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Maintaining the usefulness of wood in modern architecture requires research on design and 

 construction of laminated structural members built up from many pieces. 



urinations within the framework of company policies and objectives. 

 The 4V2 million farmers, businessmen, professional people, or other 

 occupational groups who own in small parcels 53 percent of the 

 Nation's commercial forest land make decisions on timber growing 

 that are influenced to a large degree by economic considerations. 

 Thus, a comprehensive program of forest resource data collection and 

 analysis and of research on the economics of production, harvesting, 

 and the processing and marketing of forest products occupies a key 

 place in future forest development. 



Forest Survey. — The Forest Survey provides basic inventory infor- 

 mation on the area and condition of forest lands by various classes of 

 ownership; the volume, quality, and location of standing timber; 

 trends in timber growth and mortality; amount and kind of timber 

 cut for industrial products; and the prospective availability of future 

 timber supplies. Such facts on timber supplies, together with ap- 



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