io FOREST REGULATION 



timber, are all there is of importance to the subject of Forest Regu- 

 lation. In recent times there has been, even in the textbooks, a 

 return to Cotta's position. Judeich, really the successor as well as 

 pupil of Cotta, follows the master ; but the best exposition of the 

 knowledge, appreciation and attitude of the well educated practice 

 as well as that of the administrations of the German State Forests, 

 is contained in Martin's Forest Regulation of 1910 where 50% 

 more space is devoted to the directions concerning a proper division 

 ,of the forest in plain and mountains, than is devoted to the methods 

 of Regulating the Cut, all .put together. 



From the foregoing it is apparent that Forest Regulation is old. 

 that good, well planned business existed in the forest as much as 

 five centuries ago ; at least in those forests where a regular profitable 

 utilization was possible. (Zurich City Forest.) It also appears that 

 Regulation shared in the modern development, but that the great 

 factor in this progress lay in the development of market and trans- 

 portation which gave to the forest the reason for doing and the 

 funds to do with. 



Today there is hardly an acre of state forest in the German 

 Empire, and not an acre of village or city forest which has not a 

 regular, well conceived, carefully prepared and closely scrutinized 

 Working Plan, which must be followed by the forester, and which 

 is revised at regular set intervals. 



The same is true for all large private holdings and applies 

 almost as much to France, Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, 

 and Scandinavia and a large part of Russia as it does to Germany. 

 In the United States Forest Regulation, thanks to the progres- 

 sive policies of the United States Forest Service, is well under way. 

 Millions of acres of forest have been examined and the age, size, 

 growth and behavior of most of our important species has been 

 studied on many thousands of trees, and on thousands of stands of 

 timber. Forest Regulation, next to Protection, forms the principal 

 task on the great National Forests, where Working Plans are started 

 and developed for an area of forest five times as large as that of 

 all the forests of the German Empire, and are developing with real 

 science and support and at a rate probably never equaled anywhere 

 in the world. 



