Geysers (hot water spring) found at Yellow Stone National Park in Wyoming USA. Sign board reads 'Jewel Geyser'. Description about the geyser is written on the board. Ranger talks to group of tourists gathered around the geyser. View of the geyser erupting turbulently, accomplished by a vapor phase.
United States Defense Secretary Robert McNamara at a press conference in the United States. He talks about air strikes against North Vietnam targets during the Vietnam War. A map of Haiphong and Hanoi on a wall. Cameramen take photographs. U.S. aircraft carry out bombing air strikes against Haiphong and Hanoi in Vietnam. U.S. troops load bombs onto Thunderchief F-105 aircraft and F-105 aircraft takeoff for bombing run. Air raids on oil depots in Haiphong and Hanoi. U.S. Navy aircraft take off from USS Ranger (CV-4) aircraft carrier. An aerial view of the land below. Smoke rises up due to explosions.
U.S. President Richard Nixon, his daughter Julie Nixon, and U.S. Secretary of Interior Rogers Morton with other dignitaries talk and pose for a photograph on the shores of Jackson Lake in Grand Teton National Park, near Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Edge of helicopter visible. Nixon is visiting as part of follow-up on his "Legacy of Parks" proposal to expand and improve the U.S. National Parks system. A National Park Service Ranger poses with President Nixon. Press reporters and cameramen take photos and cover the event.
U.S. President Richard Nixon, his daughter Julie Nixon, and U.S. Secretary of Interior Rogers Morton with other dignitaries ride on a boat on Jackson Lake, located in Grand Teton National Forest, near Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The lake and snow covered Grand Teton mountains in background. President Nixon, Secretary Morton, a National Park Service Ranger and other dignitaries standing in the boat talk to each other. Press reporters gather to take photos and interview as the dignitaries reach shore at Colter Bay Marina. Sign with the Marina name is visible at the piers. Julie Nixon walks on a pier to reach the shore. President Nixon and Julie Nixon departing from the crowd on shore and returning down to the pier area. Shot during timeframe that Nixon was gathering support for his "Legacy of Parks" proposal to expand and improve U.S. National Parks.
Discussion of the Tillamook Forest Fire of 1933 in Oregon. Men cutting huge fallen tree with two-man saw. A man works on a Steam Donkey, dragging cut logs. The end of a log in flames. Lumberjacks try to put out the fire. A ranger spots smoke rising from the forest. A phone call being made and organized firefighting crews including the Civilian Conservation Corps respond to fight fire. CCC men cross a log bridge and climb steep hill into the forest. Other responders seen in mule trains. Forester atop a burned out telephone pole, where wire had been destroyed. Firefighters using wireless radios. Smoke rises from the forests. Smoke rises from the hill. Suddenly, wind changes and fire explodes. Views of the actual Tillamook Forest fire storm of August 1933. Two weeks later, rain suppresses the fire. View of firefighters using shovels, axes and other tools to dig fire line by hand, next to smoking underbrush. View of man holding a "Pulaski" tool, half axe and half hoe. Men looking over the aftermath of the Tillamook burn. Lumberjacks chopping a huge standing tree with axes. Cut logs suspended from cables, being moved. Forester with backpack, hiking along trail. Firefighters suppressing small wild fires with hand tools. (Great Depression period)
A training film about the means of forecasting avalanches in Alta, Utah. A snow ranger skies down a slope during testing. Incorrect and correct or safer ways of test skiing demonstrated. Explosives being used to set an avalanche in motion. Cables attached and a charge package of TNT (Trinitrotoluene) prepared. Fuse lit up with an igniter. A man throws the charge and explosion results in a crater indicating the least possibility of occurrence of an avalanche. Another man throws a charge and results in slab avalanche as snow breaks up in blocks. An electric cap being used to control time of detonation of explosive. A man throws the charge and a slab avalanche occurs as a result of a slide set on motion by the explosion. A man works on a projectile called avalauncher. Men work on the projectile and fire it at a slope.
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