North Carolina State Universities, 

 Forest Service research scientists 

 have been housed with university 

 forestry and forest-products 

 faculties. Under both 

 circumstances, Forest Service 

 scientists hold adjunct and 

 graduate faculty appointments, 

 supervise graduate-student 

 programs, present seminars, share 

 laboratory and other facilities, and 

 collaborate in research. 



The schools have also related to 

 one another in research and other 

 functions through the National 

 Association of Professional 

 Forestry Schools and Colleges. 

 One function of this organization is 

 joint regional and national planning 

 of research with the Forest Service 

 (National Association of 

 Professional Forestry Schools and 

 Colleges 1985). The schools also 

 collaborate on regionwide projects 

 organized through the Southern 

 State agricultural experiment 

 station directors. 



From the beginning, extension has 

 been a three-way cooperative 

 venture between the USDA 

 Extension Service, the land-grant 

 universities, and county 

 governments (county agent 

 system). Under terms of the 

 Renewable Resources Extension 

 Act of 1978, State advisory 

 committees for extension forestry 

 and forest-products programs are 

 mandatory. 



At the individual State, 

 multicounty, and county levels. 



extension forestry and forest- 

 products programs operate with 

 and through formal and informal 

 networks, including university 

 research scientists and programs, 

 USDA Forest Service research, 

 other USDA agencies, the 

 Tennessee Valley Authority, State 

 forest services. State forestry 

 associations, trade associations, 

 professional societies, landowner 

 associations, 4-H clubs and 

 sponsors, forest-industry 

 companies, timber-harvesting 

 firms, forestry-equipment firms, 

 consulting foresters, conservation 

 contractors, and a host of other 

 interests and organizations. A 

 major step forward was the 

 creation in 1978 of a position for a 

 regional extension forester for the 

 South to coordinate planning, 

 special Southwide initiatives, and 

 the preparation of educational 

 materials. This effort was 

 cooperatively planned and funded 

 by the extension directors of the 

 Southern States and the USDA 

 Forest Service's Southeastern 

 Area, State and Private Forestry 

 (Wade and Neal, personal 

 communications). 



Program Impacts 



The cooperative nature of 

 university and technician-school 

 programs should be kept in mind 

 as we look at examples of the 

 impacts of such programs on the 

 development of the southern forest 

 resource and the southern forest- 

 products industry. In many 



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