The Small Private Forest in the United States [electronic resource]
Throughout the past few decades, the standard answer to the problem of low productivity in small private forests has been education. It has been assumed that the chief obstacle to ""good"" forestry has been lack of knowledge. But the stubborn persistence of the problem raises som...
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Abingdon, Oxon :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Original Title; Original Copyright; Acknowledgments; Preface; Contents; Introduction; I. The Small Forest and Its Significance; Area and Type of Ownership; Small Forest Owners; Forest Landowners' Objectives; Forest Land Tenure; Productivity Comparisons; Timber Volume and Production; II. Economic, Institutional and Natural Influences; Economic Factors; Costs and Returns from Commercial Forestry; Comparison with Other Investments; Liquidity and Time Preference; Demand, Price and Interest Rate Aspects; Natural Risks; Forest Fires; Insects and Disease.
- Other Natural FactorsWildlife Aspects and Recreational Use; Institutional Factors; Taxation; Credit; Marketing Facilities; Operational Problems; Economy of Unit Size; Economics of Overhead Costs; Other Aspects of Private Forestry; Summary; III. Educational and Technical Assistance Programs; Early Programs; U.S. Public Technical Assistance Programs; Extension Forestry; Co-operative Forest Management Assistance; Soil Conservation Service; Other Public Agency Programs; The Tennessee Valley Authority; U.S. Private Educational and Technical Assistance Programs; The Tree Farm System.
- The Tree Farm FamilyTrees for Tomorrow; The Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association; Other Private Assistance Programs; Private Consulting Foresters; Evaluation of Education and Technical Assistance; IV. Modification of Unfavorable Factors in Private Forestry; Special Property Taxation Measures; Income Taxes and Forestry; Direct Subsidies; Forest Credit; Marketing; Forest Insurance; Soil Conservation Districts; Evaluation of Programs to Modify Unfavorable Factors; V. Organized Group Efforts in Private Forestry; Experience in the United States; Integrated Processing Co-operatives.
- The Otsego Forest Products Cooperative AssociationWoodland Products, Inc; Co-operative Marketing Associations; Tioga Woodland Owners Association; Groveton (or Coos-Essex) Forest Products Association; Lake States; The Au Sable Forest Products Association; The Frog Creek Forest Products Cooperative Association; Other Forest Products Co-operative Efforts; Evaluation of Processing and Marketing Co-operative Association Experience; Management-Service Associations; New England Forestry Foundation; Connwood, Inc; West Virginia Forest Products Cooperative Association.
- Evaluation of U.S. Management AssociationsOther Group Arrangements; Experience in Northern Europe; Sweden's Forestry Programs; Public Assistance; Forest Owners' Associations; Forestry Management Service Subsidiaries; A Specific Case-Jönköping Forest Owners' Association; Södermanland Forest Owners' Association; Analysis of Swedish Private Forestry Programs; Norwegian Private Forestry; German Private Forestry; Voluntary Group Co-operation in Finland; Evaluation of Northern European Group Management Programs; VI. Conclusions and Suggestions for Further Action.