Forest Policies And Forest Management In Germany And British India Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from Forests and Employment in Germany In the United States, much thought is bemg given to the relation of sustained-yield forestry to employment and the support of permanent communities. It is of interest, therefore, to know something about the way in which the forests provide rural employment and thus supple ment agriculture in countries where forestry has been widely practiced for a long time. Germany is one of those countries. There, the use of most of the land has become fairly well stabilized. More than one-fourth of the land surface is covered with forest, and a large part of the forest area has been under relatively intensive management for Well over a-hundred years. This study was undertaken for the purpose of learning the extent to which the German forests afford work opportunities, particularly for rural people. It must be recognized from the start that political and social institutions and economic conditions in Germany are very unlike those in this country. Any form of sustained-yield forest management which may be developed in this country, therefore, must spring from our own economic conditions and political and social traditions. In working out methods and policies adapted to our own conditions, however, it is helpful to know what has happened elsewhere. One fact, borne out by long experience not only in Germany but also in other countries with quite different institutions and philos Ophiss, is that managed forests do provide a large and reasonably steady volume of work, and thereby contribute immeasurably toward the existence and welfare of permanent agriculture and settled rural populations. There is every reason to suppose that the general adoption of sustained-yield forest management in this country will have similar results. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.