Series I: Correspondence and Supporting Documentation, 2002-2014 (bulk 2009-2013), is housed in eighteen boxes and arranged alphabetically by folder title. Included is correspondence, manuals, minutes, memorandum, publications, reports, studies, surveys, and other related materials. Of note are the files related to the restoration of the Chesapeake Bay including board meeting minutes, correspondence, memorandum, publications, reports, and strategic plans for Phase I and Phase II of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Implementation Plan. Also of note are the files on the FMFADA (Fort Monroe Federal Area Development Authority). The 2005 BRAC (Base Realignment and Closure Commission) closed the military facilities on Fort Monroe and the FMFADA was created to establish a Reuse Plan for Fort Monroe when it was reverted to the Commonwealth of Virginia. The files include agreements, correspondence, environmental impact studies, manuals, meeting minutes, memorandum, reports, and other sundry materials.

Included are files regarding the Chickahominy Indian Tribe and the Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act of 2009 (S. 1178). Also included is a file regarding the establishment of The Hand Site historical highway marker for the Cheroenhaka ( Nottoway  ) Indians of Southampton County  , Virginia. Other files include federal projects such as energy efficiency and offshore wind; land and easement acquisitions by the Dept. of Conservation and Recreation; Governor's Commission on Economic Development and Job Creation; uranium mining; Smith Mountain Lake shoreline management; oyster management; and invasive species, among others.

Series II: Decision Memoranda and Briefs, 2010-2013, is housed in six boxes and arranged alphabetically by folder title. This series includes correspondence, decision briefs, memorandum, requests, and other related materials. Included are decision tracking sheets with attached correspondence or memoranda detailing the topics. Also included are critical hiring requests for the Dept. of Conservation and Recreation, Dept. of Environmental Quality, Dept. of Game and Inland Fisheries, Dept. of Historic Resources, Marine Resources Commission, and the Virginia Museum of Natural History.

Series III: Legislative files, 2007-2013, is housed in twenty boxes and arranged alphabetically by folder title. This series includes agendas, budget materials, conference programs, correspondence, memorandum, newsclippings, presentations, press releases, reports, studies, and other sundry materials. Many of the records in this series contain information on various natural resources-related projects and issues, while other files contain agency-specific administrative information, general correspondence (including a limited amount of constituent correspondence), agency strategic plans, and meeting material, including agendas, print-outs of presentations, and minutes. Topics include energy, offshore wind, uranium mining, water conservation, and others. Of note are several folders relating to Offshore Wind Energy and the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). There is much overlap between the Offshore Wind and OCS files. The Federal government awarded Virginia with an OCS oil and gas lease sale in March of 2010 but later cancelled the sale.

Included are legislative action summaries which often contain a summary of the bill; a summary of constituents who would be affected; the recommendation of the agency within the Secretary of Natural Resources as to whether the Governor should sign, veto, or amend the bill; and the recommendation of the Secretary as to whether the Governor should sign, veto, or amend the bill. Legislative action summaries are also included in other series.

Also included are correspondence and subject files relating to the state agencies that are overseen by the Secretary of Natural Resources: the Department of Conservation and Recreation, Department of Environmental Quality, Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, Marine Resources Commission, and the Virginia Museum of Natural History.

Series IV: Public Relations, Activities, and Visits, 2010-2013, is housed in three and a half boxes and with general materials arranged to the front. This series includes agendas, directions, event schedules, invitations, newsclippings, and other sundry materials. The bulk of the series include invitations to Douglas W. Domenech and Maureen Matsen.