Item consists of a training video which provides an overview of cone collection methods. The video details the natural circumstances, such as species characteristics, stand conditions, and crop abundance, that may affect cone collection. The video discusses four collection methods used in British Columbia to collect cones from trees: climbing, felling, aerial raking, and aerial clipping.
Cone collection pre-organization
Item consists of a training video about organizing a cone collection project.
Item consists of a training video about forecasting for conifer seed collection. The video discusses the wide variety in seed-cone harvests from year to year and emphasizes the need to predict the size of a harvest. The presentation shows how to harvest and analyze the winter buds, and how to judge the effects of early summer weather and nutrition on the tree.
Item consists of a training video on cone crop surveys. The purpose of these surveys is to identify good cone crops for the year's collection program and to provide data over time of cone crop periodicity within a particular stand. The video discusses how to plan a cone harvest and explains the equipment and methods to be used when judging whether a harvest will be feasible.
Item consists of a training video about cone handling and storage, following the collection of cones and extraction of seed from the cones.
Ministry of Forests : resource analysis and five-year program, March 1980
The item is a reel of promotional film. It is a television clip on the Ministry's five-year plan, which included expanded basic silviculture operations, as well as the establishment of additional seedling nurseries and seed orchards. Footage of seedling nurseries, planting, thinning of young forests, aerial fertilization, and protection against fire, insects and disease.
Item consists of one instructional video on the Ministry of Forests' seed centre. The video covers the work done in the seed centre following cone collection.
Item consists of a training video which provides a brief background on the biology of the seed cone, which may be useful to students as well as technical personnel. The video also shows how to select, harvest and evaluate samples.