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useful character, viewed from the standpoint of economic use and development. 

 A species of woodland or woods, which is the generic term for the wooded condition 

 of the land. 



Timberland or Timber is used to designate ability to furnish at once logs or 

 material for commercial purposes. 



Woodlot. Any small tract of forest, usually the forested portion of a farm. 

 Forest. In finance, refers to the combination of soil and stand. 



Forest, v. To establish a forest either by natural or artificial means. 



Forest capital. See under Capital. 



Forest cover. All trees and other woody plants (underbrush) covering the ground 

 in a forest. 



Forest economics. A comprehensive term including all matter referring to the 

 position of forests in public affairs. 



Forest economy. A comprehensive term including all matter dealing with the 

 business aspects of forest management. 



Forest expectancy value. See under Value. 



Forest finance. That branch of the science of forestry which relates to the forest 

 as an investment. It includes two distinct subjects, forest valuation and forest 

 statics; the first concerning itself with valuations of soil and growing stock, incre- 

 ment, and damage ; the second concerns itself with a comparison of the financial 

 results of different methods of treatment and other questions of profitableness 

 and financial effects. 



G., Waldwertrechnung = forest valuation; forstliche Statik = forest statics. 



Forest fire. See under Protection terms. 



Forest floor. A term used in forest description to designate only the deposits of 

 vegetable matter on the ground in a forest. 



Litter includes the upper, but slightly decomposed portion of the forest floor; 

 humus, the portion in which decomposition is well advanced. See Humus. An 

 intermediate layer of more or less decomposed organic matter below the litter 

 may be designated as duff. 



Forest influences. All effects resulting from the presence of the forest upon health, 

 climate, streamflow, and economic conditions. 



Forest inventory. See Forest survey. 



Forest management. The practice or application of forestry in the conduct of the 

 forest business. 



G., Forstbetrieb. F., exploitation des forSts, amenagement. 

 The collating committee prefers to see the term used as defined, instead of as 

 an equivalent to forest economy as a collective name for the subjects which deal 

 with business problems {see Forestry) as separated from forest crop production. 



Forest mensuration. That branch of forestry which deals with the determination 

 of the volume of stands, trees, logs and other timber products, and with the study 

 of growth and yield of trees and stands. 

 G., Holzmesskunde. F., dendrometric. 



Forest organization. The branch of forestry which concerns itself with the organiza- 

 tion of a forest property for management and its maintenance, ordering in time 

 and place the most advantageous use of the property, with the ultimate aim of 

 securing a sustained yield. 

 Syn.: forest regulation. 



