us 



Total area Area Gov't. Dato of 

 Xaiiio and Islaiiil acres land, acres jiroclaniatioo 



Xanakuli. Oalni 1.010 1.010 dune 4. I!ll3 



:\rakua-Keaau, Oahn 4.71(i 4.376 " 



Kuaokala. Oahu 4;U 434 " " 



Kohala Mountain. Hawaii Llit.C.^: 14.204 Oct. 13, 1913 



Ujiper Waiakea, Hawaii ni.SoO .51.800 " " 



T'l.j.er Olaa, Hawaii 5t.2SO 9.280 " " 



Honolulu Watershed, Oahu 6,950 5,000 " '' 



On Octoljer 13, 1913, the lioiindary of the AFoloaa forest re- 

 serve on Kanai was modified bv the ehmination of 83 acres and 

 the addition of 34 acres, a r.et decrease of 49 acres. This action 

 was taken on the basis of a recent survey, to strai.^hten the boun- 

 dary and exchide from the reserve a section of o])en land suitable 

 for i^razing- and found not to be essential for water protection. 



At the end of the year 1913 there were 34 forest reserves in 

 Hawaii with a total area of 786,869 acres, of wliich 69 per cent. 

 (540.877 acres) was land Ixlonging to the Territory. 



Forest Prncini:;. 



The action of the Legislature, in setting apart the water rev- 

 enues from Government forest lands as a sj^ecial fund to be 

 used for forest and hydrographic work, was one result of the 

 long campaign that has been carried on by the Board for securing 

 better provision for the protection of the native forests. In 

 securing the final passage of the act. the efforts of a joint com- 

 mittee of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' .A^socintinn nnd the Iloard 

 of Commissioners of Agriculture au'l Forestry ])laved no small 

 part. A comprehensive statement of the reasons whv such a use 

 of public moneys was justifiable, prepare! bv the rliairnrm of thnt 

 committee. ^Nlr. W. M. (lififard. was printed earl\- in the 'c:\r. 

 This statement also appeared as ah api^endix to the biennial re- 

 port of the P.oard of .\gricidture and Forestry issued in .M;n-cli. 

 1913. 



Under the terms of the new law (Act S7 of l')13) one-half of 

 the revenues derived from the lease of water rights is devoted to 

 forest work. The annual income for water rights is a little over 

 .S66.000. The share for forestry is therefore .S33.000 ^ler anniun. 

 an increase of about $22,000 per annum over the amount whi'-li 

 the Division of I-'orestry has had in recent vear^. Continuing Ihe 

 staflf of the Division of Forestrv imchanged and making the same 

 provision as in the past for its rf)titine work, the bulk of this 

 moncv will be expended for the construction of forest fences on 

 the boimrlaries of certain forest reserves where there remain gap,"^ 

 in the line, in the eradication «»f wild stock — cattle, 'jfoats and pigs 

 — in rtJTcr of the fore^t^. and in planting areas of Ciovefniut'iit 

 land with forest trees. During the six months period from Imic 

 to December. l''H. fencing projects were rrot under w a\- at 

 Molfjaa. Kanai. mid at Makawao and Xahikn. Alaui. \l the end 



