ABSTRACT
Advances in research and technology along with the level of education in the United States have contributed greatly to that nation's development. The United States has historically placed heavy emphasis on research, technological advances, and education in agriculture and related natural resource fields. Over the past decade or two, applied research on land and water management has relied primarily on earlier basic research, resulting in the utilization of much on-the shelf research base. Renewable natural resource conservation, including forestry, has broadened into environmental protection and management. This trend is continuing and possibly is irreversible. If renewable resource technologies start replacing fossil fuel technologies, around the turn of the century there will be an accelerated need for adequately trained manpower in such energy source areas as solar, geothermal, hydrogen, and nuclear fusion. This may require far more personnel with specific expertise than can presently be expected to enter those particular sectors of the labor market.
