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before the Governor in the form of two reserves, or action on 

 Luahialei can be postponed until the Waianae-kai description 

 is ready. 



The present report is made in response to a verbal request 

 from the Commissioner of Public Lands, in order that the for- 

 est line on AVaianae-kai may be laid out by the Survey Office 

 in connection with other work in the Waianae Valley. It is 

 based on field Avork done in Lualualei and AVaianae-kai in 

 December, 1905, and March, 1906, respectively, when I care- 

 fully inspected the two valleys, as well as on information ob- 

 tained from various persons familiar with the local conditions, 

 or gathered bv me while examinino^ adjacent lands. 



Situated on the leeward side of Oahu, under the shelter of 

 Kaala, the hi,2:hest peak of the AVaianae Range — and also, inci- 

 dentally, the highest elevation on Oahu, 4030 feet — the lands 

 of Waianae-kai and Lualualei resemble in topography and are 

 subject to the same general conditions of exposure and rain- 

 fall as obtain on the lands of Makua and Keaau, 8 to 10 miles 

 along the Waianae Coast to the nortlnvard. As a somewhat 

 detailed report has recentlv been submitted by me upon these 

 lands* it is unnecessary to repeat here the general statements 



PURPOSE. 



The essential reasons for the creation of a forest reserve on 

 the Lualualei and W^aianae-kai lands are, by the re-establish- 

 ment and maintenance of a forest cover, to assist in securing 

 a more regular flow in the springs and brooks on the lands, 

 and to put to economic use areas which from their topography 

 and situation are incapable of being profitably used for any 

 other purpose than producing trees. ^luch of the proposed 

 reserve is indeed too steep and rough even for this use, but by 

 making it a forest reserve* it will later be possible to put into 

 effect a comprehensive system of forest management, which 

 wdll include the systematic extermination of the wild goats 

 and, in cooperation with the owners or lessees of adjoining 

 lands, a definite policy of tree planting. 



* This Report was published in the Hawaiian Forester and Agricul- 

 turist for January, 1906, pp. 4 to 8, 

 contained therein. 



