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Division of Forestry 



Honolulu, Hawaii, October 16, 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 September, 

 1916: 



FOREST FENCING. 



The work of fencing the boundaries of government land in 

 forest reserves has been actively continued during the month. 

 The fence around the four parts of Section A of the Olaa For- 

 est Park Reserve along the Volcano Road, Hawaii, having a 

 total length of 5.62 miles, which is being constructed under con- 

 tract by I. Erickson, is nearing completion and should be fin- 

 ished now within two weeks. This fence was inspected by me 

 in company with the contractor and Ranger F. B. Dodge, on 

 September 19, and quite a number of posts which were not set 

 firm or deep enough in the ground were rejected and the con- 

 tractor required to reset them in accordance with the specifica- 

 tions. 



Arrangements were also made on this same trip to fence ap- 

 proximately 1.05 miles of the boundary of the Upper Olaa For- 

 est Reserve, Hawaii, in cooperation with the adjacent owner, in 

 order to keep dairy cows from wandering into the government 

 forest. 



On Oahu, a stretch of fence, .41 mile in length, required for 

 the same purpose, was completed during the month in Waiomao 

 Valley, Palolo, along a part of the boundary of the Honolulu 

 Watershed Forest Reserve, and a gang of four men is at pres- 

 ent engaged in fencing three stretches of fence, amounting to 

 approximately one mile, in Manoa Valley, along parts of the 

 boundary of the Honolulu Watershed Forest Reserve and the 

 Manoa Ranger Station where the native forest is in need of pro- 

 tection. 



The fencing of 1.35 miles of the boundary of the Nanakuli 

 Forest Reserve, Oahu, required by conditions in General Lease 

 No. 788, is about to begin, since it has been ascertained that the 

 U. S. Army does not contemplate using Nanakuli Valley for 

 artillery range purposes. Pressure has also been brought to 

 bear by the Land Commissioner on the holder of General Lease 

 No. 730 in order to bring about the fencing of the boundary of 

 the adjacent Makua-Keaau Forest Reserve, Oahu, which condi- 

 tions in this lease require. 



Plans are being formulated also for fencing additional sec-* 

 tions of forest reserve boundaries in order to expend the present 



