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Forest Service films Forests and forestry--British Columbia
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A growing asset

Instructional video. Describes the Cowichan Municipal Forest near Duncan. Developed for woodlot owners, this presentation will be of interest to anyone who is concerned about forest management on small parcels of land.

A walk in the forest

Documentary. A reverential look at the British Columbia forest as it evolves through the four seasons of the year, showing their moods, colours and textures.

[British Columbia Forest Branch / Forest Service collection, reel 25]

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.

[British Columbia Forest Branch / Forest Service collection, reel 26]

Footage. Abandoned mill or smelter at Kootenay Bay on east side of Kootenay Lake. Loading car with emergency fire fighting pack. Car delivers man to woods to fight a fire. Ranger Station. Scenery [Kootenay Lake?]. Man sets up portable radio. Shots of E.C. Manning, K.C. McCannel, and A. Wells Gray. Transporting poles by railroad car and skidding them with a horse.

[British Columbia Forest Branch / Forest Service collection, reel 60]

Footage. Portable radio. Men pack up after lunch, take riverboat down rapids. Mount Robson. Loading hewn railroad ties. Lookout tower. Men land boat on river bank and extinguish abandoned fire with backpack pumps. Road through big timber [Cathedral Grove?]. Coast hand-logger towing logs with rowboat. 200-year-old stump. Hand-logger working jack. Hand-logger's floating camp, with cabin, rowboat, and log boom.

[British Columbia Forest Branch / Forest Service collection, reel 68]

Footage. 1. Alternative Service Workers at Green Timbers are shown washing up after a fire, in shack camp, assembling for a meal, and collecting their pay. 2. Sequence on small and portable mills: mill burner; hog fuel; waste; portable mill at work; slab pile; caterpillar tractor and logs; power saw with log carriage.

CBC news : The journal : Looting a legacy

Documentary. Russ Froese introduces an "inside report" concerning the logging of B.C. forests. Includes archival footage and material on the Cowichan Valley, and interviews with Jack Walters (director of UBC's research forest) and Les Reed (former deputy Minister of Environment). Also discusses forestry in Sweden; King Carl Gustav and Queen Silvia present awards to the Swedish forest industry.

[Conerake demo, Duncan]

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

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