Showing 14 results

Archival description
Forest Service films British Columbia. Forest Service Clearing of land--British Columbia
Advanced search options
Print preview View:

[Mica pondage, 1972]

Stock shots. Shows Mica Dam, diversion tunnels, and spillway. Also views along the Canoe River, including partially flooded bottom land, completely cleared lands, etc.

[Mica pondage, 1970]

Stock shots. Shows Mica Dam, spillway and diversion tunnels under construction; cleared pondage area behind dam; Harvey Creek; Canoe River. Also aerial footage of the Canoe River and Kinbasket Lake.

[Ootsa Lake salvage]

Stock shots. Shows use of barge equipped with logging grapple and shears to salvage trees from the area flooded when the level of Ootsa Lake was raised by dam construction in the area.

[Parsnip FDR and area forest activities]

Stock shots. Mixed footage showing land clearing and related activities. North Harbour clearing; Scott Creek Bridge; crew travelling by river boat on Parsnip River and clearing brush; Ranger and scaler checking a truckload of logs; logging trucks on logging roads; helicopter; highway at Pine Pass; Azouzetta Lake; trucks on scales; crew working at bridge site; PGE freight train; sternwheeler (?); sequence showing bridge construction.

[Planting, Kamloops district ; Mica pondage clearing]

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.

[Sue Fire rehabilitation]

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.

[Terrace slash footage]

Stock shots. Shows logging, logged area, snags, slash and slashburning in the vicinity of Kitimat River and Lakelse Lake. Also shows Crown Zellerbach fire hazard rating sign.