p. E. Bruns employs remote sensing satellite images for land use planning 



these are trucked to a mill valuable 

 organic matter and vital nutrients are 

 removed from the land. Also, the forest 

 floor is torn up and exposed by the 

 latter method. C. T. Tattersall, forest 

 ecologist, is studying how this nutrient 

 loss will affect growth of forest stands, 

 and what decisions and modifications 

 in technology may be required to return 

 part of the trees to the soil during 

 logging. Oak Ridge National Labora- 

 tory, the U.S.D. A. Forest Service, Great 

 Northern Paper Co. and the University 

 of Maine are cooperating in this re- 

 search. 



With the number of New Hamp- 

 shire farms declining, the influx of 

 persons from southern New England 

 and New York, and the increase in new 

 housing developments, many people 

 in the state are seriously interested in 

 how land in N.H. is being used and 

 how this will affect their future and 

 that of the state. O. P. Wallace, forest 

 economist, and B. E. Lindsay, resource 



economist, in research based on a 

 sample of towns surveyed in all coun- 

 ties in 1979, reported that most unde- 

 veloped land is purchased by profes- 

 sional and blue-collar residents, and 

 that they want frontage on an all-season 

 road. 



Although Christmas tree growing 

 in northern New England is a rela- 

 tively new enterprise, it is a multi- 

 million dollar indusfry. According to 

 T. E. Howard, forest economist, three- 

 fourths of New Hampshire Christmas 

 tree growers have their farms under 

 current-use assessment, an advantage 

 in the face of high property taxes. 

 Howard recently assessed the status of 

 forest-based limited partnerships in 

 the U.S. which in the past have at- 

 tracted large investment capital. But 

 tax reform may have reduced the value 

 of the limited partnership and resulted 

 in shift of major ownership to highly 

 endowed tax-exempt financial insti- 

 tutions. 



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