File contains minutes from Aleza Lake Steering Committee meetings, proposals to assume management of the Aleza Lake Research Forest, research project outlines and timelines, budget summaries, photocopies of management and working plans for 1992 to 2002, and related correspondence between the Steering Committee.
File contains minutes of Aleza Steering Committee meetings, and correspondence regarding various administrative concerns, including budget proposals.
Photograph depicts a steamshovel in the midground and stacks of chopped wood piled in front of it, both situated in front of a forested background.
Photograph depicts a steamshovel at work along a cleared forest area.
Photograph depicts a steamshovel at work along a cleared forest area.
Photograph depicts a steamshovel in the midground and stacks of chopped wood piled in front of it, both situated in front of a forested background.
Photograph depicts the front end of a steamshovel located on a rocky terrain with a forested landscape in the background.
Photograph depicts a steamshovel at work.
Photograph depicts three steamboats anchored near the shore of the Fraser river at Quesnel, BC.
Item consists of a map of British Columbia showing Status of Sustained-Yield Forestry Programme as at December 31, 1969 with colour coded areas indicating Public Sustained Yield Units, Special Scale Areas, Tree Farm Licences, and Major Parks.
Item is a map of British Columbia's Status of Sustained-Yield Forestry Programme as at 31 December 1962. The map has been annotated to show forest area surveyed by Celgar Ltd. as base for new kraft mill.
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.
Photograph depicts a side view of 2 stage coaches meeting on a narrow dirt road.
Photograph depicts a team of four horses harnessed to a wagon loaded with freight and people.
Photograph depicts a stage coach with a team of horses harnessed to it. The stagecoach driver sits on the front bench, sitting beside the coach driver are; a woman with a small child and a man. There is a building in the background.
Photograph depicts stage coach pulled by four horses, loaded with freight and people, a large building in the background.
Photograph depicts three piles of stacked lumber located in a forested landscape. Annotation on verso of photograph reads: "Lumber for flumes. Co. has its own sawmill"
Photograph depicts piles of stacked logs awaiting processing near Peden Hill sawmill.
Item is a photograph of a stack of saw logs.
Photograph depicts a snow covered pile of logs. Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "A stack of logs".
Document is a BC Ministry of Forests update on proposed research for the Sulphur stable isotope tracer study (E.P. 886.15) from March 1998.
Photograph depicts passengers on the deck of the S.S. Prince Rupert. A man stands in the foreground while two women read books on deck.
Photograph depicts passengers sitting on a bench on the deck of S.S. Prince Rupert. The passengers appear to be a mother and father with their young boy, along with an older man and woman who is knitting.
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 depicts three men standing behind salmon hung to dry on a wooden deck. Annotation on recto of photograph states: ""Spring Salmon" Rivers Inlet, B.C"
Photograph depicts large stream of water spraying from pipe in mining area, steep cliffs in background.
Photograph depicts man standing in front of large streams of water spraying from pipe into mining area, hills in background.
Photograph depicts a miner spraying enclosed area of river bed with water at high velocity. Cliffs in background.
Photograph depicts water being sprayed from a pipe at high velocity over edge in mining area. Man's leg in foreground, cliffs in background.