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years it has been the practice to make sure that the 

 small timber purchaser was taken care of. Thus the 

 great majority of timber sales have been to the little 

 outfits, some consisting of family operations, though 

 the bulk of the total cut has been by the large 

 operators. 



One means of facilitating the small sale business 

 has been the construction by the Forest Service of 

 timber access roads, thus opening timber tracts to 

 small operators who could not afford to build their 

 own roads. 



Competitive bidding is a legal requirement in 

 sales involving more than five hundred dollars worth 

 of stumpage. The Forest Service has built many miles 

 of timber access roads with one of the purposes being 

 to facilitate competition to a greater degree than 

 if main road construction were done by the operator 

 through an allowance in calculating the stumpage price. 

 This practice constitutes a basic policy in the timber 

 management field. 



In the practice of silviculture and forest manage 

 ment, it is more a matter of method or practice than 

 of policy. Thus, in lodgepole pine selective cutting 



