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For the proper carrying out of the work of the division a proper Maps. 

 set of maps showing the division into compartments, allotment 

 to working circles, periodic blocks, etc., is necessary. The working 

 plan officer will prepare a complete set of maps on the scale 4? 

 1 mile or 2" = 1 mile or even 1" = 1 mile, as the case may be, showing 

 the above details. In some cases stock maps, showing the distri- 

 bution of the species, are necessary where different species are 

 allotted to different working circles as in the case of chir and oak in 

 Ranikhet, where the stock map becomes more or less a map show- 

 ing the distribution of the different working circles. In the case 

 of the Tulsipur forests of Gonda most excellent stock maps showing 

 the distribution of sal and miscellaneous species have been pre- 

 pared. D'Arcy gives a method of showing graphically the nature, 

 and composition of the forest as follows : 



Seedling crop . . . . 00000 



Thicket of saplings . . . 88880 



Pole crop + + + + + 



Young high forest . . . x x x x x 



Mature high forest 



Overmature or decaying high forest = = = 



Jerram in his working plan for the Rawalpindi division has. 

 prepared elaborate stock maps on the above lines. It is open to 

 doubt however whether such detailed stock maps are worth the 

 labour expended on their preparation. It is considered that a 

 working plan map showing the general distribution of the working 

 circles ; the areas under regeneration, 'the extensive grass blanks 

 found in the plains, the compartments, blocks or any other 

 permanent features of the plan shows as much detailed as is 

 necessary for all practical purposes. 



Coupes will not usually be shown on the general working, 

 plan maps on the scale 1" = 1 mile ; they will be shown on a large 

 scale map specially prepared for this purpose when this is 

 necessary. In certain cases however under the management of 



