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 TROUT IN HAWAII. 



Rainbow trout, introduced from Idaho in April, 1920, and 

 liberated in the Kokee Stream in the Xa Pali-Kona Forest Re- 

 serve, Kauai, at an altitude of 3500 feet, grew at the rate of 

 one inch a month for the first six months and in June, 1921, 

 some of them measured 9>4 inches in length. The temperature 

 of the water in this stream remains at about 60 degrees, which 

 is cold enough for trout, and there seems to be an abundance of 

 insects and other animal life for the trout to feed upon. Some 

 of the fourteen months old trout already exhibit roe, but the 

 Fish and Game Commission of the Territory will soon promul- 

 gate regulations which will protect them for another two years. 

 In this manner the trout will become thoroughly established in 

 the region and can then furnish good sport for the angler. 



During June twenty-five thousand more rainbow trout young 

 fry from' Utah were liberated in the same stream and seemed to 

 take to the new waters verv much as if thev were at home. 



C. S. J. 



FIRE HINTS. 



Take no chances with fire. Drop no burning matches or to- 

 bacco. If you have a camp fire, build it away from logs, trees, 

 or rotten wood. Scrape a clean strip around it, digging down 

 to the mineral soil. When you leave, put your fire out, every 

 spark of it. If there is no water, use dirt. 



Lightning and men start forest fires. The lightning can't 

 help it. Be careful with fire in the woods, all the time. 



The forest reserves of the Territory are the source of the 

 streams v/hich supply domestic and irrigation water to thou- 

 sands of people. Destruction of the forests in tliese reserves 

 by fire and other agencies means less water for home and plan- 

 tation use. 



A good woodsman always puts out his camp fire and cleans 

 up his camp before he leaves. C. S. J. 



LIGHTNING AND FOREST FIRES. 



The time-worn theory that "lightning never strikes twice in 

 the same place," has been modified by forest experts of the L'^nited 

 States Department of Agriculture to this extent: Lightning 

 very often strikes in nearly the same ])laces. It has its zones, 

 in other words, where its a])pearance may usually be counted on 

 with each electrical storm. 



With the accumulation of data on causes and locations of 

 fires in the national forests, these lightning zones could be 

 mapped out and ])rotective measures introduced — such as fire 



