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Honolulu ]\\itcrsJicd Planting. 



The trail from the Makiki station to the new nursery on the 

 ridge below Sugar Loaf has been widened so that pack animals 

 and people desiring to ride that way can do so with ease. A tool 

 and potting shed has been built, also six 50-gallon barrels installed 

 for collecting water for the young seedlings. A commencement 

 has been made to transplant the koa seedlings into tin cans. The 

 work of making holes for the trees is also well started and a 

 number are already dug. When the weather becomes suitable 

 the 1000 koa trees at Makiki station will be planted on the face 

 of Sugar Loaf, where we are at present getting the holes ready. 

 Some five or six thousand more koa seedlings will be transplanted 

 into tin cans and cared for at the new nursery on the ridge until 

 they are ready to be planted out. 



U. S. Experiment Planting, Nuuanu. 



The man has been attending to the trees in the nursery and hoe- 

 ing the smaller trees recently planted out. 



Very respectfully, 



David Haughs, 

 Forest Nurseryman. 



IMPORTANT ADDITIONS TO THE HAWAIIAN 

 FOREST RESERVE SYSTEM. 



On October 13, 1913, Hon. E. A. Mott-Smith, Acting Governor 

 of Hawaii, signed proclamations creating four additional forest 

 reserves on the islands of Hawaii and Oahu. The list is as fol- 

 lows : 



Kohala Mountain — North and South Kohala and Hamakua, 

 Hawaii. 



Upper Waiakea — Hilo, Hawaii. 



LTpper Olaa — Puna, Hawaii. 



Honolulu Watershed — Honolulu, Oahu. 



The Kohala Mountain forest reserve takes in the summit and 

 upper slopes of Kohala Mountain. It covers a total area of 

 29,627 acres, of which 14.204 acres is land belonging to the Ter- 

 ritory. In that Kohala Mountain is one of the important catch- 

 ment areas on the Island of Hawaii, from which water is led out 

 in the Kohala and Hamakua ditch systems, the protection of the 

 forest cover on the head waters of the streams tapped is a matter 

 of much moment. Kohala Mountain was one of the first locali- 

 ties proposed to be reserved when the forest reserve system was 

 inausfurated in Hawaii ten vears ago, but owing to a combination 



