Footage. Footage of Green Timbers Nursery and planting, including: cutting and collecting cones; weighing seeds; planting seeds in seed bed; lifting seedlings for root pruning and transplant; lifting and packing seedlings; heeling-in; planting crew.

Footage. Cattle on road and in field. Shoreline of lake, showing timber and burned areas. River boat on fast river and rapids. Landing boat and making campfire. Green Timbers Nursery. Caring for seed beds. Superintendent Tom Wells. Transplant beds. Lifting seedlings. Heeled-in seedling. Packing seedlings. Parade.

Footage. Mountains. Lookout. Two men falling a Douglas fir with axes, springboards, and crosscut saw. Steam donkey and spar tree. Log boom. Steamboat towing lumber. Second growth. Green Timbers Nursery: seed beds, transplant beds. Planting. Fire. Bucked timber. Snag and fire. Slash burning. Falling snags. Snagged land. New growth. Jack ladder at mill. Loading lumber on boat.

Stock shots. Sequence of crew travelling by truck and climbing trees to collect cones; process shown in detail. Cones being unloaded at the extractor at Duncan Forest Nursery. Crew from Pacific Logging picking up bullet stock for planting.

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Item consists of a training video which provides an overview of cone collection methods. The video details the natural circumstances, such as species characteristics, stand conditions, and crop abundance, that may affect cone collection. The video discusses four collection methods used in British Columbia to collect cones from trees: climbing, felling, aerial raking, and aerial clipping.

Item consists of a training video about organizing a cone collection project.

Item consists of a training video about forecasting for conifer seed collection. The video discusses the wide variety in seed-cone harvests from year to year and emphasizes the need to predict the size of a harvest. The presentation shows how to harvest and analyze the winter buds, and how to judge the effects of early summer weather and nutrition on the tree.

Item consists of a training video on cone crop surveys. The purpose of these surveys is to identify good cone crops for the year's collection program and to provide data over time of cone crop periodicity within a particular stand. The video discusses how to plan a cone harvest and explains the equipment and methods to be used when judging whether a harvest will be feasible.

Item consists of a training video about cone handling and storage, following the collection of cones and extraction of seed from the cones.

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Stock shots. Showing method of cone gathering by lowering metal cone over tops of trees and drawing-up to rake off branches containing cones.

Stock shots. Show the process of extracting seeds from cones at the Duncan Forest Nursery.

Stock shots. Detailed footage showing process of pollen injection, Lodgepole pine cones arriving at seed extraction plant, and nutrient and soil tests with hemlock seedlings at the research greenhouse.

Stock shots. Shows cone gathering from helicopter with long-armed clipper. Cones are from balsam trees, probably in the Cowichan Valley.

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.

Stock shots. Spraying for weed control at Koksilah Forest Nursery. Thinning seedlings in Duncan plug nursery. Researcher in Lodgepole pine beds at Mesachie lake Research Station. Detailed footage showing seed testing at the laboratory in Duncan.

The item is a reel of promotional film. It is a television clip on the Ministry's five-year plan, which included expanded basic silviculture operations, as well as the establishment of additional seedling nurseries and seed orchards. Footage of seedling nurseries, planting, thinning of young forests, aerial fertilization, and protection against fire, insects and disease.

Stock shots. First section shows styroblock, bullet and bare-root planting by a crew in the Squamish area. Second section shows the process of extracting and cleaning seeds from cones at the extraction plant at Duncan Nursery.

Item consists of one instructional video on the Ministry of Forests' seed centre. The video covers the work done in the seed centre following cone collection.

Item consists of a training video which provides a brief background on the biology of the seed cone, which may be useful to students as well as technical personnel. The video also shows how to select, harvest and evaluate samples.

Documentary. How tree breeders combine the most desirable characteristics of "plus trees" to produce improved spruce, pine, fir and hemlock seedlings.