Richard Hale Collection Reel 4

Date1931 – 1933

AbstractTwo men surveying, taking notes and making their way through the scrub in the forest. A shot of a clearing in the forest. A man measures a tree’s width. A shot of a surveyor looking through a theodolite on a tripod standing next to another man waving his arms. A man pounds a stake into the ground next to a building. A shot of the campus. Young men stand about as others walk along some logs. A shot of a group of men. A shot of men gathering around a picnic table. A shot of a large watchtower (fire tower) with young men walking around it and some climbing about the top. Men walk and rest in the woods. Footage of young men running along closely packed logs floating in the water. A shot of men running logs through a band saw to make boards inside a sawmill. A shot of a river. A shot of a man working atop a partially built wooden house. Two young men wrestle. A man examines a stone fireplace, well and trash can. Young men stand around a sign for White Mountain National Forest. A shot of a small, empty, manmade reservoir. Men walk along the reservoir full of water. Shots of a river and a waterfall. A shot of a steam shovel. Footage of young men walking through the forest, which is full of slash. A shot of a sign that reads, “Experimental thinning 80 years old even aged stand pure spruce.” Shots of the forest. Footage of men digging up a tree by hand and then using a truck to transplant it elsewhere. Footage of forestry students screening loam and transplanting seedlings in a tray.