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The supervisor has to keep in touch with the progress of 

 the work and the manner of execution. The section chief, on 

 demand, must report thereon to the supervisor. 



The working up of the field data and the preparation of the 

 working-plan document is the task of the section of working 

 plans in the central office at jMunich. As soon as the essentials 

 of the plan are ready in rough draft, they are to be submitted 

 to the supervisor of the forest for his review and written rec- 

 ommendations and memoranda. These last are to be incor- 

 porated in the working-plan document. Then the draft of 

 the plan is submitted to the oiiicers of the district and cen- 

 tral offices, who must also record any divergent opinions in 

 WTiting. 



Finally, all new working plans or main revisions have to be 

 laid before the ministry of finance for its approval, which puts 

 the plan in force. In intermediate revisions it suffices to notify 

 the ministry of departures necessitated from the original plan, 

 before submitting the revised plan to the supervisor for execu- 

 tion. 



A map of the forest forms an indispensable part of every 

 working plan. 



No special document is necessary for the intermediate revi- 

 sions; the existing plan is merely amended in the text, if neces- 

 sary by the insertion of extra pages. 



A part of every revision is a resume of the management dur- 

 ing the working period just concluded. 



III. Saxony 



Although small in size — 3,703,271 acres — Saxony is, because 

 of its dense population and great industrial development, the 

 state of third importance in Germany. Despite its dense pop- 

 ulation, 949,813 acres, or 25.65 per cent of the total area, is 

 forested. 



Saxony is a compact unit, roughly triangular in shape, the 

 low mountains of the Erz Gebirge forming the base and the 

 city of Leipzig the apex. The stands in Saxony are, overwhelm- 



