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Cost-Return Relationships of Tree Improvement Programs

Widespread and sustained acceptance of tree improvement programs as a forest management activity by the public and the forest industries can only follow demonstrable evidence of economic worth. Your research to date gives convincing evidence of technical possibility and a suggestion of economic feasibility. This paper will briefly explore the principle questions involved in establishing economic worth.


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Author(s): Lawrence S. Davis

Publication: Tree Improvement and Genetics - Southern Forest Tree Improvement Conference - 1967

Section: General Session