IUFRO Symposium, “Human Impacts on Forest”
(Strasbourg, 17–22 September 1984)

The proceedings of the above conference, published by the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, contains a number of interesting papers of which we consider the following to be of special relevance to readers of FGRI:

• Oldeman, R.A.A. Choix d'espèces pour une forêt saine et stable (pp. 185–202)

• Arbez, M. L'avenir des forêts dépend d'une géstion raisonnéee de leurs ressources génétiques (pp. 321–339)

• Heybrock, H.M. Selection of provenances for a healthy and stable forest (pp. 341–353)

• Hattemer, H.H. Genetics, breeding strategies and healthy trees (pp. 353–373).

The proceedings are available from INRA, Service des Publications, Route de St. Cyr, F-78000 Versailles, France (512 pp.)