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EEPORT FOR MARCH. 



Honolulu, Hawaii, April 7, 1919. 

 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 March, 1919: 



BIENNIAL REPORT. 



The biennial report for the period ended December 31, 1918, came off 

 the press on March 17 and was on the following day placed in the hands of 

 the members of the Legislature. Besides containing detailed statements and 

 photographic illustrations of the work of the Division of Forestry, it con- 

 tains maps of the five main islands, showing in green the completed forest 

 reserve system. 



FOREST FENCING. 



Progress in fencing forest reserve boundaries to prevent damage by 

 stock was made by the completion of the following projects: 



Moloaa Forest Reserve, Kauai. — The Fence on the boundary adjacent 

 to Papaa-Moloaa Pasture Lot 1, was repaired and put in stock-proof condi- 

 tion by Mr. C. A. Rice in accordance with the fencing requirements in Gen- 

 eral Lease No. 792. The work on this three mile stretch of fence was com- 

 pleted on February 19. 



Alalua-Keaau Forest Reserve, Oahu, Keaau Seetioii. — The fence cross- 

 ing Keaau Valley, .84 mile in length, was completed on March 3. Mr. L. P. 

 Fernandez paid for half the cost of the fence where it is on the mauka 

 boundary' of Lot 1 of the Keaau Homesteads. 



MaJcua Section. — The fence across Makua Valley, 1.07 miles in length, 

 has at last been constructed by Mt. L. L. McCandless and was completed 

 on March 25. The fence is Avell built and will serve to protect most of the 

 native forest in Makua Valley from the ravages of stock. This is the fence 

 which should have been completed on June 4, 1914, in accordance with the 

 fencing requirements in General Lease No. 730. 



Kati Forest Reserve, Hawaii. — A new fence, slightly over one mile in 

 length, was constructed on the Kiolakaa boundary under the fencing re- 

 quirements of General Lease No. 550 by the Hutchinson Plantation Co. and 

 was completed on February 15. 



On March 13 another visit was made with a government surveyor to 

 the Kuaokala Forest Reserve, Oahu, and further boundary corners were 

 located and flagged. At the present time, cattle under a tenancy-at-will 

 are on the adjacent unreserved government land of Kuaokala and wander 

 on to this reserve with destructive results to the native forest. The need for 

 fencing the boundaries of this reserve, which is a source of supply for water, 

 is immediate. After consultation with the President of this Board and the 

 Commissioner of Public Lands, it has been decided to offer the sale of a 

 lease of the unreserved government land of Kuaokala, containing approx- 

 imately 2,000 acres, the lease to contain a clause requiring the immediate 

 fencing of the adjacent forest reserve. The government surveyor is pre- 

 paring a new map of this land for this purpose. 



At my request the government surveyor has also recently completed a 

 new map of the Hilo Forest Reserve, Hawaii, which will be used this sum- 

 mer in investigating the need of fencing the makai boundary above the 

 Hilo coast sugar plantations. 



An investigation by Ranger Hardy brought out the fact that there has 

 been unlawful grazing on the government land of Kalaheo in the Lihue- 

 Koloa Forest Reserve, Kauai, by one Henry Kinney, who pastures cattle on 

 a wet land kuleana just within the fenced boundary and which naturally 

 Avanders an to other parts of the reserve. Mr. Kinney has been notified to 

 stop this trespass immediately and through Mr. W. D. McBryde I am ar- 



