I50 CORSICA 



" Diameters — 

 30^1 (ii-8'') 40(15-7) 50(19-7) 60(23.6) 70(27.6) 

 80 (31.5) 90 (35.4) 100 (39.4) no (43.3) 120 (47.2) 



" joo Corsican pine — 



(Number of trees corresponding to above diameter classes.) 

 26 73 45 44 34 



33 15 20 7 3 



" Estimated products: — Timber, 528 cubic metres (18,646 cubic 

 feet) of logs (of which ^^ cubic metres (1165 cubic feet) have 

 come from 57 fungus infected trees). Firewood: 1546 steres 

 (54,595 cubic feet). Total volume 1559 cubic metres (55,054 

 cubic feet). The dry trees, to the number of 25, are valued 

 only as fuel. 



" Boundaries. — N. Manevelle ravine, dividing Kne between 

 H. — E.: forest road No. 9 — S: San Pietro ravine. — O: rest 

 of compartment. 



" Removal. — Forest road No. 9. 



" Charges. — None." 



After a Sale. — After a sale the forest is often considerably 

 damaged. The practice of skidding and hauling long lengths 

 (for which there is a keen market) damages reproduction and 

 skins the boles of trees left, when the logs are skidded or worked 

 down steep slopes. 



The utilization is far from complete, but the Service has no 

 pecuniary interest here, since the usual sale is on the stump and 

 full payment is required before cutting. Stumps are chopped 

 rather high, and tops are not completely utiHzed. Occasionally 

 the cutting area resembles the old-time American slash with 

 lots of merchantable timber left for fires, and with poles topped 

 by the fall of the veterans. The brush is now piled and where 

 left to rot is practically decayed and reduced to humus after 

 4 or 5 years. 



On some areas the very primitive method of hand-saw cutting 

 is employed in the woods, in which case the damage to stand- 

 ing timber is much less. Where the logs are sawed by hand 

 the timbers are packed out on donkeys or mules to the nearest 

 road. The road hauling is by mules or oxen. 



" Centimetres. I ^^ Inches. 



