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RULE V— EXECUTIVE OFEICER'S REPORT. 
Honolulu, Hawaii, May 3, 1922. 
Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, 
Honolulu, T. H. 
Gentlemen : At the request of President Atkinsoji, I beg to 
submit the following comments on the objections made by the 
Hawaiian Trail and Mountain Club to the promulgation of Rule 
V of the Division of Forestry and to point out certain facts 
^ which impel me still to recommend most strongly the early pro- 
mulgation of this rule. 
In the public hearing of February 14, 1922, and in numerous 
articles which have since then appeared in the morning paper, 
a great deal has been said and written on extraneous subjects, 
interesting in themselves to be sure, but having no direct bearing 
on the promulgation of Rule V. Such subjects are beside the 
point and I will not take your time now to discuss them, but will 
limit this communication only to considerations which apply to 
Rule V. 
Correction 
In the first place, permit me to correct an error, which througii 
an inadvertent miscalculation, crept into my letter of January 
23, 1922, to the Governor on this subject. On page 18, I should 
have said that the area to be closed, amounting to 1,480 acres, 
added to the prohibited area in Nuuanu gives a total of 3,390 
acres, which is only 5 per cent of the total forest reserve area 
on Oahu and less than .9 per cent (not .009 per cent) of the 
total land area of Oahu. 
Also, on page 13, I stated that none of the forest deterioration 
on the area covered by Rule V can be ascribed to grazing, be- 
cause *'so far as can be ascertained, there has never been any 
stock on the land." I will admit, although no substantial proof 
has been submitted, that cattle may have been responsible for a 
part of the damage to the forest at Kaau Crater in upper Palolo 
Valley. 
Objection to Rule V 
The real objection of the Hawaiian Trail and Mountain Club 
to the promulgation of Rule V, as I have gathered from the dis- 
cussions, is that the members will be deprived of the personal 
pleasure of traveling over the trails which run through the area 
covered by the rule. It is unfortunate indeed that the area 
embraces one of the favorite and readily accessible haunts of 
hikers, but we must not close our eyes to the fact that the area 
is also a part of the watershed which supplies the City of Hono- 
lulu with water, both directly by surface streams and indirectly 
