Ancient Rainforests at Risk
General Description: Book from the Sierra Club of Western Canada presents the final report of the Vancouver Island Mapping Project, providing an up-to-date inventory of Vancouver Island's ancient forests. Includes statistics, diagrams, maps, report highlights, and background information. Also includes a fold-out map comparing the Island's forests in 1954 and 1990. Includes a large colour map.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Forest Ecology Forests and Society Land-Use Planning
Grade Level: 11 Year Recommended: 1996
Also Recommended For:
Supplier: Sierra Club of British Columbia
Price: (not available) Order Number: (not available)
Balancing Act: Environmental Issues in Forestry
Author(s): Kimmins, Hamish
General Description: University-level text takes an objective look at current forestry issues and the environment. It discusses the major issues facing forestry in the 1990s as well as the basic principles of forestry and ecology. Topics discussed include clearcutting, slash burning, management chemicals, old growth, biological diversity, and sustainability.
Audience: General
Category: Professional Reference
Curriculum Organizer(s): Forest Ecology Forest Management Forests and Society
Grade Level: 11 Year Recommended: 1996
Also Recommended For: Resource Sciences 12 (Forests)
Supplier: UBC Press
Price: $29.95 Order Number: 0-7748-0426-2
General Description: Fifty-seven-minute European-produced video details the conflict over old-growth forests in B.C. Examines battle strategies of environmentalists, loggers, First Nations peoples, companies, and ordinary citizens. It offers some practical solutions. Support materials include a brief summary with statistics.
Caution: Caution: There is some inappropriate language in this video; teacher preview required.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Forests and Society
Grade Level: 11 Year Recommended: 1996
Also Recommended For:
Supplier: National Film Board of Canada
Price: (not available) Order Number: (not available)
General Description: Twenty-nine-minute Ministry of Forests video details safety procedures for dealing with bear encounters.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Animals Forests and Society
Grade Level: 11 Year Recommended: 1996
Also Recommended For:
Supplier: Ministry of Forests
Price: (not available) Order Number: (not available)
General Description: Ninety-minute documentary video is about Aboriginal land claims in northwestern B.C. It details the effects of a claim on the economy of the area. Includes the personal views of various people involved in the process.
Caution: Caution: Instances of swearing, derogatory racial statements made by a logger, and inflammatory remarks about environmentalists.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Forests and Society
Grade Level: 11 Year Recommended: 1994
Also Recommended For:
Supplier: National Film Board of Canada
Price: $34.95 Order Number: 9193093
General Description: Sixty-minute Alberta video is in three 20-minute segments. Part I describes the ecosystem of the boreal forests; Part II discusses Alberta's forest tenure system and the importance of forests in Alberta's economy, and shows forest use; Part III details how the art and science of forestry requires ongoing research and emphasizes the need for public education. The accompanying teacher's guide provides scene synopses, numerous activities, a glossary, and an attitudinal survey.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Forest Ecology Forest Management Land-Use Planning
Grade Level: 11 Year Recommended: 1996
Also Recommended For: Resource Sciences 12 (Forests)
Supplier: FEESA, An Environmental Education Society
Price: $29.00 Order Number: (not available)
General Description: Sixty-minute video centres upon two graduate Forest Science students working for a forest products company. One is doing wildlife habitat surveys, the other is looking at data for a timber supply model. Their discussions cover ecosystem-based management, clearcutting, fire protection, and life after logging. New vocabulary is subtitled. Accompanying teacher's guide provides discussion questions, activities, and a glossary.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Animals Forest Ecology Forest Management Forests and Society Land-Use Planning Measurement
Grade Level: 11 Year Recommended: 1996
Also Recommended For: Resource Sciences 12 (Forests)
Supplier: FEESA, An Environmental Education Society
Price: $29.00 Order Number: (not available)
CORE: The Electronic Library, 1995 Edition
General Description: CD-ROM for Windows and Macintosh contains the complete record of the CORE (Commission on Resources and Environment) reports, detailing the land-use planning process undergone around B.C. during the early 1990s. CD-ROM is completely searchable by word and has all associated policy documents. This CD-ROM is now out of print, but should already be available in most school libraries.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Forest Management Forests and Society Land-Use Planning
Grade Level: 11 Year Recommended: 1996
Also Recommended For: Resource Sciences 12 (Forests)
Supplier: No current supplier.
Price: (not available) Order Number: (not available)
General Description: Twenty-five-minute video gives current information on selection logging, small-scale manufacturing, and value-added operations in coastal B.C. and Vancouver Island locations. Identifies log supply as a common problem to these operations. Good for generating discussion of alternatives to large-scale operations.
Caution: Caution: Opens with a very short bar scene.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Forest Resources
Grade Level: 11 Year Recommended: 1996
Also Recommended For:
Supplier: Moving Images Distribution
Price: $250.00 Order Number: 949-9
The Dynamic Forest
General Description: Upbeat 20-minute American video shows examples of interior and coastal temperate forests similar to those in B.C. It exemplifies some of the problems and mistakes made in forest management. Themes are "change is part of the forest ecosystem" and "humans are a major change factor."
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Forest Ecology
Grade Level: 11 Year Recommended: 1996
Also Recommended For: Resource Sciences 12 (Forests)
Supplier: Super Suite
Price: (not available) Order Number: (not available)
A Forest For All
General Description: Simulation activity requires students to assume the role of a particular interest group in order to investigate the effects of pulp mill expansion in a mill-dependent town. During the process, groups discuss their views on the effects of expansion. Requires 5-10 class periods. Teachers must attend a workshop before acquiring a free copy.
Audience: General
Category: Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Forests and Society
Grade Level: 11 Year Recommended: 1996
Also Recommended For:
Supplier: Marwil Communications Inc.
Price: (not available) Order Number: (not available)
General Description: Forty-seven-minute video gives students an opportunity to hear from people that work in the forest industry. Industry workers discuss forest preservation in the Cariboo-Chilcotin region and future employment. Video also addresses selective and helicopter logging as well as value-added products.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Forest Resources Forests and Society
Grade Level: 11 Year Recommended: 1996
Also Recommended For:
Supplier: Terry Tate
Price: $25.00 Order Number: (not available)
General Description: Twelve-minute company-produced video outlines the factors (water quality, soils, reforestation, safety) considered by Price Waterhouse auditors as they inspect various Weldwood operations. Students can learn a number of good forest practices. Company representatives present their general outline for action planning.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Land-Use Planning
Grade Level: 11 Year Recommended: 1996
Also Recommended For:
Supplier: Weldwood of Canada Ltd.
Price: (not available) Order Number: (not available)
Author(s): M'Gonigle, Michael; Parfitt, Ben
General Description: Book reviews the direction of forestry practices in B.C., with emphasis on 1970 to 1995. It describes and illustrates concerns about the way the forests have been managed. Presents alternatives, encouraging an ecological approach in which community viability has great importance.
Audience: General
Category: Professional Reference
Curriculum Organizer(s): Forest Ecology Forest Management Forest Resources Forests and Society Land-Use Planning
Grade Level: 11 Year Recommended: 1996
Also Recommended For: Resource Sciences 12 (Forests)
Supplier: Harbour Publishing
Price: $21.95 Order Number: 1-55017-096-1
General Description: Series of three American videos, 21 to 27 minutes in length. Part I introduces the concepts of forest ecology in the Pacific Northwest; Part II compares the characteristics of natural old-growth forests to second-growth forests and discusses soil degradation; Part III addresses the conflict between forest ecology and economics and gives examples of successful integration. Contains information about Washington State forest tenure. Accompanying study guide provides discussion questions and follow-up activites.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Forest Ecology Forest Management
Grade Level: 11 Year Recommended: 1996
Also Recommended For: Resource Sciences 12 (Forests)
Supplier: The Video Project
Price: Series: $149.95 (U.S. Funds) Individual Videos: $59.95 each (U.S. Funds) Order Number: (not available)
General Description: Twenty-five minute video examines forest use for long-term yield in Sweden, Wales, Papau New Guinea, and elsewhere. It discusses the connection between consumer demand for environmentally sound forest practices and changes in industrial practices. Also looks at Aboriginal and community forest use in Papau New Guinea.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Forests and Society
Grade Level: 11 Year Recommended: 1996
Also Recommended For:
Supplier: International Tele-Film Enterprises Ltd.
Price: $41.30 Order Number: VC9448
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
General Description: Twenty-five-minute video discusses past forestry practices in B.C., with an emphasis on clearcutting. Uses Mt. Paxton on Vancouver Island as an example of poor clearcutting and shows public perception of the issue. The perspective is that of the forest industry.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Forest Management Forests and Society
Grade Level: 11 Year Recommended: 1996
Also Recommended For:
Supplier: Forest Alliance of British Columbia
Price: $10.00 Order Number: (not available)
General Description: Forty-eight-minute National Film Board documentary on plant and animal life in the boreal forest looks at the changes in these forests through the four seasons.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Animals
Grade Level: 11 Year Recommended: 1996
Also Recommended For:
Supplier: National Film Board of Canada
Price: $26.95 Order Number: 9194016
General Description: Resource offers a straightforward introduction to remote sensing. Simple activities help students understand the basics of satellite and aerial imaging, and provide a set of images of B.C. from which they can carry out the exercises. There are additional exercises on land-cover mapping, watershed analysis, and ground truthing of images. Appendices include a glossary, image applications chart, and suggested reading and resources.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Forest Ecology Land-Use Planning Measurement
Grade Level: 11 Year Recommended: 1994
Also Recommended For: Earth Science 11 Geography 12 Science K-7 Science 8-10 Social Studies 10
Supplier: Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks
Price: $20.00 Order Number: 0-7726-2230
Hewers of Wood - Out on a Limb
General Description: Seventeen-minute video examines current issues facing coastal loggers. Once the backbone of the West Coast economy, loggers face an ever-increasing competition for land use as well as forest conservation. Video shows the lifestyle of the logger, and the skills required to fall coastal timber.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Forest Resources Forests and Society
Grade Level: 11 Year Recommended: 1996
Also Recommended For:
Supplier: CBC Educational Sales
Price: $115.00 Order Number: Y8R-93-13
Juvenile Spacing in B.C.
General Description: Sixty-six-minute video is a training program on juvenile spacing. Nine sections each deal with a different aspect. Video shows the practical nature of juvenile spacing as well as the technical details of crop tree selection, equipment usage, safety, and project quality control.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Forest Management
Grade Level: 11 Year Recommended: 1996
Also Recommended For: Resource Sciences 12 (Forests)
Supplier: Ministry of Forests
Price: (not available) Order Number: (not available)
The Last Stand: America's Ancient Forest
General Description: Fifty-eight-minute American video explores the natural and land-use history of the American Ancient forests. The first part deals with old-growth Pacific Northwest coastal forests. Wildlife component of the ecosystem is well covered. Second part depicts job loss in the forest industry due to environmentalism, technology, and exportation of raw materials.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Animals Forest Ecology
Grade Level: 11 Year Recommended: 1996
Also Recommended For:
Supplier: Canadian Learning Company Inc.
Price: $350.00 Order Number: 9-7727
General Description: Eleven-minute video is a W5 special report on the logging controversy sparked by the "Singing Tree" reports in the Kootenays. Interviews demonstrate different perspectives on the value of the forest. Can be used to promote discussion about forest values.
Caution: Caution: The program presents a skeptical view.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Forests and Society
Grade Level: 11 Year Recommended: 1996
Also Recommended For:
Supplier: Magic Lantern Communications Ltd. (Ontario)
Price: $69.00 Order Number: 859-31-440
The Miracle Resource
General Description: Fifteen-minute fast-paced American video demonstrates the importance of wood products to society and of wood as a renewable resource. It is set in the U.S. Pacific Northwest but could be used to introduce a discussion on local practices.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Forest Resources
Grade Level: 11 Year Recommended: 1996
Also Recommended For:
Supplier: Super Suite
Price: (not available) Order Number: (not available)
General Description: Thirteen-minute video describes the basic consultation processes involved in integrated resource management. It gives specific examples from both coastal B.C. and the Interior. Although the video is dated (1989), the basic process of consultation and of considering all forest values in management planning is current.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Forest Management Land-Use Planning
Grade Level: 11 Year Recommended: 1996
Also Recommended For:
Supplier: Ministry of Forests, Public Affairs
Price: (not available) Order Number: (not available)
Northwood Pulp and Timber Limited
General Description: Seventeen-minute video shows the series of steps in the kraft pulping process. Includes a folder of support print resources, mainly in the form of company promotional materials.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Forest Resources
Grade Level: 11 Year Recommended: 1996
Also Recommended For:
Supplier: B.C. Forestry Association
Price: (not available) Order Number: (not available)
Pacific Spirit: The Forest Reborn
Author(s): Moore, Patrick
General Description: Book clearly introduces and discusses forest ecology, biological diversity, forest history, and clearcutting.
Audience: General
Category: Professional Reference
Curriculum Organizer(s): Animals Forest Ecology Forest Management Forests and Society
Grade Level: 11 Year Recommended: 1996
Also Recommended For: Resource Sciences 12 (Forests)
Supplier: Terrabella Publishers
Price: $18.00 Order Number: 1-896171-07-9
Author(s): Pojar, Jim; MacKinnon, Andy (eds.)
General Description: Field guide is useful in identifying plants found in the coastal regions of B.C. Contains many descriptions, colour photographs, and keys that assist in identification. It is arranged according to plant type and families. Includes a glossary and an index to common and scientific names.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Forest Ecology Plants Trees
Grade Level: 11 Year Recommended: 1996
Also Recommended For:
Supplier: Lone Pine Publishing
Price: $24.95 Order Number: 1-55105-042-0
Author(s): MacKinnon, A.; Pojar, J.; CoupÈ, R. (eds.)
General Description: Field guide helps in the identification of trees, shrubs, plants, mosses, lichens, and other plants of the region. It includes descriptions and colour photographs of 578 species. Various keys assist in specific identification of larger plant families. Includes a glossary and an index of common and scientific names.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Forest Ecology Plants Trees
Grade Level: 11 Year Recommended: 1996
Also Recommended For:
Supplier: Lone Pine Publishing
Price: $24.95 Order Number: 1-55105-015-3
Author(s): Parish, R.; CoupÈ, R.; Lloyd, D. (eds.)
General Description: Field guide helps in the identification of 700 plant species of the region. It includes a section on edible plants, native plant use, and descriptions of vegetation and habitat zones. Also includes glossary and index.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Forest Ecology Forests and Society Plants Trees
Grade Level: 11 Year Recommended: 1996
Also Recommended For:
Supplier: Lone Pine Publishing
Price: $24.95 Order Number: 1-55105-057-9
Author(s): Johnson; Kershaw; MacKinnon; Pojar (eds.)
General Description: Field guide has a good key and colour photos to help identify the plants, shrubs, wildflowers, mosses, and lichens of Alaska, northern B.C., and western Ontario. There is also a small section on plants and people, ethnobotany, and plants as medicine.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Forest Ecology Forests and Society Plants Trees
Grade Level: 11 Year Recommended: 1996
Also Recommended For:
Supplier: Lone Pine Publishing
Price: $24.95 Order Number: 1-55105-058-7
Reforestation in British Columbia -
A Growing Success
General Description: Fifteen-minute video deals with artificial regeneration, from seed collection to free-growing young trees. Provides a short discussion of natural versus artificial regeneration. Shows examples of wildfire areas prior to planting and again 20 to 30 years later.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Forest Management
Grade Level: 11 Year Recommended: 1996
Also Recommended For: Resource Sciences 12 (Forests)
Supplier: Image Media Services Ltd.
Price: (not available) Order Number: (not available)
Author(s): Lavender, D.P. (ed.)
General Description: Compendium deals with the issues around the science and technology of reforestation in B.C. through a series of broadly relevant papers. It combines records from practical reforestation projects and results of scientific observation.
Audience: General
Category: Professional Reference
Curriculum Organizer(s): Forest Ecology Forest Management Forests and Society
Grade Level: 11 Year Recommended: 1996
Also Recommended For: Resource Sciences 12 (Forests)
Supplier: UBC Press
Price: $34.95 Order Number: 0-7748-0352-5
Seeing the Forest Among the Trees
Author(s): Hammond, Herb
General Description: Book asks difficult and challenging questions about current forest practices in B.C. The author takes a critical look at how we use forests in B.C. and what the impacts are. He presents holistic solutions to the problems of forest use. Includes a photo album. Data and arguments are backed up by references and an extensive index.
Caution: Caution: Author's analysis is not impartial.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Forest Ecology Forest Management Forests and Society Land-Use Planning Plants
Grade Level: 11 Year Recommended: 1996
Also Recommended For: Resource Sciences 12 (Forests)
Supplier: Polestar Book Publishers
Price: $46.95 Order Number: 0-919591-58-2
General Description: This B.C.-produced, twenty-two-minute video describes several aspects of the need for alternatives to conventional forest management. It details one of those alternatives: horse logging. It also features interviews with employees from various ministries and at least one research scientist.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Forest Ecology Forest Management Forests and Society Land-Use Planning
Grade Level: 11 Year Recommended: 1997
Also Recommended For:
Supplier: Cariboo Horse Loggers Association
Price: $15.00 Order Number:
Thinking Like a Forest: A Case for Sustainable Selective Forestry
General Description: In this 28-minute video a forester talks about selective harvesting and sustainable forestry. He describes his own experience on his managed woodlot as well as visiting a small on-site sawmill, a horse logging operation, and more. Point of view is weighted toward the smaller woodlot operation. Also briefly introduces other forest uses and products. Includes a 35-page illustrated viewing guide.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Forest Ecology Forest Management Forests and Society
Grade Level: 11 Year Recommended: 1996
Also Recommended For: Resource Sciences 12 (Forests)
Supplier: The All About Us CANADA Foundation
Price: Video: $25.00 Guide: $5.00 Order Number: (not available)
Author(s): Mahood, Ian; Drushka, Ken
General Description: Reference book describes the development of B.C. forest policy. It focusses on the role of H.R. MacMillan and the development of the forest service.
Audience: General
Category: Professional Reference
Curriculum Organizer(s): Forest Management Forest Resources Forests and Society Land-Use Planning
Grade Level: 11 Year Recommended: 1996
Also Recommended For: Resource Sciences 12 (Forests)
Supplier: Harbour Publishing
Price: $6.95 Order Number: 1-55017-016-3$6.95
Author(s): Travers, Ray (ed.)
General Description: Book covers a wide range of forest management issues, including public involvement, holistic forestry, role of environmental assessment, land-use decisions, and First Nations land claims.
Audience: General
Category: Professional Reference
Curriculum Organizer(s): Forest Management
Grade Level: 11 Year Recommended: 1996
Also Recommended For: Resource Sciences 12 (Forests)
Supplier: Harbour Publishing
Price: $18.95 Order Number: 1-55017-074-0
General Description: Twenty-five-minute video from the B.C. Forest Alliance describes the importance of the forest industry in B.C. It details the impact of the spotted owl decision on a forestry-based town in the U.S., then assesses the economic importance of the forest to local communities and the Lower Mainland. The perspective is that of the forest industry.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Forests and Society
Grade Level: 11 Year Recommended: 1996
Also Recommended For:
Supplier: Forest Alliance of British Columbia
Price: $10.00 Order Number: (not available)
General Description: Canadian Forest Service pocket-size resource includes some Aboriginal uses of plants and trees as well as colour photos of trees, with a range map showing the distribution of trees in B.C.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Trees
Grade Level: 11 Year Recommended: 1996
Also Recommended For:
Supplier: Ministry of Forests
Price: (not available) Order Number: 0-7726-2159-4
Author(s): Lyone, C.P.; Merilees, Bill
General Description: Book is a classic field identification guide for plants in B.C. Earlier editions are found in many school libraries. It is well laid out, based on easy-to-understand descriptors such as flower colour, growth habits, and so on.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Forest Ecology Plants Trees
Grade Level: 11 Year Recommended: 1996
Also Recommended For: Resource Sciences 12 (Forests)
Supplier: Lone Pine Publishing
Price: $18.95 Order Number: 1-55105-044-7
Vanishing Forests
General Description: Twenty-one-minute video contains the basic concepts required to understand the ecology of a forest. Presents topics from a local and global perspective. Promotes student discussion and suggests activities for student involvement.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Forest Ecology Forests and Society Land-Use Planning Plants
Grade Level: 11 Year Recommended: 1996
Also Recommended For:
Supplier: McIntyre Media Ltd.
Price: (not available) Order Number: (not available)
Wildlife Trees of British Columbia
General Description: Book provides information on wildlife species that use trees in various stages of decay as a habitat. It explains how to identify wildlife trees. Outlines in detail many learning activities that vary in grade-level appropriateness.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizer(s): Animals Forest Ecology Forests and Society
Grade Level: 11 Year Recommended: 1996
Also Recommended For:
Supplier: Ministry of Forests
Price: (not available) Order Number: (not available)
Author(s): Loomis, Ruth; Wilkinson, Merv
General Description: General interest book on alternative forest management describes a 138-acre woodlot that has been managed using sustainable selective harvesting since 1938. Explains how the area has been logged with no loss of timber volume. Also includes information on soils, stand-tending, harvesting, and a protest court case.
Audience: General
Category: Professional Reference
Curriculum Organizer(s): Forest Ecology Forest Management Forests and Society Land-Use Planning
Grade Level: 11 Year Recommended: 1996
Also Recommended For: Resource Sciences 12 (Forests)
Supplier: Reflections Publisher
Price: $9.60 Order Number:
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