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ritory directly tributary to the lakes on the west side of the forest; (b) 

 the Little North Fork River drainage; (c) the drainage of the main 

 Coeur d'Alene River and its south fork; (d) the upper waters of the 

 North Fork River; (e) the middle portion of the North Fork River 

 and its tributaries; and (/) the lower North Fork and its tributaries. 

 In four of these, (a), (c), (e), and (/), communities dependent upon 

 logging, to greater or less extent, are already established. In a fifth, 

 (b), it is quite certain that the construction of one road recently car- 

 ried out, and its further improvement and extension will gradually 

 cause the start of another local community. The sixth working circle, 

 most inaccessible from the standpoint of labor and supplies, very evi- 

 dently cannot be successfully handled even with respect to any part of 

 it until transportation development is such that the rude farms being 

 established there definitely begin to make unmistakable strides toward 

 permanent development. Such transportation development is foreseen 

 in the by no means distant future. 



In three of the automatically formed working circles (a), (c), and 

 (d), very little, if any, logging is carried on. This is either because 

 the species in the composition of most of the stands make them not 

 readily marketable, or because they are relatively inaccessible. Those 

 of the residents here who find livelihood in woods work, either all or 

 part of their time, carry on this work, though with some inconvenience 

 on account of poor transportation, in one of the other three working 

 circles adjacent. And in each of the other three working circles are 

 found the stands which in character and composition are most desired 

 by timber-buying concerns. 



This conditon, however, it is emphasized, does not make negative the 

 desirability of having six working circles. Because of pioneer condi- 

 tions of transportation and development of homes, most of the labor 

 in the woods is of the nomadic type, and the ideal kind of labor, per- 

 manent in the locality, cannot be stimulated without permanency of the 

 industry in that locality and permanency of industry is predicated on 

 small working circles. 



Because of the conditions in establishing immediate regulation of cut, 

 the six natural working circles are paired, (a) with (b), (c) with (/), 

 and (d) with (e). Each two combined into the working circle thus 

 formed are considered as blocks in their respective working circles. 

 The regulation of cut in each circle is on the basis of the productive 

 capacity of the whole. 



