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Fort St. James Forest District records
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1960-2007 (Creation)
- Creator
- British Columbia. Fort St. James Forest District
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Physical description
8.4 m of textual records, photos and maps
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Biographical history
The Fort St. James Forest District was created in 1978 as part of the Prince George Forest Region. It had previously existed as a Forest Ranger District with similar boundaries. In 2016 it was combined with the Vanderhoof Forest District to form the Stuart Nechako Natural Resource District, which is part of the Omineca Natural Resource Region.
Custodial history
Scope and content
This series consists of records created by the Fort St. James Forest District from 1960-2007. The majority of records are related to timber tenures such as forest licences, timber sale licences, timber sale harvesting licences, woodlot licences, cutting permits, free use permits, burning permits, special use permits, and tree farm licences. Licensees were required to apply for a forest licence or similar tenure and cutting permits in order to harvest timber. Records may regard the issuance, evaluation, administration, monitoring, planning, replacement, cancellation, deletion and extension of these timber tenures.
The files may consist of records such as applications, ministry approvals, copies of the permit or licence, revisions, correspondence, legal documents, annual reports, operations information, development plans, charts, procedures, audits, reviews, photos, development plans, timber cruise compilations, stumpage rates, appraisals, cruise cards, survey notes, photos, and maps.
Other records unrelated to timber tenures include road permits, hay cutting permits, range use permits, fire prevention and control records, and tree planting.
The ministries responsible for creating these records, and the years that they were responsible, are:
Dept. of Lands, Forests and Water (1962-1975)
Dept. of Forests (1975-1976 )
Ministry of Forests (1976-1986)
Ministry of Forests and Lands (1986-1988)
Ministry of Forests (1988-2005)
The records were classified as 19500-45, 19600-45, 19710-20, 19720-20, 19720-25, 19720-50, 19720-55
in the Forest Operational Records Classification System (ORCS).
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Physical condition
Immediate source of acquisition
Transferred from the Fort St. James Forest District and its successors at various dates.
Arrangement
The series is arranged by accession number, then each accession or box is arranged roughly by file code number.
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There are no access restrictions.
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Finding aids
According to the Forests Operational Classification System, the ministry created A number registers (ORCS 19620-04). These registers have not been transferred to the archives. Researchers are therefore advised to contact the ministry to view these registers in order to identify specific files by name of applicant and/or forestry district.
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General note
Accession number(s): 90-2597, 92-2676, 96-0330
General note
Location note: These records are kept in offsite storage and must be specially ordered. Please write to request that they be ordered in at least five business days prior to your visit.
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- British Columbia. Dept. of Lands, Forests and Water Resources (Subject)
- British Columbia. Dept. of Forests (Subject)
- British Columbia. Ministry of Forests (1976-1986) (Subject)
- British Columbia. Ministry of Forests and Lands (Subject)
- British Columbia. Ministry of Forests (1988-2005) (Subject)
- British Columbia. Fort St. James Forest District (Subject)