SUPER TREES 1976
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Channel: Historic Films Stock Footage Archive · 2013 · Education
For licensing inquiries please contact Historic Films Archive (www.historicfilms.com / [email protected]) TALL PINE TREES WITH FEW SIDE BRANCHES, WHICH REACH FOR THE SKY. AS SEEN FROM GROUND OF FOREST LOOKING UP. CU RANGER WEARING HARD HAT AIMS AT TOP OF TREES THROUGH RIFLE SCOPE, FIRES SEVERAL TIMES, BRANCHES FROM VERY TOP, FALL TO GROUND. 00:12:05 CU RANGER CLIPS PINE NEEDLES FROM FALLEN BRANCHES, PLACES THEM IN PLASTIC BAG. HE WORKS IN 17,000 ACRE EXPERIMENTAL FOREST IN SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA, RUN BY INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY IN COOPERATION WITH NORTH CAROLINA UNIVERSITY. WHO ARE WORKING TOGETHER TO CONFRONT PROBLEM. SHORTAGE OF FOREST PRODUCTS. 00:12:28 PAN FROM BOTTOM, UP, OF PINE TREE, WHICH IS TALLER, STRAIGHTER, FREER OF SIDE BRANCHES, RESISTANT TO DISEASE, FASTER GROWING. IT IS CALLED A SUPER TREE. 00:12:46 CU RANGER USES SPECIAL HAND DRILL TO BORE HOLE IN TREE, TAKE OUT CORE SAMPLE TO STUDY IF TREE IS GENETICALLY BETTER THAN OTHERS. SCIENTISTS AT THE FOREST ARE ENGAGED IN PROGRAM TO INCREASE YIELD OF FOREST PRODUCTS. 00:13:10 CU RANGER SLOWLY PULLS OUT CORE SAMPLE FROM TREE. CU BLACK HARD HAT WORKER, STRIPS OFF NEEDLES FROM ONE OF HUNDREDS NURSERY GROWN SAPLINGS, CUTS GREEN TIPS OF SUPER TREE, GRAFTS IT TO SAPLING. NEW SEED FROM THESE SAPLINGS WILL HAVE GENETICS OF SUPER TREE. 00:14:02 SCIENTIST CHECKS THE THOUSANDS OF PINE SEEDLINGS, GROWN FROM THE NEW SEEDS, AS BLACK WORKER TAKES NOTES. ALTHOUGH THE PROGRAM IS IN EFFECT A SHORT TIME, INCREASED YIELD HAS IMPROVED 20 PERCENT. 00:14:39 BLACK HARD HAT WORKER USES CHAIN SAW TO CUT DOWN THIN HIGH TREE. WORKER TIES DOWNED TREE TO BACK OF TRACTOR. THEN MEASURES ITS LENGTH WITH TAPE MEASURE, BEFORE TOWING IT AWAY. 00:15:32 MALE FEMALE SCIENTISTS, WEARING HARD HATS, MEASURE THICKNESS OF SMALL BRANCH SLICES, CHOP THEM IN HALF WITH MACHETE. SCIENTIST EXAMINES MATURING SEEDLINGS FOR DISEASE, ANOTHER TAKES NOTES. 00:16:51 HIGH ANGLE OF TREE TOPS THICK WITH PINE NEEDLES, LOOKING TO FOREST GROUND
