THE HAWAIIAN FORESTER 

 AND AGRICULTURIST 



Vol. XIV. Honolulu, August, 1917. No. 8 



Division of Forestry 



Honolulu, August 18, 1917. 



Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, 

 Honolulu, 



Gentlemen : — I respectfully submit the following routine report 

 of the Division of Forestry for the month of June, 1917: 



Forest Planting. 



In upper Manoa valley on the Honolulu Watershed forest 

 reserve there were planted out during the month on government 

 land 995 koa trees on the mountainous slopes and 100 silk oak 

 and 169 Benguet pine trees on the flatter areas, making a total 

 of 1264 trees. 



Hauula Reserve. 



During the month I spent three days at Hauula, Oahu, with 

 two government surveyors in the work of surveying out and 

 marking on the ground the boundary of the proposed Hauula 

 forest reserve which will embrace about 1000 acres of native 

 forest. At the same time I conferred with the homesteaders and 

 received from them the assurance that within one month, when 

 present road work was completed, they would begin the work of 

 erecting a fence on this line to prevent their cattle from getting 

 mauka. 



Forest Fire. 



On June 25 I was informed by Fire Warden Wilson that there 

 was a forest fire on the military reservation near Wahiawa and 

 immediately went down. I found that the fire was on the Koo- 

 lau range side on the land of Waianae-uka and had started at 

 about 11 o'clock that morning. Two troops of the 4th Cavalry 

 and 90 prisoners were fighting the fire efficiently and before 

 nightfall had it completely subjugated. About 50 acres of mostly 



