FOREST MANAGEMENT. 32 I 



Wording Circles 



Under " working circles " we understand, after Schlich, that forest 

 area owned by one person or company which is largely under the provision 

 of one and the same working plan. 



Wording Sections 



In large working circles, the economic conditions are frequently such 

 as not to allow of uniting all woods under one cutting plan. Woods grow- 

 ing under more or less equal conditions and exhibiting equal silvics are 

 allotted to distinct working sections, to be dealt with independently from 

 all others. A working section should comprise woods of all ages and classes, 

 and should consist of several cutting series. There is no need for the work- 

 ing section to cover a coherent area. For each working section in Europe, 

 the financial possibility is ascertained separately. The following moments 

 may necessitate the formation of a working section: 



1. Different species. 



2. Different silvicultural requirements. 



3. Different rotation. 



4. Different laws. 



5. Different means of transportation. 



6. Different locality. 



A large number of working sections complicates forest administration. 



Compartments and r>loc^s 



The leading foresters do not agree with regard to a proper definition 

 of the term " compartment." For the majority of foresters, a compart- 

 ment is a unit of silvicultural treatment." The compartment may con- 

 tain subcompartments consisting of smaller or larger groups which, to 

 speak with the advocates of that definition, should be eliminated by puri- 

 fication of the compartments. Others maintain that the compartment 

 should designate merely a geographical unit of the forest used to describe, 



