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waste of waters, of forests and of lands. This is not good busi- 
ness. It must be put an end to. When artesian waters are not 
needed for actual use the wells must be shut off. Where erosion 
can be checked by altering the method of cultivation, that must 
be done. And where the forest by being protected can be made 
the better to do its part, it is but short-sighted economy that 
refuses to build the necessary fence. 
In an address made at the recent Conservation Congress at 
St. Paul, Henry S. Graves, Chief Forester of the United States, 
said : "The practice of forestry by private owners is a public 
necessity." This declaration is particularly applicable to Ha- 
waii. All the more important of our local forest reserves are 
made up of both government and privately owned lands. To 
secure the most efficient management of these areas requires that 
the owners of the lands cooperate with the government more 
actively than they now do. The most pressing needs in the forest 
reserves at present are, in most cases, fencing ; in some the ex- 
termination of wild cattle and goats ; and in others the replace- 
ment of the forest on areas where the growing of trees is the best 
use to which the land can be put. In addition there is always to 
be considered the planting of waste land with trees of com- 
mercial value. 
It is no part of the plan of the government to abate its ac- 
tivity in forest work, nor to shirk any responsibilities that rightly 
belong to its officers. On the contrary it is the desire and in- 
tention of the Board of Agriculture and Forestry each year to 
render more and more efficient service through its several 
divisions. But it is not enough that the forest officials do their 
work. Seeing to it that the forests of Hawaii get proper care 
is a matter quite as much to the interest and benefit of individual 
land owners and corporations as of the government itself. We 
cannot hope in this Territory to make our forests do their full 
duty until all who are charged with their management give evi- 
dence of their faith through tangible works. 
I am not making this plea on the grounds of abstract altruism. 
I am merely putting up to you as business men, a business 
proposition. The time has come when to make the most of our 
Hawaiian forests there is demanded the active cooperation of 
all forest owners. The place has been reached where the owners 
of Hawaiian forests cannot afford not to take active and united 
steps for the better protection of the forest, both by seeing to it 
that the appropriate branches of the government are given the 
adequate financial support by which alone can the government 
lands be properly administered, and also, and fully as important, 
by themselves undertaking forest work, each on his own land, 
but all uniting in a general plan. 
It is not enough merely to pass resolutions approving and ap- 
plauding these projects. The time has come to put words into 
deeds. Let every plantation manager think of the forest above 
