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Division of Forestry 



ANNUAL REPORT. 



Honolulu, June 3, 1918. 



Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, Honolulu. 



Gentlemen : — I have the honor to submit the following brief 

 report covering the work of the Division of Forestry for the 

 calendar year 1917: 



INTRODUCTION. 



The main activities of this Division have continued to be 

 forest protection and forest extension. Under the first subject 

 there has been considerable expansion, and much progress has 

 been made in placing the forest reserves under better administra- 

 tion. In the work of forest extension, the Division has con- 

 tinued to raise and distribute tree seedlings at cost for general 

 planting throughout the Territory, and in the tree-planting scheme 

 of the Division particular attention has been given to the refores- 

 tation of water-producing areas. 



FOREST PROTECTION. 



Forest Fencing. The general program of fencing boundaries 

 of government forest reserve lands exposed to stock has been 

 continued although not so extensively as had been planned 

 owing to the session of the Legislature and the anthrax epi- 

 demic, w^hich required my personal attention for more than half 

 of the year. In cooperation with the Kukaiau Ranch Company, 

 a start was made on the construction of over six miles of fencing 

 required to keep stock out of the northwest corner of the Hilo 

 forest reserve, Hawaii, by the building during the last half of the 

 year of 2.78 miles of fence. Under a general lease requirement 

 1.35 miles of fence wxre built on the boundary of the Nanakuli 

 forest reserve, Oahu, and at Hauula, on the same island, 0.63 

 mile of fence was constructed by homesteaders under an agree- 

 ment made by the Land Commissioner on the boundary of the 

 proposed reserve in that region. Other shorter stretches of 

 fence constructed on Oahu and Hawaii brought the total of new 

 fences built during the year up to 5.32 miles. This, with the 0.37 

 mile of fence repaired on the Honolulu Watershed reserve boun- 

 dary, constituted a total of 5.69 miles of forest reserve boundary 

 made stock-proof during the year. 



Adfninistration. The six forest rangers now working on the 

 several islands are doing good w^ork in caring for the interests 

 of the forest reserves by enforcing the rules of the Board, patrol- 



