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Report of Committee on Co-ordixation of Forest Products 

 Research and National Forest Administration 



The following recommendations for closer co-ordination of the 

 work of the Forest Products Laboratory and the districts were made 

 to the Madison Section Society of American Foresters : 



Close co-ordination of the work of the National Forests and the 

 Forest Products Laboratory is believed essential to the most effective 

 progress on the part of the Forest Service in its own forest adminis- 

 tration and in the broad field of forest utilization. The character of 

 co-ordination and co-operation needed can be accomplished, in the 

 judgment of your committee, only through the medium of personal 

 contact by which a clear understanding of the problems and resources 

 of the two branches can be established and maintained. The absence 

 of any definite policy in this respect by the Service as a whole has 

 tended more toward a drifting apart of the two lines of work than 

 toward a natural and desirable drawing together and common appre- 

 ciation of efforts and purposes. 



The medium of letters, reports and other routine documents has. 

 in the mind of your committee, wholly failed to establish proper contact 

 and mutual appreciation of common interests and common aims. It 

 has in fact, in a number of instances, had the opposite effect because 

 of misunderstandings and inability to reach a common point of view. 

 This medium will be of real value, it is believed, only when a much 

 closer personal contact has been established and the branches are 

 intimately familiar with one another's problems and conditions. The 

 fact should not be lost sight of that research in forest products and 

 research in silviculture are interdependent and together form the 

 ground work for the most intelligent, effective, and foresighted admin- 

 istration of our national forests but that without proper stimulation 

 of interest between the two lines of work, the essential tie will be 

 lacking. 



Your committee, therefore, recommends that a definite service policy 

 be established and put into effect as rapidly as possible which will 

 make provisions along the following lines : 



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