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through with a cane knife. It would be hard to imagine a cover 

 of vegetation better adapted for the conservation of water than 

 this. It is indeed, for this chmate, the ideal protection forest. 



BOUNDARY RECOMMENDED. 



Following and as a part of the examination made by me to 

 determine the location of the forest line and to study the local 

 conditions on the ground, I have discussed the matter with Mr. 

 J. W. Pratt, Commissioner of Public Lands ; with representatives 

 of the Kealia Plantation, including Col. Z. S. Spaulding and Mr. 

 G. H. Fairchild. the latter being also the local district forester, and 

 with Mr. F. E. Harvey, of the Survey Office, who from investi- 

 gations incident to comprehensive surveys of the government 

 lands in northeastern Kauai, has become very familiar with the 

 lands and general conditions obtaining in this section. As a re- 

 sult of this study the lower boundary of the Kealia Reserve was 

 laid out on the ground by Mr. Harvey, under my direction, the 

 important points along its course being marked by him. As stated 

 above, this line was run with the idea of excluding all land suited 

 for agricultural use. Its location has been approved by the Land 

 Commissioner. 



Briefly, the lower boundary of the Kealia Forest Reserve may 

 1)6 described as follows : Beginning at a point on the Aliomanu- 

 Anahola boundary at the end of the Kolau Ridge, the line skirts 

 the foot of the bluff, follows up the Anahola River to a point 

 near the concrete dam and waterhead, thence up the bank and 

 across the lands of Anahola and Kamalomaloo a little below the 

 edge of the existing forest to the hill in Kealia called Puu Kinui, 

 thence to Puu Lawaii, crossing the Mimino Gulch near the new 

 (1905) dam and reservoir, thence following the foot of the steep 

 slope on the north side of the Kapahi stream to the Moalepe 

 gulch to a point near a place called Pohakuiki, thence to and fol- 

 lowing the ridge forming the Kapaa-\A'aipouli boundary into the 

 mountains. 



The upper line of the reserve follows the ridges which make 

 the main divides between the watersheds on the north and east 

 sides of the island, it being part of the way identical with the 

 mauka boundary of the Halelea Forest Reserve, proclaimed in 

 August, 1904. 



The location of the proposed boundary of the Kealia Forest Re- 



