THE HAWAIIAN FORESTER 

 AND AGRICULTURIST 



Vol. XVI. Honolulu, November. 1919. No. 11 



Forestry in Hawaii . 



(By C. S. Judd, Superintendent of Forestry.) 



I. THE BENEFICIAL EFFECTS OF FORESTS. 



Classificatioji of Forests. 



Forests are usually classified under three main heads, according 

 to the uses to which they are put: L The supply forest. 2. The 

 protection forest. 3. The luxury forest. 



The Supply Forest 



In general, the first and foremost purpose of a forest growth 

 is to supply us with wood material or parts of the w^ood sub- 

 stance. It is the trees themselves, not their fruit, their beauty, 

 their shade, or their shelter that constitute the primary object 

 of this class of woodland. Wood, the chief product of a supply 

 forest, is the most widely used of all materials and from the 

 cradle to the coffin, in some shape or other, surrounds us as a 

 convenience or a necessity. It is the material on which our 

 civilization is built and so general and far-reaching has its use 

 i^.ecome that a wood famine, however improbable its occurrence, 

 would be almost as serious as a bread famine. 



Owing to the lack in this Territory of a natural sup- 

 ply of timber trees, our lumber for building material and wood 

 supplies for other purposes must be imported from else- 

 where. To be sure, in the early days before the advent of 

 the white man, the native forest supplied the modest demands 

 of the Haw^aiians for the wood materials which they needed for 

 their bodily comforts and necessities in the form of house rafters, 

 ])osts, and thatch poles, poi boards, pig dishes and finger bowls ; 

 their demands for transportation in the form of logs for their 

 dugout canoes ; for defence in the form of hardwood for spears, 

 javelins, clubs and daggers; for pleasure in the form of surf- 



*A series of lectures delivered on October 27 and 29 and November 1, 

 1919, at the short course for plantation men at the College of Hawaii, 

 Honolulu. 



