BOOK III 



THE WORKING SCHEME IN THE ORGANI- 

 SATION OF HIGH FORESTS. 



GENEEAL ITOTIOITS. 



Having decided what Edgime, Method of Treatment, and 

 Rotation or Age of Exploitability to adopt for an entire forest, or 

 for each of the several large masses which compose it, the next 

 step is to prescribe the series of exploitations that must be made in 

 each compartment, to fix their serial succession for the whole of 

 each Working Circle, and to ascertain the annual yield. This work 

 constitutes what we will call the Working Scheme ; it is the very 

 pith of the Organisation Project, and is the law which is to govern 

 the foresters charged with the execution of that Project. 



The Working Scheme is generally drawn up in tabular form 

 embodying in one or two statements the prescriptions relative to 

 the exploitations, so that any one may take in the whole series at 

 a glance. The particular form differs according to the method 

 of treatment to which the Working Circle is subjected, since the 

 nature and succession of the cuttings, as also the manner of 

 determining and expressing the yield, necessarily vary with the 

 method of treatment. 



High forests worked by the Natural Method yield extremely 

 variable products according to the age and dimensions of the wood 

 cut. The timber removed in the Regeneration Fellings comprises, 

 what we will term, the Pkincipal Produce of the Working Circle. 

 The Improvement Cuttings, which are made while the forest is 

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