Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-07-02 | Page 7 | Plant Fig Trees from Airplanes in Pacific Islands

PLANT FIG TREES FROM AIRPLANES IN PACIFIC ISLANDS HONOLULU. T. H., July 1. A new use for airplanes dropping seed In spots otherwise Inaccessible to man has been found by army officials here an Is being carried out In cooperation co-operation with the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' association In aa attempt to reforest a series ef steep ridges and gorge - which form ene -9t -the Island's watersheds. On days when atmoepherle conditions condi-tions are favorable the put nee fly back and forth over the rldgea and valleys forming ths Koolau mountains, moun-tains, dropping the seeds of fig trees, which have been found Ideal for retarding the flows of water resulting from heavy rains. All previous efforts to reforest ths Koolau mountains had failed. They form the waterehed which supplies much of the plantation Irrigation and domestic water used on the Island, aa well aa Bchofleld barracks, the large military reservation.