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That the facts found out in these and the other investigations 

 carried on by the Division of Forestry may be widely dissemi- 

 nated among all the people of the Territory provision should 

 be made for the publication of bulletins and circulars, the em- 

 phasis being placed always on those which shall make available 

 the required information in a form in which it can be used by 

 the every day citizen. 



Two things are to be borne in mind in regard to forestry, be 

 it in Hawaii or be it anywhere else in the United States. First, 

 that forestry is a business proposition, in that forests are grown 

 to meet definite, practical economic needs. And second, that 

 forestry is a matter which concerns the individual and the cor- 

 poration as well as all the people collectively. We are too prone 

 to think of the Government as something apart from the People. 

 The reason why forestry is practiced in this Territory is because 

 it serves the interests of the people of Hawaii better to have 

 certain portions of the islands under a forest cover than to use 

 those lands in any other way. Similarly the corporations that are 

 active in protecting the native forest on their own fee simple 

 lands, or that are establishing new forests of introduced trees, 

 are doing it, and should do it, because it is to their interest so 

 to do. Forestry is essentially a matter of business. Greater 

 care in the administration of our forests is urged because it is 

 better business to take good, rather than poor, care of them. 

 The more generally these truths are realized the better it will 

 be for all concerned. 



Forestry in Hawaii is then, a matter which concerns both 

 private interests and the Government. Each manager 'of a cor- 

 poration owning or controlling land should look to it that his 

 forests are well cared for and that waste or other land that can- 

 not be utilized more intensively, is planted with trees. And the 

 people as a whole, through their representatives in the Legisla- 

 ture, should make adequate provision for the proper care and 

 development of the forest areas belonging to them, but managed 

 for them by the officers of their government the forests on gov- 

 ernment land. 



Specifically as regards the government forests of Hawaii pro- 

 vision should be made by adequate appropriations for five main 

 branches of forest work : 



(1) For the proper maintenance and protection of the exist- 

 ing native forests through the fencing of forest reserve boun- 

 daries, the care of the forests and their protection from trespass 

 by forest rangers, and a special fund, to be used only in case of 

 need, for fighting forest fire ; 



(2) For the planting of open places in forest reserves and 

 of other government lands where the growing of a forest is the 

 best use to which the land can be put ; 



