While at the Ministry of Forests, Dr. Paul Sanborn carried out two retrospective studies which examined soil chemical properties at long-term silvicultural research sites where different vegetation types had been created, either as planned or unplanned experiments. These studies were Experimental Project (EP) 660 and a research project at the Archie Creek site.
This document is a photocopy of a 1994 draft report prepared by Scagel, Hickling, and Evans for BC Ministry of Forests, Silviculture Branch. The document includes annotations by Lorne Bedford, BC MoF (ret.).
This document is an undated 1990s handout for a field trip to the Archie Road (North) demonstration plot.
The Archie Creek site is the informal name used for a research installation established in 1971 east of Prince George by the Canadian Forest Service, and subsequently abandoned by the end of that decade. Dr. Paul Sanborn revisited the site in 1995, and sampled forest floors and mineral soils across a range of conifer-broadleaf mixtures established by natural establishment of broadleaf trees among planted lodgepole pines.
Details of the site conditions, sampling methods, and results were published in:
Sanborn, P. 2001. Influence of broadleaf trees on soil chemical properties: A retrospective study in the Sub-Boreal Spruce Zone, British Columbia, Canada. Plant and Soil 236: 75–82. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011973402414
EP 660 was a conventional silvicultural trial established in 1967 which involved single species plantings of lodgepole pine (Pl), white spruce (Sw), and Douglas-fir (Fd) at different spacings. Three installations were established in the Prince George - Vanderhoof area: Buckhorn Ridge, Bobtail Road, and Chilco Creek.
General details on EP 660 are given by:
Coopersmith, D., M. McLellan, and J. Stork. 1997a. Experimental Project 660 overview of three experimental installations – a 30-year progress report. B.C. Min. For., Prince George For. Reg., Res. Note #PG-12.
Details on the Buckhorn installation are given by:
Coopersmith, D., M. McLellan, and J. Stork. 1997b. Experimental Project 660 30-year progress report: Buckhorn Installation. B.C. Min. For., Prince George For. Reg., Res. Note #PG-12-1.
File contains the following data sets:
File contains 8 slides from 2 rolls, taken August 1997:
Roll 1 - Buckhorn Ridge:
File contains 2 rolls (51 slides) taken September 25-26, 1995 that depict paired views of plot vegetation and forest floor surface. Handwritten number notations on slide frames indicate plot numbers from the original research installation.
File contains the following data sets:
This digital document is a born-digital PDF containing details of forest floor sample collection & handling for the EP 660 Buckhorn Ridge installation.
This digital document is a scanned PDF of a Prince George Forest Region Forest Research Note #PG-12-1: "Experimental Project 660 - 30-year Progress Report - Buckhorn Installation".
This digital document is a scanned PDF of a Prince George Forest Region Forest Research Note #PG-12: "Experimental Project 660 - Overview of Three Experimental Installations - A 30-year Progress Report".
File consists of the following data sets:
This PDF contains site location data, annotated soil profile photographs, and AMS radiocarbon dates for 2008 soil charcoal samples collected at Kluane Lake, Yukon Territory.
This PDF contains site location data, annotated soil profile photographs, and AMS radiocarbon dates for 2004 soil charcoal samples collected at Kluane Lake, Yukon Territory.
This PDF contains site location data and annotated soil profile photographs for soil charcoal samples at the Silver City section (site Y03-11).
This PDF contains 2009 Kluane site notes that include details of transect locations and sampling sites. Grassland pedons selected for Pautler et al. (2014) are indicated.
This PDF is a digital version of a poster presented by Sanborn and Jull at the 2009 Canadian Quaternary Association conference, Simon Fraser University.
This document is an unpublished 1995 UNBC co-op work term report by B. Roosdahl entitled "Forest Floor Development on Bladed Trails in the SBS: A retrospective study of the Archie Creek site". B. Roosdahl was a co-op student who was one of the student research assistants involved in the field work at the Archie Creek site in fall 1995.
This unpublished 1993 UBC undergraduate thesis by J. Hickling entitled "Some long term effects of scarification on soil properties and site productivity" includes some soils data from the Archie Creek site.
This map depicts the location of the Archie Creek site, annotated on a photocopied 93I.011 BC government map (undated).
Map depicts range reference area exclosure locations for livestock and wildlife in the Fort St. John Forest District.
In July 2009, Dr. Paul Sanborn undertook the first soils field research at the Fort Selkirk volcanic field in central Yukon, with helicopter support and funding from the Yukon Geological Survey. This file includes the following data sets gathered from the research:
For July 1-7, 2009, Dr. Paul Sanborn did the first soils field research at the Fort Selkirk volcanic field in central Yukon, with helicopter support and funding from the Yukon Geological Survey.
Initial findings were published in the 2009 edition of Yukon Exploration and Geology, but this paper did not include most of the laboratory data:
Sanborn, P., 2010. Soil reconnaissance of the Fort Selkirk volcanic field, Yukon (115I/13 and 14). In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 2009, K.E. MacFarlane, L.H. Weston and L.R. Blackburn (eds.), Yukon Geological Survey, Whitehorse, Yukon. pp. 293-304. https://emrlibrary.gov.yk.ca/ygs/yeg/2009/2009_p293-304.pdf [Note that in Fig. 1, the labels for Camp 1 and Camp 2 on map are transposed; Camp 1 should be to the east of Camp 2.]
