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Kohala :Mountains, Hawaii, wliich, with other lands amounting to a total 

 of 4155 acres, it is (lesired to acquire and a<hl to the forest reserve so 

 that steps can be taken to prevent further daniage by stock to the forest 

 on this important watershed and to reforest the fireas already denuded. 

 Of the total area, it is estimated that only about 06% or 1500 acres are 

 in need of artilleial reforestation, and a plan has been prepared for ac- 

 complishing this at the rate of 250 acres per year for six years, providing 

 the land is acquired and the necessary sum, which has been included in 

 the new budget, is appropriated by the Legislature, 



TIMBEE TRESPASS, PUPUKEA. 



While inspecting tree planting and forest conditions at Pupukea on 

 December 22, I discovered and stopped the unauthorized cutting of some 

 kukui trees by a Japanese in Paumalu Gulch within the Pupukea Re- 

 serve, Oahu, and left word for the ''boss" to see me about it. He came 

 in on December 31, and said that he was a new man in the region and 

 that his wood-cutter in securing fuel wood for his own use did not know 

 the boundarv of the reserve and had cut over the line by mistake. I 

 explained Rule II to him, that timber cutting w^as punishable by a 

 heavy fine, and received $5.00 from him for the five trees cut, as liqui- 

 dated damages and not as penalty. 



HILO FOREST RESERVE. 



On December 21, Assistant Superintendent Kraebel returned from Ha- 

 waii, where he had spent about one month examining the makai line 

 of the Hilo Forest Reserve for the purpose of establishing a new line 

 along which a suitable fence can be constructed where needed. The 

 result of his examination shows that approximately 2243 additional acres 

 of government laud and a net additional area of 18 acres of private 

 land in forest, or which should be forested for proper w^ater conserva- 

 tion, or a net total of 2261 acres, may w^ell be included in the reserve by 

 bringing the line further down the slopes of Mauna Kea in places, and 

 that approximately 4% miles of fencing will have to be built to protect 

 the forest from stock where the new boundary crosses government land. 

 This Division is w^orking in close cooperation with the forestry division 

 of the H. S. P. A. on this project. The next step is to survey the line 

 and obtain a description, and a request has been made of the Territorial 

 Surveyor to assign an assistant for this purpose as soon as available. 



NEW WAIMANALO RESERVE. 



The Territorial Surveyor has also been requested to survey and mark 

 on the ground the mauka forested portions of the government land of 

 Waimanalo and of the private land of Kailua with the view of creating 

 a new reserve on these lands. The development of the "Waimanalo 

 Pocket" will result in demands for a larger water supply, and it is im- 

 portant that the springs and streams on both of these lands be protected 

 and increased by whatever forest protection is required. 



NOTED VISITORS. 



During the month I have received visits from George Meyers, a 

 graduate of the first class of the Yale Forest School, who has visited 

 forests in all parts of the world and who was much interested in the 

 forest flora and the results of planting operations on the watershed 

 back of Honolulu. It was a pleasure also to meet Dr. W. M. Docters 

 van Leeuwen, director of the botanical gardens at Buitenzorg, Java, 

 wdio also was interested in everything he found here but remarked that 

 we lacked the variety of species that is to be found in Java. 



Respect/ully submitted, 



C. S. JUDD, 

 Superintendent of Forestry, 



