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Farmer Bill Dickman admiring his early lamb, ca. 1940s.
Farmer Bill Dickman admiring his early lamb, ca. 1940s.
Gifford Photograph Collection (P 218). (Click to enlarge)

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Natural Resources - Online Audio/Video

A small sampling of the video and audio materials held in our collections that are related to natural resources in the Pacific Northwest. For more see the University History, Athletics, Oregon Multicultural Archives and History of Science video and audio pages.

Video

Agriculture (General)

  • National Dairy Champions Show and Dairy Bureau Exhibit, 1926. (0:10:49)
  • Saint Paul, Oregon, Livestock Center, ca. 1920s-1930s. (0:13:45)
  • Alderman Farms Films, 1943-1950: Part 1 (1:57:06) and Part 2 (0:44:04). The Alderman Farm Films were made by Urie S. Alderman, an alumnus of Oregon Agricultural College and the grandson of Albert Alderman, who founded the Alderman Farms in 1847. The films depict aspects of the farms' operations including planting, harvesting, and processing of corn, beans, strawberries, peaches, and potatoes; irrigation; barbecues and other social activities; logging and sawmill operations; political campaigning; and general farm views. Of special note is footage of Mexican migrant farm laborers. Initially founded in Yamhill County, the Alderman Farms peaked in the late 1950s with at least 3,100 acres under cultivation in Yamhill, Benton, Linn, Marion and Klamath Counties.
  • "Fiber Flax Growing and Processing in the Willamette Valley of Oregon," ca. 1947. (0:20:34) Film includes scenes of the growing, harvesting, and processing of fiber flax in the Willamette Valley, including planting, chemical weeding, mechanical pulling, seeding, retting, processing, and use of flax fibers. Produced by the Cooperative Research Project of the US Department of Agriculture and the Oregon State College Agricultural Experiment Station.
  • "Symphylids and Their Control," 1958. (0:09:51)
  • "New Dairy Production Techniques," 1962. (0:24:43) Produced by the Oregon Dairy Association.
  • Cheese Manufacturing and October Cheese Festival, 1963. (0:18:07) This largely silent film begins with a welcome message from Governor Mark Hatfield, speaking on the cheese industry in Oregon and the forthcoming October Cheese Festival. From there, the film shows the entire process of making cheese, beginning with milking cows, transporting milk, and deploying a combination of machinery and human labor to manufacture cheese for shipping and sale. Rose Valley Butter and Cheese (Tillamook, Oregon), and the Mount Angel Cooperative Creamery (Mount Angel, Oregon) are both depicted in the film.
  • "Organic Foods and Farming," 1972. (0:29:01) This film presents a skeptical viewpoint on the merits of organically grown foods versus those produced using chemical fertilizers. The production includes interviews with multiple OSU faculty including Extension veterinarian Guy Reynolds, Extension agricultural chemist James Webb, and several unidentified commenters speaking on multiple related issues. The film also includes silent footage of the Valley River Mall in Eugene, a natural foods cooperative (possibly the original First Alternative Food Cooperative near downtown Corvallis), and a supermarket.
  • "Parturition in Swine," 1974. (0:27:31) An Oregon State University Television Center production narrated by Ralph Bogart, this video documents the care of swine before, during, and after the birthing process.
  • "The Cowboy in Mongolia," 1989. (0:57:42) This film features Dennis Sheehy, a Vietnam veteran, Wallowa rancher and former OSU student who was hired by the Chinese government to provide technical assistance to the Yihenoer commune, a collection of livestock herding families in Mongolia.
  • Farm Bill legislation - impact on Oregon agriculture, 1991. (0:06:40) An interview between Mike Martin and Larry Lev, faculty members in the Agricultural and Resource Economics Department.
  • "Northwest Gardening" - episode 1, 1989. (0:26:54) This film focuses on topics related to spring gardening. The program includes features on the raised hill method of gardening, as demonstrated by master gardener Mary Louise Eggers; tips on lawn care presented by OSU turfgrass specialist Tom Cook; best practices for feeding hummingbirds; horticulturalists Dean Wentworth, Susan Massey and Anne Marie VanDerZanden on improving the health of perennials; and master gardener Janet Troop on methods for extending the growing season.
  • Conservation Farming Field Day, circa 1990s. (0:59:49) Field Day gathering focusing on conservation of internal resources.
  • J.A. Freeman and Sons Co. Film, circa 1990s: haylage demonstration (0:07:03); agricultural equipment demonstration 1 (0:13:25); agricultural equipment demonstration 2 (0:07:10)

Extension and Experiment Stations

Finley Films

  • "Wild Animal Outposts," 1926. (0:15:15) By William L. and Irene Finley of Nature Magazine. Includes footage of salmon fishing and fish counts. Includes title panels "The story of the Bering Sea Expedition, led by Campbell Church and William L. Finley, under the auspices of the American nature Association and the Bureau of Fisheries of the United States Department of Commerce"; "Smaller craft for cruising rivers and lakes"; "Buffy joins the expedition" [a water bird]; "A salmon cannery at the head of the bay"; "Food for a nation in a salmon trap"; "The future of the salmon crop is guarded by the United States Bureau of Fisheries"; and "On up the river with the salmon run."
  • "The Forests," 1927. (0:15:03) By William L. Finley and Arthur N. Pack of the American Nature Association. Includes footage of logging, beaver building dams, the Bonneville Dam, other wildlife, and a chipmunk in a camp. Includes title panels "Live-trapping and transplanting beaver"; and "Wilderness areas where beaver are abundant."
  • "Getting Our Goat," 1930. (0:14:59) By William L. Finley and Arthur N. Pack of Nature Magazine. Footage shows Finley donning a goat costume in order to more closely approach goats for filming. Includes title panels "Ptarmigan or snow grouse"; "On to Boulder Pass"; "Top of the Continental Divide"; "This was a splendid goat country, but we still had to climb the peaks to get above the goats unobserved"; and "It takes a goat to get a goat."
  • "In the Wake of the Wapiti," 1930. (0:14:32) By William L. Finley and Arthur N. Pack of Nature Magazine. Filmed near Red Eagle (Montana?); includes footage of camp, porcupine, elk, moose and mountain goats. Includes title panels "Fool hens"; "The trail needed patching"; "Leaving our horses we crept cautiously to the edge of a steep bank and peered over"; "The idea was to lie in wait at the stream crossing below the lick -- and it worked"; and "In the moose country."
  • "Kenai and Kodiak" ca. 1930. (0:14:57) By William L. and Irene Finley of Nature Magazine. Includes title panels: "Shooting mountain sheep from an ambush;" "Only Aleuts can fish here;" "Climbing to the aery of an American eagle;" "Nearby dinner for young eagles;" and "A joker somewhere the rest never humped and rolled like this."
  • "Mount McKinley National Park" ca. 1930. (0:10:56) By William L. and Irene Finley of Nature Magazine. Includes footage of glaciers, wildlife, the Westward and a pet fawn. Includes title panels: "On the lookout for rock ptarmigan"; "Hunting snowshoe rabbits"; and "Tracking mountain sheep".
  • "The Passing of the Marshlands," ca. 1930. (0:13:55) By William L. Finley and Arthur N. Pack of the American Nature Association. Includes title panels: "The Reclamation Service turns Lower Klamath over to land promoters"; "Clear Lake Reservation in 1912"; "A waterfowl refuge partly drained and leased to stockmen"; "Malheur Lake Reservation in 1915"; and "A dry lake, no birds and a world of dust".
  • "The Pribilof Islands," ca. 1930. (0:14:57) By William L. and Irene Finley of Nature Magazine. Includes footage of the Westward, Native Alaskan children and a whale hunt. Includes title panels "The bidarrah or ferry-boat at St. Paul"; "Santa Claus"; "The haunts of the blue fox"; "The lemming of the north"; "A Bering Sea beach, home of the fur seals"; "A stranger on the Pribilofs" [a bear cub]; "Farewell to the Pribilofs -- we go a-whaling"; and "On the trail of Jonah."
  • "Unimak and Bogoslof" ca. 1930. (0:15:17) By William L. and Irene Finley of Nature Magazine. Includes title panels: "Returning to camp -- are we friend or foe?;" "A nest at the edge of the crater;" "Far below, on the beach, live the sea lions;" and "Are you a relative of mine?"
  • "Woods, Waters, and Wildlife," ca. 1930. (0:15:04) By William L. Finley and Arthur N. Pack of the American Nature Association. Includes footage of fishing at Celilo Falls and the Oregon Coast (including Cape Perpetua, Heceta Head Lighthouse, Sea Lion Caves, and Three Arch Rocks). Includes title panels "Crater Lake National Park"; "The Harvest of the Columbia"; and "Salmon, the main food of the Indians".
  • William L. Finley - Incomplete Film Segments, ca. 1930. (0:11:06) By William L. Finley and Arthur N. Pack of the American Nature Association. Includes footage of fishing at Celilo Falls and the Oregon Coast (including Cape Perpetua, Heceta Head Lighthouse, Sea Lion Caves, and Three Arch Rocks). Includes title panels "Crater Lake National Park"; "The Harvest of the Columbia"; and "Salmon, the main food of the Indians".
  • "Waterfowl," ca. 1935. (0:15:43) By William L. Finley and Arthur N. Pack of the American Nature Association. Includes footage of various birds, including their nesting sites. The film ends with footage of a pet quail and pet duck with the family dog. Includes title panels "P Ranch, 40 miles of water and marshland, added to Malheur refuge"; "Trapping and banding ducks"; "Winter refuge for waterfowl"; and "A new kind of duck dog".

Fisheries

Forestry

  • McMinnville Industrial Park, ca. 1960s. (0:27:04) Largely silent footage containing audio snippets describing the design and function of a mill building at the site as well as the background behind its location in McMinnville. Second audio track refers to connections between the Extension Service and industrial development in Oregon.
  • "The Timber Economy," 1971. (0:26:56) This film incorporates interview footage with loggers, operations managers, analysts and academics to provide an overview of the timber economy in Oregon in the early 1970s. The film also includes silent footage of mechanized logging and a timber auction for tracts in the Rogue River National Forest. Topics discussed include the cyclical nature of the industry; patterns of employment and unemployment; regional dependency on the timber industry; possibilities for future growth of the industry; and the impact of public policy on timber supplies. The film ends with an interview of a faculty member in OSU's Forest Research Laboratory on research programs being conducted to help develop diversify the market and to grow healthier commercial forests.
  • "Oregon Diary - Fallen Trees, Broken Promises," [KBVR-TV] Fall 1989. (0:59:25) Hosted by Brian Buslach, this KBVR-TV program examines the controversy over the Northern spotted owl. The episode includes a documentary produced by OSU students Robert Inez and Carlton Finley in June 1989, and titled, "Fallen Trees, Broken Promises." Following that, Buslach moderates a discussion of a compromise plan agreed upon by Congress in September 1989. Participants in this discussion are Kent Kelly, director of the Siuslaw Timber Operators Association, and Art Farley of the Lane County Audubon Society.
  • Logging Small Woodlands, ca. 1980s. (0:17:58) Hosted by Extension Forestry Specialist John Garland and featuring Klamath County landowner Rex Morehouse.
  • Northwest Forest Conference - Roundtable 1, "Who Is Affected and How," April 2, 1993. (2:19:28) Part 1 of a recording of the Northwest Forest Conference, a "timber summit" held at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. Meant to address the sometimes conflicting needs provided for by the region's forests, the conference featured participation by President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore. Rountable 1 includes prepared remarks by Portland Mayor Vera Katz, Oregon Governor Barbara Roberts, historian Kimbark McColl, Archbishop Thomas Murphy, Michael Draper (Executive Secretary of the Western Council of Industrial Workers), Diana Wales (lawyer, Roseburg, Oregon), Bob Spence (mill owner) and Patricia Lee (environmental educator).
  • Northwest Forest Conference - Roundtable 2, "Ecological and Economic Assessments," April 2, 1993. (1:49:09) Roundtable 2 features prepared remarks delivered by John Gordon (Dean, Yale University School of Forestry), Lorin Hicks (wildlife biologist) and Charles Meslow (Oregon State University wildlife biologist and northern spotted owl researcher). Other panelists include Rick Brown (National Wildlife Federation), Jerry Franklin (forest ecologist), Chad Oliver (professor of silviculture and forest policy), Jim Sedell (fishery biologist), and Dan Tomascheski (Vice President, Sierra Pacific Industries).
  • Water Quality and Our Forests: Western Oregon Research, 1993. (0:10:38) Created by Oregon State University Agricultural Communications, this film features interviews with George Brown (OSU Dean of Forestry), George Ice (Hydrologist), Hank Froehlich (OSU Hydrologist), and Dave Hibbs (OSU Forest Ecologist).
  • Forestry Television Spots, ca. 1993. (0:05:05) Produced by the Oregon Forest Resources Institute and the OSU College of Forestry. The television spots focus on riparian areas, forest structure, regeneration, and new riparian regulations.
  • "When Everybody Was Working: A Vintage Film of Logging and Lumbering," 1994. (0:25:18) A film featuring historic logging and lumbering footage shot by Jess W. Forrester, accompanied by narration from forest workers, railroad employees and historians.
  • Careers in Forestry, circa 1990s. (0:11:37) Promotional film featuring interviews with US Forest Service District Ranger Nancy Graybeal, OSU Forestry professor Norm Johnson, Legal Defense Fund resource analyst Andy Stahl, Starker Forests manager Gary Blanchard, environmental interpreters Linda Paganelli and Mike Giannechini, quality control supervisor Mike Babb, and forest ecologist Peter Frenzen.
  • "Saving the Pieces: The Fender's Blue Butterfly and the Kincaid's Lupine," 2002. (0:39:57) Filmed at the McDonald-Dunn Forest. Produced by two OSU students in the natural resources program, the film looks at various topics in forest management and preservation, including the College of Forestry's habitat conservation plan. Among those interviewed in the film include Debora Johnson, Paul Hammond, Tom Kaye, and Barte Starker, of Starker Forests Inc.

4-H

Oregon Hops & Brewing Archives

"OHBA Stories" - Film and Supporting Interviews, 2014

Oregon's Landscape

Oregon Sea Grant

Oregon Tilth

Rivers

  • "Willamette River Pollution Film," ca. 1940. (0:38:21) A 16 mm color, silent film of various point sources of pollution in the Willamette River and its tributaries. The film begins near Springfield and progresses downstream to Portland and includes footage of various forms of industrial, agricultural, and municipal effluent being dumped into the Willamette River and its tributaries, including the Pudding and South Santiam Rivers. The footage includes tests of the length of time that small fish can survive in water from the Willamette River and chemical tests of the river water. The film includes footage of the river or its tributaries at Springfield, Eugene, Corvallis, Crabtree, Lebanon, Salem, Woodburn, and Portland.
  • "Pass Creek," 1968. (0:09:48) Provides a penetrating account of a once-rich steelhead trout stream threatened by careless logging practices. Focusing on Oregon's North Umpqua River Basin, the film portrays the impact of clearcut logging on the small tributary streams where most of the river's steelhead are spawned and reared. The subtle interdependence of land and water and the disruption of the aquatic environment caused by stream-clogging debris and warming water are dramatically presented. Hal Riney and Dick Snider, advertising executives and fishermen, produced the film and donated it to Oregon State University. It was widely distributed and viewed in Oregon and throughout the United States through the 1970s and was influential in changing logging practices in the Northwest.
  • "Fifteen Mile Creek Habitat Improvement Project," 1991. (0:15:42) This video provides an overview of the effort to balance power generation needs and agricultural concerns with the imperative to protect salmon and steelhead runs in the Columbia River and its tributaries. The fifteen mile creek habitat project area was located in north Wasco County near The Dalles, Oregon.
  • "Restoring Salmon and Watersheds: An Introduction," 1994. (0:07:39) Produced by Oregon State University Agricultural Communications and Oregon Sea Grant Communications.

"Shrubs of the Pacific Northwest," 1995

Authored by Arthur C. Jensen and Mark Reed, and produced by the Forestry Media Center.

Ten Rivers Food Web

U.S. Forest Service Video Workshops, 1988-1989

Audio

  • "Alouette," 1939. (0:01:01) A theme song for Foresters in Action as sung by Forester's Chorus; recorded at KOAC Radio Station by J. M. Morris. Digitized from a Presto Disc.
  • "Cruiser's Song," 1939. (0:01:08) Another theme song for Foresters in Action as sung by Forester's Chorus; recorded at KOAC Radio Station by J. M. Morris. Digitized from a Presto Disc.
  • "George W. - The Dean," 1939. (0:01:30) Another theme song for Foresters in Action as sung by Forester's Chorus; recorded at KOAC Radio Station by J. M. Morris. Digitized from a Presto Disc.
  • Oregon State University Extension Service Oral Histories, 2007-2008. A series of interviews captured in preparation for the university's Extension Service centennial in 2011.

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