| Abstract/Description or Keywords |
A new publication from the Ministry of Forests Research Program provides a catalogue of information on historically important events pertaining to floods, rainstorms, landslides, and snow avalanches. The information contained in the publication is assembled for northwest British Columbia, extending from Bella Coola in the south to Stewart in the north, from the Bulkley Valley in the east to the Queen Charlotte Islands in the west. Most of the information contained in the catalogue details descriptions of storm damage as presented in original accounts. The main source of information is newspaper accounts of storm damage and climatological station records. Many other sources were consulted: technical journals, company records, government agency files, ship logs, diaries, and Hudson’s Bay Company journals. types of events; snow melt floods; ice jam floods; summer rain storm and floods; fall rainstorms and rain-on-snow events; glacial outburst floods; snow avalanches; management implications |
