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Hardwood Tree Improvement- Where Do We Stand

The problems associated with hardwood tree improvement are many and complex. In many ways, they are limiting at the present time and should be fully considered before the initiation of an action program. The research effort to provide the answers is inadequate both from the standpoint of scope and financing. Hardwood research is not now as extensive as pine research when tree improvement was initiated for the softwoods. This is understandable when you consider that Timber Trends in the United States Forest Research Report No. 17, U. S. Department of Agriculture, dated February 1965 states that 69% of the growing stock in American forests is softwood and 31% hardwoods. Research is complicated by the greater numbers of commercial forest hardwood species and multiplicity of individual species problems.


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Author(s): Thomas F. Swofford

Publication: National Nursery Proceedings - 1972

Event: Southeastern Nurserymen's Conference Proceedings
1972 - Greenville, Mississippi