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4. An appendix file to comprise all data on silvics, logging, etc. 

 These to be filed by subjects and to be cumulative. 



5. Preliminary plan to be made by specialists. 



6. Final plan — not to be attempted at present. 



1. The card records will consist of all data which are ordinarily 

 tabulated. Tabulations are kept on separate sheets. They in- 

 clude tabulations of areas of types, estimates of timber, sale costs, 

 records of stumpage rates, minimum stumpage prices, timber cut 

 and sold, limitation of cut, lumber prices, percentage of lumber 

 grades, species, etc. These tabluations are kept to date by annual 

 additions to the information. The information for the revision 

 is obtained from the annual plan. 



2. Annual Plan. This is made in winter by the Supervisor. 

 It includes the following information: General conditions of the 

 Forest, cost of handling sales, limitation of cut, minimum prices, 

 proposed changes in silviculture manual, recommendations for 

 silvical report, sowing and planting, timber sale policy, seed col- 

 lecting (to be submitted August i), working plan modifications, 

 converting factors, free use, timber sale advertising, trespass, 

 timber reconnaissance, new sales proposed, protection of timber 

 resources, stock excluded areas, brush burning and proposed in- 

 vestigative projects. 



Under each caption there are sub-heads, which suggest the in- 

 formation necessary and desired. Practically all of the informa- 

 tion wanted is data which are called for from Supervisors during 

 the course of the year. The annual plan, therefore, accomplishes 

 two things. It brings together all the information which super- 

 visors must submit to the District Forester during the year, and 

 it gives the Supervisor a chance to bring to the attention of the 

 District Forester in a systematic way certain facts about his For- 

 est, which cannot be discussed in any other place. This plan 

 should be brief, and only subjects in which the Supervisor desires 

 to bring changes or new policies to the attention of his superiors, 

 should be discussed. The annual plan, in other words, is to be a 

 practical business measure. This will also give a chance to 

 remedy any defects in the periodic plan. In other words, if the 

 periodic plan contains anything which is not practical and does 

 not work, the Supervisor here has a chance to remedy it. 



3. Maps. These are of great importance, as everyone will 



