Recherche dans la collection - Holman, H.L. - Interview

CANADA. ENVIRONMENT CANADA / ENVIRONNEMENT CANADA

1973-0012

Enregistrement sonore

1 of 1

1972-08-10

G.H.D. Bedell (Interviewer)

interviewer, G.H.D. Bedell

Forest Management Institute

Interview of forester H.L. Holman, in Calgary, Alberta, by G.H.D. Bedell as part of a series of interviews with Canadian foresters for the Forest Management Institute's oral history of forestry in Canada. He speaks about such subjects as: his education and career development; timber sales on the Athabaska River; fire at Steamboat Mountain; impressions of Finlayson; early tree planting from 1920 to 1925; early functions of the Canadian Forestry Service in Alberta; firefighting; timber sales; grazing; early organization; pressure from the ranchers; the establishment of the Kananaskis Forest Experiment Station; transfer of resources to the province and the effect this had on Canadian Forestry Service programs; relief camps in the 1930s depression; the effect of the Second World War on the research at Kananaskis; and rate-of-growth surveys in Alberta. <45mn>

English

Libre

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

With written permission of Copyright Owner / Avec la permission écrite du détenteur des droits d'auteur