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Attention is called to the proclamation of the Kau Forest Re- 

 serve, in the District of Kau, Island of Hawaii, that appears as a 

 By Authority Notice on another page of this issue of the Forester. 



Protecting, as this reserve does, the large watershed which 

 supplies the needs of two great sugar plantations, the Kau Forest 

 Reserve is an important one. The total area included within the 

 limits of the Kau Forest Reserve is 65,850 acres. Of this area 

 59,618 acres is government land, of which 23,630 is under lease 

 for a considerable period. The remainder, 35.988 acres, was 

 actually set apart under the law when Governor Carter signed 

 the proclamation creating the reserve, on August 2nd, 1906. 



The owners of the private land within the reserve boundaries 

 are heartily in favor of the creation of the reserve and will con- 

 tinue to manage their lands with reference to the objects for which 

 the reserv'e is created. This was plainly brought out at the 

 public hearing by representatives of the adjoining plantations, 

 as was also the fact that one of the main objects of the Board in 

 creating the reserve was to insure the continuance of the water 

 supply which these plantations have done so much to develop. 

 Tlie legitimate development and proper use of the water from 

 forest reserves, under water right leases issued by the Commis- 

 sioner of Public Lands, is indeed one of the things which the 

 forest reserve policy is intended to foster. 



It will be recalled that the reports of the Superintendent of 

 Forestry and of the Committee on Forestry, with the resolution 

 adopted by the Board in regard to the Kau Reserve, have 

 already appeared in the Forester, these documents having been 

 published in the July, 1906, issue. 



Experiments have lately been conducted to determine the possi- 

 bilities of growing trees in the sand hills of Nebraska with re- 

 sults which encourage the belief that certain species may be grown 

 with success in that region. It would seem to be expedient to 

 investigate in this direction in these islands with a view to ren- 

 dering productive and gradually to bring into cultivation the 

 arid and shifting sand wastes which occur in various parts of 

 the islands. Among the many advantages which would accrue 

 in the course of a few vears would be the conservation of mois- 



