234 THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF WORKING PLANS 



VII. Administration 



Administrative districts. Number, area, and relative importance or amount 



of work. (Tabulate.) 

 Force. Office and field and assignjnent. Salaries. 



Also a brief forecast of future requirements. (Tabulate.) 



Permanent, statutory. 



Semi-permanent and temporary. 

 General administrative policy of forest. (General relation of important lines 



of work. Include also points not already covered; fully and briefly in 



I, 2, and 3 order.) 

 Receipts and expenditures and results. By lines of work for fiscal years, past 



and estimated future. 



Administrative provisions for increasing receipts or reducing expendi- 

 tures. 

 Map, boundaries of administrative, or other districts. 



Appendix 



Material which should be preserved in connection with the plan, but 

 which will be used infrequently in actual forest administration. 

 List of species. 

 Details of methods used in the collection of data, costs, and areas covered. 



(Reconnaissance.) 

 Tables, growth, volume, etc., when it is reasonably certain that they will be 



used infrequently. 

 Details of method for regulating yield. 

 Detailed silvical discussions upon which conclusions and principles outlined 



in the plan are based, if preservation seems necessary or advisable. 

 General notes upon which the conclusions in the plan were based. 

 Inventory of existing improvements, if desired. (Tabulate.) 



The first attempts to determine tlie allowed annual cut for 

 each national forest, necessarily in advance, often, of any regu- 

 lar working plan, were very crude. Nevertheless, though based 

 on insufficient data, the attempt recognized the fundamental 

 principle of a sustained yield. 



For each national forest the annual cut has been fixed since 

 1908. At first this was taken, roughly, as equal to the current 

 annual increment, a crude calculation based on often faulty 

 estimates and insufficient growth data, but giving at least a 

 working basis. 



The allowed cut so calculated was not distributed on the 

 ground, since this would have been a useless play, but instead 

 a definite sale policy was drawn up for each forest by dividing 

 the forest into areas where ordinary sales, i.e., of large size, 

 are desirable, areas where small sales (for local industries) only 



