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reserve be made and the Governor be requested, in compliance 

 with the law, to declare the same a forest reserve and set apart 

 the portions thereof owned by the Government for such pur- 

 pose, and do further approve the recommendations that the Com- 

 missioner of Public Lands be requested to make provision for 

 the forest fence where necessary along the lower or makai bound- 

 ary of the same. 



Respectfully submitted, 



W. M. GiFFARD, 



' ' ' pi 

 Alfred W. Carter, *'""' 



Committee on Forestry.. 

 Mr. L. A. Thurston, the third member of the Committee, ab- 

 sent, in California. 



REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF FORESTRY 



December 30, 1905. 

 Committee on Forestry, 



Board of Commissioners of 



Agriculture and Forestry, 

 Honolulu, Oahu. 



Gentlemen : — I beg to submit herewith a report with recom- 

 mendations, upon the proposed Kealia Forest Reserve on Kauai. 



In July, 1904, I prepared a preliminary report upon the ques- 

 tion of creating a forest reserve in the north end of the Puna 

 and east end of the Koolau Districts, on the Island of Kauai, bet- 

 ter described perhaps as embracing the forest lands lying back 

 of the Kealia Plantation. Owing to the fact that certain de- 

 scriptions were not available no action was then taken on the re- 

 port, nor has there been since. I am now prepared to submit 

 this as a final report upon the Kealia Forest Reserve. It is based 

 in part upon the information contained in my preliminary report 

 and also upon other data obtained since that time; the whole 

 "being largely the outcome of personal examinations made on the 

 ground by me in May and June, 1904, and in June, 1905. 



LANDS INCLUDED. 



The proposed Kealia Forest Reserve includes portions of the 

 lands of Anahola, Kamalomaloo, Kealia and Kapaa. Of these 

 Kealia belongs in fee simple to the Alakee Sugar Company, the 



