forest resources as a contribution to 

 postwar reconstruction. The survey 

 was underwritten for $250,000 by 

 private contributors with cooperative 

 services from the States. The 

 American Forestry Association's 

 objective was to obtain factual data 

 on which national and State policies 

 relating to forest management could 

 be formulated. Montgomery A. 

 Payne, Ed. R. Linn, and Arthur M. 

 Emmerling worked as consultants in 

 gathering most of the data for the 

 South. A summary of the findings 

 was published in the September 1946 

 issue of American Forests magazine. 



for the major regions of the United 

 States. Meanwhile, the issue of 

 Federal regulation gradually 

 diminished as timber growing on a 

 long-term basis became more 

 profitable (Clepper 1975). 



That fall, an American forest 

 congress was held in Washington. 

 DC, to consider the report's findings 

 and recommendations developed by 

 an American Forestry Association 

 committee on dealing with principal 

 forest and conservation problems of 

 postwar reconstruction. 

 Unfortunately, general agreement 

 could not be reached on the issue of 

 government regulation of timberlands 

 and forest practices, one of the most 

 controversial of the day. 



Nevertheless, the American Forestry 

 Association went on to publish its 

 comprehensive recommendations in 

 "A Program for American 

 Forestry," which became a charter 

 for action by the originating 

 organization and other conservation 

 groups. The American Forestry 

 Association's initiative also influenced 

 publication by the Forest Service of a 

 1948 report, ''Forests and National 

 Prosperity," which set forth 

 recommendations on cutting standards 



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