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.
Forest fires destroy life, property and timber. View of a forest fire. Carelessness causes 80 per cent of the forest fires. Man lights up a match to smoke cigarette in the forest. He throws the lit matchstick on the ground that starts a forest fire. Man plants trees.
Cowboys riding on bucking broncos and horses in a rodeo in Phoenix Arizona. A joking man pretends to ride a stationary saddle mounted on a fence. Men and women on horseback riding on a desert trail among Sonora cactus and Saguaro Cactus plants. Close up view of the Saguaro cactus plants and flowers in bloom. Various flowers in bloom on different kinds of cactus in the spring in Arizona. A century plant in bloom. Entrance sign at the Coconino National Forest, and views of tall pine trees in the forest. Deer roaming in forest and a wild turkey in a field. Sheep graze on lands in Arizona. A wildfire in a forest in Arizona, with smoke filling the sky. Flames of the wildfire consume forest trees.
A timber forest in the United States. Tall trees in the forest. Lumber workers and woodsmen cut trees. Fallen trees in the forest and along a way. Wooden logs on a horse drawn cart with massive wheels of roughly 10 or 12 feet diameter moving through the forest. Men walk across the forest. Exterior of a mountain lodge log cabin house. A man and a woman enter the house and other tourists are seen near a lodge. Other people seated inside the house are talking. Men working at a lumber mill atop giant stacks of lumber in Johannesburg, Michigan (Otsego County). Buildings along the side of the street in downtown Johannesburg, Michigan. Early model Ford cars parked outside the Johannesburg Manufacturing Company Store building. Line of lumber workers walk near the company store building on a wooden ramp or sidewalk.
View of “Dragon’s teeth” tank barriers in forested area of the Siegfried Line Nazi fortification in western Germany. Siegfried Line pillbox bunker in forest. Barbed wire fences as tank barriers line the forest. A wooden watch tower in forest. Nazi German soldier pumps water in forested semi-underground bunker. Lighted display shows defense network.