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impossible to use the same approximate limit for all. The diameter limits named 

 in contracts must be varied wherever necessary in order to leave seed trees, to 

 remove inferior trees, to reduce the proportion of inferior species, and, in general, 

 to improve the silvicultuml condition of the forest. 



Removal of Timber 



The word "removal," as relating to the closing of timber cases, should be con- 

 strued to mean the removal of the timber from the cutting area to such locations 

 that its further removal will neither interfere with the administration of the Forest, 

 nor require the attention of a Forest officer, nor interfere with any forest growth, 

 whether on or off the cutting area. When possible, the point of removal should be 

 to roads or other points where the material is immediately available for distribution 

 to consumers. All timber to be considered removed should be so situated that 

 further handling of it will not create a fire menace. This ruling applies especially 

 to cordwood, shakes, lagging, etc. With saw timber, removal to the mill can usually 

 be expected and required. 



Bid Envelopes, Class B Sales 



A supply of salmon-colored bid envelopes for use in advertised Class B sales has 

 been sent to the supervisors who have been authorized to make these sales. This 

 color is used in order to distinguish the envelopes from those used in submitting 

 bids to the Forester. In several instances bids in Class B sales have been sent to 

 the Forester by mistake. Forest officers should be especially careful to see that the 

 proper envelope is used, so that if bids in Class B sales are sent to Washington by 

 mistake they may be promptly returned to the supervisor. Attention is called to 

 the instructions in the October Field Program. 



Special Use Permits 



Supervisors are now authorized to approve certain special use permits. (See "The 

 Use Book," p. 44.) In cases, however, in which the amount of timber involved 

 exceeds that which the supervisor is authorized to sell, the approval of the Forester 

 is necessary. 



The following timber settlement clause, modified to suit the existing conditions, 

 should be placed in agreements involving the cutting or destruction of merchantable 

 timber: 



To pay to the Fiscal Agent, Forest Service, at Washington, D. C., in 

 advance, as required by the Forest officer, for all live and dead timber, mer- 

 chantable in the judgment of the Forest officer, to be cut, injured, or 

 destroyed on the right of way according to the scale, estimate, or count of the 

 Forest officers at the following rates: 



and to dispose of all brush, refuse, and unused timber as may be required 

 by the Forest officer. 



In cases where the stumpage prices can not be definitely fixed at once, or where 

 the cutting or construction will not begin for some time after the execution of the 

 agreement, the part of the clause relating to stumpage rates should read: 



At rates to be fixed by the supervisor [if agreement is to be approved by 

 supervisor, or Forester if the approval of the Forester is required], which 



shall correspond to the prevailing stumpage rates charged in the 



National Forest at the time construction or cutting begins. 



