A film shows the lumber industry in Taiwan during Japanese colonial period. Taiwanese lumberjacks at work in mahogany forest. One is silhouetted against the sky as he climbs a tall mahogany tree trunk devoid of branches. He descends using ropes. A supervisor watches as a lumberjack uses a long saw to cut on a tree trunk that has already been cut from the other side. Camera pans up the tree.and back down again as he completes his cut and the tree falls to the ground. The base of the fallen tree trunk is seen to be hollow. Views of other trees as they are felled by lumberjacks. Closeup of the stump remaining from one. A log cut from a tree is lowered by ropes. Glimpse of valley across from the forest. Closeup off a steam whistle blowing. Closeup of a steam engine driver and arm in motion. A long log being lowered by a cable. Other cables seen strung across a rustic work building from which steam is venting. The log is deposited on a pile of others. A steam driven cable pulls logs on a small rail car atop a small gauge track. A very large log is lowered atop those a;ready on the rail car. Men with long pikes help position the log. Smoke blows out of a narrow metal chimney. A train carrying logs on rail cars moves through the forest. Views of a steam locomotive pulling a train of cars carrying logs.
Demonstration of survival techniques in tropical rain forests in the Philippines. Safety and protection from poisonous plants and evacuating techniques: Beware of poisonous plants, spiny shrubs and wild grass. Plants and fruits that are edible. An airman moves in a tropical rain forest using a probe stick. An airman on a raft sends a signal in the air. He fires a distress flare. A rescue helicopter in flight evacuates the airman from the forest.
A wild sow with her piglets graze in the Doberitzer Heide forest to the west of Berlin, Germany. Close view of wild piglets in forest. A wild boar spooks the wild sow and piglets. Wild sow nurses piglets in forest.
Soldiers of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment of the U.S. Army as they move through the forest en route to the base camp. An M-113 Armored Personnel Carrier in a Cambodian forest. A few soldiers stand near it. The M-113 APC starts moving. The luggage of soldiers and equipment on top of it. A bare chested soldier stands on the vehicle. Night scene. The soldiers set trip flares in front of vehicles. Soldiers near the vehicle.
Government workers on horseback cross a stream in Yacolt, Washington. They plant saplings in the mountains of Columbia National Forest during a giant re-forestation project. They use big log as bridge to cross stream. Pack horses carry the saplings for planting. Men use pickaxes to plant the saplings and work their way in a formation line up a hill as they plant.
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.