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APPOINTMENTS. 
Mr. L. Thornton Lyman was on March 23, 1922, appointed 
by the Board as Assistant District Fire Warden in and for 
the government lands of Palaau, Hoolehua, Kalamaula, Ka- 
paakea, Kamiloloa 1 and 2, and Makakupaia mauka and as 
Assistant District Forester for the lands of Kalamaula, Kapaa- 
kea, Kamiloloa 1 and 2, and Makakupaia mauka within the 
Molokai Forest Reserve on the Island of Molokai. 
Mr. Lyman is the Agricultural Expert of the Hawaiian 
Homes Commission where he is doing excellent work in 
the agricultural line and he will be of material assistance to 
this Board in these two positions. 
WITHDRAWAL OF LAND FROM RESERVE. 
On December 6, 1921, the Board approved the withdrawal 
of 3,100 square feet of land next to Lot 15,' Tantalus Heights 
from the Honolulu Watershed Forest Reserve, Oahu, at the 
request of the Commissioner of Public Lands who desired the re- 
turn of the land to his jurisdiction for exchange purposes. 
A public hearing to consider the matter was held on March 
17, 1922, and as there was no objection to the withdrawal the 
governor on March 20, 1922, signed the proclamation, effecting 
the withdrawal, which is printed on the By Authority page of 
this issue. 
BIGGEST GOVERNMENT TIMBER SALE. 
On April 5 a sale of standing timber aggregating one billion 
board feet was consummated by the U. S. Forest Service in 
California. This is the largest single timber deal ever made by 
the government, according to an account in the West Coast Lum- 
berman of April 15. The timber is situated in the eastern part 
of Lassen County, the purchaser being the Fruit Growers' Sup- 
ply Company of Los Angeles, a subsidiary of the California 
Fruit Growers' Exchange. The contract extends over thirty- 
ojie years and calls for an annual cut optional from a minimum of 
25 to a maximum of 50 million board feet of lumber. 
The most striking feature of this huge project, however, is 
that the contract is the nearest approach to scientific forest har- 
vesting ever made on so large a scale by the U. S. government. 
Only the ripe timber is to be felled, leaving all the immature 
trees to form a future crop, and the first logging railroad will tap 
an area where the timber is ripest on the tract. By proper 
"'forest management" of this timber is meant establishing a 
balance between the cut and growth over the entire tract. From 
observation, foresters have determined that an average of 30,000,- 
000 board feet can be cut annually on the ''working center" area 
of which this contract covers one-half, without reducing the grow- 
ing capacity of the area. It is this maintenance of the growing 
