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REPORTS OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF FORESTRY. 



i\Iarch 2, I90v5. 

 Committee on Forestry, 



Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, 

 Honolulu. Oahu. 



Gentlemen : I beg to submit the following preliminary re- 

 port upon the creation of a forest reserve in the District of 

 Hana, Island of Maui, and to recommend a boundary line 

 therefor which should also serve as the forest line, above which 

 the government land should not be again leased. This recom- 

 mendation in no way affects the leasing of the water rights 

 on the upper land, including rights of way for flumes and 

 ditches and the permission to develop additional supplies by 

 tunneling or other methods. 



The present report is based upon the results of personal 

 studies of the local conditions made on the ground in Septem- 

 ber 1904 and February T906. It is submitted at this time 

 in consequence of a request from the Commissioner of Public 

 Lands for recommendations in regard to the forest line in 

 Hana. The request was made about a vear ago, following an 

 application made to the Commissioner of Public Lands for the 

 lease of certain tracts in the Hana Distict, particularly the 

 crown lands of Wailua and Waiohinu. As Mr. Pratt desires 

 to advertise these leases without further delay I recommend 

 that the Board now approve the line proposed herein. Later, 

 a final report containing a technical description of the proposed 

 boundary line will be submitted to the Board, when the matter 

 can be brought to the attention of the Governor in the regular 

 way. 



The area included in the proposed Hana Forest Reserve 

 embraces all the mauka portion of the District of Plana, Island 

 of Maui. It lies as a roughly rectangular block the makai or 

 northeast and southeast sides of which are made by a line 

 starting from Puu Hinai on the Plana-Koolau District bound- 

 ary line and following approximately the lower edge of the 

 existing forest across the Hana District to a point on the 

 Hana-Kipahulu District boundary, at an approximate average 

 elevation of 1,500 feet. The northwest and southwest sides of 

 the rectangular are respectively the Hana-Koolau and the 



