- This short documentary tells the story of Ontario, Canada's forest rangers who, with the aide of bush pilots, keep watch over the forests. Viewers see them fight a large forest fire that threatens the small village of Gogama.
- This documentary short focuses on the work of the bush pilots of the Ontario forest services, many of whom go on to serve in other piloting capacities such as in the Canadian military. Much of the work is in assisting fire ranger services. This work is all the more important due to forestry being the primary resource industry of the Ontario economy, with the products both for domestic and international markets. Fires are both natural and man-made, the threat exacerbated by dead or decaying trees due to predatory insects feeding off the wood and/or a multitude of diseases. The bush pilots are generally alerted of fires and other problems by the staff at a series of towers covering the forests. These problems are dealt with proactively if possible, such as control of any discovered destructive insect infestations or alerting campers to proper campfire procedures. This film focuses largely on bush pilot Bill McCormick, former bush pilot turned ferry commander George Phillips and forest fire services dealing with a fire on the shores of Shining Tree Lake near the small town of Gogama, which itself was devastated by fire only five years earlier.—Huggo
- This short was "filmed with the co-operation of the Forest Protection Service of the Department of Lands and Forests, Ontario, Canada." The forest commandos of the title are the Ontario fire rangers who, with the aide of their bush pilot comrades, keep watch over Ontario's forests. Viewers see them fight a large forest fire that threatens the small village of Gogama.—David Glagovsky <dglagovsky@prodigy.net>
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