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just been appointed for Hawaii and with the early appointment 

 of a forest ranger for r*^Iaui, the forest reserve field force will be 

 up to full strength. 



Forest protection has been further efi:ected by the prompt ex- 

 tinguishment of the seven grass fires which occurred during the 

 year. Only one of these, at Schofield Barracks, Oahu, reached 

 the native forest and did some damage before it was put out. 



Considerable work, of a preliminary nature, toward the inclu- 

 sion of additional forest land in the general reserve system was 

 accomplished during the year but only one new reserve of 15 

 acres in Manoa Valley, Oahu, was actually created by proclama- 

 tion of the Governor. The Territory now has 38 forest reserves 

 on the six main islands which aggregate in area 798,229 acres. 

 Of these, 546,237 acres consist of government land. 



Forest extension during the year has consisted of the actual 

 work of tree planting by the Division and the encouragement of 

 planting on private waste lands by the raising and distribution 

 at cost of tree seedlings. The planting of native trees on the 

 Honolulu watershed in the Makiki Valleys and near Sugar Loaf 

 was continued by the setting out of approximately 3.000 koa and 

 kukui trees. In less than three years, a total of 15,885 trees have 

 been planted in this region and cared for and to date 82 acres 

 have thus been successfully reforested with the same species of 

 native trees which originally occupied the land. Approximately 

 12,000 trees of various species have also been planted by this 

 Division on the Papapaholahola Spring and Kealia Reserves on 

 Kauai. 



Tree planting by private parties and this Division combined 

 during the last calendar year resulted in the setting out of a 

 total of 874,489 trees. It is noteworthy that the object of 53% 

 of this planting was fuel production and 52% of the trees 

 planted consisted of Swamp Mahogany, a quick growing and 

 ratooning species of eucalyptus. A study of the wood fuel situa- 

 tion in the Territory has been begun with the object in view of 

 reducing the price of this commodity. 



The total number of trees raised by this Division and distri- 

 buted to tree planters during the last calendar year amounted to 

 247,432. The fact that over three times this number were 

 planted during the same period shows that interest in tree plant- 

 ing is now so permanent that many private nurseries for this 

 purpose have been established. Arbor Day was, as usual, cele- 

 brated in November and 21,248 trees were sent out from the gov- 

 ernment nurseries for planting on this worthy day. This number 

 has been exceeded only on two previous Arbor Days and on this 

 last occasion 1,350 school children called at the government 

 nursery in Honolulu and each took one tree away for planting. 



In conclusion, it may be said that much progress has been made 



