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Division of Forestry 



Honolulu, Dec. 14, 1916. 



Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, Honolulu, 

 Hawaii. 



Gentlemen : — I respectfully submit the following routine 

 report of the Division of Forestry for the month of November, 

 1916. 



MAUI TRIP. 



During the month I made a long-planned-for trip to Maui in 

 order to get into closer touch with the forest situation on that 

 island. During the time from November 13 to 18 I visited the 

 Koolau, Makawao, West Maui, and Kula forest reserves and, 

 through the kindness of Messrs. H. A. Baldwin and H. W. Rice, 

 was enabled to see a great deal of forest conditions on Maui. 



One of the chief objects of this trip was to select a suitable 

 man for forest ranger on this island, and after looking over pos- 

 sible candidates I decided on Mr. James Lindsay of Haiku and 

 talked over the work with him. You have since then approved 

 his appointment to this position. Mr. Lindsay is a trained hor- 

 ticulturist, is much interested in forest work, and has had con- 

 siderable experience in forest planting on Maui and elsewhere, 

 and in him the Board has an officer well qualified for the position. 



With Mr. W. F. Pogue I went along the Koolau ditch trail as 

 far as Honomanu and inspected the windbreaks that were planted 

 in cooperation with this division and found them growing well 

 and in excellent condition. It was a pleasurable satisfaction to 

 note also how splendidly the young native trees and under- 

 growth are coming up on the area where all plant growth died 

 ofif several years ago. 



A visit to Kailiili disclosed the hundreds of acres of splendid 

 planted forests which have been established by the Maui Agri- 

 cultural Company for fuel and watershed cover. Here also I 

 inspected the plantations of a variety of eucalypts and other trees 

 which were set out by Mr. Hannestad on government land. 



In this region I also looked over a tract of about 275 acres of 

 vacant government land which I propose to recommend be added 

 to the present Makawao forest reserve. This land, which is be- 

 tween the new homestead tract, about to be opened, and the pri- 

 vate land of Haiku, consists of water-producing gulches on the 

 slopes of which are sections of native forests well worth pre- 

 serving. 



A short visit was made to a part of the Kula forest reserve near 

 Polipoli spring. At the present time the neighboring ranchmen 

 are getting out, with more or less success, the wild cattle which 

 have been in this reserve for many years. When this work is 



