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 DIVISION OF FORESTRY. 



REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF FORESTRY, 

 JANUARY, 1921, 



Honolulu, Hawaii, March 1, 1921. 



Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, Honolulu. 



Gentlemen: — I respectfully submit the following report of the Division 

 of Forestry for the month of January, 1921: 



TREE PLANTING. 



During the month, in spite of the heavy rains which made work unpleas- 

 ant, the following trees were planted out on four different forest reserves 

 on Oahu: Makiki, 178 koa; Pupukea, 630 koa, 250 mahogany and 450 

 Australian red cedar; Mikilua, 1163 koa; and Kuliouou, 24 Cook pine 

 (Araucaria Cooldi), 2 kauri pine, 1 Chinese banyan and 1 Valencia orange; 

 total, 2699 trees. 



FENCING. 



During the month five coils of wire and 50 pounds of staples were sent 

 to Fire Warden Marion Cabral at Hana, Maui, who has kindly under- 

 taken the job of supervising the repair of the fence on the boundary of 

 the Koolau Forest Reserve back of the Nahiku homesteads. 



One day was spent by Assistant Kraebel and Ranger Ellis in repairing 

 several stretches of fence, amounting to 300 feet, on the boundary of the 

 Kuliouou Forest Reserve, Oahu, where the strong trade wind had during 

 one year blown away two feet of soil on the ridge top and left some of the 

 posts completely exposed. 



The work of repairing the fence and building a new river gate across 

 the Waiomao stream, Palolo Valley, in the Honolulu Watershed Forest 

 Reserve, Oahu, which was damaged by the rainstorm of January 16, was 

 begun on January 27. Approximately 700 feet of boundary fence and 

 the stock gate across the river were destroyed by the flood waters. 



Ranger Ellis, with the help of the Mikilua tree planters, completed 

 during the month the repairing of 4950 feet of fence along the Waianae- 

 kai Forest Reserve boundary. This fence is now in good condition and no 

 more trouble should be experienced from the homesteaders ' cattle getting 

 into this reserve. 



REMOVAL OF STOCK. 



Stejis were taken to remove Portuguese squatters' calves from Round 

 Top, and cattle from the Kuliouou and W^aianae-kai Reserves on Oahu and 

 from the Makawao Reserve on Maui. All cattle have been removed from 

 these reserves with the exception of a few wild ones which will not be 

 driven. The Maunalua Eanch has been given until February 21 to remove 

 the two head remaining in the Kuliouou Reserve, and on January 28 

 I began the 60-day publication in the ' ' Maui News " of a notice, under 

 Act 65, S. L. 1919, concerning the removal by April 2 of stock from the 

 Makawao Reserve, Maui, where two head of branded wild cattle still are 

 at large. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Considerable time was spent during the m'onth on the preparation of the 

 biennial report to the Governor. 



An inspection of Waiomao Vallej' and the crater in Palolo Valley made 

 on January 21 disclosed the fact that very little damage was done to the 



