183 



Division of Forestry 



REPORT FOR MARCH. 



Honolulu, Hawaii, April 29, 1916. 



Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, Honolulu. 



Gentlemen : — I respectfully submit the following routine re- 

 port of the Division of Forestry for the month of March, 1916: 



FOREST FENCING. 



The work of repairing the Pupukea Forest Reserve boundary 

 fences, Oahu, in cooperation with the ranch department of the 

 O. R. & L. Co., was completed during the month at a cost of 

 $89.31. This fence was originally constructed by the Board in 

 1910. The total length of fence repaired and made stockproof 

 again is 1.70 miles. 



In accordance with the desire of the Board, expressed at the 

 February 17 meeting, the matter of fence moving in the Waianae- 

 kai Forest Reserve, Oahu, by Mr. Thomas Makia, was brought 

 to a conclusion. On March 6 Mr. Makia moved his fence at 

 my direction with the assistance of some of the laborers who 

 were repairing the Lualualei Reserve boundary fence. 



A surveyor from the government survey office was engaged 

 during most of the month in surveying out the boundaries of 

 government lands at the northwest corner of the Hilo Forest 

 Reserve preliminary to the fencing and riddance of cattle from 

 the reserve, which will soon be undertaken at Piha. 



A stretch of fence about 100 feet in length was constructed 

 across the end of the old Nuuanu Valley road near the No. 2 

 reservoir to assist in keeping trespassers away from the water. 



On account of an irregularity in bids, the fencing of Section A 

 of the Olaa Forest Park Reserve, Hawaii, was readvertised. 



THIMBLEBERRY IN PALOLO VALLEV. 



The presence of thimbleberry bushes, Rubus jamaicensis, in 

 Palolo Valley was reported to this office on March 13 by the 

 Consulting Botanist, Mr. J. F. Rock, and on March 20, 22 and 

 31, with the assistance of Ranger Hippie and laborers of the 

 division, I located, pulled up and destroyed by burning three 

 different patches of this pest in upper Palolo Valley at the lower 

 edge of the native forest. This thorny plant is such a pest on 

 parts of Hawaii and Maui, and overruns the pastures and wood- 

 lands there so rapidly, that it would be a great pity to allow it to 

 become established on this island. For this reason radical steps 

 were taken at once to locate and root it out in Palolo Valley. 



