ENCOURAGING GROWTH AND USE OF EASTERN HARDWOODS: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PROGRAMS FOR THE TASK.

The nation's eastern hardwood forests represent a significant national asset worthy of special consideration for their ability to generate important economic and related socially desirable activities. Encouraging growth and utilization of eastern hardwood timber resources is most certainly in the national interest - if done wisely with a clear sense of direction and public support. Programs must be developed in a fashion that is developed that is consistent with resource and management conditions if they are to be wisely designed and to ultimately prove effective. Some programs are described for increasing timber growth and extending lumber supplies.