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The Working Plan Report. — According to tlie Dictionnaire des Forets, 

 by Rousset et Boner, page 68, the working plan report follows the outline 

 given below: 



Part I. — General data. — 1, Name. 2, Total area, area wooded, openings and 

 clearings. 3, Boundaries. 4, Rights and servitudes. 5, Topography and drainage. 

 6, Soil. 7, Chmate. 8, Nature and condition of stand. 9, Kind of treatment. 10, 

 Wood products, principal and secondary; their volume and value in money during the 

 next ten years. 11, Routes, roads and method of logging. 12, Nurseries. 13, Market. 

 14, Grazing, pasturage, agriculture. 



Part II. — Chapter 1 . — Digest and critical review of treatment and, if there has 

 been any, of the working plan in force. 



Chapter 2. — Basis of the proposed management. 1, Division of the forest into 

 sections and justification of this division. 2, Division of each section into working 

 groups and justification. 3, Choice and justification of the method of cutting to apply 

 to each working group. 4, Table (A) of the working groups by sections. 



Part III. — Special studies of each working group. 1, High forest section. (1) 

 Division into compartments with description of compartments in table (B). (2) De- 

 termination of the normal age for cutting and consequently normal rotation; division 

 of this rotation into periods ; division of the working groups into periodic blocks ; general 

 system of normal cutting with table (C) . (3) Preparatory rotation. (4) Chief transi- 

 tion rotation. (5) General scheme of felling with table (E). (7) Yield with table 

 (F). (8) Allotting the cut with table (G). (9) Application of the yield; cultural rules. 



2. Coppice section. (1) Division into compartments with description of compart- 

 ments. (2) Determination of the exploitable age for the coppice, decision as to the 

 length of rotation; division of this rotation into periods, where (furete) coppice is con- 

 cerned. (3) Establishment of the general scheme of cutting; quarter in reserve in the 

 public (institution) and communal wood with table (H). (4) Standards. (5) Im- 

 provement cuttings; gleanings; freeing of seedlings. 



Part IV. — Works and betterments. (1) Preparation of the general map and the 

 compartment map. (2) Subdivisions of management; the boundaries. (3) Survey 

 and marking of the boundary. (4) Artificial reforestation and nurseries. (5) Drainage. 

 (6) Roads. 



Part V. — Comparative examination of the annual production and accessory prod- 

 ucts in material and money, now and after management. 



Maps. — Part of the working plan is a general map on tracing cloth, showing grad- 

 ient, water courses, routes, roads, ranger stations, sawmills or nurseries, boundaries of 

 working groups, cantons, periodic blocks, compartments, and coupes. If the scale 

 of the map will not allow all the necessary details, there should also be a map by work- 

 ing groups. 



Appendix.*^ — Should include tables, stand tables, and stem analyses used in fixing 

 the yield. The outline for the revision follows : 



Part I. — Preliminary data. — (1) Name. (2) Area. (3) Department and dis- 

 trict. (4) Conservation, inspection, canton. (.5) Altitudes. (6) Species by per cent. 



Part II. — Management in force. — (1) Digest of the management in force; system 

 and method of felling applied to the forest; division in sections and working groups. 

 (2) Digest of the general and special scheme of felling. (3) Aim of management and 



« The outline for the revision of a working plan should be compared with the above 

 and with the outline actually followed in the revised working plan (1910) for the com- 

 munal forest of Thiez given in the Appendix, page 517. 



