Videos

This 1994 U.S. Forest Service film showed an excavation of a site believed to be a Donner Party campsite. The Donner pioneers were migrating to California in a wagon train from the Midwest i…

This U.S. Forest Service film tells the story of the real Smokey Bear, from his rescue during a 1950 forest fire in New Mexico’s Capitan Mountains to his life at the National Zoo in Washingt…

This 1958 Forest Service film chronicled the Los Angles Country Fire Department’s fight against the 1957 fire in the Malibu Mountains of California. Reel America is an American History TV se…

Made in cooperation with the U.S. Forest Service, this film promotes the virtues of christmas tree farming and shows the production process from seed to final decorated tree. This is a six m…

This documentary tells the history of the U.S. Forest Service. Created in 1905 by President Theodore Roosevelt and his Chief Forester Gifford Pinchot, the service sought to conserve disappea…

This is a U.S. Forest Service film about the 1960 Winter Olympic Games held in Squaw Valley, California. Narrated by writer and broadcaster Lowell Thomas, the film documents the construction…

This 1981 U.S. Forest Service film documents the May 18th, 1980, earthquake at Mount St. Helens, in the Cascade Range of Washington state, which caused a volcanic eruption that killed 57 peo…

The U.S. Forest Service held a public hearing that allowed citizens to express their opinions of roadless areas in National Forests. The proposed plan would prevent construction of roads on …