CONTENTS 



Page 



Preface , . . i 



Sources Consulted , ii 



THE FOREST ECONOMY AT LARGE 1 



Forest Resources and Industries 1 



Policies, Programs, and Their Administration 3 



Federal policy 3 



State and local policy , 4 



Industrial policy 5 



Dominion and Provincial policy 5 



Legislation 5 



Research 6 



Social Aspects 6 



Professional Activities, Education, and Employment 6 



Labor . 7 



Employee training, work management, and relations . 7 



Unions „ 7 



Wages and Hours; Productivity 7 



Safety and other working conditions 7 



LAND MANAGEMENT 8 



Regional Conditions and Policies „ 8 



Zoning , 9 



Tenure 9 



Acquisition and Sale 9 



FOREST MANAGEMENT 9 



Integrated Management 9 



Management Chiefly for Timber Commodities 9 



Public forestry; Cooperative forestry 10 



Private forestry , 10 



Farm forestry 11 



Legislation; Cutting Regulation 12 



Research 12 



Inventories, Surveys, Cruising 12 



Records and Accounting 12 



Tree Regeneration 12 



Materials and equipment 13 



Timber culture 13 



Harvest 13 



Thinning and pruning 1 3 



Release and other improvement practices; Prescribed burning 13 



Management Emphasizing Non-Timber Commodities and Uses 14 



Christmas trees , 14 



Livestock 14 



Naval stores 14 



Recreation and wilderness 14 



Water and soil 15 



Wildlife , 15 



Roads 15 



Protection 15 



Protection from fires 15 



Statistics of fires and accounts of fires 1 £, 



Damage and loss 16 



Control and prevention measures . . . „ 16 



Protection from insects and diseases 16 



