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connection with the pubhcation of the biennial report of the 

 Board for 1911-1912. 



The full report — a book of 258 pages, illustrated by 36 full 

 page plates — was issued on March 19. The first copies were sent 

 to the Governor and Members of the Legislature on that day. 

 Since then a very general distribution of the report has taken 

 place, to persons on the Board's mailing list throughout the 

 Islands. 



The edition numbered 1750 copies of the full report, and 750 

 each of the separates of the three divisions. Any resident of the 

 Territory may obtain a copy of the report upon application to the 

 Clerk of the Board of Agriculture and Forestry, Box 207, Ho- 

 nolulu. 



FOREST RESERVES. 



At the meeting of the Board of Commissioners held on ]\Iarch 

 21, three forest reserve projects on the Island of Oahu were ap- 

 proved and ordered sent to the Governor with the request for a 

 public hearing. The proposed reserves are Kuaokala, 434 acres ; 

 Makua-Keaau, 4924 acres, and Xanakuli, 1010 acres — all in the 

 District of Waianae. 



During the month the Survey Office completed a map of the 

 mountain section back of Honolulu, on which I have sketched a 

 line which I recommend as the forest reserve boundary. As soon 

 as the official description of this line is ready, a report recom- 

 mending the creation of the Honolulu Forest Reserve will be 

 submitted to the Board for its approval. 



TRIP TO MAUI. 



The last few days of ]March I spent on the Island of ^laui, 

 making an inspection of work being done in fencing and forest 

 planting, under Government Land Office leases, in the Kula 

 Forest Reserve, and of other similar work in the Makawao Forest 

 Reserve. This trip forms the subject of a special report shortly 

 to be submitted to the Board. 



FOREST FIRES. 



On the afternoon of March 13 there occurred a brisk grass and 

 brush fire on the slope of Pacific Heights that for a time looked as 

 if it might cause somewhat serious trouble. A Japanese named 

 Nakana, on Laimi road. Lower Xuuanu Valley, was clearing land 

 and burning brush. Left for a little while unwatched, the fire 

 got away, and spread up the steep, grassy slope to the ridge of 

 Pacific Heights. Here its advance was stopped by four men 

 from the Honolulu Fire Department and a squad of a dozen Ter- 

 ritorial prisoners sent from the jail, upon request, by High Sheriff 

 Henry. 



Thanks to Air. E. M. Ehrhorn, the Superintendent of Forestry 



