Describes the small forest landowner population including its distribution as to type of owner, size of holding, objectives of ownership, forestry practices, problems, and responses to existing and proposed forestry programs. The considerable proportion of absentee owners and the owners whose primary ownership objective is other than timber production suggest that for the Upper Peninsula the traditional approaches of public forestry programs may need to be revised.

S2This bibliography is a comprehensive listing of domestic articles and research papers, as well as foreign research papers, about forest cooperatives. The compilation was made in conjunction with and as a byproduct of a formal socio-economic analysis of forestry associations. The articles concern, directly or indirectly, the activities of cooperative associations formed by forest landowners to market timber and timber products.S3.