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Forest Plantings on Areas Above the Wet Forest Zones on 
Certain Islands. 
Here we have an opportunity of testing what such trees as 
the Conifers may do in reclaiming areas which have never to 
our knowledge been under forest cover. The altitude from 
6,000 feet ypwards, and the consequent climatic conditions ob- 
tainable at these high elevations, make it quite possible to have 
some of our upper mountain slopes on Haleakala, Mauna Kea 
an Mauna Loa planted with species of Pines, ete., which are 
so admirably suited for lumbering purposes in other countries. 
There is no known reason why some of the Conifers which 
attain such size and height in Southern California and Mexico 
could not be made to thrive at those very high altitudes, pro- 
vided that nurseries were started and maintained and the plant- 
ings conducted under systematic supervision. It is to be hoped 
that the finances of the Board of Agriculture and Forestry will 
be such in the near future as will admit of the establishment 
of several of these nurseries on the mountains named. This 
could no doubt be undertaken in cooperation with some of the 
adjacent graziers or large land owners. The work of these 
high altitude stations should not be confined to the growing of 
introduced pines, ete. alone, but also should include the raising 
of many of our valuable high elevation indigenous trees. Such 
stations should be convenient to both upper indigenous forests 
and also to the unforested areas intended to be planted on the 
mountain slopes. 
Appended to this paper is a list by Mr. J. F. Rock, Consult- 
ing Botanist of the Board of Agriculture and Forestry, giving 
the scientific names of certain quick growing exotic trees from 
other tropical climates, all of which he suggests may be of use 
in reforesting areas in our wet forest zones. 
Besides being indebted to Mr. Rock for the compilation of the 
list above referred to, I have also to thank the Department of 
Public Works, the local branch of the U. S. Hydrographic 
Service, Mr. Ralph S. Hosmer, the Territorial Forester and 
Dr. H. L. Lyon of the H. S. P. A. Experimental Station for 
data besides much valuable information and assistance. 
