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academic point of view it is desirable to segregate two groups of 

 subjects which deal, to be sure, with methods and conditions, on 

 which management must be based, but may be treated separately, 

 namely, the technical group, including silviculture, lumbering, 

 protection — crop production and harv-est ; and the economic group, 

 including studies of forest influences, statistics, forest laws, which 

 determine guiding principles or objects to be attained by the 

 management. Forest Management is to harmonize these abstract 

 principles and technical methods with the financial condition of 

 the owner, map out the exact nature and extent of the operations 

 which can be most effectively carried out, organize the work, and 

 secure the quantitative and financial results desired for the tract 

 as a whole. 



Five subjects may be grouped under Management, namely, 

 Mensuration, Finance including Valuation and Statics, Regulation 

 or Organization, Formulation of Working Plans, and Adminis- 

 tration. Ordinarily, Mensuration is given as a separate course in 

 forest schools, partly because it is a large subject in itself and may 

 be clearly defined in scope, and partly because it is usually given in 

 the junior year, while Management is given in the senior year. 

 The usual custom is followed in this report of making Men- 

 suration a study by itself. Administration may also be either in- 

 cluded as a part of Management or else, as in this report, be made 

 a separate subject. For similar reasons, some schools make 

 Finance also a special subject, leaving to Management only the 

 two subjects of regulating the yield and organizing the forest and 

 formulation of working plans. 



So essential in management is the knowledge of the result of 

 mensuration that every instructor includes in his course in Man- 

 agement a review of increment to make certain that the students 

 understand its significance and understand how to apply the know- 

 ledge for practical purposes. With a knowledge of increment the 

 student is in a position to consider the problems involving the 

 organization of a forest for future development; without that 

 information he is as helpless in studying forest regulation and 

 forest finance as he would be in studying silviculture without a 

 knowledge of the life habits of trees and stands. 



There has been considerable doubt as to a proper nomenclature 

 for this subject. It would appear that the word Management is 



