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Waimea, Hawaii. 



The other locality planted directly by the Government is on 

 Kohala Mountain, above Waimea Village, Hawaii. In May, 

 1911, a contract was signed with Mr. A. W. Carter, Manager qf 

 the Parker Ranch, under which, in accordance with a planting 

 plan drawn up by the Division of Forestry, 50 acres were planted 

 during the winter of 1911-12. Here again Eucalyptus robusta 

 was the principal tree used. The planting having been satisfac- 

 torily completed, payment of the contract was made in the sum- 

 mer of 1912 in two installments. 



A continuation of this planting has been made by the Parker 

 Ranch on adjoining fee simple lands, so that altogether a consid- 

 erable block of forest will soon be in evidence. The areas planted 

 were open slopes on the hills above Waimea, adjoining the native 

 forest out of which come streams now tapped for use on the Wai- 

 mea plains. The object of the planting is to utilize otherwise 

 unproductive land and in part to form a buffer belt, or transition 

 zone between the native forest and the open grazing land. Under 

 the peculiar conditions that obtain in the Hawaiian islands the 

 outer edge of the native forest is often in poor health and reduced 

 vigor. Unavoidable encroachments from the outside where the 

 forest touches agricultural land, the spread into the forest of 

 rank growing grasses, incursions by men and animals, and in 

 places the danger of damage by fire, all tend to work injury to 

 the close cover that is the characteristic and valuable feature of 

 the indigenous forest 



By keeping the outer boundary of the forest somewhat farther 

 out than in itself is actually required for watershed protection, 

 the welfare of the forest as a whole is the better maintained. 



In the "wet" or water-bearing forest on the catchment basins 

 of streams especially needed for irrigation, the retention of this 

 "buffer belt" is a matter of much importance. For the most part 

 the buffer belt should consist of an extension of the native forest 

 cover. Where the cover is broken it should ordinarily be renewed 

 through encouraging a return of the native vegetation, but in 

 some few places a planted stand of introduced trees can be used 

 to advantage to bridge the outer zone. In such places the planted 

 stand can serve also as a source of local w~od supply. The plant- 

 ing above Waimea Village falls into this latter class. Both pur- 

 poses will there be served by the stand planted. 



Planting Under Government Le\ise Requirements. 



Under the requirements of Government leases issued by the 

 Territorial Land office, forest planting is in progress on several 



