field of natural resources, combining the best elements of a technical journal, the informal style of a newsletter, and the reader-friendly format of a magazine. It was designed and written by women at all levels in forestry, fisheries, wildlife, range, recreation, soils, and the environmental and social sciences as they relate to natural resources. Contributers were women in management, in federal and state agencies, on faculties, in labs, in the business world, and in the consulting field. See "Past Articles of WiNR".

The materials in the WiNR Collection span from 1979-2022, with a bulk of the materials covering 1990-1997.

This collection includes a majority of materials pertaining to Editing Files and Advertisements. These documents would be submitted to the published WiNR Journals and include the following: submissions, written feedback, correspondence, photographs, advertisements, receipts, personal notes, magazines and clippings. A majority of correspondence is addressed to Dixie Ehrenreich, the managing editor of the journals from 1983 to 1999, who also responds to submissions with written feedback. The Digital Materials were collected by Flori Tulli, an English graduate student and Library Dean Fellow in Special Collections. Her interviews with WiNR contributors, which include transcripts and audio files, were added to the Collection in 2022.