Industrial film. The life and work of the modern logger is contrasted with the rough-and-tumble era of 40 years earlier. The latter is evoked through effective narration, archival photographs, and historical re-creations filmed at the Cowichan Forest Museum (including extensive footage of a steam locomotive on a logging railway, plus shots of a logging crummy and of a steam donkey yarding logs). In the modern sequences, loggers are shown falling a tree and setting chokers; faller Nick Semchuck [?] leaves his Port Alberni home and travels by crummy to the work site, where he falls, measures and bucks a tree; and logs are loaded onto a truck and followed along a logging road to Kelsey Bay to be dumped into the ocean. There is also excellent "mood" footage of derelict logging camps, bunkhouses, steam donkeys and equipment, and an abandoned village.