File consists of 6 photographs depicting Spruce Plantation Spacing Trials in Anzac taken ca. 1980s.
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.
File consists of photocopied graphs, charts, tables, and maps from an unknown source. File also includes a reproduction of a colour photograph.
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.
Photograph depicts water being sprayed from pipes at high velocity in mining area. Unidentified man in midground, cliffs in background.
File consists of an original reproduction of a map entitled "Spatsizi Provincial Park Key Map" by BC Parks.
File consists of various documents relating to Spatsizi Plateau Wilderness Park. Includes:
- Memo from Greenpeace entitled "Why Greenpeace is Opposed to Trophy Hunting in the Spatsizi Plateau" (July 1981)
- Copy of a 1981 letter from G. McKee requesting information about Spatsizi Park and Grant Hazelwood's response
- Letter from Gil Payne to G.D. Childs re: Klappan Coal Project impact on the area
- Letter from Grant Hazelwood to Carmen Prudy, President of the B.C. Wildlife Federation re: the Mt. Klappan Coal Project (relates to the Gil Payne letter)
- "Spatsizi" 1984 newsletter produced by the Collingwood Bros. Guide Outfitters of Smithers, BC promoting hunting in Spatsizi Park
Item is a photocopy of a 1976 report by Hazelwood and the Spatsizi Research Committee entitled "Spatsizi Plateau Wilderness Park: A Resource Information and Research Discussion Paper" for the BC Ministry of Recreation and Conservation.
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".
Photograph depicts the Cassiar mine, pit partially visible behind West peak in right centre of image. South west mountain range in background.
Photograph depicts the Cassiar mine, pit partially visible behind West peak in right centre of image. South west mountain range in background.
Photograph depicts scattered buildings, an outhouse, and tents on a rough clearing. A river and its cutbacks are in the background.
Wooden piles driven into a river bed, pile driver visible in background. Handwritten annotation on recto reads: "South fork intake before gate built, pile driven to refusal".
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.
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".
Photograph of a vessel filled with lumber just off the coast of a shore also littered with lumber. Mountains are barely visible in the background.
File consists of a December 1993 issue of Harrowsmith (Vol.18:4, iss. 112) that features an article by John Goddard entitled "Sold Down the River" regarding the Kemano Completion Project controversy.
The Kluane Lake area of SW Yukon was a continuing focus of Dr. Paul Sanborn's research for more than a decade, and generated several productive collaborations. Key themes included biological soil crusts in boreal grasslands, and interactions between aeolian sediment deposition, slope processes, and fire in boreal grassland and forest soils.
Research results appeared in these publications:
Marsh, J., Nouvet, S., Sanborn, P., and Coxson, D. 2006. Composition and function of biological soil crust communities along topographic gradients in grasslands of central interior British Columbia (Chilcotin) and southwestern Yukon (Kluane). Canadian Journal of Botany 84: 717-736. https://doi.org/10.1139/b06-026
Pautler, B.G., Reichart, G.-J., Sanborn, P.T., Simpson, M.J., and Weijers, J.W.H. 2014. Comparison of soil derived tetraether membrane lipid distributions and plant-wax δD compositions for reconstruction of Canadian Arctic temperatures. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 404: 78-88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.03.038
Sanborn, P. and A.J.T. Jull. 2010. Loess, bioturbation, fire, and pedogenesis in a boreal forest – grassland mosaic, Yukon Territory, Canada. 19th World Congress of Soil Science, Soil Solutions for a Changing World 1 – 6 August 2010, Brisbane, Australia. http://www.iuss.org/19th%20WCSS/Symposium/pdf/0120.pdf
The 2003 field work with Darwyn Coxson was a pilot study to assess the types and distribution of biological soil crusts in boreal grasslands in the Kluane Lake area. Eight sites were visited at which the team sampled the crust and the uppermost A horizon immediately underneath it. Note that site numbers Y03-03, -04, -05, -06, -07, -09, -10 and -12 were indicated as sites 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10 and 12 in Table 1 of Marsh et al. (2006). Additional crust sampling was conducted at two additional sites (“Peninsula”, “Silver City”) in 2004; details of sampling methods and site locations are in Marsh et al. (2006).
Results from 2009 field work were presented in Sanborn and Jull (2010), along with soil charcoal radiocarbon dates from 2003-2008 sampling which were used to reconstruct fire history in the Kluane Lake area. The 2003 (a single site at Silver City), 2004, and 2008 field work consisted of a reconnaissance of grassland and forest sites across a range of aspects and slope positions in order to recover buried soil charcoal.
With support from the Muskwa-Kechika Trust Fund as a Seed Grant, Dr. Paul Sanborn carried out a pilot study of soils in relation to prescribed burning in the Northern Rocky Mountains, in collaboration with Perry Grilz, then a Range Officer in the Ministry of Forests. Sanborn and Grilz conducted 3 days of field work in July 2001. Sanborn wanted to test the utility of plant-derived opal (phytoliths) as a soil indicator of vegetation history, in the hope of distinguishing natural grasslands from those created by anthropogenic burning.
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.
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 document is a complete transcription of field notes, with
soil and site photographs.
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 "Soil Profile Description: Kiskatinaw LTSP Site" document provides a description of Kiskatinaw pedon.
The key results from the regional soil mineralogy study were later published as:
J.M. Arocena and P. Sanborn. 1999. Mineralogy and genesis of selected soils and their implications for forest management in central and northeastern British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Soil Science 79: 571-592. https://doi.org/10.4141/S98-07