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just as surely as it has already gone in Hamakua, Hawaii, or as 

 it is now going in North Kona. 



The mere formal creation of forest reserves, the delimiting 

 of boundaries and the coloring in of given areas on a map are of 

 course only steps in the process of getting the forests under 

 proper control. These are necessary steps and have to be gone 

 through with, but the essential thing is protection and the ap- 

 pointed time for securing protection is now. 



The Board of Agriculture has detailed plans showing what 

 ought to be done in the way of fencing and protection on each 

 reserve. The practical requirement is for funds with which to 

 get this work under way. As has already been pointed out, the 

 reasonable solution of this problem is through the assignment to 

 forest work of a portion of the revenues now received by the 

 Territory from the leases and licenses of water rights in a num- 

 ber of the forest reserves. A percentage of this money ought 

 to be devoted to the protection and improvement of the native 

 forest on Government land. Every effort should be made to 

 secure its use for this purpose. 



NEW RESERVES. 



During the past two years four new forest reserves were 

 added to the list, making a total at the close of 1912 of 27 forest 

 reserves that have formally been set apart. The new reserves 

 are as follows : 



South Kona Kona and Kau, Hawaii. May 17, 1911. Total 

 area, 36,952 acres ; area of Government land 29,260 acres. 



Puna Puna, Hawaii- June 29, 1911. Area 19,850 acres, all 

 Government land. 



Molokai Molokai. September 11, 1912. Total area, 44,674 

 acres ; area of Government land, 13,268 acres. 



Kula Kula, Maui. September 11, 1912. Total area, 6,075 

 acres ; area of Government land, 5,069 acres. 



In February, 1911, the boundaries of two of the older reserves, 

 West Maui and Kau, Hawaii, were modified and the areas some- 

 what increased. Similar action was taken in September, 1912, 

 with regard to the Waianae kai Forest Reserve on Oahu, and 

 through a land exchange on Kauai, 420 acres of forest in the 

 Lihue-Koloa Forest Reserve were transferred from private to 

 Government ownership. 



At the close of 1912 there are twenty-seven forest reserves in 

 the Territory of Hawaii with a total area of 683,101 acres, of 

 which 454,810 acres, 67 per cent., is Government land. On fol- 

 lowing pages are tables giving in detailed form the statistics of 

 each reserve. 



