APPENDIX A. 



WORKING PLAN FOR THE COMMUNAL FOREST 

 OF KRUMBACH 



IN THE 



OBERFORSTEREI LINDENFELS, FORST WALD-MICHELBACH, IN 



THE PROVINCE OF STARKENBURG OF HESSE-DARMSTADT.* 



(PERIOD 18881907.) 



PRELIMINARY REPORT. 



THE preparation of a working plan for the communal forest of 

 Krumbach having been ordered by a resolution dated the 2nd May, 

 1887, the Grand-duoal Forstmeister in Wald-Michelbach and the 

 Oberforster in Lindenfels have agreed that the following main points 

 shall be attended to : 



(a) The forest in question shall form one working circle. 



(b) The prevailing species is the beech, with which oak and 



Scotch pine are associated in single trees here and there. 

 The method of treatment shall be that of high forest with 

 natural regeneration under a shelter- wood. In order to 

 increase the proportion of valuable timber, it is desirable 

 that, during regeneration, an increased number of useful 

 timber trees should be introduced, especially oak, then ash, 

 maple, silver fir, larch and spruce. The mixture shall, 

 especially in the case of oak, be in small groups suitably 

 distributed over the area, the best soil being selected lor 

 the oak. On stony, shallow soil spruce, larch, and Scotch 

 pine should be chiefly mixed into beech. 



(c) The rotation should be fixed at 100 years. 



(d) As the several species are not separated according to area, 



only one working section is required to be called " mixed 



* The method of determining the yield prescribed in Hesse-Darmstadt is that 

 of allotment of woods to the several periods of a rotation according to area. 

 The annual yield during the first period is ascertained and fixed by volume. 



