An Introduction to Sociological and Ecological Aspects of Young-Growth Management
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2007
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THE FORESTS OF YOUNG DOUGLAS-FIR AND WESTERN HEMLOCK are great economic and social natural resources. They produce fiber for the manufacture of lumber, plywood, and pulp and a large variety of other products such as poles and piling, Christmas trees, fern fronds, and crude drugs. Forest land also produces water, wildlife, recreation facilities, and esthetics. These products will be of greater importance with time. Man, in increasing numbers, is turning to the forest to renew himself and to find freedom from the pressing problems of modern life. The management of young-growth forests, then, is concerned with all the products and uses of the forest.