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It helps to make everything accessible ; even a blazed line helps 

 in going to a particular place. 



It creates, or helps to create small, independent woods, an 

 arrangement necessary for good Silviculture in all forests of even 

 age stands, and useful even in the .Selection Forest. 



Subdivision of the forest is useful to all the important lines of 

 work connected with forestry. .-\ few points deserve special 

 mention : 



1. Land survey and Boundary. Here a good subdivision on 

 the ground helps to maintain, verify and relocate parts of the 

 boundary ; it helps especially with regard to interior holdings ; and 

 it helps constantly in the use of the maps prepared in the land 

 survey. 



2. In Topographic Survey, it helps to make, check or verify 

 and correct the survey ; it locates all topographic features, and 

 makes the topographic survey more useful. 



3. The Timber estimate is more valuable if made by definite 

 forty or lot. A lumberman who would gladly pay $2.oo$5.oo per 

 forty for an estimate by forty, would not care to buy an estimate 

 which would only give large averages, or refer to areas not marked 

 and therefore of uncertain location. 



Subdivision helps to plan the work of estimating and describing 

 the property ; it makes for a better estimate, since any one tract can 

 be finished and can be treated in estimating according to its needs. 

 It also enables proper control or supervision by checking, and it 

 enables repetition without cost of re-location. 



In timber disposal the need for definite location is evident; a 

 scale record must tell where the stuff was cut ; an application, a 

 report, a contract must state where the timber is located. 



4. Plantation, Thinning, Improvement work generally require 

 definite location; the work is better planned, easier directed, better 

 reported and booked ; and only a definite location enables satisfactory 

 inspection and supervision. 



5. Protection is helped by subdivision ; it makes the woods 

 more accessible, enables the ranger to know his forest, stimulates 

 interest, locates any damage and gives meaning to the report. 



In many localities a well blazed division line helps to prevent 

 tre.spass ; and in all cases it facilitates prosecution. 



