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so all comprehensive that it does not satisfy the need of a name 

 for a segregated portion of the field. As an academic subject it 

 would appear that Forest Organization — organizing a forest for 

 business or management — expresses most completely the contents 

 of the course leaving regulation of budget, and formulating of 

 working plans as sections of the larger subject. 



Forest Organization (Forest Regulation and Formulating 

 Working Plans). Forest Organization deals with the principles 

 of organizing a forest for business. A part of such organization 

 may require the regulation of the yield for sustained manage- 

 ment. Finally a working plan is formulated. The working plan 

 must be defined, not as a plan to secure sustained yield, but as a 

 definite plan for the conduct of operations on a tract to secure 

 most eflFectively the objects desired by the owner, who may or 

 may not want to manage for sustained yield. 



Working plans are the focus of all the knowledge of forestry. 

 As a subject for instruction working plans do not take up the 

 silvicultural methods themselves or the results, but should deal 

 with the scope of the material which such plans must contain 

 and the points they must cover. 



The chief function of instruction in the subject of working 

 plans should be to teach how to co-ordinate the information at 

 hand into a practical plan which will work because it accom- 

 plishes at least cost and in an orderly manner the results most 

 beneficial to the owner. In the collection of data, reconnaissance 

 of area and preparation of the descriptive portion of the plan, it 

 must be emphasized that the only justification for collecting data 

 is the definite intention of using it to solve a practical problem or 

 settle a definite point of policy in the proposed management of the 

 tract. 



It must also be shown that working plans and the actual 

 management of the tract are correlated so closely that the person- 

 ality and character of the management will largely determine what 

 goes into the working plan. The function of written data and 

 written directions which constitute a plan is to put in permanent 

 form facts which cannot be intrusted to memory or to a personal 

 knowledge, but which in a record becomes a permanent asset 

 available for all concerned. 



The emphasis needed is for conciseness in description, and the 



