supervisory committees and in 

 graduate-student programs. 

 Forestry and forest-products 

 faculty have been authorized by 

 departments of agronomy or 

 genetics or engineering to direct 

 Ph.D. programs under their 

 banners where the student's thesis 

 research is in the forestry or 

 forest-products area and the 

 forestry unit is not authorized to 

 offer its own Ph.D. (and sometimes 

 when it is). There has been much 

 collaboration in research with 

 faculty in other units playing key 

 roles in such forestry-supported 

 research areas as forest 

 fertilization, pest management, 

 forest engineering, and tissue 

 culture and genetic engineering, to 

 cite just a few. 



to advise on curricula revision, for 

 example. 



At 9 of the 16 senior institutions 

 there are one or more formal, 

 continuing research, development, 

 and application cooperatives in 

 forestry and forest-products 

 specialized areas. These are joint 

 endeavors jointly funded by the 

 university program unit and 

 outside groups such as forest- 

 industry companies, harvesting and 

 harvesting-equipment firms, State 

 forestry organizations, and, in 

 some cases, the USDA Forest 

 Service. The first cooperatives to 

 be established were in the field of 

 tree improvement, but the model 

 has since been applied to various 

 other areas. 



Beyond the immediate institution, 

 most university forestry and forest- 

 products programs have an 

 extensive and complex network of 

 relationships with employers and 

 potential employers of their 

 graduates; research and extension 

 clientele; Federal, State, and local 

 agencies; trade associations; 

 citizens' groups; professional 

 societies; and one another. Most 

 schools and departments have one 

 or more advisory committees made 

 up of representatives from part or 

 all of this network, which meet 

 regularly to review progress, 

 assess needs, recommend 

 priorities, and generate moral, 

 political, and financial support. In 

 addition, special one-time 

 committees are often established. 



One prominent university forestry 

 leader, J. Charles Lee, believes 

 that cooperative planning with 

 users is more advanced in southern 

 university forestry research than in 

 any other commodity or resource 

 in any region of the United States. 



There has been a close working 

 relationship between the research 

 branch of the USDA Forest 

 Service and university programs. 

 The Forest Service has its own 

 research laboratories on the 

 campuses of Auburn University, 

 the University of Georgia, and 

 Stephen F. Austin State 

 University, and near Mississippi 

 State University. At the University 

 of Arkansas at Monticello and at 

 Clemson, Duke, Florida, and 



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