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Instructions were sent to Ranger Lindsay to prepare for 

 planting this winter on the Waihou Spring Reserve, Maui,^ a 

 small reserve of 84 acres on the slopes of Haleakala of which 

 74 acres are government land. 



ARBOR DAY. 



Arbor Day was celebrated on November 22, and for planting' 

 on this occasion the Forest Nurseryman distributed 10,500 trees 

 throughout the Territory. 



FOREST FIRE. 



On November 8, a grass and brush fire occurred from causes 

 unknown on the military reservation on the South Fork of the 

 Kaukonahua River, Waianae-uka, near the pipe intake^ of the 

 U. S. Reservoir, on the same area as the fire of June 25, 1917. 

 About 25 acres were burned over before it was extinguished in 

 two hours by a troop of cavalry assisted by a shower of rain. 



REMOVAL OF STOCK. 



Notice was sent to the Knudsen Brothers of Kauai to remove 

 a number of horses which they were pasturing on unleased gov- 

 ernment land on Kumuwela Ridge within the Na Pali-Kona 

 Forest Reserve. 



ADVISORY COMMITTEE. 



On November 29, I attended a meeting of the Advisory Com- 

 mittee on Forestry of the H. S. P. A. at wdiich plans were dis- 

 cussed for cooperative work in the protection and reforestation 

 of watersheds in which sugar plantations and the government 

 are both interested. 



Respectfully submitted, 



C. S. JUDD, 



Superintendent of Forestry. 

 REPORT OF FOREST NURSERYMAN. 



Honolulu, Hawaii, December 6, 1918. 

 Superintendent of Forestry, Honolulu. 



Dear Sir: — I hereby submit a report of the work done dur- 

 ing the month of November : 



