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distributed throughout the Territory, much more rapid advance 

 than at present would result in securing definite, practical data 

 as to the value for one and another purpose of newly introduced 

 trees. 



FOREST PLANTING IN KOOLAU, MAUI. 



In co-operation with and at the expense of the Alexander & 

 Baldwin Interests, experimental planting of certain introduced 

 trees was undertaken in the summer of 1911 in a section of the 

 forest bordering the irrigation ditches in the Koolau District on 

 the Island of Maui. This work is being done in the locality 

 where portions of the native forest died out a few years since 

 from a cause that has never been satisfactorily explained. Shelter 

 belts have been started in several places to provide protection 

 from the wind to limited areas where it is proposed to try out spe- 

 cial things. Experimental lots of a number of species of trees 

 new to Hawaii are being planted to ascertain if among them are 

 not kinds adapted for use under the conditions obtaining in this 

 particular section, while other experiments are in progress to de- 

 termine the best methods of propagating on an extensive scale, 

 certain of the native Hawaiian forest plants that are valuable as 

 members of the plant community that makes up the water-bearing 

 forest. 



In April and May, 1911, an arrangement was made whereby 

 Mr. H. M. Curran of the Philippine Bureau of Forestry visited 

 Maui to confer with those locally interested, in their efforts to de- 

 vise ways and means of handling this forest to the best advantage. 

 A brief report containing Mr. Curran's recommendations was 

 published in the Hawaiian Forester and Agriculturist, June, 

 1911; Vol. VIII, No. 6. 



FEDERAL EXPERIMENTAL TREE PLANTING. 



Nuuanu Valley. 



In the interest of forest extension, the Forest Service of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture has for several years 

 now made an allotment for experimental forest planting in Ha- 

 waii. In the beginning all the money was used for the trial of 

 temperate zone trees in fenced enclosures on the upper slopes of 

 Mauna Kea and Mt. Haleakala. In 1911 an experimental planta- 

 tion of Eucalypts was established on land controlled by the Hono- 

 lulu Water Works above Luakaha, in Nuuanu Valley. Sample 

 plots of eighteen different species of Eucalyptus were planted, 

 kinds as yet little known in Flawaii but reputed to be of economic 

 importance. Some additional planting and filling up of the blocks 



