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Field organization and staff register arranged by Forest District

  • GR-0963
  • Series
  • 1920-1964

This series consists of a field organization and staff register arranged by Forest District, 1920-1964. Includes names of district foresters, assistant district foresters, rangers, assistant rangers, and patrolmen, etc., dates of appointment and salaries.

British Columbia. Forest Service

Scaler's licenses and receipt book

  • GR-0940
  • Series
  • 1913-1954

This series consists of Scalers' licences, Nos. 1-3000; and receipt book.

British Columbia. Forest Branch

Duncan Forest District records

  • GR-1734
  • Series
  • 1954-1977

This series contains published forest management manuals, guides, tables, and studies from the Duncan Forest District. Records include lookout man's diaries, 1972-1974, files concerning the closure of Mt. Prevost and Mt. Hooker lookouts, British Columbia Forest Products, Maquinna T.F.L. no. 22 and annual reports, 1969-1972.

British Columbia. Forest Service

Forest Service course materials

  • GR-1455
  • Series
  • 1958-1962

This series contains course materials and student's notes by Gary Huva, later ranger at Blue River (R.D. 18, Kamloops Forest District), from the Forest Service Ranger School at Green Timbers, Surrey, B.C.

British Columbia. Forest Service Ranger School

Civil service specifications and other material

  • GR-1380
  • Series
  • 1959-1978

This series contains records related to civil service specifications for positions in the B.C. Forest Service. Information captured in the records includes job classifications and descriptions for foresters, forest agrologists, surveyors, carpenters, clerks, forest assistants, conservation officers, and other positions with the Forest Service.

British Columbia. Ministry of Forests (1976-1986)

Scrapbooks

  • GR-1375
  • Series
  • 1959-1964

This series contains 2 volumes of newspaper clipping scrapbooks regarding forests and forestry activities of the Minister and Chief Forester, and other forest-related topics. The scrapbooks were maintained by the Public Relations and Education Division.

British Columbia. Forest Service

Papers relating to forest growth and forest pathology

  • GR-1370
  • Series
  • 1940-1954

This series contains miscellaneous papers relating to forest growth and forest pathology. The first file contains a copy of 'What forest trees tell about climate and soil', by G.A. Pearson, 1940. The second file contains a copy of 'Lumber recovery from second-growth western hemlock', by C.F. McBride, 1951. The series also includes a literature review of the dwarf mistletoes by Job Kuijt, 1954 and an interim report on studies on the characteristics and ecology of the root system of second growth Douglas fir, by R.G. McMinn, 1954.

British Columbia. Forest Service

Papers of Project 87

  • GR-1366
  • Series
  • 1981-1983

This series contains miscellaneous papers of Project 87. This project was established in 1981 to do research in preparation for the 75th anniversary of the Forest Service in 1987 and to facilitate transfer of archival records to the Provincial Archives. This series consists of papers and reports prepared, coordinated, or collected by the project. Contents are: (1) Working Paper No. 7, Historical headquarters staff and organizational tables, 1888-1979. (2) Catalogue of Original Timber Leases, 1870-1906, prepared by A. Lazenby. (3) Early history of the B.C. Forest Service, by D. Climenhaga. (4) Forest protection a government responsibility, a draft by Stephen Gray. (5) Protection as conservation - Safeguarding B.C.'s forests from fire, 1874-1921, by John Parmenter.

British Columbia. Ministry of Forests (1976-1986)

Research Division records

  • GR-1363
  • Series
  • 1962-1967

This series contains records of the Research Division of the Forest Service. Records include a report (carbon copy) on regeneration surveys carried out in 1962 by M. Crown, Forester-in-Training on Vancouver Island and on the Sechelt Peninsula, illustrated with hand coloured whiteprint map and a study of the survival rate of trees planted in the Southern Interior, an in-service reforestation report by M.B. Clark.

British Columbia. Forest Service

Course material

  • GR-1362
  • Series
  • 1936-1964

This series contains materials for a high school vocational correspondence course in forestry designed in cooperation with the Dept. of Education. File 1 contains the original 1936 course with Paper 20 (Protection) revised as in 1940; Files 2-4 contains the course as revised in 1953; Files 5-8 contains the course as revised in 1964.

British Columbia. Forest Service

Guest register

  • GR-1361
  • Series
  • 1962

This series contains a guest register of those wishing good health to a convalescing colleague on the occasion of the 50th anniversary celebration of the Forest Service.

British Columbia. Forest Service

Key to Forest Surveys Type Mapping

  • GR-1352
  • Series
  • 1946

This series contains records from the Forest Service related to data management. It consists of a copy of Key to Forest Surveys Type Mapping, which sets out instructions for entering data for tabulation on Hollerith punch cards indicating forest cover on Forest survey maps.

British Columbia. Forest Service

Reports and other material

  • GR-1350
  • Series
  • 1961, 1976

This series contains records of the Engineering Division of the Forest Service. Types of records include reports on the design and construction of a lake transporter for heavy vehicles (1961) and on the design, construction and operation of a raft for burning residual wood debris on lakes (1976), illustrated with photographs.

British Columbia. Forest Service

Manual and other material

  • GR-1347
  • Series
  • 1960

This series contains records of the Public Education and Information Division. It includes a manual regarding procedures for highway sign crew to paint and maintain forest protection highway signs.

British Columbia. Forest Service

Technical reports relating to forest biology

  • GR-1344
  • Series
  • 1931-1939

This series contains translations of technical reports relating to reforestation, forest fires, silviculture, yield, growth, soil, and other scientific studies of forest biology.

British Columbia. Forest Service

Report

  • GR-1337
  • Series
  • 1952

This series contains a 15-page report on the Sixth British Commonwealth Forestry Conference by F.S. McKinnon, Assistant Chief Forester in charge of Technical Planning, official British Columbia delegate to the Conference.

British Columbia. Forest Service

Circular

  • GR-1336
  • Series
  • 1947

This series includes a copy of a draft circular on Forest Management Licences from the Assistant Chief Forester in charge of operations.

British Columbia. Forest Service

Operational records

  • GR-1364
  • Series
  • 1925-1965

Series consists of operational records relating to reforestation, mensuration, pathology, volume studies, personnel, financial and engineering matters.

Aleza Lake Experimental Station

Study of the organization and administrative systems of the Forest Service and other material

  • GR-1296
  • Series
  • 1951

This series contains a study on the organization and administrative systems of the Forest Service together with recommendations for departmental reorganization done by Stevenson and Kellogg Ltd., Management Engineers for the Ministry of Lands and Forests, presented to E.T. Kenney, Minister of Lands and Forests, September 26, 1951. These recommendations were partially implemented by the Departmental reorganization of June 10, 1952.

British Columbia. Dept. of Lands and Forests

Timber licenses and other material

  • GR-0511
  • Series
  • 1959

Typescript of statistical information corrected to Dec. 31, 1959, including timber licences, list of holders; record of pulp licences; list of active licence timber berths; record of pulp leases.

British Columbia. Forest Service

Volume tables for coastal forest districts

  • GR-1278
  • Series
  • 1946

This series contains volume tables for coastal forest districts. Volume tables were used to determine areas of merchantable timber for possible issuance of timber sales.

British Columbia. Forest Service

Operational Ranger District records

  • GR-1272
  • Series
  • 1921-1949

This series contains records of the McBride Ranger District. Types of operational records include contracts, correspondence and inspection reports relating to timber sales.

British Columbia. Forest Service

Royal Commission of Inquiry into the use of Pesticides and Herbicides

  • GR-1257
  • Series
  • 1973-1975

This series contains briefs submitted to Royal Commissions. It includes briefs on four main topics: the first is the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the use of Pesticides and Herbicides (1973). It includes photographs that have been pasted within. The second brief concerns the Royal Commission on Forest Resources (1975) specifically in regards to Pest Management: a neglected aspect of the Forest-Tenure Policy and Agreements by N.E. Alexander and J.H. Borden. The third is a brief submitted to the Royal Commission on Forest Resources in 1975, and lastly the series also contains a submission to the Royal Commission on the British Columbia Railway (1977). The last set of records also includes press clippings.

British Columbia. Forest Service

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