During a year away from studies in 1987-88, Dr. Paul Sanborn developed a successful grant proposal to the Science Council of BC (SCBC) to pursue a postdoctoral project with Dr. Tim Ballard in relation to sulphur-deficient soils in BC and prescribed fire. This project built on an existing broadcast burning study conducted by Macmillan Bloedel Ltd. near Port Alberni on Vancouver Island, led by Bill Beese (later at Vancouver Island University). Dr. Sanborn's work addressed sulphur forms and amounts in the soils at these sites, and the chemical processes influencing sulphur availability in relation to prescribed fire.

Only one part of this work was eventually published:
Sanborn, P.T. and T.M. Ballard. 1991. Combustion losses of sulphur from conifer foliage: Implications of chemical form and soil nitrogen status. Biogeochemistry 12: 129–134. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00001810

The remainder of the work was documented in the Project Completion Report to SCBC, dated February 28, 1990.

Thirty-four of the accompanying project data files were selected for archival retention.

File consists of a conference paper by Weller titled "UNBC and the Development of Northern British Columbia." This file was originally numbered to correspond with conference paper number 78 listed in Weller's CV.

File consists of a booklet prepared for the May 9, 2002 UNBC/UBC Aleza Lake Research Forest Field Tour.

File consists of photographs taken by Paul Sanborn during the May 9, 2002 UNBC/UBC Aleza Lake Research Forest Field Tour for UNBC and UBC faculty members.

This file contains various aspects of the underground mine.

• Photos depicting damage to the underground mine such as fallen rocks, cracked shotcrete, twisted rock bolts and metal mesh, exposed and damaged steel structural frames, and repairs underway.
• Steel cables, chains, support arches, and custom welded rebar frames used in the structural reinforcement of the underground mine.
• Several engineering tests related to the structural damages are depicted.
• Two sets of images show a Porta Power hydraulic tool with a ready rod attached, a hand pump, as well as images of a technician testing the holding power of a rock bolt.
• Set of images documents a technician drilling cores and installing extensometer anchors, as well as grouting the anchors and connecting an extensometer. Technicians are shown inspecting damages with a ruler and rockhammer for scale.
• A set of images showcase the threaded rebar, nuts, and face plates used for rockbolts.
• Utility vehicles, yellow vent ducting, and utility pipes are visible in several images.
• Also include is an image of a man in office space, foggy night scene with a telephone pole, office desk, stack of supplies including concrete, steel cable, and spray paint, and several images of a broken piece of ore and concrete outside the mine portal.
• Several images depict miners working in the bucket of a scoop tram.
• Photos of the stramler feeder breakers, which was used in the underground mine.
• Images of ground support verifications where the deficiency of the exhaust ramp was investigated. This collection has various annotations explaining the broken shotcrete and the wire mesh installed.
• A collection of photographs depicting tunnel shotcrete failures. Each photograph has an accompanied textual annotation.
• Photos of MMD #750 Sizer equipment - assumed used in Underground Mine.
• Photos of pump used in 1335 level, wheel fan for ventilation removed from 1350 level,
• A collection of ground fall event 29 March 1989 - with annotations depicting damage

File contains images depicting the underground mine at Cassiar, showing structural damages, repaired damage ground support, and mining and repair processes.

The file contains a photo inventory entitled “Underground Mine Structural Inspection, Rock Mechanics Dept. Foto Documentation” with a complete file inventory linking the picture number to a location, title, and dated film. This photographic documentation was assembled for the purposes of liaising with a underground mining consultant located in South Africa.

• Images document structural ground support including steel cables, support arches, metal mesh, shotcrete, rockbolts, wooden beams.
• Images show ground support damaged through ground movement, but some depict newly installed or repaired support.
• Images depict ventilation ducting that was crushed or torn.
• Mining processes depicted include miners installing a rock breaker, miners paving the adit floor with concrete, miners inspecting a damaged section of mine, miner loading drill or blastholes with ANFO (ammonium nitrate / fuel oil mixture) explosives, and long hole drilling.
• Technical elements of the underground mine depicted include a mining device and ore in a chute (annotated ‘1290 crusher’), the conveyor, ‘LH drill’, ore processing machine annotated ‘1350 breaker’, and an electrical box titled ‘Weighometer’.
• Specific locations shown include ore draw points, ore passes, access drifts, a hatch and door titled “Fuel station 1415”, and a dead end drift with a stack of equipment and an orange cable annotated “1335 access electrical stations”.

File consists of records and textual material related to ungulates such as moose and mountain goat (predominantly in British Columbia) created or collected by Grant Hazelwood. Highlights include:

• Grant Hazelwood, "Early Winter Moose Survey - TFL 30 and McGregor River", Dec. 1979 (reproduction)
• Notes from "Moose - Wolf Surveys" in central and northern BC, Jan. 1979 (reproduction)
• "Preliminary Investigation of Goat Population in Management Unit 7-3", 1975 (reproduction)
• "Mountain Goat Surveys", [after 1980] (reproduction)
• BC Fish and Wildlife, "The Effect of Antlerless Seasons in British Columbia", 1969?
• Ian Smith, BC Fish and Wildlife, "Winter Feeding of Big Game Animals", 1969
• Ian Smith and Ray Demarchi, "The Ungulate Resources of the Libby Reservoir", Sept. 1969
• BC Fish and Wildlife Branch, "A Brief History of Game Administration in British Columbia", 1971 (reproduction)
• Jill Singleton, "Food Habits of Wild Ungulates in British Columbia", June 1976
• Dennis Demarchi and Bruce Pendergast, "Problem Analysis: Biotic Regions of British Columbia - An Ecological Land Classification for Fauna", Jan. 1983 (reproduction)
• G. Hazelwood, "A.R.D.A. Winter Flight Reports - January-February 1969"
• "Current Management of Ungulates and their Predators in the Yukon Territory", Mar. 1984
• Dennis Demarchi, "The Plant Communities of the Prophet River in the Rocky Mountain Foothills", Special Report for B.C. ARDA Ungulate Inventory, Aug. 1968 (reproduction)
• Val Geist, "Factors Influencing the Size of Ungulate Populations", student essay for Zoology 401, 1960

File consists of "United Fisherman and Allied Workers Union Locals #31 and #37 Brief to the B.C. Utilities Commission" for the Kemano Completion Project Review.

File consists of a conference paper by Weller titled "Universities and Development: The Case of the Canadian North." This file was originally numbered to correspond with conference paper number 67 listed in Weller's CV.

File consists of a conference paper titled "Universities and Development: The Case of the Pacific Island Universities" present by Geoffrey Weller at INRUDA, Paris, June 8-10, 1999. This file was originally numbered to correspond with conference paper number 104 listed in Weller's CV.

File consists of a conference paper titled "Universities in Northern Canada" presented by Weller at the Western Regional Science Association conference, Monterey, California, 18-21 Feb. 1998. This file was originally numbered to correspond with conference paper number 100 listed in Weller's CV.

File consists of a conference paper by Weller titled "Universities in the Circumpolar North: A Comparative Analysis." This file was originally numbered to correspond with conference paper number 45 listed in Weller's CV.

File consists of a conference paper by Weller titled "Universities, Change and Development in the Scandinavian North." This file was originally numbered to correspond with conference paper number 64 listed in Weller's CV.

File consists of a paper titled "Universities, Politics and Development in Northern Ontario and Northern Sweden: A Comparative Analysis" presented by Weller and Robert G. Rosehart at the 1985 Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education conference. This file was originally numbered to correspond with conference paper number 36 listed in Weller's CV.

File consists of a paper titled "Universities, Politics and Development: The Case of Northern Ontario" presented by Weller at the International Symposium on the Roles of Universities in Developing Areas. This file was originally numbered to correspond with conference paper number 27 listed in Weller's CV.

File consists of a typed copy of a speech by Weller titled "University Education on the Northern Frontier" as well as brochures and schedules from the "On the Frontier" conference. This file was originally numbered to correspond with conference paper number 75 listed in Weller's CV.

Series consists of records created and collected by Grant Hazelwood for the BC Ministry of Environment's "Upper Nass Assessment Project", a project that included the biophysical mapping of the Northwest-Klappan Road Access Area. Grant Hazelwood (Alpenglow Resources) was hired as the wildlife biologist for to undertake project work.

File consists of an original and photocopied maps collected by Grant Hazelwood primarily in conjunction with work for the Upper Nass Assessment Project. The majority consist of Canadian National Topographic System (NTS) maps annotated with draft biophysical mapping, collected species inventory data, area boundaries, or other information for the project.

File consists of Grant Hazelwood's notes and collected correspondence created in conjunction with the BC Ministry of Environment's "Upper Nass Assessment Project", a project that included the biophysical mapping of the Northwest-Klappan Road Access Area. Includes a summary document entitled "Klappan Access Road Project - Wildlife Component", as well as Hazelwood's handwritten species inventory notes.

File consists of project planning documents for the BC Ministry of Environment's "Upper Nass Assessment Project", a project that included the biophysical mapping of the Northwest-Klappan Road Access Area. Grant Hazelwood (Alpenglow Resources) was hired as the wildlife biologist for to undertake this project work. Includes Hazelwood's employment information for the project, project terms of reference, and a project summary.

File consists of a "Memorandum of Canadian Softwood Lumber Committee Concerning Alleged Stumpage Subsidies" before the International Trade Administration of the United States Department of Commerce regarding the Countervailing Duty Investigation -- Certain Forest Products from Canada: Softwood Lumber, Shakes and Shingles, and Fence (Docket No. 122015).

File consists of a "Memorandum of Canadian Softwood Lumber Committee Concerning Non-Stumpage Programs" before the International Trade Administration of the United States Department of Commerce regarding the Countervailing Duty Investigation -- Certain Forest Products from Canada: Softwood Lumber, Shakes and Shingles, and Fence (Docket No. 122015).