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REPORT OF THE ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT OF FOR- 

 ESTRY, MAY, 1921. 



Honoluul, Hawaii, May 31, 1921. 

 Mr. C. S. Juclcl, Superintendent of Forestry, Honolulu, T. H. : 



Dear Sir: — I respectfully submit the following statement of my work 

 (luring the month of May, 1921: 



On May 3, accompanied by Forest Ranger Ellis and District Fire 

 Warden Macalister, Manager on the Kuksiau Ranch, I made a general in- 

 spection of the nursery and orchard at Keanakolu and the mauka portion 

 of the lands of Laupahoehoe, Maulua and Piha. The orchard, containing 

 apple, peach, pear, prune, plum, and cherry trees, is very much in need of 

 pruning, but because the season's fruit had already set on most of the 

 trees I decided to postpone this work until the autumn. No evidence of 

 rcale or insect infestation of any kind was found in the orchard, and^ the 

 accumulation of lichens on some of the trees is believed to be due chiefly 

 to the choked condition of the crowns, which can be corrected by proper 

 pruning. 



Planting sites for the coniferous trees at Keanakolu were selected in 

 Laupahoehoe, and Ranger Ellis was left at Keanakolu to take charge of the 

 planting operations. We were fortunate in getting laborers from both 

 Kukaiau and Parker Ranches to do this work. A total of 2,664 trees 

 was planted, at the rate of 115 trees per man per day. Although the 

 plants were much overgrown, it is hoped that the favorable weather which 

 prevailed at the time of planting will make for a fair percentage of estab- 

 lishment. Many of the Benguet pine plants were over five feet in height 

 and were headed back to two or three feet. Several hundred plants of 

 Pinus insularis were withheld for distribution to the Parker Ranch, Ship- 

 man Ranch, and Kukaiau Ranch, and two boxes were sent to Forest Ranger 

 MacKenzie for planting at the Volcano Observatory, Volcano House, and 

 the vicinity of Olaa Ranger Station. 



On May 4, I returned to Hilo to meet Assistant Territorial Surveyor 

 Hockley and his assistant, who arrived from Honolulu on May 5, and on 

 the 10th camp was established at the home of a homesteader in Kauaana. 

 On May 13, Ranger Ellis returned from Keanakolu and worked with the 

 survey party until the 27th, when he left for Honolulu. During the month 

 I worked directly with the Surveyor, assisting in the work of triangula- 

 tion to tie up our boundary with the established monumenfs, selecting suit- 

 able camp sites, and locating critical points on the line. By the end of 

 the month the forest line had been surveyed as far as Honolii Gulch, much 

 of the distance from Kaumana being through very rough country. Camps 

 were occupied during the month in Kaumana, Amauulu, and Kaiwiki. 



On May 8, I met Mr. Rock at the Volcano House and spent the day in 

 an instructive exploration of the forest northeast of the hotel. On the 

 10th we went to Kukaiau Ranch and spent two days on the intermediate 

 slopes of Mauna Kea, securing specimens and photographs of the vegeta- 

 tion. 



I spent the last two days of the month in making the ascent of Mauna 

 Loa, in company with several members of the Honolulu Trail and Mountain 

 Club, the trip being completed on June 1. In the course of this trip eleven 

 wild goats were killed within the limits of the Hawaii National Park, 

 where they are still very abundant. 



Respectfully submitted, 



C. J. KRAEBEL, 

 Assistant Su-perintendent of Forestry. 



