Soils Of The Williams Lake Alexis Creek Area British Columbia

This report covers land in the city of Williams Lake and west of the Fraser River to the community of Redstone, describing the characteristics of the soils and map units and specifying their location and extent. It also gives a short account of the history and natural features of the map area, and describes land use for agriculture, forestry, wildlife and recreation.

Technical descriptions and chemical analyses of selected soil profiles, withbriefsections on early history, geology, climate and vegetation, land use and thecapability of the land to support agriculture, forestry, big game, waterfowland recreation. Data are taken from published soil surveys of the PeaceRiver areas of British Columbia and Alberta and information contained in landresource surveys and reports published since 1965.

This report and the soil maps it contains cover about 15,500 square kilometres in the southwestern Cariboo and Chilcotin regions of British Columbia. The report describes the characteristics of the soils and map units, and specifies their location and extent. It gives short accounts of the history and natural features of the map area. The soil maps show the distribution of soils. The survey was undertaken to provide an inventory of land resources under the Canada Land Inventory program.