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GOVERNMENT REGULATION AND WORKING PLANS 



^^^ X 109,791 = 2,744 + 274 = 3,018 cubic meters, this result corresponding to 1.03 



per cent of the total growing stock and to 1.68 cubic meters per hectare figuring on 

 the basis of 1,800 hectares actually wooded. This yield is considered so conservative 

 that it is expected the actual growing stock will be increased." 



Reference should be made to the growth figures, pages 256 to 260. 



(Art. 5) Allotting the yield. The annual cut is allotted by convenient 

 districts, 10 in number, so that the wood will be convenient to the differ- 

 ent hamlets or small sawmills. In other words, it would impose a hard- 

 ship on some of the villagers if the cut were made in one locahty alone. 

 This compHcates the management, but much the same problem may be 

 looked for in the United States on National Forests where a number of 

 small local mills must be supplied with stumpage or else they will have 

 to shut down and move elsewhere. 



(Art. 6) Marking the cutting areas during the second period (1910- 

 1929). The order of cutting is often disarranged by windfalls, etc., but 

 it is carefully worked out by the working plans officer by working groups. 

 The form used is : 



In the first working group the per cent to be cut varies from 10 to 25 

 per cent of the standing timber. The total amount inventoried was 

 43,360 cubic meters, and the cut estimated at 872. 



(Art. 7) Cultural Rules. (A) Fellings by volume. 



"A large number of compartments have not been cut over for quite a long time, 

 therefore, the overmature and rotting trees, and those crooked or dry topped, are abun- 

 dant. In certain divisions they even form most of the stand. We estimate that their 

 removal would almost equal the yield during a period at the very least ... on the 

 steep slopes so frequent in the forest, every day there are trees damaged by falling stones 

 or by the logging. But it must be observed that while on the one hand one must often 

 remove diseased trees, yet on the other there are compartments where poles and young 

 high forest need immediate thinnings. It will then be the thinning of these young 

 stands which will complete the yield and we believe it necessary to insist on this point. 

 One can but admit that to get a considerable volume by marking stands of small size 

 on steep slopes is hard work. The officer in charge of marking must guard against the 

 tendency of the markers to designate large trees ... he will also have to fight 

 against the difficulties of the ground. This rule should be applied specially in the com- 

 partments (enumerated) on areas where the regeneration is difficult (compartments 

 . . . especially) continue the existing thinnings and in the little openings caused by 

 the removal of several overmature trees at once start reforestation by groups. . . . 

 In the old compartments (unmanaged) the stand should be kept as fully stocked as 



