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tions in any of the forest reserve areas on the plea of increased 

 stock production or on other grounds, would be disastrous to the 

 main purpose for which they were created. Where adjacent 

 private lands are involved in these reserves, the proclamation 

 creating reserve applies to them only in the nature of a recom- 

 mendation that such private lands be protected and held by the 

 owner as a forest reserve. In some cases, such lands have under 

 the law been turned over to the care and control of the Division 

 of Forestry. In others, the owner has given them adequate pro- 

 tection. In still other cases, the opposite has unfortunately been 

 true. 



FOREST RESERVE ADMINISTRATION. 



Of recent years, an attempt has been made with the available 

 facilities to take these reserves out of the class of *'paper re- 

 serves" and to. place them under true forest administration and 

 protection. On almost 50 miles of reserve boundaries fences 

 have been built or repaired where it was necessary to keep stock 

 from the native woods. The Division of Forestry is always 

 ready to meet the adjacent owners half way in the cost of co- 

 operative fences. A comprehensive regulation against trespass 

 on the reserves has been passed and is enforced along with other 

 regular work of fence building and repairing, tree planting, and 

 patrolling for forest fires in the dry season, by six forest rangers 

 who are constantly on duty so that each main island now has 

 at least one forest ranger to look out for the government's inter- 

 ests in the reserves. 



WATERSHED PLANTING. 



In reforestation, special attention has been given to the plant- 

 ing up of watershed areas. Upper Nuuanu received early treat- 

 ment and more recently the government reserve lands in Manoa 

 and the Makiki Valleys have been reforested with native species, 

 mostly koa and kukui, with great success. 



CONCLUSION. 



In the Territory of Hawaii public sentiment is fortunately, 

 favorable on the whole to forestry with good reason. It remains 

 to give this sentiment still further substantiation by fortifying 

 the efforts of the Territorial Government in protecting and bring- 

 ing back to normal on private as well as on government lands 

 the forest which conserves and maintains the agricultural life 

 blood of the land. To do this, concerted action is necessary and 

 is confidently expected. 



