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render to the people of the Territory the duty that it ought. To 

 provide these things costs money ; but such an outlay is as surely 

 an investment as if the money were put out at interest with a 

 banking house. The returns from forest protection, both direct 

 and indirect, will amply repay the money advanced in the begin- 

 ning. The protection and wise management of the forest is a 

 fundamental need in Hawaii. It is the duty of this Board to 

 make the people of the Territory so to realize this fact that thqy 

 will make adequate provision for carrying on the necessary work. 



NEW RESERVES. 



During the calendar year 1909 four new forest reserves were 

 set apart by proclamation by the Governor, aggregating a total 

 area of 101,614 acres, of which 83,234 acres 82 per cent. is 

 government land. 



In 1910 three more reserves were created, bringing the total up 

 to twenty-three. The 1910 reserves aggregate 29,132 acres, all 

 government land. The gross area of the twenty-three forest 

 reserves so far established is 575,154 acres, of which 386,547 

 acres, 67 per cent., is land belonging to the Government. 



The list of new reserves is as follows : 



Name. District. Island. Date 



1909. Proclaimed. 



Manna Kea Hamakua Hawaii June 5, 1909 



Waihon Spring Hamakuap'oko. . . . Mani June 5, 1909 



Lihue-Koloa Puna and Kona. . .Kauai June 5, 1909 



Moloaa Koolau Kauai June 5, 1909 



1910. 



Pupukea Koolauloa Oahu May 10, 1910 



Hauola Hamakua Hawaii June 13, 1910 



Kahoolawe Maui County Kahoolawe Aug. 25, 1910 



On following pages are tables showing full data in regard to 

 these and earlier established forest reserves, arranged both 

 chronologically and by islands. Detailed reports in connection 

 with each reserve are made and submitted to, and approved by 

 the Board at the time of the setting apart of the reserve. These 

 reports later appear in the Hawaiian Forester and Agriculturist. 



Object of Certain Reserves. 



Of the new reserves it may briefly be noted here that the 

 primary object in the creation of four of them Waihou Spring, 

 Lihue-Koloa, Moloaa and Pupukea was, in common with most 

 of the reserves that have heretofore been set apart, to secure 

 better protection for the forest cover on important water sheds. 

 The reservation of Mauna Kea and Kahoolawe involves a some- 

 what different principle. These tracts are non-water-bearing and 



