Aeronautics in forestry

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  • LCSH. Previously B.C. Forest Service--Air Transport Source: Visual Records database

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[Forest inventory]

Stock shots. Surveyors carry out a forest inventory. Shots of aircraft taking off and landing; blasting a log jam; surveyors travelling by helicopter; preparing aircraft; camp scenes in fly camp. Crew traveling by boat; shots of Anson aerial survey plane; survey crew in timber; more boats, including the "B.C. Forester"; cooking over campfire; surveyors and survey foresters at work; more helicopter footage; scenes in camp; aircraft.

[Helicopter cone collecting, Williams Lake]

Stock shots. Collecting spruce cones from tree tops with a helicopter. Shows process of preparing helicopter and equipment; collecting cones; landing at dump and unloading; safety measures; aerial views of harvesting area.

[Mountain pine beetle, July 1977]

Stock shots. Infected and infested trees. Mill scenes, with burner, loader and lumber carrier. Crew inspecting and marking infected trees, and using pheremone traps. Faller cutting trees. Road building with a caterpillar tractor. Logging scenes, including front-end loader, skidder, caterpillar tractor with tree shears. Small sawmill, making ties, etc. Red (infected) trees and Seeley Lake Provincial Park, south of Hazelton. Fish and Wildlife men board Forest Service helicopter and take off. Aerial views of logged or infected areas, logging operation in progress, and infested areas near Kitwanga and New Hazelton. Ranger and zone forester reviewing aerial photos and map of infested areas, Close-up shots of beetle emerging from tree.

[Planting : mudpack and aerial]

Stock shots. First section shows the planting of mudpacked seedlings by a planting crew for Pacific Logging in the Fleet River area. (The shot list emphasizes that this footage is not meant to illustrate production planting, but only as an example of the mudpack method.) Second section shows aerial planting of bullet seedlings and frozen mudpack seedlings from an Avenger aircraft for Pacific Logging.

[Prescribed burn (deciduous), Cultus Lake]

Stock shots. Footage of Cultus Lake and its immediate surroundings, and of a helicopter using a helitorch to ignite a prescribed burn of slash and deciduous cover adjacent to the lake. The progress of the burn is shown, with some footage shot at a slower camera speed (to provide accelerated motion?).

[70 mm camera boom and plotting]

Stock shots. Shows use of boom-mounted camera on a helicopter to take aerial photographs (possibly for forest inventory purposes), and the plotting of the information using punch cards and a computer.

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