INTRODUCTION • 



Forest management may be broadly defined as the applica- 

 tion of forestry in the conduct of the business of a forest. Forest 

 organization, a subdivision of forest management, deals with the 

 principles of organizing a forest for business. Forest organiza- 

 tion may, therefore, be defined as that branch of forest man- 

 agement which concerns itself with organizing a forest property 

 for management, ordering in time and place the most advan- 

 tageous use of the property, usually with the ultimate aim of 

 securing a sustained yield.* 



In order to have a definite scheme for the conduct of opera- 

 tions on a tract so as to secure most effectively the objects 

 desired by the owner, a working plan is formulated. This may 

 be defined as the plan or plans under which a given forest prop- 

 erty is to be continuously managed. 



SCOPE OF WORKING PLANS 



In its broadest sense a complete forest working plan deals 

 not only with silvicultural management of the timber resources, 

 but may cover any or all of the following subjects : 



1. General administration. 



2. Silvicultural management. 



3. Grazing management. 



4. Permanent improvements. 



5. Forest protection. 



6. Uses of forest land. 



* The term forest regulation covers the same idea, but, since it suggests police 

 and administrative prescriptions seems less desirable except for that part of 

 organizing which concerns itself with regulating the cut. 



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