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Impacts of Tree Improvement on the Forest Products Industry

My objective is to discuss the impacts that tree improvement programs have had on the forest products industry in the U.S. South. The period covered is roughly from 1950 to the present, with an occasional reference to the early parts of the 1900s. To assess the impacts, it will be necessary to give a thumb-nail sketch of the changes in the forest industry during that time


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Author(s): Robert C. Kellison

Publication: Tree Improvement and Genetics - Southern Forest Tree Improvement Conference - 2005