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Title: The theory and practice of working plans (forest organization)
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Recknagel, A. B. (Arthur Bernhard), b. 1883
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Publisher: New York, J. Wiley
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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: 220 crops of virgin cups220 high-face cupsno back cupsno high-face back cupsTotal, 660 crops, or 6,600,000 cups However, in order to reduce the forest to normal and to fullyutilize merchantable timber, the annual permits for the decade19ID to 1920 have not been restricted to six and two-thirds newcrops. The following diagram (Fig. 2) shows the number ofcrops (10,000 cups each) operative annually for the period 1910to 1920. First permit means virgin cups, second meanshigh-face cups, third means back cups, and fourth meanshigh-face back cups. At the end of the ten years the Choctawhatchee Divisionwill practically be producing normally and should continue todo so during the remainder of the hundred-year cycle which mustelapse before a second cupping is possible. 11: THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF WORKING PLANS It should be remembered, in this comiection, that any regulation by number of cups must be approximate, since the arearequired for a crop of cups is so variable. Therefore, it is the
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TOTAL 246.0 NORMAL 66.0 SURPLUS REMOVED 180.0 LEGENDP»i l<i<l of WorkluK •^^—Period of IlcsUiig Tk;. 2. practice of the govemnunt lo place on the market each year acertain area (by legal subdivisions) which the estimates showto contain appro.ximately the scheduled number of cups. CHAPTER III THE WORKING-PLAN DOCUMENT SECTION ONE CONTENTS AND FORM The working-plan document is the vehicle for recordingthe saUent features of a forest bearing on its organization andthe detailed prescriptions of that organization for the nextworking period. Simplicity and brevity are the key-notes. Thedescriptive portion is usually confined to such short statementsas suffice to bring to the trained foresters eye the picture of theforest as it is in its essentials, but, occasionally, a more detaileddescription is warranted so as to make the plan comprehensibleto a layman, e.g., where the plan is to be executed by a layman-owner (see pre\dous chapter, Section 3, Wood-lots). In the interests of cle

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