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protection work in the field. This will be seen to have been the 

 case from the following facts : 



From 1910 to date the Division of Forestry by its own efforts 

 and through the cooperation of the Land Office by means of 

 general leases adjacent to forest reserves constructed new stock- 

 proof fences on 40.26 miles of forest reserve boundaries and 

 repaired 17.85 miles of such existing fences, making a total 

 boundary length of 58.11 miles impervious to stock. Through co- 

 operation with local residents, hundreds of wild cattle, pigs and 

 goats have been removed from the forest reserve lands. 



A force of seven forest rangers are now on active duty on 

 these reserves and patrol for forest fires and trespass of all 

 kinds, repair old and build new fences, plant trees, and take 

 general care of the forest lands in the reserves. 



Tree planting by special gangs of tre? planters is performed 

 on open areas in the reserves, more particularly on watershed 

 areas back of settlements, in order to conserve the water supply. 



\\'ith the work of examining new lands for forest reserves now 

 accomplished and out of the way, greater efforts will be made to 

 complete the fencing that remains to be done and to extend the 

 work of reforesting open areas in need of a forest cover. 



Division of Forestry 



NONOU FOREST RESERVE. 



Honolulu, Hawaii, Oct. 15, 1918. 

 Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, Honolulu. 



Gentlemen : — I have the honor to recommend the setting 

 apart as a forest reserve of portions of the government lands of 

 Wailua and South Olohena and portions of the acquired lands 

 of North Olohena and W^aipouli, in the district of Puna, Island 

 of Kauai, consisting of a total area of 818 acres, as shown on 

 the attached blueprint map. 



The area consists of a ridge called "Nonou," 1200 feet high, 

 which runs approximately parallel to the coast and is from one 

 to two miles inland from the shore line. This ridge begins at 

 the W'ailua River, where the river cuts through a gorge to the 

 sea, near the northeast corner of the government land of Wailua, 

 and runs north about two miles on to the lands of South and 

 North Olohena and Waipouli. 



The area is bounded on the northwest by Lots 127 to 135 of 

 the Kapaa Homesteads Second Series, on the southwest by the 

 new Wailua Homesteads about to be given out, on the south 

 by the Opaikaa Stream, Wailua River and government land, on 

 the southeast by leased government land, and on the northeast 



