Forest problem analysis and research program for the Missouri Ozarks /

Timber income potential from small forests in the Missouri Ozarks /

“…Unlike the depression years of the 1930's, it is not abandonment to the tax collector but abandonment to a less demanding use or to idleness. Estimates of land-clearing and land-reversion trends suggest that the two are in balance (33). Nevertheless, even though land is abandoned at the same rate it is cleared, the result is a gradual deterioration of the forests.…”