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APPENDICES 



j . Maps : small scale to show working circles or stock or both ; 

 large scale to show annual felling areas or stock or both. 



2. Detailed description of the woods. 



Part I can be mostly prepared from records in the estate 

 office or elsewhere, and from a careful inspection of the woods. 

 The results of this inspection are placed in an appendix where 

 they will constitute a useful record of the state of the woods 

 as they were at the time the working plan was prepared. This 

 field work may very likely be allotted to the woodman. The 

 woods are taken in detail and are divided up for the purpose 

 of description into moderate-sized areas, each such area being 

 called a compartment. These compartments, it should be under- 

 stood, have nothing directly to do with the working circles or 

 with the felling areas eventually prescribed ; they are purely 

 for purposes of description. There is no necessity to mark the 

 boundaries of compartments on the ground, provided they can 

 be picked up from the map, but it is often useful to eventually 

 so mark them by erecting small squared wooden pillars at all 

 corners, the number of the compartment facing each side of 

 the pillar being painted on it. When this is done it enables 

 anyone having work in the woods to find any particular spot. 

 Compartments should usually be of moderate size, from 10 to 

 40 acres, but this depends on the local conditions. 



The boundaries are, if possible, fixed on natural features, 

 separate woods, ridges, roads, rides and so forth, the main 

 point being convenience of description. In some parts of the 

 forest the condition of the crop, the soil, the aspect, or other 

 factor may vary within quite restricted areas and this will 

 necessitate small compartments. In another part there may 

 be a large area of 100 or 200 acres covered with exactly the 

 same type of forest, and the whole can then be placed within 

 one compartment. Thus the compartments need not be 

 equal in size. They are numbered from I upwards, one 



