FOREWORD 



This bibliography covers the English- language publications on the economics of forestry in the United States and Canada 

 that appeared during the eight years, 1940-1947. It brings up to more recent date a number of earlier compilations that 

 enter the same field, among them A. Z. Nelson's A Selected Bibliography of the Economics of Forestry in the United States 

 (1941) and E. N. Munns' A Selected Bibliography of North American Forestry (1940). 



The economics of forestry is taken to include value (broadly interpreted) and price aspects of (1) forest and forest-land 

 use and tenure; (2) forest management: for timber, water, forage, wildlife, recreation, or other forest products; (3) indus- 

 try based directly on forest products; (4) marketing of forest products; and (5) consumption of forest products. Only refer- 

 ences dealing largely or pointedly with such matters were considered for inclusion. 



Although the bibliography covers the economics of forestry, it does not, of course, encompass all references that a 

 student of the field may need in his work. For example, it excludes the literature of general and agricultural economics, 

 accounting, business administration, and the like, however strong the possible applications to forestry, unless such appli- 

 cations are actually made in the written work. Conversely, it omits the literature of other aspects of forestry than the 

 economic. Again, it leaves out economic writings on such products as water and wildlife, where the orientation is not 

 specifically toward forest management. 



Some 10,000 references were examined by the bibliographers, of which over 3,500 were finally retained. Among the 

 references omitted were a great number judged to be on the borderline as regards subject matter— references bearing less 

 than a secondary relation to forest management, which was taken as the hub of the forest-economics wheel. Still other 

 references were omitted because they dealt with the economics of forestry only in passing or because their forest- 

 economics content was a repetition of other, more pointed or more complete material cited. 



The subject-matter divisions under which the entries are listed are intended to represent first the economy at large and 

 then the successive stages in economic activity from the forest to the consumer of forest products. However, it has been 

 necessary for convenience to depart from this ideal arrangement at several points. For instance, the subject of demand, 

 which logically comprises the last major division in the scheme, is so sparsely represented in the literature that the few 

 writings on this subject are put in with Consumption, under the main heading The Meeting of Supply and Demand. Again, 

 the subject of production, which strictly belongs under the same main heading, has been put instead under Management of 

 Forest-product Harvesting and Processing, since the bulk of the references have a forest-industry context. 



Works covering more than one subject-matter division are listed under the one that they emphasize most. In the index 

 section, however, references may be located through any of the subjects covered that were noted by the bibliographers— 

 and they may be traced, additionally, through their authors. 



In most cases the principal subject of an entry is reasonably well specified by its title and the subject-matter heading. 

 Where these are not sufficiently specific, annotations have been added. 



This bibliography was started in 1947 as part of a larger project concerned with the Scope and Method of Research in the 

 Economics of Forestry, a joint undertaking of the Society of American Foresters and the Charles Lathrop Pack Forestry 

 Foundation. Funds from the larger project were allocated for work on the bibliography, and compilation was begun at the 



