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officer must submit an estimate of the merchantable timber 

 which will be left after logging. This estimate should include 

 seed trees, (young) timber which it is inadvisable to cut, and 

 timber of "sizes or species not desired by the applicant and which 

 canproperly^bejejj. 



"TheTwork of estimating should be done as carefully as condi- 

 tions will allow. Only in the largest sales may less than 5 per 

 cent of the total area be actually estimated, and wherever pos- 

 sible a rnuch larger percentage should be taken. Estimates 

 should be conservative, but overcuts should not ordinarily be 

 more than_jKLper cenLof the estimated amount of the sale. 



y. The reliability of an applicant and his reputation 

 community should be ascertained. If he has previously 

 made use of National Forest resources, his methods of business 

 should be reported. 



PREPARATION OF FORMAL APPLICATION. 



If the Forest officer decides to recommend a sale, he 

 will explain to the applicant all the req uirements_of 

 the regulations and the special conditions for that par- 

 ti cular^jile. All points 1T5but the proposed cutting 

 must be discussed fully with the applicant before the 

 formal appjicajiQn is signed. The following points 

 are given as guides for this discussion, but the Forest 

 officer who prepares the application will be held re- 

 sponsible for the applicant's clear understanding of all 

 the conditions of the application and of the manner 

 agreed upon for conducting the sale. 



To what approximate minimum diameter limit at a 

 point 4J feet from the ground will cutting be allowed 

 for the different species? 



Will seed trees be left; if so, of what species and 

 how many per acre? Will they be evenly distributed 

 or left in groups or strips ? 



