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PRACTICAL FOREST MANAGEMENT. 



The com,- 

 partment 

 history. 



The average quality class of the compartment is recorded and: 

 this information used ; later on for the calculation of reduced 

 areas. 



The stock counted is entered if the compartment has been 

 enumerated. 



The last column prescription of the plan will indicate the 

 operations which should be carried out at an early date. These 

 notes will be made with regard solely and absolutely to the treat- 

 ment of the compartment in question. They form a useful guide 

 later on to the executive officer and assist the working plan officer 

 in arranging the fellings and other operations of the plan when 

 he sits down to draw these up. 



This will be recorded under the heads just mentioned, main- 

 tained for each individual compartment or block depending on the 

 intensity of working. It is intended for use in the field and conse- 

 quently a copy should be in the hands of the Range Officer in 

 addition to the divisional copy. It will contain for each compart- 

 ment or block the description of the forest, volume of the growing, 

 stock, detailed prescriptions of the plan. Subsequently as work 

 proceeds, notes will be entered showing how and whac marking 

 was done, with what idea the markings were carried out, progress 

 of regeneration, artificial help given to the regeneration and the 

 cost thereof, weedings, cleanings, thinnings, etc. In this way a 

 new Eange Officer, Divisional Forest Officer or Inspecting Officer 

 going into a compartment can see at a glance the past history of 

 the crop, the work done, the silvicultural ideas of his predecessors, 

 and the result of their marking. Continuity of management is 

 thus obtained and a live interest in each compartment maintained. 

 The compartment history should invariably be put up when 

 the Conservator is on tour and a report on this made at office- 

 inspections. The compilations of the compartment history can 

 only be done along with the preparation of working plans, as no- 

 Divisional Forest Officer has the time to do it. A sample is given 

 in chapter XIII. 



