192 THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF WORKING PLANS 



In the last year of the twenty-year working period the super- 

 visor has to report about the execution of the working plan, the 

 experiences gained thereby, and about the essential results of 

 the management, the changes in the condition of the forest, to 

 express himself about the fundamentals of the working plan 

 and to base suggested changes on detailed data. 



The district inspection officer has to express himself as to 

 this report and these recommendations of the supervisor. The 

 working-plans officer assigned for the task has then, in company 

 with the district officer and the officers of the forest, to go over 

 the forest in detail. On the basis of this trip over the forest, 

 and after due consideration of the proposals made by the dis- 

 trict officer and the supervisor,* the working-plans officer draws 

 up the fundamentals of the new working plan, and the scheme 

 of field-work. Often, of course, some of these fundamentals 

 must await, at least in part, certain investigations in the field; 

 for such points a supplement is to be prepared. 



The fundamentals as agreed upon at the working-plan con- 

 ference and any supplement thereto, must be approved by the 

 state ministry of finance. 



In the last year of each decade, also, the supervisor must 

 anticipate the intermediate revision or review by a report on 

 the correctness and applicability of the methods of regulation 

 and of the rules of management. 



A working-plan conference and consequent drawing up of 

 the fundamentals of the proposed plan are not necessary in the 

 intermediate revisions. 



The field-work is done by assistants of the working-plans 

 officer in so far as the forest force cannot be used therefor. 

 The party may be divided into sections, each under the direc- 

 tion of a section chief versed in working-plans procedure. 

 These section chiefs and their workmen are instructed (if neces- 

 sary in writing) by the working-plans officer acting in conjunc- 

 tion with the administrative officers of the forest. 



* If their advice is refused the reason for such refusal must be stated by the 

 working-plans officer. 



