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FOREST PLANTING. 



The second main line of work carried on by the Division of 

 Forestry is the encouragement of tree planting both on govern- 

 ment land and by private owners. Under a special allotment of 

 the Conservation Fund a contract was entered into in May, 1911, 

 with Mr. A. W. Carter, ^Manager of the Parker Ranch, for the 

 planting of an area of approximately 50 acres on the Kohala 

 Mountain above Waimea village, Island of Hawaii, in accordance 

 with a planting plan drawn up by the Division of Forestry. Plant- 

 ing was begun in the summer and was in progress at the end of 

 the year. The object of this work is to reclothe with trees open 

 areas on the watersheds of streams that are needed for economic 

 use on the Waimea plains. The trees planted are mainly 

 Eucalypts. The seedlings were raised at the Parker Ranch Nur- 

 sery at Waimea. 



Under another special grant from the Conservation Fund the 

 contract for forest planting at Pupukea, Oahu, begun in 1910, 

 was completed in the early part of 1911. The bulk of the plant- 

 ing was accepted in April ; final payment was made in October. 

 About 30 acres were planted. 



Owing to limited funds only these two forest planting projects 

 were carried on in 1911 directly by the government, but con- 

 siderable other planting was done on government land at private 

 expense, under requirements of government land leases, or 

 through special agreements, or voluntarily by corporations or 

 individuals holding the lands for a long enough time to enable 

 them to be willing to undertake planting. 



In December a planting plan was drawn up by the Division of 

 Forestry for government lands in the Kula District, Maui, held 

 by Cornwell Ranch under a government lease requiring tree 

 planting. Earlier in the year inspections were made of tree 

 planting in progress, under similarly worded government leases 

 on the Parker Ranch and the Kukaiau Ranch on Haw^aii. Visits 

 of inspection were also made during the summer and autumn to 

 the Islands of Lanai and Kahoolawe, to various forest lands on 

 Oahu, and to the land of Muliwai, Hamakua, Hawaii, the high 

 plateau between Waipio and Waimanu gulches. 



In September a general program of forest planting was worked 

 out at the request of the Alexander & Baldwin interests, for the 

 lands lying along the irrigation ditches in the Koolau district on 

 Maui. The object of this project is to replace the forest cover 

 on the area where it has been opened up in recent years through 

 one and another cause. Aluch of the area to be planted is gov- 

 ernment land. Planting under this plan began in the autumn of 

 1911 and is actively going on. 



To study conditions in the native forest on the windward side 

 of Maui and to confer with the local forest officials in regard 

 thereof, arrangements were made in the early spring of 1911, 



