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Maui is easily the banner island in forest planting. The Pio- 

 neer Mill Co. at Lahaina, the Wailuku Sugar Co., and the Maui 

 Agricultural Company are all actively engaged in this work. The 

 last named corporation maintains regularly two forest nurseries 

 in which trees are raised for planting on adjacent lands; one at 

 Paia, under the charge of Mr. David T. Fleming; the other at 

 Opana, for planting the lands there and at Kailiili. This last nur- 

 sery is in charge of Mr. Waldemar Hannestad, who justly takes 

 pleasure in introducing visitors to his many acres of close set, 

 thriftily growing forest of commercially valuable Eucalypts. 



In view of the increasing demands for wood and timber that 

 are necessarily a part of the development of this Territory, forest 

 planting on a commercial scale cannot fail to yield good 

 financial returns to those who have .suitable, fee simple land 

 and who can afford to embark on a long term investment. 

 Forest planting in Hawaii is a form of investment admir- 

 ably adapted for the long lived corporations. The market 

 is sure, danger from fire and other risks has hardly to be con- 

 sidered, while the rapid growth of most of the trees used not 

 only offsets the costs of establishing and caring for the forest 

 but returns to the owner in much shorter time than he could count 

 on in forest operations in most other countries, an extremely 

 good profit on his investment. It would be to their own interest, 

 as well as to the general good of the community, if more of the 

 large corporations would devote a larger share of their waste 

 and unproductive areas to growing commercial forest. 



PLANT INTRODUCTION WORK. 



One of the underlying objects of all the forest work in Hawaii 

 is to discover trees good for one or another purpose that will 

 propagate themselves readily and spread without human aid. 

 The native Hawaiian forest is, as has been pointed out earlier in 

 this report, of the greatest value as a watershed cover, but from 

 the commercial standpoint much better results can be got from 

 introduced species than from Hawaiian trees. The local needs 

 in wood are for posts, ties, timber and fuel. These are best sup- 

 plied by introduced trees, but by no means has the last word 

 been said as to what introduced trees are best for local conditions. 

 Indeed this field of investigation has as yet hardly been touched. 

 The need is for trees that will be of value and that can be de- 

 pended on to spread themselves. We are w r onderfully fortunate 

 in having the Algaroba, and from all appearances certain of the 

 Eucalypts are becoming established so that in time they will make 

 self-sown forests. But there are many places where these trees 

 do not do well non-productive areas that ought to be in forest, 

 for which other trees must be found. 



