THE  j-iAWAI  I AN 
P0RE8TER  I AGRICULTURIST 
VOL.  VI  JUNE,  1909  No.  6 
On  June  5,  1909,  Governor  Frear  signed  proclamations  creating 
four  new  forest  reserves  in  the  Territory  of  Hawaii,  whereby 
83,234  acres  of  government  land  were  set  apart  in  accordance: 
with  law,  for  forest  purposes. 
With  the  additional  reserves  created,  the  boundary  of  the  ex- 
isting Makawao  Forest  Reserve  on  Maui  was  modified  and  the 
area  of  that  reserve  slightly  increased.  All  told  there  are  now 
twenty  forest  reserves  in  the  Territory  of  Hawaii.  The  com- 
bined total  area  is  545,764  acres.  Of  this  357,180  acres,  or  65 
per  cent.,  belong  to  the  Government.  The  remainder,  188,584 
acres,  is  in  private  ownership,  but  almost  without  exception  in  the 
control  of  persons  or  corporations  who  sympathize  with  the  aims 
of  the  Territory  in  creating  forest  reserves  and  who  are  managing 
their  forest  property  in  accordance  therewith. 
The  forest  reserves  newly  created  are  the  Mauna  Kea  Forest 
Reserve  on  Hawaii,  66,600  acres,  all  government  land;  the  Wai- 
hou  Spring  Forest  Reserve  on  Maui,  84  acres,  of  which  74  acres 
belongs  to  the  Government,  a small  reserve  made  to  protect  an 
important  spring  on  the  slopes  of  Mount  Haleakala ; and  the 
Lihue-Koloa  and  the  Moloaa  Forest  Reserves  on  Kauai ; the 
former  with  a total  area  of  29,260  acres,  of  which,  12,945  acres, 
or  44  per  cent.,  is  government  land ; the  latter  5,670  acres,  of 
which  3,615  acres,  or  64  per  cent.,  belongs  to  the  Territory.  Both 
of  these  reserves  are  made  with  the  object  of  protecting  the  forest 
on  important  watersheds.  They  round  out  the  block  of  reserved 
forest  surrounding  the  central  mountain  mass  on  Kauai  and 
make  that  island  the  first  on  which  the  chain  of  forest  reserves  is 
complete. 
Unlike  most  of  the  Hawaiian  forest  reserves  the  Mauna  Kea 
Forest  Reserve  on  Hawaii  is  made  not  for  the  purposes  of  water- 
shed protection,  but  to  assist  in  the  ultimate  reforestation  of  the 
upper  slope's  of  that  mountain  with  trees  of  economically  desirable 
kinds.  This  in  part  will  be  accomplished  through  the  natural 
spread  of  the  Mamane,  a valuable  native  tree,  and  in  part  through 
the  introduction,  by  means  of  artificial  planting,  of  introduced 
trees  especially  conifers  from  the  Temperate  Zone. 
Following  the  usual  custom  there  is  printed  elsewhere  in  this 
issue  of  the  Forester  the  reports  of  the  Superintendent  of  Forestry 
m regard  to  these  projects,  approved  by  the  Board  of  Commission- 
ers of  Agriculture  and  Forestry,  and  also  the  official  proclama- 
tions signed  by  Governor  Frear  that  establish  the  areas  accord- 
ing to  law. 
