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(2) MANAGEMENT PLAN 



Objects of management. 

 Silviculture. 



Methods of cutting. 



Methods of brush disposal. 



Methods of logging. 



Silvicultural studies. 

 Regulation. 



Rotation and cutting cycle. 



Calculation of allowable cut. 



Regulation policy. 



Sales policy. 



Cutting budget. 

 Administrative correlation. 



Exchanges, grazing, roads, recreational use, etc. 



(3) APPENDIX 



Detailed estimates and descriptions by compartments or other units. 



Stock and stand tables. 



Growth data. 



Regulation calculations and discussion. 



Detailed silvicultural directions by types. 



List of existing utilization plants and capacity of each. 



Maps. 



Miscellaneous. 



It has become customary in the Forest Service to submit a very 

 brief summary of the plan proper as page 1 of the report. This 

 summary presents at least the following information : 



Name of working circle. 

 Location. 



Area — timbered and nontimbered. 

 Stand — composition and merchantable volume. 

 Rotation and cutting cycles. 

 Silvicultural system to be used, by types. 



Yield — average annual cut and total cut for a specified period, by volume 

 and by acres. 



Predicted periodic or annual cut in second cutting cycle. 



In writing management-plan reports it should be kept constantly 

 in mind that the objective is to give the man on the ground a clear 

 understanding of what is to be done with the timber resources. The 

 plan proper should contain only definite conclusions and is no place 

 for recording observations, conjectures, arguments, or discussions. 

 Such matters, if there be any, properly belong in the appendix. 



THE CONTROL AND APPLICATION OF MANAGEMENT PLANS 



To put a plan of management into effect in a working circle re- 

 quires, (1) that the plan be pracicable, and (2) that the local force 

 have executive ability. Almost never will a plan be found that can 

 be put into action and carried out without special and sustained 

 effort on the part of the managing forester and his staff. The plan 

 supplies to these men the necessary guidance in much the same way 

 that the architect's plans and specifications guide the craftsmen whose 

 skill and energy must be depended upon to bring the structure to 

 completion. 



