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Territory it would greatly simplify the forest problem and re- 

 dound to the public benefit. 



Your Committee herewith present a resolution for the pur- 

 pose of carrying this recommendation into effect. 

 We remain, 



Your obedient servants, 



L. A. Thurston, 

 Alfred W. Carter, 



W. M. GiFFARD. 



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REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF FORESTRY. 



^larch 31, 1906. 

 Committee on Forestry, 



Board of Commissioners of 



Agriculture and Forestry, 

 Honolulu, Oahu. 



Gentlemen : — I beg to submit the following report, with recom- 

 mendations, upon the proposed Kau Forest Reserve, in the Dis- 

 trict of Kau, Island of Hawaii. This report is based upon field 

 work done by me during visits to Kau made in February, 1904, 

 and August, 1905. supplemented by other information obtained 

 between and since those visits. The report deals with the forest 

 problems that are presented in the part of Kau covered by the 

 proposed forest reserve. It will be followed by a supplementary^ 

 report containing a technical description of the reserve boundary 

 line herein proposed. As soon as this description is in hand, I 

 recommend that the Board pass a resolution favoring the re- 

 serve, that the matter may take the usual course. 



LOCATION AND AREA. 



The area covered by the proposed Kau Forest Reserve may be 

 roughly described as that portion of the District of Kau, lying 

 on the lower southern slope of Mauna Loa, bounded on the west 

 and north bv the land of Kahuku, on the east by the forest fence 

 erected within the lands of Kapapala by the Hawaiian Agricul- 

 tural Company, and on the south by a line, fenced in part, drawn 

 across the various lands back of the Pahala and Hutchinson 

 plantations at approximately the lower edge of the existing for- 

 est. The gross area of the Kau Forest Reserve is approximately 



