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The Michigan conservation history file series (Box 17-18) was apparently created after Van Coevering moved to Arizona in late 1974. At this time he was working on two books, one a history of conservation in Michigan, the other a series of biographical sketches of conservation leaders in Michigan. The manuscript on the history of conservation in Michigan is located in the 1996 Accession Box 20. The research for the series of biographical sketches can be found in the 1996 Accession Boxes 20-21.

This series contains correspondence from the 1970s with people active in conservation in Michigan describing their interpretation of various events, press releases and other collected material from the 1970s, and older material probably removed from Van Coevering's Reference file series. There is much overlap between topics in this series and those in the Reference file series, although different headings are sometimes used in the two files. For instance, material on the Collins-Gerhardt or Ne-Bo-Shone case, which established the principle of public access to Michigan streams, is found under the heading "Collins-Gerhardt case (Ne-Bo-Shone case)" in this series and under "Fishing--Public access" in the Reference file series.

Like the Reference file series, this series also includes correspondence with P. S. Lovejoy, Fred Bear, G. Harold Earle, and Carl T. Johnson.