WORKING PLANS 71 



The working plan recites the sequence of the four classes of 

 fellings in the forms which follow: 



Sequence of regeneration fellings: Small felling area occupied 

 by the timber of each age class; total area of the felling; age 

 of the timber in 1912; felling classed as (a) abnormal and (b) 

 normal, with under each the age and period when the trees are 

 to be cut by tapping to death ; remarks. 



Sequence of thinning (by day labor); periods; felling area 

 divided (a) into the portion from each felling area and 

 (b) total per year; age of the wood at the time of thinning; 

 remarks. 



Sequence of thinning by tapping to death; same as preceding. 



Sequence of exploitation by tapping alive; periods; small 

 felling areas; notes on work to be done; remarks. 



Management Record. Since there are so few forests under 

 working plans, a substitute has been devised which contains 

 some material usually included in a working plan, besides im- 

 portant statistical data required for annual reports. A part of 

 the record is written on the covers of a specially printed folder 

 and part is on sheets and maps filed within this folder; these 

 folders complete are officially termed "bundles of management." 



On each folder is given: Natural region and classification of 

 the surface into mountains, hills, and plains, and by geological 

 formation altitude, maximum and minimum; stand with the 

 per cent of each species given in tenths; general condition; soil; 

 climate; springs, water courses, influence on the forest; mis- 

 cellaneous data, such as quarries, mines, etc.; causes of forest 

 devastation, bordering properties, activities of inhabitants, ad- 

 vantages and inconveniences of interior holdings, and the chance 

 for their purchase; digest of damages caused by fires; grazing, 

 fellings, usurpations, and other trespasses. Fire statistics also 

 are shown and these include: date of fires, surface burned over; 

 areas burned; valuation of the damage to the forest, divided 

 into (a) cork, (b) wood, (c) miscellaneous, and (d) totals; prob- 

 able cause of the fire; remarks. 



Trespass statistics are set forth in lump figures (estimates) 

 for the period 1884 to 1900 inclusive and commencing with 1901 



