1st Battalion of 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team on Airmobile Tactical Exercise in Vung Tau, South Vietnam, during Vietnam War. Captain Raymond E Marshal and Vietcong officer interrogate a Vietcong prisoner in forest area. Soldier eats food from a can. Troops walk into forest area. Soldier looks into hut with his M-16 rifle.
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.
Boy Scouts of America organize a fire prevention parade in Washington DC. View of the U.S. Capitol building. Boy scouts parade on street of Washington DC. They carry United States flag and banners. Banners read, 'I Was Careless With My Camp Fire', 'Don't Take Any Chance With Fire', 'Our Forests Give Health Prosperity Recreation, Don't Burn Them', 'Our Forest Protect Game Prevent Floods Equalize Climate Protect Them'. Navy band leads the marchers. United States President John Calvin Coolidge Jr reviews the parade. View of Washington monument. Secretary of Agriculture Henry C Wallace and National leader of American Boy Scouts address people.
Insects infest crops in various parts of United States. A barrier zone created in some areas. Man marks areas with a brush on a map. A campaign baring insects in that area. Men destroy egg clusters of the insects with creosote in the area. Houses and mountains in the background. Dried up trees in the forest. Snow covered forest. Men walk and watch the trees. Brown tail moth webs on trees destroyed.
Insects infest crops in various parts of United States. Apparatus for spraying poison in the forest. Storehouses and shop facility for the spraying of poison in the forest. Men bring auxiliary pumps to water for spraying poison.
Delegates of the Pan American Congress of Journalists visit rural areas to see developments in the United States. Two men with a buffalo driven cart on a path. Horsemen pull along horses laden with goods through a forest. Entrance to a village. View of mountains and pine forests.