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A similar letter was sent asking the supervisors to draw up, 

 each for his forest, a plan of sale policy, indicating those areas 

 on which cutting should be restricted or encouraged according 

 to economic and silvicultural conditions, etc. 



The first crude regulations of the cut, sale policy, and 

 minimum stumpage rates were also sent to each of the six 

 inspection districts and the chief inspector requested to revise 

 and amplify them according to his local information. 



In the Southwestern district (No. 3), Acting Chief Inspector 

 Woolsey availed himself of this splendid opportunity to draw 

 up a complete, far-sighted limitation of cut and sale policy for 

 each forest and for the district and also minimum stumpage 

 rates by forests, species, and classes of material. His sale 

 policy was by far the most complete of any prepared, the more 

 so as he proceeded to determine the allowed annual cut for each 

 forest, separately for saw timber and cord- wood, by Von Man- 

 tel's method (see method No. 2). Crude as this method is, 

 it was a marked step in advance in the regulation of cut on the 

 national forests. 



When the six Western administrative districts were created 

 in December, 1908, the ofifice of management, and with it the 

 section of reconnaissance, ceased to exist. So enormous had 

 been the undertaken task of systematizing and controlling the 

 estimates, allowed annual cut, marking rules, stumpage rates, 

 and sale policy that only the foundations of a correct forest 

 organization were turned over to the districts whereon to build. 



The office of silviculture in each of the districts took over 

 the task and the manual of procedure in the district offices 

 provided for annual revisions of the estimates, sale policy, 

 allowed annual cut, minimum (later standard) stumpage rates, 

 and marking rules, to be submitted by the supervisors, combined 

 by the district forester and in the case of the allowed annual 

 cut, forwarded by him to Washington for review by the forester 

 and approval by the secretary. The limitation of annual cut 

 as fixed by the secretary — based, of course, on reasons of sale 

 policy — could not be exceeded without his consent. However, 



