284 

 REPORT OF THE 



Division of Forestry 



OF THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY 

 FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1916. 



The primary object of adopting modern methods of practical 

 forestry in these islands is to foster and increase the source of 

 water supply. This is done in two ways, by forest protection 

 and forest extension and, as in the past, the main efforts of the 

 Division of Forestry during the year have been along these lines. 

 The work of forest protection has consisted of constructing new- 

 fences and repairing existing fences on forest reserve boundaries 

 to keep wandering stock from damaging our susceptible native 

 forests ; of improving the administration and protection of the 

 forest reserves by establishing rules and regulations and by main- 

 taining and increasing the forest ranger force to see that these 

 are carried out; by the continuing of the forest fire service to 

 detect and extinguish grass and forest fires ; and by placing more 

 forest land in the general forest reserve system. 



Greater protection of the forests on government lands within 

 the reserves has been secured by the construction during the 

 year of 5.76 miles of new fences and the repair of 10.41 miles of 

 existing fences on forest reserve boundaries. Stretches of new 

 fences were constructed where they were most needed at Ana- 

 hola and Moloaa, on Kauai, at 29 Miles and 24 Miles along the 

 Volcano Road, Olaa, on Hawaii, and at Lualualei on Oahu. Ex- 

 isting fences on forest reserve boundaries at Lualualei and Pupu- 

 kea on Oahu, and at Wailua and Kapaa on Kauai, were repaired 

 and strengthened. In other words, during the year a total of 

 16.17 miles of forest reserve boundaries were eft'ectively made 

 stock-proof. 



Rule II of this Division received the approval of the Governor 

 in April and at once w-ent into effect. This rule, which aims 

 at the better administration and protection of government lan^ls 

 within the forest reserves forbids, among other things, the de- 

 struction of property and pollution of streams and the unauthor- 

 ized taking of material, grazing of stock, hunting, or use of land 

 within the reserves, and forms a working basis for forest admin- 

 istration which, up to this time, this Division had lacked. It is 

 based on the regulations of the U. S. Forest Service which have 

 been tried out for many years on the 150 million acres of National 

 Forest lands all over the United States and have proved satis- 

 factory. During the year two additional forest rangers have been 

 appointed for the better administration and protection of the 

 forest reserves and they have done eft'ective work. There are 

 now- three rangers on Oahu and one on Kauai. Another has 



