her or the actual inauguration of the provisions of tho 

 worliing plan? Mighty little, Tho Uheaton salo on tho 

 Lassen is approvoc tvnd about to start operations with no- 

 thing hut rouh estimate and offhand loiowlod^o of area "by 

 officers concerned.. The Leach sale on KLamath had only a 

 very goneral description of each watorslied concerned, 

 Forest descriptions on sales in general are raroly adverse- 

 ly criticised "by reviewing officers, especially that por- 

 tion of them that contains the silvical data* Those data 

 add a faint scientific aroma to the timoer calo reports 

 which are dishod up from the Forests and thereafter are 

 dumped into, the ohlivion of the files - a monument to tho 

 following principle: "Thoy do no harm, thoy don't cost 

 much, they ma^ furnish us something we want to know, there- 

 fore let ITS have them.* That principle doesn't' jibo with 

 our "certain valuo*. principle. The moral effect on tho 

 nan who works with it in mind, ho he Meld Assistant ,JPorost 

 Assistant or District Officer, is "bed, 



Tho division of a IPorost into silvi cult -oral types 

 is important and may he helped "by those notes if they are 

 takon carefully hut thero are a lot of us who don x t yot 

 know what a forest type is when we see it, ar.d it is hfirai 

 reasonable to suppose that tho notes taken "by a Field As- 

 sistant will he of mat axial value. 



