A FOREST WORKING PLAN. 45 1 



A little care exercised in the felling of timber makes a decided difference in 

 the work of lopping the tops. If several tops are felled together, thereby forming 

 a slash, the cost of lopping will be materially increased. Even when lopped, 

 such tops, if not scattered about on the ground, will remain held up from the 

 earth by the limbs under them, and will thus be prevented from receiving 

 the earth's moisture and becoming dampened. 



It is not advisable to include the lopping of tops in the contract for the sale 

 of the timber stumpage. In order to secure satisfactory results, the lopping of 

 tops should be made a separate and distinct piece of work, and its execution 

 should be placed entirely in the hands of the inspector. The cost of lopping the 

 tops upon these tracts should not be more than two cents per standard (or ten 

 cents per thousand feet board measure), including the lopping of the tops of all 

 trees cut in building log roads, clearing out for skidways, and erecting camps, 

 dams, etc. The work of lopping should be very thoroughly done for that amount. 



OUTLETTING ROADS TO LaKES. 



In locating roads for hauling logs to lakes or across them, care should be 

 exercised to bring them to the lakes in points as near as possible to the back 

 ends of the bays and the inlets of the small streams. No more roads should be 

 cut through the reserved strip along the lake front than are absolutely necessary 

 for the purpose of removing the timber, nor should the roads be cut any Avider 

 than necessary for the passage of one loaded team at a time. No clearing out 

 for the purpose of skidding logs should be allowed upon the shores of the lakes, 

 since the clearing out of spaces large enough for the skidways, and the consequent 

 cutting of skidding roads and trails leading thereto, gives to the lakeshore a very 

 unsightly appearance, which can as well be avoided. 



Whenever the topography of the locality makes it necessary to bring out roads 

 on the shore at points where there are no streams coming into the lake, such 

 roads should be so located as to reach the lake on an abrupt curve, in order to 

 cut off the view from the lake. They should not be brought to the lake in a long, 

 straight line. 



Reasonable care in locating roads, keeping skidways from the lakeshores, and 

 allowing no unnecessary roads to be cut through the lake-front reserve will 

 prevent the lumbering operations from being too apparent. A wise management 

 of the shore end of the log roads is fully as necessary to preserve the natural 

 beauty of the forests as is the leaving of reserve strips along the lakeshore or of 

 summit reserves on the tops of mountains. 



