The item consists of a release negative and outs. It contains footage showing the construction of a mill, probably belonging to Columbia Cellulose. Includes aerial footage and shots of heavy earth-moving equipment and concrete construction.

Stock shots. Bucking, limbing and burning wood and slash from affected trees. Felling, bucking, and piling trees, working in snow. Infected (red) trees. Sawmill.

Stock shots. A compilation of footage showing beetle infestations, beetle-killed trees, selectively logged areas, beetle larva, etc. Also shows (affected?) trees being cut and taken to mill, where they are either fed into a chipper, or debarked and milled into railway ties.

Stock shots. Aerial footage of beetle-killed forest, selectively logged areas and chipper mill site. Logging scenes, including shots of skidder, tree snippers, falling trees, front-end loader, loading of logging truck, etc. Shots of infested logs. Arriving at mills, some of the (affected logs) are chipped; other are debarked and milled into railway ties. More shots of infested logs and dead trees.

Stock shots. Infected and infested trees. Mill scenes, with burner, loader and lumber carrier. Crew inspecting and marking infected trees, and using pheremone traps. Faller cutting trees. Road building with a caterpillar tractor. Logging scenes, including front-end loader, skidder, caterpillar tractor with tree shears. Small sawmill, making ties, etc. Red (infected) trees and Seeley Lake Provincial Park, south of Hazelton. Fish and Wildlife men board Forest Service helicopter and take off. Aerial views of logged or infected areas, logging operation in progress, and infested areas near Kitwanga and New Hazelton. Ranger and zone forester reviewing aerial photos and map of infested areas, Close-up shots of beetle emerging from tree.