File consists of general correspondence concerning various administrative issues and the transfer of the Aleza Lake Experiment Station, newspaper articles, memoranda containing the general history of the Experiment Station, diagrams of timber sales, 1927 logging inspection reports, and an envelope containing biographical sketches of individuals involved in the early history of the Experiment Station.
Photograph depicts treed rolling hills near Fraser Lake, BC.
Glassey stands with three men in mine adit, rocky hillside and vegetation in background.
Glassey sits on ground with unknown man in area believed to be a mining location, rocks and logs in background.
Caption describing photograph: "Hemlock understory. 12 DBH. Height 30'. Aleza Lake Nursery." Harry Coates stands in the photograph for scale.
Photograph depicts plant buildings below, tailings pile in foreground. Valley and mountains in background. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "CASSIAR".
Photograph depicts plant buildings in front of tailings pile in midground. Forest, power line, and tramline in foreground; south mountains in background.
Photograph depicts the West Peak of the Cassiar mine on McDame Mountain. Pit area visible between West Peak and road in foreground. Mine valley and north mountain range in background. Photo speculated to have been taken from a point on or near the South or North Peak.
Photograph depicts crusher plant in centre foreground. Shifter shack and vehicles can be seen in front of pit area. West Peak semi-visible in right midground. Mine valley an northwestern mountain range in background.
Annotation on slide: "Heavy Residual Basal Area: Summit Lake".
Slide depicts a man operating heavy equipment in a forest, likely at the Aleza Lake Experiment Station.
Caption describing photograph: "Heavy crop of female flowers at Davie Lake (note center tree) from top of one of Dr. Eis scaffolds."
Photograph depicts a sparsely forested mountainside.
Photograph depicts a sparsely forested mountainside.
Photograph depicts a sparsely forested mountainside.
Photograph depicts a sparsely forested mountainside.
Photograph depicts a high mountain meadow with alpine trees.
Photograph depicts a sparsely forested mountainside.
Photograph depicts nine or more people watching a steamer navigate the rough waters of Fort George Canyon from the river shore.
Photograph depicts the rough waters and rocks at Fort George Canyon.
Photograph is a printed postcard, view is from the water of a small settlement with mountains in the background near Stewart B.C.
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.
H.C. Kinghorn worked briefly for the B.C. Forest Service and was in charge of the YMFTP crew at Aleza Lake in 1936.
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.
"Jim Kinghorn (now retired from CFS) [d. Feb. 2014] and his dad [H.C. Kinghorn] in front of the boarded-up research residence. Although Aleza was a busy place there was no money for research and no need for housing." -- from the notes of Ralph Schmidt in accompanying file
Annotation on slide: "Harry Coates with Sw seedlings planted spring of 1991, SBSwk1, Note chlorotic seedlings"
Photograph is a copy print.
File consists an audio recording of an oral history with Harry Coates recorded by Barbara Coupe.
File consists an audio recording of an oral history with Harry Coates recorded by Barbara Coupe.
Caption describing photograph: "Hardwood stand on Lacustrine deposits following severe burn, negligible coniferous understory. 1922 burn N side Eaglet Lake. Aspen with scat Birch +/-20 yrs. +/-6 D.B.H. +/-35'. Understory willow and alder, twin flower R O Dogwood Rose H B Cranberry, scat sorylus, rubus, was A-D S-B site."
Photograph depicts some stumps and grassland in the foreground, a few buildings on the right, sparsely forested rocky hillside in the background.
Photograph depicts a man (H. Porter) gold panning in the river in front of a tent in a forested area.
Photograph depicts hunting guides, Bruce Otto and Alex McDougall, standing next to a campfire with food in hand with a forest in the foreground.
Photograph depicts hunting guide Bruce Otto standing next to a felled moose on a snow-covered hillside with trees in the background.
Photograph depicts hunting guide, Bruce Otto holding up the trophy mountain goat shot by Prentiss Gray.
Photograph depicts a hunting guide (Bruce Otto?) holding up a large mountain goat shot by Prentiss Gray with a forested area in the background.
Caption describing photograph: "Growth of Lodgepole Pine on imperfectly drained clay of lacustrine origin. Aleza Lake, Main Access Road. Age 12 years, Height 14', 1966 leader 16"" Harry Coates stands in the photograph for scale.
Original photographic print included in "Northern Interior Forest Experiment Station: Report of Preliminary Investigations" by Percy Barr.
Photograph depicts the skins of two grizzlies, heads attached. A man stands beside the skins spread on elevated poles. There is alpine meadow and scrub trees in the background.
Photograph depicts a gravel road carved into the forested landscape.
Photograph depicts a gravel road carved into the forested landscape.
Photograph depicts a gravel road carved into the forested landscape.
File consists of thin section micrograph images from the Boreal Cordilleran grassland soils study (2007 & 2008).
File contains the following data sets:
- BC & Yukon 2008 soils data – compiled.xls [combined chemical & physical data for BC08-06, Y08-39, Y08-41, Y08-43]
- S925finl.xls [chemical analysis data, Ministry of Forests & Range, Analytical Chemistry Laboratory for pedons BC07-03 & BC07-04; also includes data for Y07-06 & Y07-07 (Klutlan Glacier – see associated file note)]
- S979finl(revised) – PS edits.xls [chemical analysis data, Ministry of Forests & Range, Analytical Chemistry Laboratory for BC08-06, Y08-39, Y08-41, Y08-43]
- S994finl_revised.xls [chemical analysis data, Ministry of Forests & Range, Analytical Chemistry Laboratory for BC07-04 (CaCO3-equiv, total & inorganic C, pyrophosphate, oxalate & dithionite extractions) & selected horizons from BC07-07 & BC07-09 (Nazko basaltic soils))
- CANTEST lab report 91010076.pdf [particle size analyses for BC08-06, Y08-39, Y08-41, Y08-43]
- CANTEST lab report 90206003.pdf [particle size analyses for Tuya pedons BC07-03 & BC07-04 & Klutan Glacier pedons Y07-06 & Y07-07]
A comparative study of grassland soils at 3 sites in northwestern BC and southern Yukon was published as:
Sanborn, P. 2010. Topographically controlled grassland soils in the Boreal Cordillera ecozone, northwestern Canada. Canadian Journal of Soil Science 90: 89-101. https://doi.org/10.4141/CJSS09048
This grew out of a field trip with Ministry of Forests range personnel to the Stikine and Tuya River valleys, near Telegraph Creek BC on August 27-28, 2007. (Two pedons were sampled in 2007, BC07-03 and BC07-04, but those results were not included in the paper.)
In August 2008, Dr. Paul Sanborn returned to the Stikine to sample pedon BC08-06, after field work in Yukon which collected the other two pedons used in the paper, from near Carmacks (Y08-39) and Kluane Lake (Y08-41). (An additional pedon from Kluane, Y08-43, was sampled and analyzed, but it was from a forested site and was not included in the paper.)
Photograph depicts a Grand Trunk Pacific track laying machine near John Brown creek. [55th parallel]