Forest Management 



By C. A. Schexck, Ph.D.* 



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HE term "forest management," 

 used in a broad sense, comprises 

 collectively the branches of for- 

 estry known as forest survey, forest 

 management, forest finance and forest 

 working plans. Used in a narrow sense, 

 the term "forest management" deals 

 with forest working plans only, and is 

 usually defined as that branch of for- 

 estry which determines upon and regu- 

 lates the sustained yield (la possibility) 

 of forests; or, by others, as a systematic 

 arrangement of the rules by which 

 abnormal woodlands are transformed 

 into normal forests. 



American forest management will 

 do well to rest on a broader founda- 

 tion. It should determine, in science, as well as in practice, upon the ways 

 and means by which the desire of the owner, relative to the use of a forest 

 (for revenue, timber supply, shelter, pasture, ornament, water protection, 

 game preserves, etc.) can be best accomplished. In the majority of cases 

 the owner desires to draw from the forest the largest possible revenue. As 

 a consequence American forest management will have to deal with the 

 various means by which given forestal investments can be developed in a 

 manner producing the highest dividends in the long run. 



In Europe financial considerations are rarely applied to forest manage- 

 ment. Since 1 8 7 1 . however, the adherents of John Frederic Judeich insist 



:: Forester, Biltmore Estate, Biltmore, X. C. 



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