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 DIVISION OF FORESTRY. 



REPORT or THE SUPERINTENDENT OF FORESTRY, 

 AUGUST, 1921. 



Honolulu, Hawaii, September 19, 1921. 



Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, 



Honolulu, T. H., 

 Gentlemen: 



I respectfully submit the following report of the Division of For- 

 estry for the month of August, 3921: 



FOREST PLANTING. 



Owing to the dry weather, the setting out of trees was somewhat 

 restricted during the month, but amounted to a total of 2,216 trees 

 planted. The majority of this work was done in the Waiahole Forest 

 Reserve, Oahu, Avhere the following trees were planted: Cook pine (Arau- 

 raria Cookii) 785, Japanese cedar (Cryptomerxa Japonica) 169, Queensland 

 nut (Macadomia ternifoUa) 240, Bermuda juniper (Junipcrus Bcrmudiana) 

 189, koa 150, and mahogany 431. In upper Makiki Valley, within the Hono- 

 lulu Watershed Forest Reserve, 240 koa trees w<?re planted and in Sec. C. 

 of the Olaa Forest Park Reserve, at 18 Miles on the Volcano Road, Hawaii, 

 12 lemon gum trees were planted by Ranger Mackenzie as a beginning of 

 the improvement of forest reserve land that he is fencing in at this place. 

 Weather conditions were too dry to permit of tree planting in the Lualualei 

 Forest Reserve on Oahu. 



On the last day of the month a few seed beds were prepared at the 

 Kilauea Ranger Station on Hawaii, at 29 ]\Iiles in Olaa, and in them were 

 sown seed of the deodar cedar, bald cypress, osage orange and Hawaiian 

 koa. In the open places in this same reserve — Sec. B. of the Olaa Forest 

 Park — 15 pounds of koa seed were broadcasted in the attempt to increase 

 the proportion of koa on the area. There were also planted and properly 

 labelled on this area single specimens of two chaulmoogra trees — Tarakto- 

 licnos Kurzii and Ej/drocarpus castanea — and a karaka tree, Coriinocarpus 

 laevigata. This planting is in the nature of an experimental arboretum. 



A quantity of seed of the a 'e or manele (Sapindus saponaria) was se- 

 cured from the large trees in Kipuka Puaulu, in the Kilauea Section of the 

 Hawaii National Park, and forwarded to the Government Nursery in Hono- 

 lulu for propagation. 



FOREST FENCING. 



The construction of new fences and repairing of old fences during 

 the month or not previously reported amounted to 2.09 miles, as follows: 



Ranger Mackenzie repaired .55 mile of fence in Sec. A. and 1.05 

 miles of fence in Sec. C. of the Olaa Forest Park Reserve on Hawaii. 

 On the boundaries of the Kealia Reserve on Kauai, Ranger Lovell re- 

 paired .10 mile of fence. At 24 Miles, S. Kanamori built 300 feet more 

 of the hog-proof fence along the Olaa Foiest Reserve boundary required 

 by a general lease. During July, Joe Rita Jr., in charge of the Kalaheo 

 Nursery on Kauai, used the material from an old fence and constructed 

 a new fence on the proper forest reserve line on the Wahiawa-Kalaheo 

 boundary amounting to .33 mile in length. 



On August 24, Ranger Mackenzie began the construction of half a 

 mile of fence on forest reserve boundaries on the Volcano Road, Hawaii, 

 at 18 Miles, and arrangements w^ere made with Nicholas Holowaty to 

 begin the construction of approximately 3 ^iles of fence adjacent to his 

 leased land and homesteads on the boundary of the Olaa Forest Reserve, 

 Hawaii, back of 22-24 Miles. This fence Avill connect up with the fence 

 that S. Kanamori is constructing. The line of the latter was rerun and 



