Lanterna Rally

Author: Henry H. Webster

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-11

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9780428175436

Excerpt from Timber Management Opportunities in Pennsylvania HE Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Waters serves the people in managing state forest lands and in helping private owners manage their forest lands. To produce more timber from Pennsylvania forests, the Department ap plies many different forestry practices. But the more effort it spends in one direction, the less it can spend in others. So the Department must make choices, seeking the directions by which it can gain the greatest possible increase in tim ber values for the money it spends. To help the Department find the most profitable di rections, we made a study to analyze some of the timber management opportunities that the Department has. This is a report on that study. Although the study was directed at timber production, timber is not necessarily the only value to be gained from Pennsylvania's forests. Recreational values are also im portant, and they could be improved for the benefit of the people of the state. 'water values are likewise important, and they too could be improved. But in the study we were concerned with producing more and better timber. Commercial forests occupy 15 million acres in Penn sylvania-53 percent of the state's land area. They supply more than three-fourths of the timber processed by timber based industries in the state. These forest industries em ploy nearly workers, pay wages and salaries totaling $250 million annually, and.by manufacture add values total ing $425 million each year (ferguson, Impressive as these figures are, an expanded volume of timber available for use would mean even greater benefits for Pennsylvanians, and these benefits would be for all Pennsylvanians-even those many people who have no direct connection with the forests. More timber means more wood products for consumers-more lumber, more paper, more build ing board, and more paper containers, to name just a few. Also, more timber would increase the income received by those who make a living processing these products. And it would increase the incomes of those who sell timber from their woods. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.