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The item is a colour map of the north part of Vancouver Island published in 1958 by the Department of Land and Forests. The map shows the allocation of timber licenses along with their respective numbers. The location is identified as district 2C in the National Topographic System [NTS].

The item is a colour map of the south part of Vancouver Island published in 1951 by the Department of Land and Forests. The map shows the allocation of timber licenses along with their respective numbers. The location is identified as district 2A in the National Topographic System [NTS]

The file consists of miscellaneous film footage and out-takes shot by the B.C. Forest Branch or the B.C. Forest Service, as well as the Forest Service film productions "The Great Fire" (1938) and "Timber is a crop" (made between 1939 and 1945). Subjects depicted include: alpine scenery; ceremonies at Peace Arch Park; construction of logging and forest access roads; Davis rafts; donkey engines; fire lookouts; fish hatcheries; Forest Service vessels; Forest Branch/Forest Service activities and personnel; forest fire fighting; Green Timbers Nursery; heavy equipment in use; horse logging; Junior Forest Wardens summer camp; land clearing; log booms; logging (including high-riggers and falling, bucking, yarding, skidding and loading of logs); logging camps; logging railways; logging trucks; New Westminster May Day celebrations (194-); portable sawmills; provincial parks; railway tie making; recreational camping; reforestation; silviculture; skiing on Mt. Seymour; slash burning; tree planting; and wildlife.

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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. Caterpillar tractors using ball and chain apparatus to knock down trees and clear land.

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Stock shots. Shows mechanical preparation of soil for tree planting by a caterpillar tractor equipped with Bracke scarifier and a brush blade.

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Stock shots. Aerial footage of the forest nursery at Campbell River and of the Duncan Bay Pulp Mill. Ground-level footage of the Quinsam Seed Orchard and of operations at the Campbell River Nursery.

Stock shots. Shows spruce beds, root pruning, fertilizer spreading, and equipment used.

Stock shots. Show clearing of snags, etc., in the area of the Paul Fire, using caterpillar tractors equipped with chains. Includes aerial views or operation and cleared area.

Stock shots. Shows a caterpillar tractor with a specialized blade clearing brush.

Stock shots. Shows Douglas fir, Lodgepole pine, Larch, etc., in flower and/or bud stage, and views of tree plantations. May include Saturna Island footage.

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.

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Stock shots. Showing method of cone gathering by lowering metal cone over tops of trees and drawing-up to rake off branches containing cones.

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. Shows an experimental controlled burn in a young stand with slash; burn is started by ground crew. Men attach pheremone container to tree infected with mountain pine beetle; wetting down area prior to burning; igniting the tree; dead beetles. Slash burning sequence. Many shots of fire by day and night. Also includes aerial views of burn area and fire guard.

Stock shots. "Subjects covered: Inmates working in sawmill. General scene of camp. Clearing brush. Planting seedlings. Cutaways include logging truck fully loaded along mountain road. Seedling close-ups. Mountain flowers."

Stock shots. Shows protection of seedlings against frost damage.

Stock shots. Shots of a helicopter picking up and dropping off blocks of cedar.

Stock shots. Collecting spruce cones from tree tops with a helicopter. Shows process of preparing helicopter and equipment; collecting cones; landing at dump and unloading; safety measures; aerial views of harvesting area.

Stock shots. Shows use of a helicopter equipped with a hopper to spread fertilizer pellets.