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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.

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. 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.

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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. 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. Shows the process of lifting, bagging, pruning and packing hemlock seedlings at Koksilah Nursery.

Stock shots. Shows slash burning in progress on flat area and on hillside; men igniting the slash; aerial and general views during and after the burn; night shots. Also shows helicopter with monsoon bucket, and logging truck passing through the burn area. There is also footage of B.C. Forest Products operations in the Caycuse area, including: plantations near Bear Creek and Caycuse; forester inspecting browse damage; views of logged area(s), fire guards, slash and regeneration; falling snags; sequences showing planting in burned and unburned terrain; Autum colours in the (Cowichan?) Valley.