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[Fires 67 no. 2 : Johnny fire, Kamloops -- air and ground]

Stock shots. Includes footage shot from a bird-dog plane, showing its crew observing a forest fire and airtankers dropping on it; crew mixing fire retardent; dispatchers in office; suppression crew preparing truck and en route to forest fire; airtanker drops; heavy equipment; etc.

[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.

[DeWolf collection : McKowan mill operation]

Amateur film. Footage of the McKowan Mill, a portable sawmill, cutting Ponderosa Pine at an unknown location in the Nelson or Kamloops Forest District. The mill is a very basic one, mounted on skids similar to those used for donkey engines on the coast. Some scenes show the mill being yarded to a new location.