PART I. INTRODUCTORY. 



i. WHAT REGULATION TRIES TO DO. 



The task of Forest Regulation is : 



To build up ; Put in order, and Keep in order a forest business. 



a) In the United States the task is to take a piece of Wild Woods 

 and convert this gradually into a forest business which shall produce 

 timber, as much and as good as the land and climate permit, and to 

 have this timber in such a condition of age and arrangement that 

 a crop may be cut each year, and thus an income secured in keeping 

 with the investment. 



To accomplish this, Regulation not only orders in time and 

 place, the work of Silviculture, the planting or reproduction of the 

 stands of timber and their care, but it also plans an orderly harvest 

 of these stands of timber, and plans the necessary improvements, 

 division into suitable parts, necessary roads and other means required 

 to enable satisfactory Protection and Utilization of the forest. 



Regulation plans the work on the forest ; Administration car- 

 ries out the plans. But these two branches of Forest Management 

 are never sharply separated. 



b) Regulation depends on many conditions. It must consider 

 the land and timber it has to work with to raise the crop, and it must 

 consider market, transportation and labor which decide the value 

 of the crop after it is raised. But Regulation is especially dependent 

 upon Silviculture and their relation is interesting in this connection. 



Silviculture studies the best methods of raising the stand of 

 timber under the various conditions of soil, climate and species, 

 and it applies these methods in its work. Thus Silviculture depends 

 on natural (not man-made) conditions, and on natural laws and to 

 this extent it must not be interfered with by Regulation and 

 Administration. 



