THE AUTHORS 



John H. Wikstrom is leader of the Produc- 

 tion and Multiple Use Economics research 

 project at the Intermountain Forest and 

 Range Experiment Station in Ogden, Utah. 

 His Forest Service career began in 1948 at the 

 Northern Rocky Mountain Station in Mis- 

 soula, where he was assigned to Forest Sur- 

 vey. In 1954 he was transferred to Ogden. 

 His primary concern there has been the eco- 

 nomics of timber production and utilization. 

 Mr. Wikstrom holds a bachelor of science de- 

 gree from Utah State University and a master's 

 degree from Oregon State University. He is 

 the author of several publications in the field 

 of production economics, including studies 

 of pulpwood production, lodgepole pine, and 

 the value of thinning and pruning forest trees. 



Jack R. Alley is Chief of the Branch of 

 Timber Management Planning in the Forest 

 Service Regional Office in Missoula, Montana, 

 A 1940 graduate of the University of Idaho, 

 he joined the Forest Service in 1946. His 

 career has included assignments as assistant 

 ranger and district ranger on the Colville, 

 Flathead, Nezperce, and Clearwater National 

 Forests. In 1958 he joined the valuation sec- 

 tion of the Timber Management Branch in 

 Missoula, and he later served the Regional 

 Office in Ogden in a similar capacity. Until 

 1966 he was a special cooperator with the In- 

 termountain Forest and Range Experiment 

 Station in a study of the management of white 

 pine lands in the Northern Rocky Mountains. 



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