typos they of courso talro account of differences of stand, 

 not as wo do, Hairing the stand paramount, "but more or less 

 incident al 



It scorns to ne "Jhat this ic sound, "both in theory 

 and practice. The physical typos recognised are so "broad 

 that thoro is no possibility of confusing them. There are no 

 douot minor distinctions to "bo nade vrithin the "broad ty^xjs 

 "but the covor would cnonr othor factors hoi;/- to indicate 

 those distinctions. Lut if they -cannot "bo descrihod precise- 

 ly, they had "better not "be doscrihed at all. ^iirt: ormore, 

 these 1 3/pe s ar e us e f ul in shov/ing t he adapt ab i 1 it j of t he 

 diiforont areas to forest groxrbh and indicate the general 

 methods of management that choulc. bo a_-^liod. I'hese methods 

 will naturally dopond also ui:on the present stand which may 

 ofton differ from the normal. .1 stand map or cover map is 

 therefore also necessary showing peculiarities of stand with- 

 in the typos, "but this map is obtained not by notos, but "by 

 reference to the estimate sheets thomsolvoc* Accordingly I 

 suggost for the District the f ollor/ing typo classification: 

 foothill, middle slope southerly, middle slope northerly, 

 upland, alpine. ?his classification is go simple that it 

 needs only to "be stated to be instantly understood and when 

 plotted on maps with the stand data super added, will give us 

 far more satisfactory management data than the present clas- 

 sification which makes pretense of describing "both physical 

 factors and stand "but actually describes neither with pre- 

 cision* 



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