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1. Land Map, showing area, direction of lines and length, etc. 



2. Topographic Map showing improvements. 



3. Timber or Stand Map showing in colors at least the three 

 types of woods, pine, hardwood and swamp, as they occur on the 

 forest. 



e. Third Conference; the Working Plan is now submitted. 

 By rights, the owner should have the work inspected, sampled and 

 verified. If found satisfactory, it is received and paid for. 



This now ends the task, and the owner is free to use these 

 documents as he sees fit. If he does wish to go into forestry, how- 

 ever, he will find right at the outset, that a good forest Working 

 Plan is nearly useless in the hands of an untrained man. Such a 

 man can use the maps and the estimates and can have the timber cut 

 and the forest cut over in the old, usually destructive way, but to 

 use a Working Plan and buil'd up a forest business requires a 

 forester. 



But even if the owner does not go into forestry, he will find, in 

 most cases, that the expenditure (in our case $8100 for both 

 reports) is well warranted on a property worth $450,000, just to 

 know what the property really is, a thing which no ordinary cruiser 

 report ever enables him to do. The cruiser report tells of logs and 

 land (not always the latter) and leaves the forest, or the real prop- 

 ertv undetermined. 



B. THE FIELD WORK. 



The gathering of the Information necessary as basis of a Work- 

 ing Plan and here summed up as the Field Work, usually involves 

 three quite distinct parts : 



a) The Examination of the property, land timber and im- 

 provements. 



b) Special Studies, mostly studies of Growth and Behavior of 

 the most important kinds of timber on the property. 



c) Study of Outside Conditions, such as Market, Means of 

 transportation, Chance for labor, Matters of taxation, etc. 



