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Forest Service films British Columbia. Forest Service Forests and forestry--British Columbia
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The trees are brown

Promotional film. A positive look at chemical spray programs, documenting the successful 1976 control program directed against Douglas Fir Tussock Moth caterpillars in the Kamloops/North Thompson area.

[Sue Fire rehabilitation]

Stock shots. Caterpillar tractors using cables to pull down trees (snags?); cats piling slash; crew igniting slash piles with driptorches. Also general views of burned-over area.

[Sayward Forest : recreation, 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.

[Forest camp activities, Haney area]

Stock shots. "Subjects covered: Inmates working in sawmill. General scene of camp. Clearing brush. Planting seedlings. Cutaways include logging truck fully loaded along mountain road. Seedling close-ups. Mountain flowers."

[Planting, Kamloops district ; Mica pondage clearing]

Stock shots. First section shows crew planting bullet seedlings with planting guns and with dibbles, as well as some bare-root planting. The second section shows the clearing of land in the area to be flooded by the Mica Dam, using caterpillar tractors, Euclids, chain saws, etc. Tree are felled, piled, and the slash and debris are burned. Also includes views of the dam under construction, and of waterways and lakes in the area.

Fly camp fires

Training film. Illustrates the correct method of setting up a camp in the woods, and demonstrates the results of campfire carelessness.

[Koksilah nursery ; oak tree (scenic)]

Stock shots. Scenic shots of oak tree and golf course. At Koksilah Nursery, footage of: sprinklers; seedling and seed beds; weeding; seeding (with tractor-drawn seeder); irrigation system; earth spreader. Also, weeding seed beds at Duncan Nursery.

The well-dressed field man

Training film. Lists the correct clothing and equipment needed for comfort and safety when working out of doors; describes hazards often encountered in the woods.

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