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This series consists of a variety of operational and administrative records created by the Prince Rupert Forest District from 1925-1975. The records are arranged into the following subseries:

A. Grazing
B. Management
C. Operations
D. Records

Subseries may be further arranged by subject. These include: Grazing: permits; Management: annual reports; Management: co-operation with outside agencies; Management: Public Sustained Yield Units [MPSYU]; Management: Special Use Permits [MSUP]; Management: Timber Sales [MTS]; Management: Weight Scaling; Management: miscellaneous; Operations: fires; Operations: Forest Service; Operations: Improvements; Operations: Office methods; Operations: organization; Operations: personnel; Operations: property; Operations: protection; Operations: Ranger Districts; Operations: requisition supplies and equipment [ORS&E]; Operations: supervision; Operations: public information and education; Records: advances; Records: accounts; Records: reports; Records: mill - shipping permits [RMSP]; Timber Tenures and Beachcombing; Compartment summaries; Species ledger and history cards; and Hazard work charts.

Records include correspondence, scaling and royalty records, financial records, mechanical records, grazing permits, annual reports, and records relating to timber tenures and timber sales.

This series consists of wildfire mapping records including fire atlas maps and fire reports from the Prince Rupert Forest District. The records date from 1921-1980. Collectively these records provide a comprehensive image of the amount and extent of forest fires in the area.

The Prince Rupert Forest District was divided into smaller Ranger Districts. These Ranger Districts changed over the years, but included: Burns Lake, Hazleton, Terrace, Prince Rupert, Kitwanga, Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands), Ocean Falls, Francois Lake, Smithers, Telkwa, Houston, Pendleton Bay, Kitimat, Lower Post, Topley, Bella Coola, Southbank, Telegraph Creek and Atlin.

Annual fire reports are oversized handwritten tables that provide detailed information on individual fires for the years 1921-1967. The tables list: name of the fire; name of officer in charge; date; district fire number; fire origin; cost of fighting and source of funds; area burned; total area of damage done; amount of merchantable and unmerchantable timber burned; amount of range land burned; amount of property or other damage caused; and the cause of the fire. Possible causes include lightening, recreational activities, railroad clearing, smokers, brush or range burning, construction, industrial activities, incendiaries, miscellaneous known causes and unknown causes. The pages are arranged by year, with one page used per Ranger District. Each year includes a summary sheet with the totals for all Ranger Districts.

Fire atlas maps and overlays show the location and type of fires, as well as the extent of some burned areas. The majority of the maps are forest cover maps which have been annotated or had overlays added with this additional information. Many of the maps have been cut to fit in the bound volume they were originally stored in. This can make it difficult to determine the precise year the maps were created and annotated.

The series also includes one scrapbook of newspaper clippings related to forest fires, fire protection and firefighting for the years 1988-1991. This item was created by the successor of the Prince Rupert Forest District, the Prince Rupert Forest Region.

Ministries responsible for the creation of this series, and their dates of the responsibility, are:
Dept. of Lands (1908-1945)
Dept. of Lands and Forests (1945-1962)
Dept. of Lands, Forests and Water Resources (1962-1975)
Dept. of Forests 1975-1976
Ministry of Forests 1976-1986
Ministry of Forests and Lands 1986-1988
Ministry of Forests 1988-2005