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Division of Forestry 



Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, Honolulu. 



Gentlemen: — I respectfully submit the following routine report of the 

 Division of Forestry for the month of February, 1919: 



BIENNIAL REPORT. 



The biennial report of the division for the period ended December 31, 

 1918, was completed early in the month and handed to the printers for pub- 

 lication along with the reports of the other divisions. 



FOREST PLANTING, 



During the first part of the month the tree planters on the Lualualei 

 Forest Reserve set out 600 koa and 325 yellow poinciana trees near Kolekole 

 Pass in the Waianae Mountains, before they moved over to Keaau Valley to 

 begin the construction of a fence there. 



On February 6, communications were addressed to the American Consul 

 and the Government Botanist at Taihoku, Formosa, in the effort to secure 

 through them a small quantity of seed of Acaci(ii confusa, a tree which is 

 used extensively in Formosa for planting along roadsides and as windbreaks 

 in the tea districts, which is the chief source of wood for fuel and charcoal 

 and which, it is thought, might be a valuable addition to the flora of these 

 islands. 



INTER-ISLAND SHIPMENT OF PLANTS. 



After several conferences with Commissioner Giffard and the Ento- 

 mologist and Chief Plant Inspector, I have come to the conclusion that the 

 best interests of our native forests on the other islands would be better 

 safeguarded if the practice of shipping young forest tree seedlings from 

 the government nursery in Honolulu to the other islands were discontinued 

 and in its place a plan substituted for raising the trees for any island on 

 that same island. Sec. 5 of Rule XVII of the Division of Entomology pro- 

 hibits the shipping of plants or soil attached to plants from one island to 

 another but there is a proviso that this may be done if they have been 

 fumigated or sterilized and certified by the proper inspector to be free from 

 insects and pests. Under this proviso, our plants have been raised and 

 shipped to the other islands in sterilized soil but entomologists tell me that 

 even this is not a panacea for the possible transmission of injurious insects 

 and plant diseases. During 1918, the Government Nursery in Honolulu 

 shipped at least 19,000 young tree seedlings to Kauai, 61,612 to Maui, and 

 3760 to Hawaii, while 153,150 were distributed on Oahu. It would seem 

 that this small demand for young trees on the other islands could readily 

 be met by raising them for Kauai and Hawaii at the sub-nurseries on each 

 of those two islands respectively, and for Maui by establishing a new sub- 

 nursery under the direction of Ranger Lindsay at Haiku. Plans to put this 

 new scheme into effect will soon be laid before you. 



FOREST PROTECTION. 



Early in the month, on the recommendation of Ranger Mackenzie, 

 announcement was made that no more permits would be issued for the 

 present for hunting wild pigs on the new Olaa Forest Reserve on Hawaii. 

 Before December 31, 1918, when the land came under the jurisdiction of 

 the Board, crowds of Portuguese and others from Hilo were in the habit of 

 going into the woods after pigs, and since then the few permittees who re- 

 ceived permits took with them large parties who cut trails and otherwise 



