The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-03-07


that we will have a Governor of such
character. and I can well conceive Of
a Governor who might not. act in the
public interests in the matter, or who
might not have a correct sense of the
value of forests.
CARTER A BUSY MAN.
Again. 1t must be remembered that
the Governor is an extremely busy man
with a multitude of details to attend to.
and will never have the time to devote
to the detail study of questions of this
character, which must frequently de-
pend upon points which can only be
intelligently decided after a visit to
the location and detail examination of
the land. The Governor has no time
to do such work.
90 The present law provides that in
order to create a forest reserve, the
Board of Forestry shall first recon-
mend it. after which the Governor calls
a public meeting, and thereafter de-
cides.
1t seems to me that after a forest
reservation has been made and has
passed under the jurisdiction of the
Forest Board, it should not be taken
away from their care and control with
out their having some say in the mat
ter. They may, for example. have se-
cured the fencing, replanting and high
forest development of reserve, and
then have it taken away and leased
to a ranchman who will turn his cattle
in and destroy in a month what it has
taken years to develop: or to a sugar
plantation, which will proceed forth
with to cut down and clear off trees
which 1t has taken twenty years of
hard work to produce.
l therefore recommend that i'm order
to take out of forest reserve any
land that has been regularly set apart
for forest purposes, the approval of the
Board of Agriculture and Forestry be
first obtained.
There does not seem to me to be any
good reason why, If the recommended
ton of the Board is required to place
quired to take 1t out
The Board is in a better position to
know the details concerning the land In
question tnan any one else.
1t possesses an official forester whose
specific business 1t is to know the very
details which should govern action in
the matter. The Board also has made
a specific study of the land when it
was made into a reserve, and conse-
quently knows about the matter of its
own knowledge, and is therefore in the
best possible position to act intelligent
ly in the matter.
NOT SOUND ARGUMENT.
(5) 1t has been suggested that the
Board of Forestry will be predisposed
to hold on to any land which has come
under their control, and will therefore
be inclined to resist any attempt to
take land out of a reserve
1 do not think that this argument is
entitled to any consideration.
The Board is the Board of "Agricul-
ture" as well as of Forestry" and if
there is any good reason why certain
land should be used for agricultural
purposes, rather than for forest pur-
poses, there is no reason to believe that
they will professionally favor the forest
branch of their duties, any more than
there is reason to believe that they
would unreasonohI,, co., r,ia,,,.,,ss
al the exnense of foras,r,,
fG The Roard of Ag,,o,,i., q, o,,
ing strong efforts 70 sac,,ra ,ta -,
GRAFTON of owners os foras+ Id 70
secure the settling anart of 1orda ,,,hi o,,
are now ranch Lands or which oro no.,
reserved for forest reserves Tbat, %
forts have been ia vors blv resno,dad 10
and negotiations are now taking Mace
looking to that end.
/ 10 not speak 'r,m hearsay in this
matter as l myelf am a land owner
with Wflum such negotiations have
taken place.
The lands which The Board wants for
forest reserve ire, valuable to me.
and l do not want 10 give them IN:
but recognize that the land should be
set apart as a forest reserve. in the
public interest. Uldec these circum-
stances 1 am willing to surrender the
land to the govefnp,ent On far terms.
for the purpose of creating forest re-
serve; but I am NOT willing 10 surren-
der said lands 20 the government for
forest purposes, if I'll" Gov ,rnor can
at will take them our of The forest re-