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tant economically if sustained yield management is practiced. 

 This type of management will supply a constant amount of 

 timber for wood'using industry as the private forests are de' 

 stroyed. Then the national forests will become a source of 

 supplemental income to people now living on sub'marginal land 

 near forests. They will be able to work in forests in off seasons 

 and thus earn cash to add to the small income from crops. 

 Whether or not this new type of forest use will require some 

 changes in the administration of forest land is a problem that 

 will have to be considered. The question is, will the fact that 

 more people will be dependent on the forests require that the 

 forest administration be made more democratic? 



PROJECTS 



1 . Find out if you can the watershed from which any stream 

 near to you flows. Any state forest map will show you whether 

 or not this area is covered with timber. Try to discover whether 

 or not this timber is being clear-cut, managed on a sustained 

 yield basis, or being preserved as a forest reserve. You can get 

 this information from the state forester's office or the local 

 water system officials if they get their water from the stream. 

 See if there is any relation between floods in that stream and 

 the cutting of timber. 



2. Make a list of all the uses of wood that you can see in your 

 school room. Make another list of the uses of wood in the 

 school room fifty years ago and compare the two lists. What 

 are the major differences? 



3. Suppose you owned a large plot of valuable timber in the 

 Northwest. How should you manage that timber'plot? 



4. If you were a forester in the United States Forest Service 

 in charge of a national forest in the Rocky Mountain region, 



