Concluding Remarks to the Discussion of Opportunities 
To Increase Forest Productivity 
J. Lamar Beasley (1) 
The four panels concerned with the develop- 
ment of policy and program alternatives will meet at 
8:00 a.m. tomorrow. The panel discussions are 
open and you may participate in the discussion of 
the panel of your choice. 
The basic task of each panel is to develop a 
provisional set of policy and program alternatives 
for their subject area. Each panel chairman will 
present these alternatives for consideration and dis- 
cussion at the plenary session of the conference 
which begins at 1:00 p.m. tomorrow. We want to 
develop in 
(1) J. Lamar Beasley is Director of the Southeastern Forest 
Experiment Station, USDA Forest Service, Asheville, 
NC. 
the plenary session a consensus on policies and 
programs to increase forest productivity and sus- 
tain continued growth in the forestry sector of the 
economy in the South. 
At 3:30 p.m. tomorrow a drafting committee will 
meet to begin to put together a draft of the policy 
and program alternatives that come from the ple- 
nary session. 
This draft, along with the background papers 
you have heard today, will be sent to you for written 
review and comment. After review and the neces- 
sary revisions, they will be published as the pro- 
ceedings of this conference. 
We hope that these proceedings can be used to 
inform the public about the forestry situation and to 
mobilize support for increasing the forest wealth of 
the South. 
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