Acknowledgments 



So many people contributed to this 

 manuscript that it would be hard to 

 list them all. For written reference 

 material I am particularly indebted 

 to that historian of forestry 

 historians, the late Henry Clepper; 

 to Frederick Deneke, Donald 

 Nelson, and Claude Bennett, all of 

 the USDA Extension Service; to 

 Boyd Post, USDA Cooperative 

 State Research Service; to the 

 Washington, DC, staff of Robert 

 Buckman, recently retired Deputy 

 Chief for Research, USDA Forest 

 Service; to information officers of 

 the National Association of State 

 Universities and Land Grant 

 Colleges, Washington; to Jim Neal, 

 Southern Regional Extension 

 Forester, Athens, GA; to James 

 Montgomery and Don Smith, 

 Southern Forest Institute, Atlanta; 

 to Jack Warren, Forest Farmers 

 Association, Inc., also of Atlanta; 

 and to the Forest History Society 

 of Durham, NC. 



For oral interview and written 

 material I am indebted to the 

 above plus the deans, directors, 

 heads, chairpersons, extension 

 specialists, and selected faculty of 

 the 14 universities and 2 technician 

 schools I visited. 



I particularly appreciate the time 

 and effort of six reviewers — 



Dennis Roth and Dwight Hair of 

 the Forest Service, Washington, 

 DC; Arnett C. Mace, Jr.. Director, 

 School of Forest Resources and 

 Conservation, University of 

 Florida. Gainesville; J. Charles 

 Lee, Head, Department of Forest 

 Science, Texas A. & M. 

 University, College Station; Jim 

 Neal, Southern Regional Extension 

 Forester, Athens, who reviewed 

 the material on extension; and 

 Leonard Hampton, Director, 

 Georgia Center for Continuing 

 Education, Athens, who reviewed 

 the material on continuing 

 education. 



My fervent thanks go to Janet 

 Wintermute of the Forest Service, 

 Washington, DC, for making many 

 corrections and improvements in 

 the initial draft. 



Finally, I want to thank the USDA 

 Forest Service for its financial 

 support of this project and for use 

 of facilities of the Pinchot Institute 

 for Conservation Studies at Grey 

 Towers, Milford, PA. My thanks 

 also to the Forest History Society 

 as the contractor organization for 

 its guidance. 



John Gray 

 Little Rock. AR 

 August, 1985 



