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tection is as important as fencing" and permission to hunt is en- 

 couraged where damage to the forest will not result. 



FOREST FIRES. 



Owing to a very dry year thefe have been more fires than usual 

 but fortunately none of them did any considerable or extensive 

 damage to native forest growth. The following fires w^ere re- 

 ported : 



February 2j. Ohoikea Section of Kapapala Ranch, Kau, Ha- 

 waii. Fire burned over 1,500 acres of mostly grass land, but was 

 extinguished same day by ranch cowboys and laborers from Pa- 

 hala Plantation under Fire Warden James Campsie. 



February 2p. Wailau, at edge of Kau Forest Reserve, Kau, 

 Hawaii. Fire of unknown origin burned 40 acres of forest land 

 with considerable damage to undergrowth and a quantity of ohia 

 trees. Alen under Fire Wardens George Gibb and James Camp- 

 sie soon extinguished it. 



May 6. Pupukea Forest Reserve, Oahu. During some pine- 

 apple clearing a fire jumped the fire guard and burned over 40 

 acres of grass, damaging a few clumps of trees. Laborers work- 

 ing under Fire Warden F. S. Lyman extinguished it that night. 



July 6. Lihue, Honouliuli, Oahu. A bee hive robber set fire 

 to the grass with his smoking torch. The fire spread over 7S 

 acres of grass land with practically no damage to trees. It was 

 extinguished the samiC day by soldiers and pineapple laborers 

 under Mr. A. W. Fames and Fire Warden A. A. Wilson. 



July 6. A fire started on this day presumably by pig hunters 

 burned over about 5,500 acres of pasture land in Kaohe and Ka- 

 holalele on the slopes of Mauna Kea, Hamakua, Hawaii, at an 

 elevation of 5,000 to 7,000 feet, for a period of approximately two 

 months before it was extinguished by rains. 



August. During this month two small fires less than one acre 

 in extent were extinguished at once by Forest Ranger Hardy in 

 the Na Pali-Kona Forest Reserve, Kauai. 



October i. A grass fire on the ridge in Nuuanu Valley adja- 

 cent to the Country Club, started by brush burners, swept over 

 an area of 20 acres of grass and brush land on the slope, but was 

 extinguished in three hours by the fire department and men w^ork- 

 ing under the Deputy Fire Warden at Large. 



November 2p. Wainiha, Kauai. A fire started along the ditch 

 trail burned over a few acres of staghorn fern, but was soon ex- 

 tinguished. 



FOREST EXTENSION. 



Tree Nurseries. 



This Division now maintains eight forest nurseries on the four 

 main islands. Five of these are for the propagation of trees for 



