Research will play a prominent role in the future intensive production, protection, and 

 utilization of all the basic forest and range resources. 



2. Intensify research on site requirements, reproductive habits, 

 growth characteristics, and other life processes of forest trees to 

 provide the basis for more intensive silvicultural practices. 



3. Develop new cultural practices to increase the production of 



high-quality seed through establishment and management of 

 seed orchards: better methods of harvesting, storing, and proc- 

 essing seed: and more efficient and faster planting practices, 

 including direct seeding with aircraft. Intensify plantation 

 management research. 



4. Find cheaper and more effective methods for converting brush- 

 fields and other low-value vegetation on potential timber sites to 

 profitable timber stands. 



5. Improve the silvicultural techniques for stand culture, such as 

 weeding to control composition, thinning to regulate spacing 

 and growth rate, pruning to improve quality, and other practices 

 to increase the health, vigor, and quality of the forest. Es- 

 pecially emphasize methods suitable for use by the owners of 

 small forest properties. 



6. Perfect methods for correcting soil deficiencies or improving the 

 productive capacity of forest soils through use of soil amend- 

 ments and other measures such as silvicultural control to favor 

 soil-improving tree species that promote the decomposition of 

 forest humus. 



7. Find ways to control animal damage to tree crops, including loss 

 of seed and newly planted seedlings to birds and rodents, and 

 loss of older trees to porcupines, bears, and browsing animals. 



8. Develop better timber harvesting systems to maintain produc- 

 tive amounts of "rowing timber in lopped areas for sustained 



