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Thie series consists of an extensive collection of stock shots, depicting a wide range of B.C. Forest Service and Ministry of Forests activities and related subjects. Compiled from footage shot for a variety of purposes, the material was retained for potential use as stock footage in BC Forest Service and Ministry of Forests film productions and TV spots. Some footage was also loaned out for TV news use.

Stock shots. Sequences showing crews painting road markings and falling snags on hillside. Also include footage of data computing, radio communication, parachute drop, Ranger School, construction of Okanagan Lake Park, planting at Duncan Forest Nursery, and a helicopter transporting a load of lumber to the location of a fire lookout station.

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.

Stock shots. Shows a group of school children touring the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum. Includes classroom scenes, the museum's railroad, and shots of old logging machinery.

Stock shots. At Duncan Forest Nursery, cartons of nursery stock are removed from cold storage and loaded onto a truck.

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. 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. Shows mechanical seeder and earth-spreading machine seeding beds with Douglas fir at Koksilah Nursery, and women weeding the seed beds at Duncan Nursery.

Stock shots. Shows use of seedling transplanting machine at Koksilah Nursery; care of Douglas fir bullet stock in the styroblock nursery at Duncan; use of insect bags and pollen bags at the Mesachie Experimental orchards.

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. Extensive footage showing details of various experiments carried out on seedlings and trees in the laboratory and greenhouse at the North Road forest nursery. Also footage of the seed laboratory, and of workers loading seeds into styroblocks, at the Duncan nursery.

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.