File contains minutes of Aleza Steering Committee meetings, and correspondence regarding various administrative concerns, including budget proposals.
Series contains minutes from meetings, budget proposals, management and working plans, research projects and outlines, correspondence, and proposals to assume management over the Aleza Lake Research Forest from the Ministry of Forests.
File contains two handwritten cross section ledgers, handwritten notes of location and boundaries, and original ledgers with measurements of permanent sample plots.
File contains original ledgers with measurements of permanent sample plots.
Caption describing photograph: "Good stand of Lodgepole Pine pulp wood, on Pine View Series, with scattered understory of Black Spruce. Pine 5-9" DBH. 65' high, 80 years. Black Spruce, 4.6" DBH. 35' high. Moderately drained silty clay. Cale Creek, Highway 97."
Caption describing photograph: "As GBW Film 4 Frame 11 (2007.1.30.2.048)." Harry Coates stands in the photograph for scale.
Caption describing photograph: "Excellent stand of Lodgepole Pine on coarse gravelly sily (old beach). Height 90' 7-11" DBH. Age 65 years. 6 miles SW of Prince George, Highway 16 West."
Caption describing photograph: "Fine stand of immature birch on imperfectly drained clay of lacustrine origin. Scattered Spruce, Douglas fir and balsam, understory mountain ash, thimbleberry, RO Dogwood, corylus, rosa, Mtn maple and willow. Ht 45', 10" DBH age 25 years. (Dom 200 stems/ac) South of Ranger Station, Aleza Lake." Harry Coates stands in the photograph for scale.
Caption describing photograph: "1922 burn Giscome, stand of immature birch 35', 20 yrs, Dom stem 8" D.B.H. Understory Rubus, Rosa, Cornus moss, Aralia Snowverry, Columbine - scat Corylus. Stand originally Douglas fir, Spruce and Balsam. Well drained lacustrine deposits. Potential grazing." Harry Coates stands in the photograph for scale.
File contains typed business correspondence regarding working plans and research projects, small maps displaying locations of sample plots, graphs, and reports on stand development.
Original photographic print included in "Northern Interior Forest Experiment Station: Report of Preliminary Investigations" by Percy Barr. Photograph depicts mature spruce and balsam reproduction.
Original photographic print included in "Northern Interior Forest Experiment Station: Report of Preliminary Investigations" by Percy Barr.
Original photographic print included in "Northern Interior Forest Experiment Station: Report of Preliminary Investigations" by Percy Barr.
Original photographic print included in "Northern Interior Forest Experiment Station: Report of Preliminary Investigations" by Percy Barr.
Original photographic print included in "Northern Interior Forest Experiment Station: Report of Preliminary Investigations" by Percy Barr.
Original photographic print included in "Northern Interior Forest Experiment Station: Report of Preliminary Investigations" by Percy Barr.
Item is a copyprint reproduced from the British Columbia Forest Service photographic records held at BC Archives.
Photograph shows an aerial view of Aleza Lake Research Forest in spring season.
Item is a copyprint reproduced from the British Columbia Forest Service photographic records held at BC Archives.
Original photographic print included in "Northern Interior Forest Experiment Station: Report of Preliminary Investigations" by Percy Barr.
Item is a photocopied version of F.S. McKinnon's "Spruce Regeneration in British Columbia" reprinted from The Forestry Chronicle, 1940, Vol. 16 Supplementary issue.
Item is a copyprint reproduced from the British Columbia Forest Service photographic records held at BC Archives.
Item is a photograph of a copy print that has been reproduced as a slide, resulting in low photographic quality. Location of original photograph unknown.
"Another expression of the high morale which prevailed was a joint project which we pursued after hours, on our own time. Out of one huge spruce log we made a set of furniture using an axe and a crosscut saw. We made chairs, a table and a sofa." -- quote from Cedric W. Walker (1907-2003) in "An Early History of the Research Branch, British Columbia Ministry of Forests and Range" (p. 48)
Original photographic print included in "Northern Interior Forest Experiment Station: Report of Preliminary Investigations" by Percy Barr.
Original photographic print included in "Northern Interior Forest Experiment Station: Report of Preliminary Investigations" by Percy Barr.
Photograph is one of five depicting EP 106.
Item is the 1936 strip notes accompanying the BC Forest Service report from Myra, BC titled "Southern Interior District Experimental Plot No. 160: Conditions After Logging of a Spruce-Balsam Forest in Relation to Spruce Reproduction and to the Rate of Growth of the Second Story".
Item is the office copy of a 1929 BC Forest Service report from Myra, BC titled "Southern Interior District Experimental Plot No. 160: Conditions After Logging of a Spruce-Balsam Forest in Relation to Spruce Reproduction and to the Rate of Growth of the Second Story".
Item is the field copy of a 1929 BC Forest Service report from Myra, BC titled "Southern Interior District Experimental Plot No. 160: Conditions After Logging of a Spruce-Balsam Forest in Relation to Spruce Reproduction and to the Rate of Growth of the Second Story".
Item is an original technical publication of the British Columbia Forest Service by J. Harry G. Smith entitled "Some Factors Affecting Reproduction of Engelmann Spruce and Alpine Fir".
Item is a "Soil Survey Report on Part of Aleza Lake Forest Experimental Station" by R.A. Fisher of the Forest Surveys Division, British Columbia Forest Service.
File contains correspondence regarding funding for research project and computer generated maps.
Caption describing photograph: "Soil (sod) development over lacustrine deposits. Depth to carbonated layer (1922 fire) 2.5", depth to parent material 6". Note blocky structure of deposit (clay). Root penetration to 1'. Root penetration of willow and aspen to 1.5'. Blocky structure from fluctuating water table, gentle slope to land form."
Photograph shows snow melt at Aleza Lake Research Forest in spring season.
Caption describing photograph: "Small area of transplants on West side of clearing, established Spring 1966. Note thrifty stand of aspend with Spruce understory, typical of stands on this soil type and history of burning."
Original photographic print included in "Northern Interior Forest Experiment Station: Report of Preliminary Investigations" by Percy Barr.
Item is a copyprint reproduced from the British Columbia Forest Service photographic records held at BC Archives.
Logging plan of Sinclair Spruce Lumber Company's T.S.X. 73378 at Hubble Creek shows areas to be cut. Annotations show areas logged.
Logging plan of Sinclair Spruce Lumber Company's T.S.X. 73378 at Hubble Creek shows areas to be cut.
Item is an original Silvicultural Research Note on"Selective Logging of Spruce in Sub-Alpine Alberta" by L.A. DeGrace.
Item is an original issue of British Columbia Forest Service Research Notes on "Seed Production of Hemlock and Cedar in the Interior Wet Belt Region of British Columbia related to Dispersal and Regeneration".
Original photographic print included in "Northern Interior Forest Experiment Station: Report of Preliminary Investigations" by Percy Barr.
Original photographic print included in "Northern Interior Forest Experiment Station: Report of Preliminary Investigations" by Percy Barr.
Item is a photograph of a copy print, resulting in a low quality photographic reproduction. Reproduced as a print, slide, and a negative. Location of original photograph is unknown.
Photograph is a copy print.
Item is an issue of "Forest Management Notes" on "Scarification in the Spruce Alpine Fir type of the Prince George Forest District" by J.R. Gilmour and J. Konishi.
Item is a copyprint reproduced from the British Columbia Forest Service photographic records held at BC Archives.
Caption describing photograph: "See GBW Film 3 Frame 3 (2007.1.30.2.027) for details."
Caption describing photograph: "Scarification after logging (clear cut). East Loop Road. F.E.S. Aleza Lake. Sandy silt. O site." Harry Coates stands in the photograph for scale.