tern using assistant station 

 directors, each responsible 

 for a portion of the total 

 research program or for 

 investigations in specific 

 geographic areas. The 

 Southeastern Station orga- 

 nized its research in some 

 23 "work units" at 1 2 sepa- 

 rate locations, plus other 

 staffing including research 

 and development programs, 

 pioineering units, and 

 special research units 

 (Southeastern Forest Exper- 

 iment Station 1983). The 

 Southern Station designat- 

 ed 21 similar work units to 

 carry out its research. 



Research work units have 

 responsibility for solving 

 specified problems, select- 

 ed with the assistance of 

 land managers, public 

 agencies, environmental 

 groups, and other research 

 organizations. Many of 

 these research units are 

 located on university cam- 

 puses, where there are 

 opportunities to work with 

 faculty from forestry schools 

 and other departments. 



Funding for research at the 

 two Forest Service forest 

 experiment stations in the 

 South reached a total of 

 about $25 million in fiscal 



year 1981. In the following 

 3 years, funding in constant 

 dollars dropped somewhat 

 more than 1 percent. 

 Staffing in 1980 totaled 244 

 scientist years (USDA Forest 

 Service 1982b). More than 

 half of these scientists 

 worked primarily with the 

 southern pines, while the 

 remainder dealt mainly with 

 problems relating to hard- 

 woods, particularly in bot- 

 tomland areas. 



Forestry schools in the 

 South also began studies 

 of forest and range prob- 

 lems in the 1930's, supple- 

 menting a very limited 

 program of forestry-related 

 research at State agricultur- 

 al experiment stations. In 

 the years after World War 

 II, university research pro- 

 grams expanded greatly, 

 both at the 14 schools or 

 departments in the South 

 and in other departments. 

 University research pro- 

 grams have been supported 

 primarily by State funds, 

 although significant assis- 

 tance also has been provid- 

 ed through the 

 Mclntire-Stennis Forestry 

 Research Act of 1 962, which 

 authorized Federal grants 

 for forestry research by 

 State universities. Coopera- 



