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APPENDIX 



ACCESSORY PRODUCTS 



Art. 10. — Roads, trails, and means of removal. — There are no regular roads in 

 the forest (only a few trails traversing the stand), but at the bottom of each canton 

 there is a mule trail. That part which borders the Canton of Vuardaz joins the national 

 road No. 202; this enables the hauHng of wood to the Taninges station (narrow gauge), 

 4.6 kilometers away. The area bordering the Peray Canton almost touches the main 

 road from the pass of Chatillon to Bonneville via Marignier (P. L. M. station, 4 kilo- 

 meters). 



Art. 11. — Markets. — The fire wood is used locally, while the logs (owing to the 

 railroads in each valley) have a wide market. 



Art. 12. — Grazing, etc. — None. 



Art. 13. — Patrol. — The patrol is done by two guards, one belonging to the Tan- 

 inges ranger district, the other to Cluses. Their residences are at Taninges and Cluses. 



PART II 



Chapter I. — Statement and Critical Review of Treatment in Force 

 By a decision of the director, dated June 13, 1873, the forest of Thiez was divided into 

 two working groups, one coppice, the other high forest. The coppice working group 

 having been entirely disposed of since 1873 there is nothing to report. The high forest 

 working group has been cut over during a period of 15 years by improvement cuttings 

 amounting to 4.34 hectares each year. This period of 15 years ended in 1888. Since 

 this date the forest has only been cut under emergency fellings except for an improve- 

 ment felling in 1909 of 8.68 hectares, and in two or three selection cuttings only windfall 

 or overmature timber was removed. While the regular fellings have been few in number, 

 the same cannot be said of the trespass cuttings, for almost all the stock of the Peray 

 Canton has been cut by trespassers. It is essential to regulate the fellings and to deter- 

 mine a yield based upon an exact estimate of the forest's resources. This is the object 

 of this work. 



Chapter II. — Basis of Proposed Management 



A conifer stand with such a small stock can only be treated by the selection system. 

 We propose to put the entire area into a single working group of selection high forest. 



