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PROPOSED FOREST RESERVES. 



Reports recommending the creation of additional forest re- 

 serves on the Waianae Hills, Island of Oahu, are now in the 

 hands of the Committee on Forestry. Other forest reserve proj- 

 ects on Oahu and Hawaii only wait the completion of the techni- 

 cal description by the Survey Department to be brought to th? 

 stage of final action. 



Condemnation proceedings instituted by the Territorial Gov- 

 ernment for the acquisition of a portion of the land of Kehena 2 

 on the Kohala Mountain, Hawaii, which it is proposed be in- 

 cluded in the Kohala Mountain Forest Reserve, were still pending 

 at the end of the year. 



Under the heading "Forest Planting" mention will be made of 

 work in forest replacement carried on in two of the forest re- 

 serves. 



FENCING FOREST RESERVE BOUNDARIES, 



It is the policy of the Territory so far as possible to provide 

 or the construction and maintenance of fences on forest reserve 

 boundaries through clauses in the leases of adjoining government 

 lands that are devoted to agriculture or grazing. Under such a 

 requirement a fence was' built in 1911 by the Princeville Planta- 

 tion Company along a section of the boundary of the Halelea 

 Forest Reserve above Hanalei, Kauai. The fence runs between 

 the Kalihiwai and the Hanalei streams. While only a little over 

 a mile long it shuts off and protects a very large area of the forest 

 above. The fence itself is very substantially built and should 

 stand for a considerable time with only such minor repairs as 

 must always be given to any fence line in the woods. Special 

 mention is made of it here because this fence was practically 

 built voluntarily, the requirement that such a fence be built hav- 

 ing been inserted in this lease at the suggestion of the officers of 

 the Princeville Plantation Company. As will be recalled, similar 

 co-operation has been shown in past years by a number of other 

 corporations throughout the Territory. 



Other localities where fence building is required on govern- 

 ment land, along forest reserve boundaries, by government leases 

 now in force are Kula, Maui, on lands leased to the Cornwell 

 Ranch ; Kapaa and Kamalomalo, Kauai, on lands above the 

 Kealia Plantation ; Waioli, Kauai, under a lease to C. B. Makee ; 

 East Ohia and Kahananui, Molokai, under leases respectively to 

 A. Rodriguez and C. Kaanoi ; and Humuula, Hawaii, under a 

 lease to the Humuula Sheep Station. 



