Cool Videos!

Focus on Forests Videos

• Forestry Connects- follow 15 students journey through northern Ontario as they learn about natural resource management. (French version also available)
• Sustainable Forest Management - Learn about sustainable forest management in Ontario. Part of the Forestry Connects video series.
• Discovering Your Forest- learn more about the different things that forest managers research when they are planning for their forest. Part of the Forestry Connects video series.
• Different Forests, Different Management - Different parts of the province require different types of management, learn about these differences! Part of the Forestry Connects video series.
• Forest Careers - Part of the Forestry Connects video series, a video about different careers in natural resources.

Forestry Careers

• Do you think you might be interested in a career in forestry? The OFA has lots of great links for Forestry Career video profiles, featured through the goforestry.ca website!
• This is my office! - check out the different careers that you can get working outside!

Forestry Operations

• Sustainable Forest Management - A great video explaining sustainable forest management in Canada.
• Sustainable Forest Management - The Canadian Council of Forest Ministers website provides some great videos about various forestry topics. Topics include forest certification, green building, climate change and protected areas.
• Forest Products in Canada- Build Green With Wood celebrates the Canadian forest industry through interesting videos promoting the various ways in which we use our forests.

Forest Fire Fighting

• Fire Fighters - check out the steps of fighting a forest fire!
• Protecting Values during fire - A unique way in which Ontario is fighting to protect different values from wild forest fires.
• From Ashes to Forest- Filmed in several of Canada's national parks, this documentary looks at forest fires versus fire suppression.

Canada's Forests

• Natural Resources Canada - NRCan seeks to enhance the responsible development and use of Canada's natural resources and the competitiveness of Canada's natural resources products.
• Log Driver's Waltz - A great video that shows the history of logging in Canada.
• Hinterland Who's Who - The Boreal Forest.

Special Topics

• International Year of Forests - A special video to celebrate 2011- the International Year of Forests.
• Envirothon Videos - Envirothon, the high school environmental competition, challenges kids to get outdoors to learn first hands and hands on why our natural resources are so important. This series of great videos goes through the main topics in detail, including useful information on how to use various tools. Learn about aquatics, soils, wildlife and forestry!
• Thank You Wood - Trees play an important part in our daily lives. Check out this great promotional video for wood.
• Fun Forest Flicks- This California based website has some great simple videos about basic ecosystem processes in forests.

Miscellaneous Videos