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tinat," so the return of the "lost provinces" to France will not help her timber shortage. 

 Considering that 30 per cent of the country is forested it is especially surprising to find 

 that 70,000 steres (about 20,000 cords) of fuel are imported and in addition 7^ million 

 tons of coal. Granting that Alsace-Lorraine cannot export wood to France, France 

 must reforest with rapidly growing species her 15 million acres of land which is not now 

 'producing, and the low production of French private forests must be increased. "The 

 owners must be persuaded to give up their short rotations (in coppice and coppice- 

 under-standards) and must be shown the necessity of producing saw timber" — for the 

 benefit of the public. 



Judging from the data now available the German administration of Alsace-Lorraine 

 public forests has been honest, efficient, and along correct lines. France receives back a 

 valuable property which has been wisely developed during the 41 years of alienation. 



APPENDIX K 



ORIGINAL WORKING PLAN DATA 



Translations from original French Government working plans give a further insight 

 into management methods and policy. The original French metric system has been 

 retained. The following extracts are given: 



(1) Digest of Grande Cote (Jura) working plan revision illustrating a working plan 

 by Devarennes. 



(2) Extract from working plan revision of State forest of Ban d'Etival, by Cuif, 

 showing error in stocktaking in 1898. Masson method of yield calculation used ex- 

 perimentally as a comparison with the method of 1883 and regulation by number of 

 trees. This is one of the most interesting forests in France for detailed study by those 

 interested in forest management. 



(3) Forest of Mont Glore. An example of errors in early yield calculation which 

 resulted in an overcut. 



(4) Forest of Hardies (near Oloron, Basses-Pyrenees). Forestry on alluvial land 

 subject to flooding, and therefore unsuited to agriculture. 



(5) Forest of La Joux (Haute-Jura). Yield calculation where there is an excess 

 growing stock. Graphic of growing stock compared with an empirical normal stand. 



(6) Forest of Fillinges (Haute-Savoie) . Recovery of a forest after forest management. 



(7) Forest of Burdignin (Haute-Savoie). Example of yield regulation by the method 

 of 1883. 



(8) Forest of Pare et St. Quentin (Oise). Example of yield regulation by periods, 

 with the provision that the silvical needs of the regeneration fellings (which will be de- 

 pendent on the seed crops secured) should be subordinate to the sequence of fellings laid 

 out by the working plan. 



(9) Forest of Thiez (Haute-Savoie). Example of a complete working plan by Schaef- 

 fer, the foremost working plans officer in France. 



(1) STATE FOREST OF GRANDE COTE (JURA) 

 PART I 

 "All the available statistics concerning the state forest of Grande Cote are given in 

 detail in the management plan of February 26, 1858, and in the revisions of March 31, 

 1884, and April 27, 1897. Since this latter date there have been no actual changes in 

 area. This area given in the revision of 1897 was 381.61 hectares." . . . Minor 

 additions and substitutions have been made because of roads. . . . 



