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Don MacLaurin Australia Forestry
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Don MacLaurin

  • MACLAURIN_2017_011
  • Archief
  • 1929 - 2013

Fonds contain the records of Don MacLaurin. MacLaurin was involved in the forestry industry of British Columbia, taught at BCIT, and was heavily involved with the Resort Municipality of Whistler. He was in several forestry associations, including the Canadian Institute of Forestry, British Columbia Foresters, and the Forest Nursery Association of British Columbia. MacLaurin created the Whistler Interpretive Forest. MacLaurin also completed assessments for private developers. Included in the fonds are his personal records.

Most of the records were created in the Whistler region.

Australia Sabbatical Contact Information and Notes

  • MACLAURIN_2017_011-002-006
  • Bestanddeel
  • 1985
  • Part of Don MacLaurin

Documents pertaining to Don MacLaurin's working sabbatical, which involved a trip to Australia. File includes lists of contact information for Don's sabbatical application; correspondence from the International Society of Tropical Foresters, Inc. regarding membership renewal for 1986, with a form for membership renewal; notes and itinerary ideas for Don MacLaurin's Australia trip.

Don MacLaurin's Reference Material

Series includes bound copy of "Interpretation of Landforms from Aerial Photographs" by Nurettin Keser; transparencies with geological information; "BC Forestry" journal of the Association of BC Professional Foresters, Volume 2, No. 1, August 1977; bound copy of "Range Management handbook for British Columbia" edited by Alastair McLean; bound copy of "Forest Resources and Utilization in Canada to the Year 2000" by Glenn H. Manning and H. Rae Grinnell; copy of "Wilderness in British Columbia The Need Is Now A Conference Summary" published by the Outdoor Recreation Council of British Columbia; copy of "The Forestry Chronicle" Volume 53, No. 6, December 1977.

Series also includes a map with textual information titled "Forest Fire Weather Zones of Canada" by A. J. Simard; copy of "A Technique for Sampling General Fish Habitat Characteristics of Streams" by Roscoe B. Herrington and Donald K. Dunham; copy of "Canada's Forests - From Seed to Sale", "The Forestry Chronicle," December 1977; copy of "Climate of British Columbia Tables of Temperature, Precipitation, and Sunshine" Report for 1960, with correspondence from the Department of Transport regarding monthly precipitation tables for Texada Island, BC.

Series also includes an academic article titled "The Demand Survey Dilemma: Assessing the Credibility of State Outdoor Recreation Plans" by Rabel Burdge and John Hendee, from "Guideline" journal, Volume 2, No. 6, November-December 1972; CD titled "BC Wildfire Conference 2004: Wildland Urban Interface Fire in the New Era" with presentations from the conference; pamphlet titled "Canada's Forests: Prevent Forest Fires" from 1958; booklet titled "Log Scale" from 1959; booklet titled "Grading Rules and Scaling Procedure" from 1963 with BC Forest Branch General Volume tables; copy of "Table of Ten Times Volume of Cylinders in Cubic Feet" from 1953; booklet titled "Protected Areas, Conservation and Development" by Harold K. Eidsvik; booklet titled "Metric Handbook for Canadian Softwood Lumber" from 1977; bound copy of "Forest Survey Notes, British Columbia Forest Service, Forest Surveys and Inventory Division" from 1960; photocopies of tables and figures related to sustainable forestry; photocopies of tables related to the history of recreation development (mainly in the US).

Series also includes a Geological Survey of Canada titled "Glacial Lake History, Southern Interior Plateau, British Columbia" from 1969, with a map titled Ice retreat and glacial lake development, Southern Interior Plateau, British Columbia; document titled "Exotic Trees in the Coastal Region of British Columbia" by E. H. Garman; booklet of Coast Volume Tables in Cubic Feet; adjustable Control Burning Meter for Messmate-Gum or Silvertop Forest Type, from the Forests Commission of Victoria, Australia; booklet titled "Topographical Tables for the use of Timber Cruisers, Forest Engineers, and Logging Superintendents" by A. K. Shives; bound copy of "Measure for Measure" by P. J. Rennie.

Note: This series consists of five folders.