AN AUSTRALIAN STUDY OF AMERICAN FORESTRY, 99 
VI.—IMPROVEMENTS. 
Improvements. Comprehensive plan of the improvements needed. 
Location, brief description, estimated costs, indicate those which should be 
undertaken within the next five years. (Tabulated form.) 
Roads, trails, telephone lines, fire lines, administrative fences, stock 
fences, including the fencing of poisonous areas and bog holes, bridges, 
corrals, dwellings, other buildings, water development, stream improvement, 
dams to prevent erosion, other projects. 
Maintenance, as above. 
Policy and administration. 
Improvement policy of the forest. (Concisely by lines of work such as 
silviculture, grazing, protection, general administration, etc.) 
Administrative provisions. Special force needed. Costs, exclusive of the 
costs of individual projects. 
Map showing all improvements constructed and planned, with a sufficient 
amount of other data to make intelligible. 
VII.—ADMINISTRATION. 
Administrative districts. Number, area, and relative importance or 
amount of work. (Tabulate.) 
Force. Office and field and assignment. 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 
1, 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 expenditures. 
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 out- 
lined 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.) 
Regulation of the cut on the basis of the sustained yield had been early 
the objective of the American Forest Service, as it is that of the Australian 
Forest Services to-day. 
