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of the year calls for tenders were out for other fences at Xinole, 

 Kan, Hawaii, and at Lnalualei, Oahu, both of which projects were 

 actually started in January, 1914. ]\Iuch preliminary work was 

 also done toward getting ready to let contracts on several other 

 fencing projects. 



In the way of forest planting actual work has been going on 

 since July, 1913, on the replanting- of the slopes of Mount Sugar 

 Loaf on Tantalus Heights, back of Honolulu, with a stand of 

 two native Hawaiian trees, koa and kukui. The area chosen for 

 the first work was on the bare hillsides at the head of a valley 

 tributary to the reservoir in ]Makiki that is now in use by the City 

 of Honolulu for domestic supply. 



Another planting project, continued during the last six months 

 of 1913 under this fund, was in the Koolau district, Maui, where 

 the work of caring for young trees set out by the Alexander & 

 Baldwin interests on Government land was kept on, as otherwise 

 it could not have been. This particular project consists of tree 

 planting in areas along the lines of the ditches of the East ]\Iaui 

 irrigation system, where the native Hawaiian forest suddenly died 

 off a few years ago. The present planting is being done under a 

 P'lanting plan worked out by the Division of Forestry. 



Aduiinisiration of Forest Land Ihidcr Government Leases. 



During 1913 a number of visits of inspection were made to 

 Government lands in various parts of the Territory to see that 

 conditions in regard to forest protection, fencing and tree planting- 

 were being- carried out. Following conferences with the Land 

 Commissioner an improved system of cooperation between the 

 TWO departments was worked out. that should in future result in 

 a better enforcement of the Government's requirements. The 

 immediate residt of the inspection visits was, in several instances, 

 an increase of activity on the part of the lessee in pushing for- 

 ward work on fences and in tree planting. So far as possible it 

 is the policy of the Territorial Government to secure the construc- 

 tion and maintenance of fences on forest reserve boimdaries as 

 conditions under the lease of adjoining agricultural or grazing 

 lands. Provision was made in this way in 1913 for the upkeep of 

 the fences a good part of the wav aroiind the Kohala mountain 

 on Hawaii and in other districts for the carrying out of needed 

 forest work. 



In several places, too. tree planting has been required on tracts 

 leased for grazing- in snecified areas. Notwithstanding unfnvor- 

 nble climatic conditions in 1912 and 1913, the results of the plant- 

 ing un'^'er these leases is generallv encouraging. Esoecial men- 

 tion mav be made here of progress imder such auspices in tree 

 planting on the Parker and Kukaiau ranches. Hawaii, and on the 

 Ccrnwell ranch on ^laui. 



