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This series contains memoranda and papers presented at the 1946 District Foresters' Meeting.

This series contains the "Report to the Royal Commission on Forests and Forestry: The Background to Stand Treatment Policies in the Northern Interior." The report is illustrated with pasted-in photographs.

This series contains project files from the Mitchell River Bridge, Invermere Ranger District, Project 196. Types of records includes photographs and brief construction history.

Correspondence, notes and other papers on forest pathology, timber cruising, and the supervision of licenced scalers. Personal correspondence relating to the Forest Service and poetry and song sheets from annual forest ranger meetings.

The series consists of 43 films created or collected by the Forest Service between ca. 1922 and 1965.

Stock shots. Shows slash burning in progress on flat area and on hillside; men igniting the slash; aerial and general views during and after the burn; night shots. Also shows helicopter with monsoon bucket, and logging truck passing through the burn area. There is also footage of B.C. Forest Products operations in the Caycuse area, including: plantations near Bear Creek and Caycuse; forester inspecting browse damage; views of logged area(s), fire guards, slash and regeneration; falling snags; sequences showing planting in burned and unburned terrain; Autum colours in the (Cowichan?) Valley.

Stock shots. Extensive footage showing details of various experiments carried out on seedlings and trees in the laboratory and greenhouse at the North Road forest nursery. Also footage of the seed laboratory, and of workers loading seeds into styroblocks, at the Duncan nursery.

Stock shots. "Subjects covered: Inmates working in sawmill. General scene of camp. Clearing brush. Planting seedlings. Cutaways include logging truck fully loaded along mountain road. Seedling close-ups. Mountain flowers."

Stock shots. Shows tree planting crew at work on a burned-over hillside overlooking Brewster Lake.

Stock shots. First section shows crew planting bullet seedlings with planting guns and with dibbles, as well as some bare-root planting. The second section shows the clearing of land in the area to be flooded by the Mica Dam, using caterpillar tractors, Euclids, chain saws, etc. Tree are felled, piled, and the slash and debris are burned. Also includes views of the dam under construction, and of waterways and lakes in the area.

Stock shots. Spraying for weed control at Koksilah Forest Nursery. Thinning seedlings in Duncan plug nursery. Researcher in Lodgepole pine beds at Mesachie lake Research Station. Detailed footage showing seed testing at the laboratory in Duncan.

Promotional film. A positive look at chemical spray programs, documenting the successful 1976 control program directed against Douglas Fir Tussock Moth caterpillars in the Kamloops/North Thompson area.

Training film. Illustrates the correct method of setting up a camp in the woods, and demonstrates the results of campfire carelessness.

Stock shots. At Duncan Forest Nursery, cartons of nursery stock are removed from cold storage and loaded onto a truck.

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Stock shots. Shows mechanical seeder and earth-spreading machine seeding beds with Douglas fir at Koksilah Nursery, and women weeding the seed beds at Duncan Nursery.

Stock shots. Caterpillar tractors using cables to pull down trees (snags?); cats piling slash; crew igniting slash piles with driptorches. Also general views of burned-over area.

The item is an audio recording of an interview with Glen Patterson.
T0509:0001 track 1: Mr. Patterson discusses his move to Nimpkish Valley as a fire warden, 1947; first sustained yield plan for the Nimpkish Valley, 1947-48; fire protection practices in the Nimpkish Valley; company attitudes toward forest conservation, 1940s; forest service view of company practices, 1940s. Changes in Nimpkish Valley forestry practices, 1947-56. Forestry reform brought about by the Sloan Commission Report, 1953-55. Progressive forestry practices of CFP in the Nimpkish Valley, 1947-56.
T0509:0001 track 2: Mr. Patterson discusses fire protection practices in the Nimpkish Valley, 1947-52; development of volume and yield tables for the Nimpkish Valley; tree farm license granted in the Nimpkish Valley, 1960; responsibilities of B.C. Forest Service and logging companies in forest management; public attitudes toward forest management; the work of forestry institutions at the provincial and national level; life in the Nimpkish Valley and description of Woss Camp, 1948-56.

T0509:0002 track 1: Mr. Patterson discusses women's lives in Woss camp, 1947-56 and the social divisions in camp life. (End of interview).

This series contains subject indexes to the "O Series" of correspondence, ca.1918-1972 and two file directories, 1979-1981 and 1983. Box 1 contains a photocopy of an alphabetical card index to the "O series" of correspondence. Box 2 contains a file directory (updated to 1972) for "O Series" correspondence files arranged as general files, working plans, engineering, farm woodlot applications, public sustained yield units, tree farms and tree farm licences and a Forest Service file directory, 1979-1981 and a Ministry of Forests file directory, 1983. Indexes to forestry correspondence, 1918-1983

The fonds consists of three photograph albums created by Donald Lawrence McMullan between 1928 and 1946. The photographs document his work on forest survey teams for both the provincial and federal governments, as well as surveys conducted by logging and railroad companies.

The first two albums contain photographs from several survey jobs, arranged chronologically. They are divided into sections with an introductory page and a cartographic drawing showing where the particular survey took place. The photographs are usually dated with captions and are as follows:
Album 1 (1928-1933)
Amiskwi and Beaverfoot survey, 1928, Forest Service, Dept. of the Interior, Canada
P.G.E. resources survey, 1929, Forest Resources Branch, British Columbia
Preliminary survey of a proposed logging railroad, 1930, Bloedel, Stewart & Welch Ltd. logging company
Elk Forest survey, 1930, British Columbia Forest Service
North Kamloops Survey, 1931, British Columbia Survey Branch
Railway belt survey, 1932, British Columbia Forest Service
Railroad logging operation, 1933, Industrial Timber Mills Ltd.
Album 2 (1934-1939):
Surveys for logging railroads, 1934-1935, UBO Industrial Timber Mills Ltd.
Kettle Forest Survey, 1935, British Columbia Forest Service
E&N Survey, 1936-1937
Harrison Survey, 1939

The third album, created between 1940 and 1946, contains photographs from McMullan's later career and show general forestry activities on Vancouver Island, mainland British Columbia, Yukon and Alaska. Captions and dates are inconsistently applied.

The fonds also includes a copy of McMullan's thesis entitled "The Work of the Surveys Division: British Columbia Forest Service" written in 1932 during McMullan's studies at the University of British Columbia. This thesis is illustrated with five b&w prints and an annotated map. Also included in the fonds is a notice of permanent appointment to the British Columbia civil service dated March 25, 1937 with attached salary schedule and a letter to McMullan dated January 20, 1938 regarding a new classification grading system for Foresters.

The series consists of various indexes and inventories created by the Forest Service to manage their photograph files along with some miscellaneous material, such as their copies of the Oxford classification system used to classify forest photographs. There are also several inventories of Forest Service photographs created by the BC Archives and print copies of some photographs including botanical renderings.

This series contains official field diaries kept by Forest Assistant Ronald Bradley and Technical Field Officer R. Craigdallie while posted to the Barriere Ranger District (RD 3) from April 1964 through March 1965.