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7 Acknowledgments

The authors thank Tim Adams, Jeff Vowell, Lloyd Swift, and Margi Swisher Jones who served as the panel of experts in February 2000. They provided invaluable assistance in developing the plan of work and suggested references to address this Assessment question. Crystal Lovett with Environmental Defense provided important input to the panel of experts and also provided suggested references as well.

Thanks are extended to the 13 Southern State forestry agency directors and their staffs for information and willing cooperation. Finally, appreciation is expressed to the anonymous peer reviewers who provided the authors the benefit of their expertise to improve this Chapter.