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tance in the general organization. A working plan 

 is the scheme according to which the technical busi- 

 ness of a forest range is carried out. "Its object," 

 says Dr. Judeich, 1 "is so to order the management of 

 a forest in time and space as to fulfill to the utmost 

 the objects of this management." The following sub- 

 division of the general subject of working plans is 

 taken from his admirable work. "Die Forsteinrich- 

 tung.'' The first section is entitled "Preliminary 

 Work/' under which are included: forest survevs. 



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forest or timber estimating < which includes "the in- 

 vestigation of all conditions inherent in the forest 

 which have an influence on its present yield, or which 

 are of importance for the calculation of its yield in 

 the future: ' that is, the very thorough study and 

 description of both soil and timber), a study of the 

 general and external conditions by which it is affected 

 (its topography, history, ownership, nature of the 

 surrounding land and people, and any other consid- 

 erations which may influence its management), and, 

 lastly, maps and records. 



The second section, which may be called Forest 

 Division for want of a better English name, con- 

 siders the formation of ranges, each of which is in 

 charge of an executive officer, then the division of 

 the range into units of management called blocks, 

 each of which is treated to a certain extent inde- 

 pendently of the others, and into compartments, 

 which are generally well over a hundred acres in 

 extent, and are marked on the ground by open lanes 

 and boundary stones. This second section contains 

 also less important matters which cannot be touched 

 on here. 



l Die Forsteinrichtung. 4th Ed. Dresden, 1885. 



