212 FOREST REGULATION 



Part II. Execution or Application ("Ausfuhrung"). 



A. FIELD WORK, or PRELIMINARY WORK, ("Vorarbeiten"). 



1. Division of Forest into: Working Sections, Cutting Series, 

 Lots and Stands or Sub-Lots (Unterabteilungen) Fine examples 

 (Maps) of Forest Division, (Plate I, p. 208) taken from Forest 

 Maps of existing Reviers, from actual practice. 



2. Forest Survey. 



3. Description of Forest. 



a. Special Studies, ( "Allgemeine Vorerhebungen") Site; Yield 

 tables ; Grades and Prices, Money Yield tables ; Losses in logging. 



b. Detail Forest Description proper, by lots, ("Specielle Be- 

 standes aufnahme") Site ; Stand ; Estimates of .Volume and Growth ; 

 Determination of ripeness; Notes as to work necessary during the 

 next ten years (refers to work with forest growth, not roads, etc.) 

 Preparation of tables and maps. 



c. General Description of Forest : Ownership ; Location, Area, 

 and shape of property ; boundaries ; conditions concerning the owner, 

 which affect the management, his business and finances, etc. ; Top- 

 ography ; Site, including Soil, Climate; Species and peculiarities; 

 dangers to forest; treatment of forest in the past (history of prop- 

 erty) ; Present Condition of forest; Surrounding Population and ith 

 influence; matters of market, labor, trespass, dangers; Means of 

 Transportation; secondary uses and incomes from forest (grazing, 

 bark, etc.); Labor and present Organization of labor in forest; 

 Organization of Forest Officers. 



B. FOREST REGULATION, THE WORKING PLAN, ("Eigentliche 

 Betriebseinrichtung") . 



1. General Plan or Agreement regarding the Principles, 

 (Grundziige") of the Management. 



a. Choice of Silvicultural Methods. 



b. Choice of Species. 



c. Rotation. 



d. Decision as to where to begin and how to proceed with the 

 Cutting of the timber, ("Feststellung d. hiebsfolge")- 



e. Considerations in matters of reproduction and in the care 

 of the forest. 



2. Preparation of the Detail Plans, ("Aufstellung der Betriebs 

 Plane"). 



