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Students were approached to determine their concerns about our forests. Foresters and forest industry workers were consulted to provide their views concerning these issues.

Forestry will always be a compromise; the forest companies want to use the resource to produce the goods for which there is a demand, and to provide jobs that are important to the local economy; some groups would prefer that the forests are never touched. The goal is a compromise that accommodates as many interests as possible.

Mistakes have been made in the past. The objective is to learn from them and do better in the future. Research goes on all the time to improve forestry and manufacturing practices.