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all open government land in Manoa Valley within the Honolulu 

 Watershed forest reserve, Oahu. During the 16 months that 

 they were on the job they planted out a total of 12,175 trees, 

 mostly koa, on approximately 63 acres. These have grown very 

 rapidly and have been cared for by periodic weeding until the 

 majority of them have passed the danger point of being smoth- 

 ered by further rank growth. With the aid of two local Ha- 

 waiian laborers whom I plan to keep at the job of weeding, they 

 will be cared for until the end of this year, when the trees will 

 need no further attention. 



It is very difficult to obtain citizen labor for tree-planting work. 

 The planting gang in Makiki Valley consists of older Portuguese 

 men. It is impossible to get the younger Portuguese to do this 

 kind of work. 



The ^ang of Hawaiians, which has just completed the planting 

 work in Manoa Valley, is now well trained to the work and is 

 equally competent to construct satisfactory fences. For this rea- 

 son I desire to hold the men together, and for this purpose I pro- 

 pose, with your approval, to shift them to the Waianae district, 

 Oahu, where I believe a start should be made in reforesting, in 

 an experimental manner at first, the reserves in that dry region. 



The need for reforestation in this region was set forth by my 

 predecessor in his report of August 9, 1912, recommending the 

 creation of the Nanakuli forest reserve, as follows : 



"One essential point in common is that all these valleys are on 

 the lee side of Oahu and hence are in a dry district where every 

 source of water, present or prospective, has high value. The 

 forest problems here are to restore, as far as may be practi- 

 cable, the original conditions of forest cover on the upper slopes, 

 where appear the scanty but highly valuable springs, and to ar- 

 range for the extension of the forest, naturally or by artificial 

 planting, on such sections of the lower slopes as cannot to good 

 advantage be devoted to more intensive forms of agriculture. 

 * * * The native forest should be assisted to come back and 

 should thereafter be there maintained. If this is done I believe 

 that springs that are now irregular and that flow only for a short 

 time after rains will be made more steady and dependable. * * * 

 The first move in such a program is to get the forest back.'" 



As yet the government has done nothing in this line in this 

 district, and by starting some tree planting in this region now I 

 wish to refute the statement commonly made that the govern- 

 ment puts open land into forest reserves and never plants it up. 

 The Waianae Company has done a large amount of tree planting 

 in the upper part of Waianae Valley in past years with excellent 

 results, and within a year has fenced ofT the upper part of Ma- 

 kaha Valley as a private forest reserve and may undertake refor- 

 estation there also. Both of these valleys produce more or less 

 water, and a forest at their heads will insure the steadiness of this 

 water supply. 



In a recent trip to all of the valleys from Xanakuli to Makua 



