Aspen Bibliography

Genetic improvement of hardwood fiber production in the North-Central Region

Document Type

Contribution to Book

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Joint proceedings of the tenth Lake States Forest Tree Improvement Conference and the seventh Central States Forest Tree Improvement Conference, September 22-24, 1971

Volume

General Technical Report, USDA Forest Service

Publication Date

1973

Abstract

In the Lake States, aspens are now growing towards senility Faster than they are being harvested (Groff 1966). In the Central States, wood processing residues have recently supplied about one-half of the area's hardwood fiber requirement (Blyth 1970), thus allowing hardwood growing stock to continue its recuperation. In fact, the national hardwood fiber supply situation is improving (Hair and Spada 1970). However, a growth deficit is expected by the year 2000, given current management levels and "expected" demands. Josephson (1971) foresees about another decade of adequate fiber supply. Moreover, some of our economists tell us poor biologists that we've got to produce more and more fiber on less and less land. Somewhere between the unharvested senility of aspen and an unrealistic commitment to unrelenting growth, we must settle on a varied, productive forest to supply a stable, fiber-using industry.

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