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by the Board of the Fund for Forestry Research. The Chairman is the 
head of the Board of Forestry, Director-in-Chief Folke Johansson. 
The Committee 1s charged with establishing regular cooperation with 
related bodies dealing with forestry and technical research and training, 
especially the Forest Research Institute of Sweden, the Royal Institute 
of Technology (particularly the Photography and Photogrammetry Di- 
visions), as also civil and military departments and authorities engaged 
with photogrammetrical work. It is anticipated that great benefit will 
be derived from this cooperation and its free form. 
The Committee's working group comprises at present three officials 
with academic training, one of whom acts as manager and secretary, 
together with an assistant possessing no academic qualifications and 
office assistance as required. In addition experts and others from 
outside are utilised for special tasks. 
Programme of work 
In consultation with leaders of various branches of practical forestry, 
as also bodies concerned with forestry and photogrammetrical research 
and training, the Committee has drawn up the broad lines for work 
covering five years. As it is not possible entirely to forecast the possi- 
bilities of utilisation, it is to be anticipated that a certain amount of re- 
arrangement of the plan may be found necessary as the work proceeds. 
The main features of the working programme are the following. 
In view of present demands for rationalisation of forestry working 
methods, it has been considered important that the possibilities offered 
by air photographs should be made available for practical forestry work 
as soon as possible. While experimental and research work is required 
to make these possibilities effectively available, yet it may be that trai- 
ning and information are chiefly wanted to begin with. 
Research work is to be directed to investigations which are of parti- 
cular interest for practical work and which may be expected to furnish 
results in the near future. To start with, attention will be given to the 
employment of the photographs for certain planning work in conjunc- 
tion with road and ditching work, forest conservancy and transport and 
fire protection, besides mapping to the extent that experience at pre- 
sent available has been found not to be sufficiently complete. The met- 
hods employed will often be different in large scale and small scale 
forestry. Parallel experiments will therefore be necessary in many 
cases. À statement regarding photogrammetrical map-making methods 
in Swedish forestry is to be presented to the 1956 International Con- 
gress of Photogrammetry in Stockholm. 
The experiments will be chiefly concerned with forestry technique, 
taking into account also the economic and organisational sides. Com- 
parisons are to be made of methods already being used and investiga-