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to view Finnish forests and woods industries. V/e 

 had also had a similar trip in Sweden on the way to 

 the Congress. These were much more interesting t&quot;~an 

 the rather dry sectional meetings. 



Compared with forest management in the United 

 States, that in jcandinavia is simple. There they 

 have only three important commercial species 

 spruce, Scotch pine and &quot;birch. Through long ex 

 perience they had arrived at cutting and regeneration 

 methods of proved effectiveness, and our observations 

 confirmed our confidence in some of the methods we 

 were trying out. 



Fry: Can you mention here the chief methods to vhich you 

 refer? 



Granger: Clear cutting with either replanting or natural re 

 forestation; also the technique of selection cutting. 

 After the Congress a group of us took a bus tour 

 through forests in Germany and France. There, of course, 

 one sees forest management developed to an almost exact 

 science, as in Scandinavia, as compared with its 

 status in America. 



