Promotional film. "This film looks at harvesting, forest husbandry, sawmilling and end uses of Spruce-Pine-Fir from British Columbia's northern interior, a unique area with a large and technologically sophisticated forest industry. Title of the film stems from the practice of winter logging of this softwood species group, which is the most abundant in Canada." (COFI catalogue description)

The item is a reel of industrial film about the wartime logging of Sitka spruce in BC, to be used in the manufacture of aircraft such as the Mosquito bomber. Includes shots of logging and milling operations and Davis rafts, as well as some shots of aircraft.

Newsreel footage. Shots of logger hand-falling large spruce trees; high-rigger climbing and topping a very large spruce; scaling; yarding; hauling logs by truck and dumping them into log pond; boom men and boom women working with pike poles; sawmill scenes; shot of an aircraft.

This series consists of Forest Branch Spruce Permit files, numbers 1-330 and unnumbered.