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Some forestry management will be needed 

 in developing resources. 



many of them have made their money through exploiting timber re- 

 sources and have not fully oriented themselves to a changed condition 

 and a need for new approaches. 



It is true that this area will always be producing some timber under 

 any system of management or lack of management. Without manage- 

 ment the growth may be retarded and of poor quality. Individual own- 

 ers will exploit the resources without regard to the future, and the re- 

 turns are likely to be spasmodic with long intervals of no timber harvest. 

 Under such conditions it would be very unsatisfactory if not impossible 

 for local people to relate themselves to the forest land. The local 

 people would not be needed. It would be more convenient and socially 

 more desirable to bring in itinerant lumberjacks to log a definite area 

 and move them out when the work was done. 



The only possibility of forest management and continuous cutting 

 according to growth yield is through public ownership or public control. 



The former would require large public investments in original .pur- 

 chase of land as well as annual investments in management for many 



