Excerpt from Rpa Assessment of the Forest and Rangeland Situation in the United States, 1993 Update Demands for renewable resources are largely driven by population, economic activity, and incomes. Projections of these variables indicate that population and the economy will continue to grow in the future which will induce greater use of and production from the renewable forest and rangeland resources. Greater use and production will continue to cause development of the types of issues analyzed in this update of the 1989 hpa Assessment. As these issues develop, they will be considered in future analyses. Demands and supplies of renewable resources are dynamic. Consumers of these resources accommodate the changing nature of resource supplies in various ways, including adoption of technologies that change the ways renewable resource outputs are used. Supplies of renewable resource outputs change in response to_ use, man agement, and changing environmental laws. Resource owners and managers re spond to the' changing demands by varying the amount and character of resource supplies. In the future, as in the past, accommodations will be made between de mands and supplies through policy actions, regulations, and management to influence the amount, quality, and value of renewable resource outputs and conditions. These accommodations will determine the nature and extent of the future forest and range land estate, with a special challenge to sustain the health and long-term productivity to include all values of forest and rangelands. Some of the key assumptions and findings from the 1989 rpa Assessment have been updated to reflect new data and expectations about the future. Additional analyses have been done with the following highlights. 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.