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FOREST REGULATION 



are in poor condition and should be cut during the next 20 years. 

 The information is first gathered from the table of Age Classes 

 (see above) and then corrected by the original field descriptions. 

 At this point the good sense and training of the forester are very 

 much needed. The aim here in the Spruce Section is to cut only 

 about 1200 acres in the next 20 years, to secure, gradually, a greater 

 regularity in Age Classes, this being the normal area to cut in this 

 Working Section, i. e., 6000/100 X 20 = 1200. Whether or not it 

 is good policy here to cut the 1200 acres during the next 20 years 

 is quite an important question and needs a careful consideration 

 of the whole situation. Since both the 4th and the 5th Age Class 

 are deficient and the 3rd contains only 100 acres more than it 

 should, it would seem better to save a little during the first 20, and 

 probably even during the second 20 years period. After deciding 

 on the total area, it is necessary to decide what stands to take and 

 what stands to leave for another period. In cases where a con- 

 siderable number of defective, injured stands make up a large 

 portion of the older stands this choice is anything but simple, and 

 many a good forester has chafed for years ^ because at the last 

 Revision the plan required him to hold a lot of stuff which is 

 diseased and dying in spite of all the care possible. 



The stand table commonly takes on about the following form : 



WORKING SECTION I, SPRUCE, ROTATION 100 YEARS. 

 STANDS SELECTED EOR YEARS 1914-1933. (To BE REVISED IN 1924.) 



Etc., etc., 



