tree utilization in the South. 

 Burning slab piles 

 disappeared. 



With modern, 

 environmentally sound 

 treating plants to convert 

 the straightest trees into 

 poles and piling; plywood 

 plants to manufacture 

 veneer-quality logs into 

 widely used commercial 

 plywood; small-log chipping 

 sawmills and pulpmills for 

 the smaller logs; and 

 industrial boilers to use the 

 bark and biomass from the 

 forest, every imaginable 



part of the tree is being 

 utilized. Obviously, new 

 products, such as the 

 various oriented fiberboards 

 and waferboards, will play 

 a continuing role in the 

 southern industrial forestry 

 scene. But a major, if not 

 the major, challenge of the 

 future will be to keep in 

 sight the need for intensive 

 forest management and 

 stewardship of the land, its 

 timber, wildlife, water, and 

 other associated benefits 

 so important to Americans' 

 enjoyment of a quality life. 



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