Importance of forest for wood supply and water for irrigation and health. Production film 'Good Turns for Our Forest'. View of America's forests of earlier years. View of dwindled American forest. View of a wood lumber processing mill with railroad trains hauling large timber to the mill. Forests provide wood supply to America and water for irrigation. River running through a forest. View of a dam with gates opened, for power generation. Children at a medical camp. Sign reads 'Children Open Air Preventorium 522 Chamber of Commerce Los Angeles California'. Children at the camp pose in a group standing on and near the camp entry fence. The children perform group calisthenic exercises. The boys and girls run and play around and on top of a small log cabin.
Film 'Lumbering in the North Woods' shows forests being converted to lumber in the United States. Animated map of United States shows Southern forests, Hardwood forests, Northern forests and Rocky mountain forests. View of the pine trees in Northern forests.
The lumber industry in forest areas of the United States. Animated map shows the Northern Forest, Hardwood Forest, Southern Forest, Rocky Mountain Forest and the Pacific Forest. Snow covered roofs at a lumber camp. Workers come out for their daily work. Horse drawn carts on a snow covered surface.
Near Salerno, Italy. British soldiers marching at the road sides. Soldiers with barracks bags on their back moving as a red cross trucks passes by them on the road. Army tanks and trucks moving on the narrow roadway and then leaving the roadway towards the forests. Two soldiers digging in a grove. Images at dusk of tanks and troops moving forward. Black smoke rising in the background. (World War II period).
Forests being converted to lumber industry in Northern forests of the United States. Protection of forests from fire and more trees planted for future wood supply. View of burning trees during a forest fire. Girl sorts seedling trees. Group of workers plant trees in rows. Field on seedling trees.
Film begins showing view from an airplane flying over a forest fire burning in the Los Padres National forest, near Santa Barbara, in California. Next, the aerial view is repeated 10 days later when men and equipment of the U.S. Forest Service have gained access to the burned out area. Scene shifts to an airfield, where a Twin Beechcraft model 18 aircraft is being loaded with a special grass seed mixture to be broadcast over the denuded area to provide protection against floods. The Twin Beech aircraft is seen taking off. Aerial view of the aircraft flying over California hills. Glimpse of the pilot at the controls in the cockpit. His nose and mouth are covered with a mask (to protect from the seed dust inside the plane). More aerial views of the plane in flight and then spraying grass seed over the damaged area.
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