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Forestry Research A Mandate for Change (1990) / Chapter Skim
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1. Societal Needs and Concerns for the Forest
Pages 9-12

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... Therefore, the United States needs to evaluate its world competitive and cooperative status for supply, demand, and trade of forest products. · The demands in the United States and elsewhere for increased preservation of "pristine" forested areas and increased recreational use of forests contrasts with the industry view that "the forest products industry faces a timber supply crisis of unprecedented proportions." (American 9
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... Forestry includes a broad range of activities-managing timber, fish, wildlife, range, and watershed; protecting forests and timber products from diseases, insects, and fire; harvesting, transporting, manufacturing, marketing, preserving, and protecting wood and other forest products; maintaining water and air quality; and maintaining society's well-being as it is influenced by forests and other renewable natural resources and their derived products and values. Forest Council, personal communication, 1989~.
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... If we are to protect and conserve forest ecosystems, we must embrace a broader concept of the role such systems play in our society and the world and the kinds of education and research programs required within the professional forestry community to provide knowledge for the future. Heightened public awareness about the environment has increased the demand for scientific information to help solve national, regional, and global problems.
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... In this regard, forestry research should be a continuing source of information from which improvements in natural resource management can be made more sustainable and environmentally sound. In this report, we propose a research agenda for forestry that will result in new and innovative approaches to arrest forest ecosystem degradation and provide the wide array of needed forest products.
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