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 logging operations 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.

Digitized from a 16-mm film original held in the Extension and Experiment Station Communication Moving Images (FV120:045), Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Oregon State University Libraries.