144 



Division of Forestry 



Honolulu, Hawaii, March 18, 1916. 



Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, 

 Honolulu, Hawaii. 



Gentlemen : — I respectfully submit the following routine re- 

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



Forest Fencing. 



The work of forest protection by constructing new fences and 

 repairing existing barriers to stock along the forest boundaries 

 continues to be one of the chief activities of this Division. Dur- 

 ing February, the new fence along 2.73 miles of the boundaries 

 of the Kealia and Moloaa Forest Reserve, Kauai, which Forest 

 Ranger Lovell has been constructing for the past few months 

 with the assistance of a few laborers, was completed at a cost of 

 approximately $375 per mile. This new fence closes up a gap 

 which has existed on the boundaries of the reserves in this 

 region and will afiford complete protection to the government 

 forest lands of Anahola and Aliomanu, parts of which were 

 formerly overrun with cattle. 



The heavy wind storm in January blew over several trees in 

 the koa grove reserve at 29 miles on the Volcano Road, Hawaii, 

 which damaged the woven wire fence which had recently been 

 constructed around this reserve. During the month this damage 

 was repaired by the contractor who built the original fence. 



In cooperation with the ranch department of the O. R. & L. Co., 

 work has begun during the month on necessary repairs to the 

 boundary fences on both sides of the Pupukea Forest Reserve, 

 Oahu, where the wire had rusted out and some of the posts 

 needed resetting. This Division furnished 28 coils of wire and 

 1 keg of staples for the work. 



Other fencing work to be begun shortly will be the construc- 

 tion of 5.61 miles of new fence around Section A of the Olaa 

 Forest Park Reserve on the Volcano Road, Hawaii, and neces- 

 sary repairs to the Lualualei Forest Reserve foundary fence, 

 on Oahu. 



Forest Reserve Monuments. 



In order to familiarize the public with the boundaries of forest 

 reserves, I have undertaken to erect the standard forest reserve 

 monuments which this Division has on hand at conspicuous places 

 on forest reserve boundaries. One of these was placed in Nuuanu 



