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rider at an elevation of 5,340 feet to keep in stock-proof condition the 

 fences near the northwest corner of the Hilo Forest Reserve, has offered 

 the services of this man for Ihe experimental propagation and planting 

 of trees which may be found to grow well on government lands in this 

 region. A shipment of shooks for 50 boxes will soon be sent up to him, 

 together with seed of a variety of temperate zone trees which it is 

 thought might be successfully grown at this elevation. 



FOREST FENCING. 



From reports which have reached me from the rangers, a total of 

 2.36 miles of fences on forest boundaries have been repaired during 

 the month by replacing posts, tightening wire, and clearing brush and 

 ferns away from the fences. In this manner 400 feet of fence was put 

 in stock-proof shape at Makua, Oahu, and 8,080 feet in Sec. C. and 

 4,000 feet in Sec. A. of the Olaa Forest Park Reserve, Hawaii. 



On July 21 I inspected a part of the boundary of the Olaa Forest 

 Reserve, Hawaii, near 24 Miles, on the Volcano Road, and found that 

 the lessee of a piece of adjacent government land, S. Kanamori, had 

 built in a substantial manner 500 feet of a hog-proof fence which is re- 

 quired, by the general lease which he holds from the Land Office, to be 

 built on the forest boundary. He plans to have the whole fence com- 

 pleted in about two months. 



Reports received from Ranger Ellis indicated that the fences re- 

 quired, by general leases and a land license, to be built and maintained 

 in certain parts of Maui on forest reserve boundaries, were in such bad 

 shape that as a result cattle were gaining access to the forest reserves. 

 This was particularly true in the region near Polipoli Springs in the 

 Kula Reserve and at Ukumehame and Kahakuloa in the West Maui Re- 

 serve. The situations were immediately called to the attention of the 

 Land Commissioner, whose province it is to enforce the fencing require- 

 ments in general leases, with the suggestion that he have his Sub-Agent 

 investigate for specific violations and take steps to require the fences to 

 be repaired at once. 



COOPERATION WITH U. S. G. S. 



On July 2, I held a conference with Mr. A. O, Burkland, Topographic 

 Engineer in charge of the United States Geological Survey topographic 

 work in the Territory, and his assistant, Mr. M. J. Gleissner, with whom 

 I revised the legend used in topographic mapping to show forest and 

 other classes of cover, and made plans for a visit to the Mauna Kea 

 Forest Reserve with topographic mapping and other investigations in 

 view. 



FOREST FIRE. 



On July 12, a fire started on the military reservation of Schofield 

 Barracks from unknow^n causes, but was put under control the same day 

 by the army after it had spread over Maili Ridge to the Wailua side 

 on the east slope of Kaala. On the following day the wind started the 

 fire again, but soldiers, sent out at the request of Fire Warden A. A. 

 Wilson, extinguished it that day. The fire of the two days burned over 

 approximately 100 acres, of which 90 per cent was grassland and the 

 balance forest. 



HAWAII TRIP. 



On July 7, I left Honolulu for Hawaii and made my headquarters 

 at the Kilauea Ranger Station at 29 Miles, in Olaa, at which place I 

 could most economically live and most conveniently start out for the 

 inspection of the many forest reserves which had awaited my attention 

 on the Big Island. Investigation of matters inquired into during the 



