SECOND BOOK 



OPERATIONS COMMON TO ALL FOREST 

 ORGANISATION, 



The various kinds of work required in the organisation of evpry 

 forest fall under two broad classes, viz. — (i) Outdoor Operations 

 and (ii) the Organisation Report and Project. 



The former class always of necessity begins with the examina- 

 tion of the forest, while the latter, in like manner, opens with the 

 report of this examination. Now a forest of any extent offers at 

 first sight a confused collection of trees ; it is impossible to take in 

 the whole of it in one view. To become thoroughly acquainted with 

 it, we must separate it into its various component parts, divide and 

 analyse it, then group together the data thus obtained and digest 

 and form them into one whole by the opposite process of synthesis. 

 This work consists in the division of the forest into Compaktjeents, 

 followed by a detailed examination and description of them, and in 

 the drawing up of the General Descriptive Eeport of the forest. 



That being done, next comes the formation of the Working 

 Circles, then the determination of the Rotation or age at which the 

 forest is to be exploited. 



Such are the preliminary steps in the organisation of eveiy 

 forest. 



