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Promotional film. The logging and reforestation of the Upper Bowron River watershed, near Bowron Lake Provincial Park. The watershed was heavily logged in the 1980s after areas of blown-down timber became infested with spruce beetles. Salvage logging was carried out to harvest usable timber and prevent the infestation from spreading. Shows reforestation operations, including slash burning and tree planting.

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 three-man crew planting seedlings on a hillside.

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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.

Stock shots. Shows tree planting crew at work on a burned-over hillside overlooking Brewster Lake.

Stock shots. Planting crew in Campbell River area: tent camp, bundled seedlings, planting shots. Probably shows replanting in the Sayward forest in the wake of the 1938 Sayward fire.

Stock shots. Shows tree planting crew at work on a hillside in the vicinity of Kamloops.

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Stock shots. First section shows the planting of mudpacked seedlings by a planting crew for Pacific Logging in the Fleet River area. (The shot list emphasizes that this footage is not meant to illustrate production planting, but only as an example of the mudpack method.) Second section shows aerial planting of bullet seedlings and frozen mudpack seedlings from an Avenger aircraft for Pacific Logging.

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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.

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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.

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Stock shots. It seems likely that F1986:14/01.151b is the workprint from the original footage reel of [GREEN TIMBERS ; WOMEN PLANTING, HOPE], which is accessioned as F1986:14/01.054a.

Industrial film. The advance planning and site preparation that precedes actual logging in modern forest operations. Also includes scenes of cutting, spartree and booming operations, reforestation, maintenance, mill operations, etc.

Television shorts. Television commercial showing free public tours of MacMillan Bloedel's logging and forestry operations on Vancouver Island. Offered by the company in the summer of 1972 or 1973, the tours included log harvesting and handling, product manufacture and reforestation.

Documentary. The burning of logging waste in coastal BC. Slash burning is advocated as a means of reducing forest fire hazards and ensuring forest regeneration. The necessity of reforestation after slash burning is discussed.

Unedited footage. Truck loads flats of seedlings for shipment to reforestation projects. Interview with men who operate watering and fertilizing equipment. Acres of tree seedlings. Workers take inventory.

Television commercials. A representative collection of MacMillan Bloedel television commercials highlighting various aspects of the company's operations and corporate citizenship. Includes spots focusing on the company's activities in world trade markets; methods of transporting logs and products; the self-dumping log barge; log sorting with dozer boats; new methods of planting and reforestation; forest fire protection; pollution control; the Ash River Valley reforestation project, begun in 1942; the educational activities of wildlife filmmaker Tommy Tompkins, sponsored by MacMillan Bloedel; and a bird sanctuary near Port Alberni supported by the company. Each spots is 1-2 minutes long.

Training film. Lighthearted training film illustrating the proper attire and methods for planting seedlings.

Documentary. An introduction to intensive forest land management techniques.

Promotional film. Uses contemporary and historical footage to show how BC's 1.8 million hectares of NSR (Not Satisfactorily Restocked) land is being turned back into productive forestland. Shows past and present reforestation work at the sites of the Paul fire near Houston, the Campbell River fire (1938) and the Sue fire (1971). Scenes of land clearing, slash burning, planting, etc.

Footage. Reforestation work at a camp in Green Timbers, and elsewhere. Camp scenes. Green Timbers supervisor Tom Wells. Eucalyptus seedlings. The forestry launches "Larch" (on Cowichan Lake) and "Syrene" (at sea). Falling snags. Planting.