Excerpt from The Private Forest Landowners of Michigan In summary, we found that three-quarters of the assisted owners live within 25 miles of their forest, and they control 63 percent of the acreage held by assisted owners. General forest management and sales and valuation assistance account for over half of the kind of help requested. About 15 percent of the assisted owners are nonresidents, and they control nearly 30 percent of the acreage held by assisted owners. When the proportions for number of assisted own ers and acres owned are analyzed by kind of assis tance and owner characteristics the results are sim ilar to those reported by Webster and Stoltenberg The variables age, occupation, education, and income are highly correlated in various ways. For example, professionals and executives are also likely to be college graduates and to have higher average incomes. The tables show the proportions of owners by kind of assistance requested as dis tributed over the entire population of assisted owners and (in parentheses) the distribution within a specific class or column (tables 44 to Retired people (hence, also the older age class group) have ahigh proportion of forestry activity relative to their proportion in the overall population. Because no time limit was placed on the reporting of assistance, some could have been carried out prior to retire ment. Planting and sales and valuation assistance were important activities for these owners. General management assistance stands out for professional people, executives, and white collar workers, as well as the and over income gr0up. There is an interesting contrast between. The pro portions of professional owners and executive own ers assisted (table Relative to their proportions in the overall population, professionals are much more active than executives (17 percent to 7 per cent). Possibly executives are more aware of alterna tive investment opportunities that promise higher returns on investment and thus choose not to prac tice more intensive forest management; or perhaps they simply are less well informed about the availability of forestry assistance. On an acres owned basis, there is not much difference between the two classes. Thus, executives with larger proper ties are more responsive. 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.