COMPARTMENT. 



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Sub- com- 

 part- 

 ments. 



that the subordinate staff should become acquainted with the 

 numbers of the different compartments. These should therefore 

 be numbered on the ground either by small engraved stones, 

 numbered boards, or by painted stencilled numbers on trees. The 

 latter system has been tried with sal and found to answer. 

 Compartments are numbered in Arabic numerals 1, 6, 24 and should 

 be shown in black ink on the map. 



A sub-compartment is a division of a compartment either 

 permanent or temporary. Sub-compartments are made when it is 

 desired to split up an old-established compartment with a well- 

 known number, or where the composition of the crop, cliir and oak 

 at different elevations, renders it necessary to allot different 

 portions of the compartment to different working circles, as in 

 Ranikhet. Again, where part of a compartment is sal and the rest 

 bamboo as in Lansdowne, sub-compartments would be formed. 

 The boundaries of sub-compartments are not necessarily perma- 

 nently fixed ; they are generally shown by a colour wash on the 

 map and designated with a small letter. Therefore where forest 

 blocks exist a particular sub-compartment would be designated 

 Bindraban, 31a. 



A coupe is the area set aside for felling in a single year. It is Coupes. 

 used more especially in the case of simple coppice and coppice with 

 standards. It is not a fixed geographical entity nor is it a perma- 

 nent working plan unit like a compartment. Coupes are given a 

 Boman numeral where it is necessary to give them numbers. 



The description of compartments is one of the most important 

 duties of the working plan officer, as on this description is based 

 the allotment to working circles and periodic blocks. The descrip- 

 tion should be concise and should convey in as few words as 

 possible an adequate idea of the composition, quality, age, density, 

 and general characteristics of the growing stock. In the hills a 

 good idea of the contents of a compartment may be obtained from 

 the opposite side of the valley, and this, supplemented with an 

 examination of the interior of the compartment, will enable an 



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 compart- 

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