28 FOREST REGULATION 



3) At a second interview of owner and forester, the important 

 points of the above Report are discussed. If report and .conditions 

 prove satisfactory the owner decides to have a regular Working- 

 Plan prepared at an expense of not to exceed 25 cents per acre, or 

 $7500 total. 



The Forester now repeats his work, but does everything in 

 detail, so that instead of merely sampling the tract along the section 

 lines, he goes over every 4O-acre tract at least twice, and, where 

 needed, he makes side-trips, so that he sees practically every acre of 

 land on the property. This detail study also locates every corner, 

 and re-establishes all lines. >% 



In addition, the Forester makes a number of detail studies of 

 growth, of the few important species. 



With regard to outside condition, he not only learns about the 

 chances of getting logging, etc., done and the general price, but he 

 gets the names of men ready to contract and the prices at which 

 they offer to work. 



a. The Survey and Inventory by 4O-acre lots is made on 

 regular printed forms, one sheet to each 40 ; and states : 



The kinds or species of timber, and the proportion of these on 

 the 4O-acre tract. 



Age or sizes, represented. 



Amount of merchantable timber ; above 12 or 14 inches diameter 

 breast high ; usually by kinds. 



Density of timber ; or how fully is the land covered. 



Condition of timber; shape, size, defect, of both merchantable 

 and non-merchantable stuff. 



Young stuff ; reproduction, sapling and pole stuff. 



Land ; topography, surface, soil, drainage. 



Accidental Conditions ; burns, windfall, bare land. 



All this information must be called for in such form that it can 

 ' readily be taken down in the field, easily seen on the sheet, easily 

 taken off the sheet for compilation. 



' On this property there would be about 750 separate sheets or 

 descriptions and it would be useless for anyone to try to learn about 

 this property without compiling this mass into one or more general 

 statements and tables, and thus preparing a General Report. For 



