Papers Delivered at Second Techniques Meeting, Eagle River, Wisconsin, Sept. 29 to Oct. 10, 1947Forest Survey, 1947 - Forests and forestry |
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accuracy acre Agriculture analysis analytical reports annual average bark basis board feet board-foot Bureau canvass Census column computed consumption conversion factors cooperage cost cubic feet cull density class determine diameter class discussion Douglas-fir Eagle River economic errors fence posts field forecasts forest area forest land forest management Forest Survey growing stock growth estimates hardwoods inches incorporated territory increment cores indicated inventory logging Lumber Requirements Master Sample measurements method mills minor civil divisions needed number of farms obtained ownership paper percent plots ponderosa pine present problems procedures production data production surveys pulpwood radial growth ratio records regional requirements studies sample trees sampling error sampling units saw timber saw-timber sawlog sawmills Second Techniques Meeting September 29 Softwoods species stand stand-size class statistics SURVEY General Second tally timber products timber supply tion trends utilization veneer volume woods waste
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Page 16 - States, and either through them or directly with private and other agencies, in making a comprehensive survey of the present and prospective requirements for timber and other forest products in the United States, and of timber supplies, including a determination of the present and potential productivity of forest land therein, and of such other facts as may be necessary in the determination of ways and means to balance the timber budget of the United States.
Page 9 - To develop and recommend to the President national economic policies to foster and promote free competitive enterprise, to avoid economic fluctuations or to diminish the effects thereof, and to maintain employment, production, and purchasing power...
Page 9 - Prepared by Arthur G. Horn, Forest Economist, Lake States Forest Experiment Station, maintained by the US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, in cooperation with the University of Minnesota, St.
Page 27 - ... of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics and the Bureau of the Census entitled Farm-Mortgage Indebtedness in the United States, Release No.
Page 1 - Land, forest. Land bearing forest growth or land from which the forest has been removed but which shows evidence of past forest occupancy and which is not now in other use.
Page 2 - Forest land bearing or capable of bearing timber of commercial character and economically available now or prospectively for commercial use and not otherwise withdrawn from such use.
Page 9 - ... the Council. Through advisory groups, through the employment of expert consultants, and through Informal relationships with Informed citizens the Council will make use of economic talent wherever It may be. I deem It especially significant that the Congress has provided In the Employment Act for the Joint Committee on the Economic Report, composed of Members of both Houses of the Congress, to study matters relating to the economic report and to make recommendations to the two Houses for legislation....
Page 23 - ... planning. Representatives of the Committee and, later, of the Central Statistical Board, aided in planning the schedules, in interviewing users of the data, and in working out general principles to aid in shaping this and subsequent schedules. Particular attention was given to facilitating cooperation between the Bureau of Agricultural Economics and the Bureau of the Census. Two extensive memoranda were prepared for the Committee, the one an appraisal of the accuracy of the Censuses of Agriculture...
Page 9 - ... acres of cotton and in 1948 we only planted 23,372,000 acres of cotton. Mr. BROMFIELD. I told you that in percentages myself, and it is a mighty fine thing, and I only hope they go on doing it. Mr. POAGE. Then why come here and cast the finger of scorn at us and tell us that you know we are not going to do in the future what we have done in the past ? Mr.
Page 13 - It attempts to estimate the quantity of timber products that might be used by consumers afforded reasonable latitude in choice of readily available materials, including timber products, in a national economy functioning at a high level of employment and output.