• 43 percent of 46 current 

 enrollees responding who planned 

 to attend college intended to major 

 in a natural resources field. 



Aggregate activity levels are 

 measures of effort, not impact. 

 They are listed here simply to 

 indicate the recent scale of 

 extension forestry and extension 

 forest-products activity in the 

 South. The following were 

 reported for 1982 for the 12 States 

 included in this study plus 

 Kentucky (Neal 1983 unpubl.): 



Private woodland 



owners' meetings 603 



Private woodland 



owners reached 23,591 



Meetings for loggers 38 



Number of loggers 



reached 1 ,985 



County forestry clubs 



or associations formed 131 



County agents' in-service 



training sessions 82 



County agents reached 1 ,678 



Meetings for professional 

 foresters 739 



Professional foresters 



reached 1,806 



Case Examples 



Here are a few examples of 

 programs not cited previously to 

 further illustrate program diversity 

 and impact. 



Forestry 



Investment Analysis, Income-Tax 

 Provisions, and Microcomputer 

 Applications — At least 8 of the 1 2 

 Southern States have emphasized 

 financial analysis through use of 

 microcomputers in regeneration, 

 forest management, and in some 

 cases harvesting management in 

 recent years. Florida extension 

 specialists have developed 

 FORINSYS (Forest Information 

 System), a 12-module computer 

 program and data base for 

 investment analysis and technology 

 transfer. It is available through a 

 computer network of extension 

 offices in 32 of Florida's 67 

 counties (Flinchum 1983 unpubl.). 

 Clemson helped modify the 

 Tennessee Valley Authority 

 computer program WOODPLAN 

 into YIELD, which is more user 

 friendly. It is now available in 

 every county extension office in 

 South Carolina. The Clemson 

 extension foresters also developed 

 and published a cookbook 

 procedure to follow in comparing 

 returns on investment in forest 

 regeneration enterprises with other 

 alternatives. It has gone through 

 four printings, and 100,000 copies 

 have been distributed throughout 

 six States (Kessler, personal 



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