Book excerpt: Excerpt from Evaluacion De Tierras Y Recursos Para La Planeacion Nacional En Las Zonas Tropicales: Land and Resource Evaluation for National Planning in the Tropics; An International Conference and Workshop, Chetumal, Mexico, January 25-31, 1988 The logo we have chosen for the conference is a jigsaw puzzle in various phases of completion. The palm fronds, of course, represent the tropics and the globe, the international aspects of the meeting. The fact that we chose a puzzle has particular significance. All too often, we, in our functional professions foresters, agriculturalists, wildlife managers), look at our lands and resources in a very narrow perspective. For national planning, foresters, for example, often look at only forested lands. Recommendations for a forestry program are often based on this perception. In reality, these lands may represent a small portion (or a small piece of a large puzzle) of a base from which one could develop a timber management program. Foresters should be interested not only in lands that are currently forested, but also in those lands that were once forested but are no longer so and in lands that have never been forested but could be. Similar analogies can be made for each of the land and resource management activities. Unfortunately the problem does not end there. 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.