PART III. PLANS. 



GENERAL PLANS. 



A. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS. 



a. General Plans and Detail Plans together form the Work- 

 ing Plan proper. Reports tell the owner what he has, Plans teH 

 him what he can do. 



b. The General Plan usually applies to the entire forest or 

 property ("Revier" in Germ.), the Detail Plans for Protection, for 

 Improvements, for Planting, etc., also apply to the entire forest, but 

 Detail Plans for Regulation of the Cut in Amount and Location, 

 and consequent Regulation of Age Classes do not always apply to 

 the entire forest, since each Working Section receives a separate 

 Plan. Where a forest is small and uniform in Site and Stands, t^e 

 entire forest may have but one plan. But even the General Plan in 

 its directions as to Species, Silviculture, Rotation, takes up the 

 matter by Working Sections. Large forests, such as some of our 

 Xational Forests will require special treatment, and may better be 

 divided into several parts, like so many distinct properties, each with 

 its distinct General and Detail Plans. 



c. The -property, the Forest, composed of land and timber, is 

 assumed to be used for the purpose of raising timber and the plans 

 must tell what should be done to make the best possible use of this 

 property. 



But the purpose is not always the same. A forest in Wyoming 

 may be as valuable for its grazing possibilities as for timber ; in 

 Wisconsin it may be merely a matter of raising timber; in the 

 pinery of Alabama it would certainly also be used to produce Naval 

 Stores ; while in Maine or Washington the waterpowers, tourist 

 .business and hunting and fishing opportunities might outweigh the 



