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Stock shots. An A-26 airtanker and a helicopter with a monsoon bucket do test drops on a fire in the Sooke area.

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Stock shots. Footage includes: powder man preparing to blast section of rock; dumping truckloads of at the Port hardy log dumping ground; caterpillar tractors shifting logs and moving earth; more drilling and blasting; more log dump scenes.

Stock shots. Includes footage of forest fires, fire-fighting and burned-over areas at the Erbe Fire, Vancouver Island, and the Johnny Fire, Kamloops. Air tankers, a bird-dog plane, and ground crews with hoses are shown.

Stock shots. Shows Douglas fir, Lodgepole pine, Larch, etc., in flower and/or bud stage, and views of tree plantations. May include Saturna Island footage.

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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Stock shots. Shows Canso airtanker taking off from Patricia Bay, picking up water [?], dropping on fires near Squamish, Finlayson Arm, Harrison Lake and Zeballos; radio room at Vancouver; footage of Canso from bird-dog plane; helicopter making monsoon bucket drops, and ferrying federal prisoners to fight fire; suppression crew fighting fire on ground; shots inside a Canso; etc.

Stock shots. Caterpillar tractor; Canso airtanker; forest fire near Sooke Harbour; fire crews at work; fire fighting equipment in use; etc.

Stock shots. Suppression crew dispatched from Langford ranger station. Canso drops on fire. Caterpillar tractor, surpression crew fighting the fire. Staged sequence showing smokers discarding their cigarettes carelessly. Fire crew and tanker trucks.

Stock shots. Caterpillar tractor, tanker truck, and suppression crew at forest fire scene. Canso airtanker makes drops on fire. Use of radio communications. Duncan ranger station.

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.

Stock shots. Includes footage of: log boom; loading logs onto truck; horse logging; sawmill and lumber yard scenes; high-rigger topping a tree; pulp mill; skidding logs with a caterpillar tractor; logging damage at Myra Creek [in Strathcona Park?]; sequence illustrating poor logging techniques.

Stock shots. Footage of logging operations in the Sayward, showing heel-boom loader, shovel loader, and logging truck. Footage of Campbell River Nursery includes correctional inmates building a fence, and sequence showing seedlings being lifted, bundled and heeled-in. Short sequence on fire above Stella Lake. Trees and scenery of Mohun Lake and Mount Menzies. Sequence on Camp Snowdon, a correctional facility, where inmates are shown clearing ditches, brush and weeds. Logging trucks at Campbell River nursery.

Stock shots. Shows tree planting crew at work on a burned-over hillside overlooking Brewster Lake.

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.

Stock shots. Shows tree felling, land clearing, and construction of road(s), probably in the vicinity of Gold River and/or Elk River. Much footage of construction equipment, including bulldozers, scrapers, drills, cranes, etc.

Stock shots. Extensive footage of the Sayward Forest, primarily showing outdoor recreation activities -- boating (power, sail and canoe), camping, sport fishing, picnicking, swimming, sunbathing, water skiing, etc. -- on the lakes, streams and rivers of the area. Also includes sequences on the Elk Falls and Menzie lookout towers; forest inventory crews at work near Frog Lake and Elk Falls; Campbell River Forest Nursery; a tugboat pulling a log barge in Johnstone Strait; Campbell River Ranger Station; Elk Falls Park; neat and messy camp sites.

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Stock shots. Shows a salvage logging operation, using a rubber-tired skidder to haul the logs and a grapple loader to load them onto a truck.

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Documentary. BC forest industries join forces with agencies of the Canadian and BC governments in an all-out aerial spraying campaign against the widespread spruce budworm infestation of forest stands on Vancouver Island.

Promotional film. Uses contemporary and historical footage to show how BC's 1.8 million hectares of NSR (Not Satisfactorily Restocked) land is being turned back into productive forestland. Shows past and present reforestation work at the sites of the Paul fire near Houston, the Campbell River fire (1938) and the Sue fire (1971). Scenes of land clearing, slash burning, planting, etc.

Footage. Heeling in bundled seedlings. Beacon Hill Park, Victoria: people feeling waterfowl at Goodacre Lake. A lookout station, and view from the top. Annual celebration at Peace Arch Park; shots of Premier Pattullo and Fred McGregor. Falls and rapids. Planting crew in Campbell River area: tent camp, bundled seedlings, planting shots. Tom Wells with seedlings at Green Timbers. Interior B.C. scenery.

Documentary. "The scenes include a few brief views of Duncan on Vancouver Island in the early days, falling giant Douglas Fir with new chainsaws, bucking them into portable lengths, and the transportation of the logs by truck and railway. Good scenes at the base of the spar tree where the logs are being yarded out of the bush, tongs thrown about them with great skill, and the massive trunks lifted onto the rail cars by a steam donkey. Logs are loaded onto trucks by a gasoline donkey. There are scenes around the mill showing the arrival of the logs, the endless chain up onto the deck, the carriage which carries the logs through the circular saw, the edger, and all mill operations, including sorting in the lumber yard. A steam crane is shown working in the yard lifting and piling huge loads of lumber. A truck drives under the sawdust hopper and is loaded with sawdust which will be delivered to houses for stove fuel. And trucks leave the mill loaded with cut lumber. Also shown is an excellent tree-topping sequence with a high-rigger." (Colin Browne)

Documentary. Depicts the notable forest fire (the Sayward fire) that occurred in the Campbell River area in 1938, and its consequences. Much footage of the fire (day and night); fire-fighting efforts (crews, bulldozers, radio, pumps, hoses); refugees from settlements threatened by fire; aftermath of fire (dead timber, damaged equipment, wildlife, Forbes Landing resort).

Several parts of this film have been removed for use other productions and some parts appear to have been spliced back in out of order.

The item is a film print copy of a documentary film telling the story of the Sayward forest on Vancouver Island. Destroyed by fire on 5 July 1938 and subsequently reforested, the Sayward is now a valuable area for outdoor recreation. The film includes archival footage of the fire and the reforestation work, and an original score by folk singer Valdy helps to tell the story.

Documentary. The importance of roads to a timber management program; the plotting and construction of road networks for forestry projects in the Gold River and Peace River pondage areas. The historical method of log transportation by waterway is also shown.