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The item is a video copy of amateur film footage taken by Andy Stickly of Wellesley, Ontario. It shows activities of conscientious objectors doing alternative service in B.C. during World War II under the auspices of the Forest Service, mostly at Green Timbers forest camp and Mount Seymour Park. Includes: scenery on train trip west (from Ontario?); bus trip; views of forest camp, construction, land clearing, camp life, boating, fire fighting, felling trees, chopping winter fire wood, tree planting; Theatre Under the Stars performance in Stanley Park; Banff Springs Hotel; Nanaimo; Capilano Suspension Bridge.

This series includes original log books, field notebooks, research papers relating to the work of the Green Timbers Forestry Station 1929-1964. Green Timbers Visitors Register 1930-1935, 1980. Notes and sketches referring to the operations of the Experimental Forest Nursery at Victoria 1928-1932. Reference files 1912-1935 of A.E. Pickford, Director of Green Timbers Forestry Station, 1929-1936. Contains some reports of research done at the Aleza Lake and Lake Cowichan Experiment Stations.

This series contains students' outlines for courses on forest mensuration, range management, research activities of the BCFS, scaling and silviculture given at the Ranger School at Green Timbers.

This series contains an outline of the work of the Research Division with reports on general reforestation investigations, studies of forest yield, work done at the Aleza Lake and Cowichan Lake Experiment Stations, as well as reports on the Experimental Forest Nursery and Green Timbers Forestry Station.

This series contains descriptive reports of forest experiment stations. This incudes mimeographed booklets describing purpose and development of Cowichan Lake Experiment Station, Aleza Lake Experiment Station, and Green Timbers Forestry Station. The series includes photographs posted into each booklet.

This series contains public relations and educational reference material consisting of texts for public lectures, radio broadcasts and materials relating to ranger training prior to the establishment of the Forest Ranger School at Green Timbers. Much of the material was originally produced for the annual District Foresters Meetings.

This series contains course materials and student's notes by Gary Huva, later ranger at Blue River (R.D. 18, Kamloops Forest District), from the Forest Service Ranger School at Green Timbers, Surrey, B.C.

The item consists of two items of footage wound on one reel.
Item 1: Views of shack camps, crew, fighting fires, log barges, Forest Service staff at Prince George, starfish.
Item 2: Views of cats, high riggers, train, Pattullo Bridge, Green Timbers Camp, crews and orchards.

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. Scenes at Green Timbers Nursery, with workers (including women) tending seed beds. Second section shows women planting trees near Hope.

Stock shots. Shows preparation, rototilling and seeding of seed beds at the nursery, using a tractor-pulled seeder.

Stock shots. Shows nursery workers loading styroblocks with peat and seed; storage of loaded blocks; tending the seed beds; construction of a concrete pad for a styroblock nursery; seeding.

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.

Footage. Heeling in bundled seedlings. Beacon Hill Park, Victoria: people feeling waterfowl at Goodacre Lake. A lookout station, and view from the top. Annual celebration at Peace Arch Park; shots of Premier Pattullo and Fred McGregor. Falls and rapids. Planting crew in Campbell River area: tent camp, bundled seedlings, planting shots. Tom Wells with seedlings at Green Timbers. Interior B.C. scenery.

Footage. Footage of Green Timbers Nursery and planting, including: cutting and collecting cones; weighing seeds; planting seeds in seed bed; lifting seedlings for root pruning and transplant; lifting and packing seedlings; heeling-in; planting crew.

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.

Footage. Clearing land and burning stumps [at Green Timbers?]. Crew blowing stumps. Stacking and burning debris. Caterpillar tractor and winch. Cowichan Lake experimental station. Crew working on trail. Bush road. Camp scenes. Crew working on road. Elk River Falls. Frame of building. Falls, bridge, and trails [at Little Qualicum Park?].

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.

Footage. Mountains. Lookout. Two men falling a Douglas fir with axes, springboards, and crosscut saw. Steam donkey and spar tree. Log boom. Steamboat towing lumber. Second growth. Green Timbers Nursery: seed beds, transplant beds. Planting. Fire. Bucked timber. Snag and fire. Slash burning. Falling snags. Snagged land. New growth. Jack ladder at mill. Loading lumber on boat.

The item is a reel of documentary film. Shows logging scenes -- falling tree with springboards and crosscut saws, yarding and loading with tractor and steam donkey. Fire in stand of young trees. Operations at Charles MacFayden's seed extraction plant on Lulu Island. Scenes at Green Timbers forest nursery -- planting seed beds, root-pruning machine, etc.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Don King : sawmill operator PERIOD COVERED: 1900-1956 RECORDED: [location unknown], [195-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Don King's family to the East Kootenays in 1900. Into lumber business in 1901. The King Lumber Company. Moved to coast about 1910. King-Farris Lumber Company. Mill and timber at Great Central Lake. Green Timbers. Business interests of the King family. Depression conditions. Founding M.B. King Lumber Company in 1932. Characters in the lumber business. Don King's early jobs around mills starting in 1916. Description of the Cranbrook mill. The lumber cut at Green Timbers. Labour conditions. TRACK 2: Working conditions. Hours of work. More on the M.B. King Lumber Company in North Vancouver. Sawmill waste. King family sold out to Fullerton Lumber Co., 1950. Don King formed Savona Timber Company. Farms and gardens near Green Timbers mill, Surrey. More on the Green Timbers mill. Stories about attempts to organize unions in 1930s. Management comments on union matters.

CALL NUMBER: T1887:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): C.D. Orchard : forestry in British Columbia, 1920-1958 (part 1) PERIOD COVERED: 1893-1925 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1961 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Orchard born 1893 in Wakefield, N.B. Became a teacher in N.B. Comments on the development of forestry education. Entered forestry at UNB. In Canadian Armed Forces, 1914-19. Returned to forestry at UNB. Obtained job in BCFS in 1920. Met forester Charles S. Cowan and Chief Forester M.A. Grainger. Orchard's introduction to the Forest Branch. Early survey and cruising methods. Field work in Vernon. Working conditions in the Forest Branch. Cruise of the Kelowna watershed, 1920. Work along the Nass River, 1921. TRACK 2: More on cruising in the Nass River area, 1921022. Forest Branch work. Indians in the Nass country. Aiyansh. Comments on timber sales and forest management. Orchard put in charge of all forest surveys. Timber cruising methods. The development of forestry education. CALL NUMBER: T1887:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): C.D. Orchard : forestry in British Columbia, 1920-1958 (part 2) PERIOD COVERED: 1912-1961 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1961 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: History of the B.C. Forest Branch: H.R. MacMillan, the first Chief Forester, 1912; early personnel; early forest inventories in B.C.; early organization of the Forest Service. Orchard becomes; District Forester in Cranbrook in 1924. Conditions in Cranbrook. Assistant District Forester in Nelson, 1925. Comments on Chief Forester P.Z. Caverhill. Forestry conditions in B.C., 1910-40. Early timber leases. Comments on the Fulton Commission, 1909-10. Comments on Martin A. Grainger, secretary to the commission and later Chief Forester. Letter from H.R. MacMillan about Grainger and A.W. Ross, Minister of Lands. The Nelson Forest District in the mid-1920s. TRACK 2: More on the forest district especially about forest fires. Orchard becomes District Forester in Prince George, 1927. Transportation in the Prince George district. A forester's problems: fires and accounts. Attempted political interference in the Forest Branch. Patronage in the Public Service. Conditions in Prince George. Internal Forest Branch matters. Orchard moved to Victoria office, 1930. Patronage appointments of some staff. Orchard's duties. CALL NUMBER: T1887:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): C.D. Orchard : forestry in British Columbia, 1920-1958 (part 3) PERIOD COVERED: 1912-1958 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1961 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Forest Branch finances: Forest Protection Fund and annual allotments. Changes in Forest Branch function: forest protection before 1940 and forest management afterwards. Problems of the Depression. Staff shortages. Forest Branch equipment. Fire pumps. Orchard become head of Forest Service research, 1932. More on Depression problems. Chief Forester P.Z. Caverhill dies, 1935. E.C. Manning becomes Chief Forester and Orchard Deputy Chief Forester, January 1936. Comments on Caverhill and Manning. Manning a promoter of parks. Parks turned over to Forest Branch in 1939. Parks to Recreation and Conservation in 1957. More on Manning. Manning dies in an air crash and Orchard becomes Chief Forester, 1941. Problems presented by WW II. The new job. TRACK 2: Problems of WW II. Forest industry profiteering. Labour problems. The perception of management problems in the early 1940s. The idea of sustained yield develops in the 1940s. Experiments in small log production. Role of Bob Filberg in these experiments. Political pressures on the Forest Service. Socreds susceptible to industry pressure. More on sustained yield. Orchard's memorandum on sustained yield, 1942. Private debate on forest management, 1942-43. Gordon Sloan appointed Royal Commissioner to look into forest management, 1943. The Sloan Commission. CALL NUMBER: T1887:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): C.D. Orchard : forestry in British Columbia, 1920-1958 (part 4) PERIOD COVERED: 1943-1958 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1961 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Sloan Commission hearings, 1943-45. Orchard becomes Deputy Minister of Forests, 1945. Orchard continues as Chief Forester. Problems of wartime. Sloan's report in 1945 supports sustained yield. Evolution of the Forest Management License concept. E.T. Kenney becomes Minister of Lands and Forests, 1944. Comments on Kenney. Amendments to the Forest Act, 1946 and 1947. Disagreements with J.V. Fisher, Deputy Minister of Finance. Opposition to FMLs. Problems with the license system. Negotiations for early FMLs. TRACK 2: Forest management experiences elsewhere. Orchard's faith in the forest management system. The second Sloan Commission, 1955-56. Forest Service takes returning WW II veterans. Comments on UBC Faculty of Forestry. Ranger school at Green Timbers. Construction of ranger school. Comments on Fred Mulholland. Progress in the forest industry. Integration in the forest industry and reasons for it. Post-war production trends. Defense of forest management policies. Forest Service roads. CALL NUMBER: T1887:0005 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): C.D. Orchard : forestry in British Columbia, 1920-1958 (part 5) PERIOD COVERED: 1912-[no date] RECORDED: [location unknown], 1961 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Forestry work under the Silvicultural Fund. Fund ended in 1956. The second Sloan Commission into forestry, 1955-56. The Socred takeover, 1952. Orchard's opinions of the Socred government. The Sommers case from Orchard's point of view. Summary of the accomplishments of the Forest Service from 1912. (End of interview)