G62 JOURNAL OF FORESTRY 



1. ]\Iore frequent visits to the Forest Products Laboratory by the 

 district foresters and the assistant district foresters in charge of silvi- 

 culture. These visits should be of sufficient duration and frequency to 

 enable the foresters to obtain a thorough grasp of the work of the 

 laboratory, its broad application to forest administration, and the 

 requirements and possibilities of co-ordination and direction within 

 the districts. 



2. More frequent trips to the districts by representatives of the 

 laboratory for the purpose of gaining a more intimate knowledge of 

 conditions in the various districts, of discussing on the ground related 

 problems and means, and of considering the lines along which the 

 work of the laboratory and the districts can best be co-ordinated and 

 directed in order to meet effectively the needs and aims of forest 

 administration. 



3. A definite program of details whereby : 



(a) Men engaged in products work in the districts will be 



detailed to the laboratory each winter if possible for a 

 period of weeks. 



(b) Each man engaged in silvical research in the districts will 



be detailed to the laboratory at least once. 



•i. Attendance at supervisors' and district foresters' meetings of a 

 laboratory representative in order that the laboratory may keep in 

 touch with the broad administration and technical problems of the 

 districts and may present the resourres of the laboratory in the light of 

 those problems. 



5. The appointment by the Forester of a committee of five members 

 consisting of the assistant forester in charge of research who shall 

 be chairman, two members from the district organization, and two 

 members from the laboratory ; this committee to meet annually to 

 plan and co-ordinate a definite program of co-operative or related work. 



Your committee further believes that it would be highly desirable 

 and beneficial to efifect an exchange of details between the laboratory 

 and the districts whereby a limited number of supervisors or timber- 

 sale specialists from Forests or regions, where utilization is intense 

 or becoming so, could spend some time at the laboratory and laboratory 

 men could spend some time on the Forests, thus bringing about 

 mutual education and co-operation in meeting or preparing for special 

 situations. 



O. M. Butler, Chairman. 



