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As J understand it, a book Preface is where the author explains to
the reader how the book in hand came about, something of the
personal reasons for having inflicted such extended duress on one's
self to complete the manllscript. and other items that are fit to
say but do not fit in the text. This book had its conceptual
beginnings in the 1970's wit h my 'studies in scientific synthesis
at the North Central Forest Experiment Station, St. Paul,
Minnesota. Ours is, clearly, the age of analysis. But, I felt, we
must soon begin frameworks for synthesis, or a synthesis would
never be possible. In short, I hoped to develop 'interaction' as an
integrative principle in forestry. As work progressed on the
manuscript, other subthemes developed. First, there was the vague
feeling on my part that the forestry profession was losing ground
in the contest to see who should manage the forests of the world.
This was happening not because foresters do not know how to manage
forests in a reasonable manner, but because the public seemed to be
loosing faith in the judgement of foresters as professional,
responsible, wise land managers. Several well-known incidents of
poor judgement in timber harvesting methods on national forests in
the United States did little to help the forester's image.
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