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Strategic Framework for the Southern Research Station

Our Mission:
The American forest has been likened to the goose that laid the golden eggs. This fairy tale reference applies in more ways than one. The Nation's lumbermen, responding to the demands of the unenlightened public, once tried hard to kill the goose in order to extract all the eggs at once. There was a dismal dawning, however, and we realized the folly of hoping for eggs from a dead goose. By slow degrees we reached another conclusion: that a forest, like a goose or any other living thing, must be fed, nursed and shielded from wanton injury if its yield of wealth is to continue indefinitely.

...from a history of the Appalachian Experiment Station (1935)

We serve the South and the Nation by collaborating with the forestry community on ways to ensure the stewardship of natural resources through improved understanding, protection, conservation, and use. Our mission is to create the science and technology needed to sustain and enhance southern forest ecosystems and the benefits they provide. Our work contributes to the health, productivity, and diversity of forest ecosystems, to economic growth, and to human enjoyment of southern forests.

Specifics of our Strategic Framework:

Cross-Cutting Themes:

 

  Power Point-type HTML Slide Show Summary of Strategic Framework

 

 

 

 

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Last Modified: Monday, 27-Sep-2004 17:07:08 EDT