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A technician at work in crossbreeding of pines. The canvas bags will protect the 

 artificially pollinated flowers from unwanted windborne pollen. 



school graduates, but geologists, entomologists, pathologists, botanists, 

 chemists, engineers in most specialties, economists, editors, statisticians, 

 hydrologists, meteorologists, and others are also engaged. 



Most of the technologists employed in research have had advanced 

 training; many have doctors' degrees or their equivalent. The various 

 phases of forest research require as a foundation broad training in 

 natural science with emphasis on forestry, regardless of whether the 

 person is to deal with forest management and protection, watershed 

 management, range management, forest products, or forest economics. 

 Advanced work — beyond this foundation training in forestry — may be 

 in any one or more of a large group of biological or other sciences, 

 such as plant physiology, pathology, entomology, ecology, soils, genet- 

 ics, taxonomy, data processing, and organic chemistry. 



State and Private Forest Cooperation 



About 386 million acres, or nearly four-fifths of our total commer- 

 cial timber-growing area, are now in State or private ownership. Of 

 this, 359 million acres are privately owned and include 165 million 

 acres in farm woodlands. The area in State or county ownership is 

 continuously increasing through public acquisition for State forest pur- 

 poses or tax delinquency. 



The future of forestry in the United States depends in no small de- 

 gree upon acceptance and operation of better forestry practices on 



