With the breakthrough of computers in the past 20 years, statistical methods and methods of operational research have strongly established themselves. These methods are a valuable aid in acquiring new knowledge as well as in management guidance. Yet they should remain an aid and an aid only and should not become the basis of our management, namely so that the development and structure of forests would be subordinate to it. Attributing too great an importance to these methods can be more dangerous than rejecting them. The methods themselves can replace neither the necessary knowledge of forestry nor creativity in intellectual work. They can only stimulate them additionally.
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