CONTENTS 



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FOREST MANAGEMENT --Continued 



Valuation 16 



Taxation 16 



Insurance 17 



Credit 17 



MANAGEMENT OF FOREST -PRODUCTS INDUSTRIES AND COMMERCE 17 



Regional Conditions (Forest Industry) 17 



Directories of Firms, Plants, and Operations 18 



Corporate Finance 19 



Research 19 



History 19 



Production, Consumption, Distribution 20 



Supply and requirements from the resource point of view 20 



Statistics (Forest products and industries) 20 



Military and emergency aspects 21 



Utilization of species 21 



Wood waste and its utilization 21 



Marketing 22 



Cooperative organizations 22 



Competing materials 22 



Prices 22 



Stumpage and log prices 22 



Foreign trade; Canada-U. S. trade 22 



Primary Wood Conversion; Production Processes and Equipment 23 



Accounting and costing 23 



Logging 23 



Logging costs, returns, and productivity 23 



Equipment and mechanization 23 



Salvaging ; Relogging 23 



Felling, Bucking, and other log-making operations. . . 23 



Skidding and hauling (Primary transport) 24 



Major transportation and loading 24 



Sawmills 24 



Mill studies: Costs, returns, productivity, and quality control 24 



Grading and scaling 25 



Sawmill equipment; Wood and lumber handling 25 



Chippers 25 



Wood seasoning and preservation 25 



Lumber 26 



Lumber production, consumption, and distribution 26 



Use in construction 26 



Marketing 27 



Prices 27 



Transportation and freight rates 27 



Foreign trade 27 



Cut Stock; Millwork; Flooring 27 



Pulp and Paper (Pulpwood and Newsprint included) 28 



Industry conditions and problems 28 



Directories of firms, plants, and operations 29 



Research 29 



Processing and handling; Costs, returns, and productivity 29 



Utilization of new materials and wastes, for pulp 30 



Waste and pollution from pulp manufacture 30 



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