Workers load timber logs with the help of cross-haul. Timber logs loaded on horse carts. The cross haul horses operate without assistance. Timber hauled by horse wagon on a dirt road.
Logs sawed for lumber at mill. Woman rings a bell and workers enter building for dinner. Disposal of sawdust and other worthless wastes. Spark arrester around the area to reduce fire hazards.
Fire fighting tools kept handy by forest service. Man takes out shovel and a rod from wooden box. Tools in a long tool box. Forest official questions a worker for felling half grown tree.
View of a timber seed tree. Timber trees in a field. View of a fire swept non productive land with burnt timber trees. The damaged area planted with nursery stock. Broadcast sowing of seeds in field. Man walks across a timber forest that was cut in 1899 and was ready for another cut. Town next to timber forest. A goose and the slogan "indiscriminate cutting of timber is like killing the goose that laid the golden eggs." Seal of the United States Department of Agriculture, with dates 1862 and 1889 on it.
From the film, "Forests and Men. The President's Conservation Corps at Work." President Franklin Roosevelt signs a document regarding the establishment of the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. F. A. Silcox, Chief of United States Forest Service talks about the need for forest conservation. American flag on a pole. President Franklin Roosevelt visits an ECM (Emergency Conservation Work) camp. He has lunch with other officials. ECW workers and officals pose for a photograph with the President. View of the Shenandoah National Park CCC camp #3 from a hilltop, with letters "CAMP NIRA" (National Industrial Recovery Act) visible painted on the roof of one of the buildings. Woman hands over a sheet of paper to the Director of ECW, Robert Fechner. People stand outside United States Army recruitment camp and an Agriculture Department building. ECW volunteers being trained by the U.S. Army at Fort Washington in Virginia. Volunteers undergo training at camps and are sent to various forest conservation areas. Cooks cut meat. Men stand in line to receive food and are seated at outdoor tables eating food.
Workers load timber logs on vehicle. Deer in the forest. ECW (Emergency Conservation Work) members during the Great Depression cut fire lanes, clear snag, erect telephone poles, clear camping grounds, build bridges, build fences around grazing lands and combat erosion by building dams in gullies. (The ECW was later known as the Civilian Conservation Corps or CCC.)
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