VPRS 14857 Compartment Register

This register records the Department's activities within a forest over a period of time.The forest was divided into compartments. Activities and the dates when they occurred are entered into the register. This record also records the cost of undertaking those activities. There is no indication given as to which forest it refers although it almost certainly refers to the State Forest, Beechworth. (This could be determined by its proximity to other records in the custody of the Department of Sustainability and Environment at the time of the record's transfer into the custody of Public Record Office Victoria).There are 52 compartments in total. They are identified through a sequential numbering system. Information is recorded on the left-hand folio in relation to plantings, renewals, coppicing, pruning, cleaning, thinning, liberation and extraction roads. Information about assets is recorded in the right-hand folio. Information in relation to planting commences in 1931. Information in relation to assets does not commence until 1946 although it is concentrated mainly in the 1950s.