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The completion of 2.91 miles of new fences and the repairing 

 of 3 miles of existing fences on forest reserve boundaries during 

 February and March constitute a good beginning toward forest 

 protection for the year which it is hoped an adequate appropria- 

 tion by the present legislature will make it possible to continue 

 during the coming new biennial period. 



The Board, on April 14, appointed Antone P. Aguiar, the 

 present caretaker of the Hilo Animal Quarantine Station, as For- 

 est Ranger for the Panaewa Forest Reserve, Haw^aii. This re- 

 serve, four miles out from Hilo, is crossed by the new concrete 

 road to the A olcano and will receive protection ag-ainst trespass 

 and fire and will be beautified by judicious tree planting by the 

 new ranger who can spare the time from the quarantine station 

 for this work. 



The Puu Ka Pele Park 



At a meeting of this Board held on ]\Iarch 10, there was con- 

 sidered an application from the Kauai Chamber of Commerce, 

 the Kauai Planters' Association, and the Kauai Board of Super- 

 visors for the assistance of this Board in establishing a public 

 park and summer camp on the edge of the Waimea Canyon for 

 the people of Kauai and the other islands of the Territory, to be 

 placed under the control of the County of Kauai. The above or- 

 ganizations stated that it was their plan : First, to secure title 

 to the land required ; second, to improve the road up the moun- 

 tain, and third, to raise the necessary money and erect such build- 

 ings as may be needed at first. The area desired consisted of 415 

 acres, within the Puu Ka Pele Forest Reserve, Kauai, in the form 

 of a narrow strip of land approximately 1,500 feet wide and 2.3 

 miles long, situated on the brink of the Waimea Canyon, at an 

 elevation of 3,500 feet, near the peak called Puu Ka Pele. 



In order to make such land available for this purpose, it was 

 necessary first to eliminate it from the forest reserve. This the 

 Board voted to do, after it was brought out by discussion that no 

 source of water supply was involved, by unanimously passing the 

 following resolution : 



"Resolved, that in accordance w^ith the application of the Kauai 

 Board of Supervisors, as set forth in their letter to the Board, 

 dated March 7, 1919, the Board of Commissioners of Agriculture 

 and Forestry recommends to the Governor the withdrawal from 

 the Puu Ka Pele Forest Reserve, Kauai, of a tract of land not to 

 exceed 416 acres, located as shown on the sketch submitted, with 

 the understanding that, if at any time this tract ceases to be used 

 as a park and summer camp for public purposes, it should revert 

 back to the Board of Agriculture and Forestry. 



