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New Rules and Regulations for the 

 Division of Forestry 



The new rules and regulations for the Division of Forestry have 

 recently been passed by the Board and approved by the Governor. 

 These appear on the By Authority page of the present issue of 

 the Forester. 



Rule II covers the protection and administration of forest 

 reserves in general. While the law gives the Board full power 

 to make rules and regulations for the protection and administra- 

 tion of forest reserves, no rule, excepting Rule I which concerns 

 grass cutting in the Honolulu Watershed Forest Reserve and is 

 only of local application, had been passed by the Board so that 

 in the administration of forest reserves in the past the Division 

 of Forestry had practically been without authority from a defi- 

 nite rule and regulation. Rule II was, therefore, prepared by 

 the Superintendent of Forestry after a careful study of the neces- 

 sary points to be covered in the administration and protection of 

 government lands in the Territorial forest reserves. Many of the 

 provisions of this rule have been taken from the regulations of 

 the United States Forest Service, which have been tried out for 

 many years on the 150 million acres of National Forest land all 

 over the United States, and have proved satisfactory. 



The object of Rule II is to prevent acts which are detrimental 

 to the property of the Territory and to the health of the com- 

 munity, and none of its provisions will be found hard to comply 

 with by any public-spirited citizen. 



Rule III is of local interest and concerns the purity of that 

 part of Honolulu's water supply which comes from upper Nuuanu 

 Valley in the Honolulu Watershed Forest Reserve. In itself, 

 this rule will not insure the absolute purity of the water in the 

 reservoirs, because a filtration plant and keeping road drainage 

 from the reservoirs are also necessary for this desired end. The 

 enforcement of this rule will, however, be a great help in remov- 

 ing the danger of water pollution by human beings and wander- 

 ing animals who in the past have not kept off the areas draining 

 into the upper three Nuuanu reservoirs, in spite of the ''keep ofT" 

 signs which have been placed there in tlie past. Since the area 

 concerned is a part of the Honolulu Watershed Forest Reserve, 

 and therefore under the control of the Board of Agriculture and 

 Forestry, it is only logical that this Board should take this step 

 in the efifort to insure pure water. 



The area on which trespassing by the general public is for- 

 bidden by the rule, has been confined to the smallest possible 

 limits, and includes only the lands which drain into the upper 

 three reservoirs and the intake just above the Luakaha falls. 



