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PKEPAIIATIOX OF FOKEST WORKING 

 PLANS. 



A FOREST ^Yu^ki^g plan has for its aim to lay down 

 the entire management of a forest, so that the objects, for 

 ■which the forest is maintained, may be as fully as possible 

 realised. In order to be of any use, it must be based 

 upon an exact and detailed examination of the actual state 

 of the forest in all its component parts ; next, the forest 

 must be divided into divisions of workable size ; the lead- 

 ing principles of management must be indicated and the 

 yield calculated ; finally, arrangement must be made to 

 control the execution of the plans and to collect additional 

 information, so that every succeeding working plan may 

 Ije more accurate and the management become more and 

 more exact. The whole material is then brought together 

 in a working plan report. 



The w^orking plan report is a document, which gives, in a 

 systematic manner, all the necessary information and describes 

 the system of management in such detail, as may be required 

 in each case. No general rule can be laid down in this 

 respect. For forests, which are of great value, and which 

 yield high returns, detailed iDlans should be drawn up ; 

 for forests, which give as j^et only small returns, and the 

 yield capacity of which exceeds the demand, simple plans 

 would be indicated. 



By way of illustration the following arrangement is 

 given, but it must be understood, that in one case many 



