1394 A NATIONAL PLAN FOR AMERICAN FORESTRY 



selective logging, and the productiveness of stands should be extended 

 through management for sustained yield. In line with technical 

 efficiency in the use of materials, the trend toward integration of 

 forest-using industries in favorable locations should be encouraged, 

 while wastes in all departments must be further reduced. Produc- 

 tion from small holdings must be improved and adjusted to meet the 

 standards of orderly manufacture and marketing, and merchandising 

 must be activated on the modern plane of quality standards and 

 technical requirements. 



The apparent "encroachment" or "intrusion" of other materials 

 in fields of wood use has been shown to be an inevitable expression 

 of the modern age and the eagerness of consumers for new and 

 unproved products and services. The need and the responsibility for 

 more scientific and technical research in wood and its products have 

 therefore been specially stressed. Some of the more obvious and 

 urgent objectives which research should follow have been pointed 

 out better construction and fabrication, unit construction, better 

 treating, coating, and gluing processes, better conversion and harvest- 

 ing, keener selection and grading, the improvement of pulping pro- 

 cesses and machine operations in paper manufacture, the develop- 

 ment of plastics and other new and special products, basic and 

 fundamental studies of the nature and minute characteristics of 

 wood, and the cooperation of all agencies, commercial and public, in 

 the prosecution of these and allied lines of investigation. 



By girding themselves to meet modern demands efficiently, forest 

 industry and forest ownership can look forward to a continued place 

 of major service in the country's economic life. The public has life- 

 long need for, familiarity with, and attachment to wood and wood 

 products. The Nation has a vast program of forestry at stake in the 

 trend of wood use. The fiscal stability of local governments is bound 

 up with profitable use of the land. The weight of public preference 

 will be a mighty factor that may well be cultivated in stabilizing and 

 enlarging forest consumption and in safeguarding forest markets. It 

 may be counted on to give wood a "fair deal." In return, forest 

 industry must make sure that wood shall meet a high standard of 

 expectation and performance, and that forest resources shall be con- 

 structively used and the supply continuously developed in accord with 

 the general welfare. 



