THE NORTHERN Lakes Forest Research Center was established July 1, 1946 at Rhinelander, Wisconsin, for the specific purpose of studying forest management problems in northern Wisconsin. It is a part of the Lake States Forest Experiment Station, St. Paul, Minnesota, one of the nine regional forest experiment stations of the United States Forest Service. The work of this research center is correlated with that of three others in Minnesota and Michigan by the regional experiment station in a manner designed to bring about regional solutions of the problems of managing different forest types. The regional approach is necessary since forest type boundaries have no relation to state boundaries, but are largely determined by climate and soils, and modified by fire and cutting.

The biggest thing in public forestry today is State Forestry. In discussing this subject one has the choice of two approaches, (1) from the strictly local point of view of a single state or (2) from the national point of view by combining all states that are actively engaged in a forestry program. I shall follow the second option

No SECTION of the nation has made greater strides economically in recent years than the Southeast-Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Alabama. In 1909 the total value of manufactures for these states was placed at $971,400,417.00. Compared to 1952 there was an increase of more than 2,000 per cent with the total value placed on all manufactures at $21,547,000,000.00 of which $3,030,000,- 000.00 was from forest products.

Published Annually by the Ames Forestry Club.

As FORESTRY in the United States finds itself well on the march through its second fifty years, and wins increasing public acceptance, the days of earlier struggle with their battles for principles now well-established are likely to be discounted. And yet the past has its uses if only as records of courage and foresight.