12 FORFST REGULATION 



The stands are practically all man-raised, most of them (over 

 90%) even age and mostly pure stands, easily accessible and easily 

 and conveniently looked over or examined. The thinnings have 

 taken out the crooked, defective, etc., and the stuff is therefore quite 

 uniform and sound. 



Markets and means of transportation are long established, well 

 known and hardly need consideration. This, then, is the property 

 to be examined, described, and reported, for which a new forest 

 map is made, and a Working Plan prepared. 



The Forester in charge of the task has all these data in his 

 possession, he has a map guiding him from one lot to another ; he 

 knows beforehand what kind of timber he is to find on each lot, 

 what its origin (planted or natural reproduction), its present age, 

 its condition 20 years ago, whether it was cut and when, and what 

 was planted on the land. 



All this is so radically different from the task of the young 

 American Forester, who goes out into the wild and unknown forest. 

 And yet all these conditions affected the men who have written the 

 textbooks, and have, therefore, made these textbooks assume condi- 

 tions, and demand record, map and plan such as it is utterly 

 impossible to supply under wild woods conditions. In fact these 

 impossible demands have often made Regulation seem "impractic- 

 able" and even absurd, so that the young forester "lost heart" and 

 refused even to try to do the possible and feasible. 



It is evident, from the above, that Regulation becomes easier, 

 simpler, and more accurate with each revision, and herein particularly 

 lies the value of these repetitions. 



The work is usually not done by the Forester in charge of the 

 particular woods 1 but, in all state forests, this task falls to a man 

 from the office of Forest Regulation. This office tries to get around 

 once every 20 years to all forests of the State, and it also makes an 

 '".Intermediate Revision", a sort of special inspection every 10 

 years. The following tries to describe a case, following modern 

 instructions. 



b) Premises: Plan to be made in 1914. 



Forest, or "Revier" : 10,000 acres of State Forest, under 

 present Working Plan since 1840. 



1 Much controversy here; Prussian Instructions of 1912 change this, and 

 give this task to the local forester, as it should be. 



