Excerpt from Principles of Forest Organisation

As regards our Course, this Book is perhaps the most importan t part of it. Once the student has gone, methodically and with a thorough understanding of the facts, through the practical work which it describes, his mind will be able to take in at once the whole subject of Forest Organisation, the various combinations, rules and principles that enter into it becoming perfectly clear to him. We will even go further and say that we do not fear to assert that it is almost impossible to acquire a full and complete knowledge of any forest without possessing both a theoretical and practical know ledge of the operations described in this the Second Book. And this is the reason why we have therein entered into an exhaustive and detailed account of those Operations.

The Third Book treats of the general features of the Working Plan for high forests. With reference to the subject of a sustained yield in the State Forests, we have established the fact that it is often expedient to subordinate it to the treatment applied and to the requirements of the future, because every year it becomes more and more clear that it ought to make way for the savings that must be effected in order to enable these forests to yield the most useful pro ducts, vis. Large timber, the scarcity of which is already felt in France. Moreover, the method Of Forest Organisation by Area is described here in the same spirit in which it has always been taught at the Forest School but, thanks to a more intimate knowledge of facts since acquired, we have been able to separate it from purelv theoretical considerations and to place it before the student in an entirely practical light.

The study of the organisation of regular high forests, which is more complete in itself and, all points considered, more natural than of that Of colises, is the best beginning to make in the theoretical andpractical study of Forest Organisation. One can scarcely understand sufficiently the rearing of copses-without having an intimate acquaint ance with that of high forests and similarly one cannot appreciate thoroughly the complex facts and the difficulties to be met with in organising copses without a knowledge of the organisation of high forests. Far then from seeking in the organisation of copses the key to the organisation of high forests, we consider that we must begin by studying this latter, even although we may not actually have to put it into practice, in order to master in a sure manner the general rules which govern all forest organisation.

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