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description for the working plan. At the same time the forest 

 organizer is helpless if these specific forest descriptions are 

 inadequate or inaccurate. Nor need the description contain 

 many words; for mere stereot}^ped repetition is both tiresome 

 and futile. 



The outline given above for forest description must, of course, 

 be supplemented by a report on logging and milling methods 

 and costs if an appraisal of stumpage values is to be a part of 

 the working plan. The following outline is suggested: 



Lumber: 



I. Stump to pond. 



(a) Logging operations with equipment used. 



1. Felling, limbing and sawing into logs. 



2. Brush disposal. 

 a. Piling. 



h. Scattering. 



c. Dragging from trees. 



3. Skidding or bunching. 



4. Hauling to railroad. 



a. Big wheels. 

 h. Wagons. 



c. Go-devils. 



d. Sleighs. 



e. Steam skidders (several types). 

 /. Electricity. 



5. Loading on cars. 



a. Horse power. 



b. Steam power. 

 ib) Transportation to mill. 



1. Trucks. 



2. Chutes. 



3. Flumes. 



4. Railroads. 



5. Tramways. 



6. Traction engines. 



