File contains Aleza Lake Experiment Station Climate Station data from 1952 to 1980 and three accompanying floppies with weather data and Fortran programs.
During the 1980s, Agriculture Canada pedologists Scott Smith (retired from Summerland Research Station, formerly based in Whitehorse) and Charles Tarnocai (retired from Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa) had a large field program which addressed the trends in soil development in the central Yukon. Across this region, particularly between Whitehorse and Dawson City, the land surfaces and surficial deposits vary greatly in age due to the differing extents of glaciations over the past ~2 million years.
This work built on a pioneering study from the previous decade:
Foscolos, A.E., N.W. Rutter, and O.L. Hughes. 1977. The use of pedological studies in interpreting the Quaternary history of central Yukon Territory. Bulletin 271. Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa. 48 p. https://doi.org/10.4095/103066
Tarnocai and Smith presented their results in two publications:
C. A. S. Smith, C. Tarnocai, and O. L. Hughes. 1986. Pedological investigations of Pleistocene glacial drift surfaces in the central Yukon. Géographie physique et Quaternaire, 40 (1): 29–37. https://doi.org/10.7202/032620ar
Tarnocai, C. and C. A. S. Smith. 1989. Micromorphology and development of some central Yukon paleosols, Canada. Geoderma 45 (2): 145-162. https://doi.org/10.1016/0016-7061(89)90047-5
Tarnocai and Smith shared the unpublished data and soil samples from this work with Dr. Paul Sanborn, and this resulted in a student project published as:
Daviel, E., P. Sanborn, C. Tarnocai, and C.A.A. Smith. 2011.Clay mineralogy and chemical properties of argillic horizons in central Yukon paleosols. Canadian Journal of Soil Science 91: 83-93. https://doi.org/10.4141/cjss10067
File contains colour aerial photography of the Aleza Lake Research Forest from 1994.
Item is "A Study of Coniferous Reproduction by Direct Seeding Methods on Various Forest Site Types at Aleza Lake, B.C.: An Essay submitted during the Third Year of the Course in Forestry at the University of British Columbia" by Everett Bruce Peterson.
Item is a report entitled "A Report on S.P.514: Cutting Methods in Immature and Thrifty Mature Spruce Types (Interior of Prince Rupert's Forest District)" by R.F. Stettler.
Item is the BC Forest Service's "A Guide to Stand Treatment".
Item is an original copy of "A Forest Practice Code for the Spruce-Balsam Type" prepared by the Cariboo Section of the Canadian Institute of Forestry.
Item is an original report entitled "A Fisheries and Wildlife Survey of the Burnie Lakes Park Proposal" by E. Osmond-Jones et al. for BC Parks branch biologist W.G. Hazelwood. Includes original photographic prints pasted into the report.
Item is a photocopied version of Alexander's "A Fifteen Year History of the Virgin Spruce-Balsam Type at Aleza Lake Experiment Station and Suggestions for Management". Location of original unknown.
File contains correspondence regarding lack of funding for research projects between the Science Council of British Columbia and Mike Jull, Prince George Forest Region.