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ranging for the construction of an additional short stretch of fence which 

 will absolutely prevent further trespass. 



FOREST PROTECTION. 



Progress has been made in clearing up the debris caused by the Decem- 

 ber storm in the eucalyptus forest on Tantalus by converting a part of the 

 fallen trees into charcoal and by the cutting and removal of a large part of 

 the wood by prisoners for use at the Oahu penitentiary. 



District Forester James Campsie recently caused the arrest of two 

 Japanese who, in violation of Paragraph (b) of Eule II of the Division of 

 Forestry, had live stock without permit on the Kau Forest Reserve near the 

 waterheads in Wood Valley. Each Avas given a suspended sentence of 13 

 months by the district magistrate. 



On March 21, I attended a luncheon with members of the Trail and 

 Mountain Club and explained my position and the regulations concerning 

 trail construction on government lands in forest reserves. The club has as- 

 sured me that the regulations will be observed and has gone further and 

 extended the courtesy of directing that all new trail projects on private 

 lands will first be referred to me for approval. 



TREE PLANTING. 



During the month 260 highland ironwoood trees were planted by the 

 fencing gang along the newly fenced boundary crossing Keaau Valley, 

 Oahu, in order to mark the boundary in a distinctive manner and to serve 

 as fence posts in the future. 



On the Kealia Forest Resen-e, Kauai, Ranger Lovell planted 92 swamp 

 mahogany trees in February and 145 trees of the same species in March. 



On the Honolulu Watershed Reserve, Oahu, 735 koa and 305 mahogany 

 trees were set out as replants in fail places. 



In response to a request forwarded by Governor McCarthy from Mr. T. 

 Goffart, a French official at Tangier, Morocco, who has made a specialty of 

 assembling and planting a great number of different kinds of acacia trees 

 in that country, it was a pleasure to dispatch packets of seeds of three of 

 our different koa trees, as follows: .Acacia Jcoa, Asa Gray, from Oahu, el. 

 1.200 feet; Acacia JcauaienMs, Hillebrand, from Kauai, el. 3,500 feet; and 

 Acacia koa hawaiiensis. Rock, from Hawaii, el. 6,000 feet. 



From Consulting Botanist J. F. Rock a few seeds of Taiwania crypto- 

 merioides have been received and planted. This is a timber tree of For- 

 mosa resembling the sequoias of California. 



Pursuant to the plan, outlined in my February report, for discontinuing 

 the sending of tree seedlings from the Oahu nurseries to the other islands, 

 Mr. Haughs went to Hilo on March 19 and conferring for two days with 

 Bro. Matthias Newell made arrangements for handling at his sub-nursery 

 all future orders for trees required on Hawaii. Mr. Haughs will visit Maui 

 in April to make similar arrangements with Ranger Lindsay at Haiku. 



PUU KA PELE PARK. 



Subsequent to the Board meeting of March 10, at which the withdrawal 

 of 415 acres from the Puu Ka Pele Forest Reserve, Kauai, was approved, 

 for the purpose of making it available as a public park to be under the con- 

 trol of the County of Kauai, the Governor signed a notice of public hearing 

 on April 2, to consider the withdrawal, which has been published. 



ALGAROBA VOLUME TABLE. 



The December storm which blew down so many algaroba trees in the 

 Punahou District, Honolulu, afforded" an opportunity of preparing a volume 

 table to show the amount of cordwood in standing algaroba trees of differ- 



