THE AUTHOR 



Alan W. Green began his Forest Service career in 1955 at the 

 Central States Station office in Carbondale, Illinois, as a Research 

 Forester in silviculture and regeneration. From 1958 until 1961 he 

 was superintendent of the Amana Experimental Forest in Iowa. In 

 1961 he was assigned to the Foreign Forestry Services branch in 

 the Washington Office as an analyst of timber resources and indus- 

 tries on an international basis. He joined the Timber F>roduction 

 and Multiple Use Economics Project at the Intermountain Station in 

 Ogden, Utah, in 1964 and is currently the Project Scientist in Re- 

 search Work for Evaluation of Timber Growing Opportunities and 

 Forestry Program. In addition to a degree in economics, he also 

 holds both Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in forestrj' from 

 Purdue University. 



