Published Annually by the Ames Forestry Club

Back in the twenties the enlargement of the Federal forestry research program called for the establishment of the Central States Forest Experiment Station. This new station was designed to help the existing State agencies in the solution of important forestry problems. The territory, comprising the States of Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, and parts of Kentucky, Tennessee and Arkansas, had previouslyhad little assistance from the already established forest experiment stations to the north, east and south. The importance of this central region was becoming more and more apparent with the waning supply o£ hardwood timber.

The study of economics won’t keep you out of the breadline; but at least you’ll know why you’re there. So it is with forest economics: It won't alone solve our forestry needs, but at least it helps us mightily to understand them. And used in conjunction with the other sciences and arts of forestry, economics research helps us not only to understand, but also to solve, the needs of forestry for contributing the utmost to the wellbeing of the world, the community, and the individual enterprise.