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managed as protection forest. The real importance of the com- 

 mercial class of forest as a source of wood will, as time goes on, 

 more and more rest in the planted stands of Eucalypts and other 

 introduced forest trees. 



Both the water bearing and the commercial classes of forest 

 are of great practical importance to this Territory. But from 

 their very nature the two closses require radically different 

 treatment. In the one case the important product is water; in 

 the other, wood. Each class should be so cared for and adminis- 

 tered that it will yield, permanently, as large a share of its most 

 valuable product as may be. If it is of the water bearing class 

 it should be made to yield as much water as possible, in as regular 

 and equalized a flow as local conditions will permit. This means 

 in practice that the forests of the water bearing class should be 

 managed as protection forests, and kept as nearly as possible in 

 their primitive state. If, on the other hand the forest is of the 

 commercial class, it should be so managed that one crop of trees 

 will be made to follow another in regular order. 



These considerations are at the basis of the whole forest sys- 

 tem in. Hawaii. It is because the forest can be made the better 

 to do its duty by being systematically cared for that forest reserves 

 are set apart and the agitation for their better administration 

 continued. Considerable forest area in Hawaii has now been 

 technically declared reserved, but up to the present but scant heed 

 has been paid properly to taking care of this area. Until adequate 

 provision is made for protecting the forest reserves from injury 

 by fire, animals and trespass, the Hawaiian forests cannot be 

 made to serve to the full the objects for which the reserves are 

 created. 



Two years ago I pointed out that the essential needs were 

 money for fencing such stretches of forest reserve boundaries on 

 government land as cannot be provided for through fencing re- 

 quirements in leases of adjoining government tracts; a fund 

 from which expenses for fighting forest fire on government land 

 could be paid, in times of necessity; and an appropriation suffi- 

 cient to permit the employment of forest rangers to see that the 

 forest reserve boundaries are maintained and respected, to prevent 

 trespass by animals and men, to protect the forest reserves from, 

 fire, and in general to give the forest the care it requires if it is 

 to be made of the greatest service to man. Along with this in 

 some of the reserves there is need of forest planting to fill out 

 blanks in the cover and repair damage done through the opening 

 up of the forest in former years. 



The experience of the past two years only accentuates the 

 arguments put forth at that time. Until the boundaries of the 

 reserves are fenced, where they are not in themselves natural 

 barriers, and until there is provision made for the protection of 

 the forest against fire and trespass, the Hawaiian forest will not 



