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the northwest end of the existing- fence across Kaohe 5, built 

 by the Kukaiau Plantation Company, thence across Kaohe 5 

 following said fence to the Humimla boundary, thence follow- 

 ing said Humuula boundary to the south and west around 

 Mauna Kea to the southeast end of the fence required to be 

 built across Kaohe 4 and along the same to the initial point. 



Mr. A. W. Carter, representing the Parker Ranch, has pro- 

 posed to lease the grazing land in Kaohe 3, with a proviso in 

 the lease that a fence be built and maintained across Kaohe 3 

 following the line just described. Across Kaohe 5 a fence 

 built sometime ago by the Kukaiau Plantation Company (the 

 one mentioned in the above description) marks the division 

 between the good grazing and the waste land. 



With the building of the fences on Kaohe 3 and 4 and the 

 gradual capture of the wild cattle on the mountain, facilitated 

 thereby, stock will be kept off this upper section. 



■ The retention by the Land Office of this area of waste land 

 is directly in Ime with the policy of the administration to put 

 the government land to its best use and furthermore it leaves 

 what is now an unavailable tract in such shape that if a use 

 is found for it in later years it will then be available for lease 

 or sale. With the introduction of new grasses it is quite pos- 

 sible that the area of good grazing land may in time be ex- 

 tended niauka, while there seems to me no good reason why 

 much of the area on the sides of IMauna Kea, between the ele- 

 vation of 8,000 and 10,000 feet could not be made to grow 

 forest trees from the temperate zones, such as Pines, Firs and 

 Spruces, that in time could i)e looked to to supply construction 

 timber. The establishment of such a forest belt would, of 

 course, entail a considerable expense, even though the method 

 of scattered seed spots were adopted, but experiments have 

 been begun to determine what species are best adapted for use 

 in this locality. Funds for more extended w^ork are not now 

 in sight. 



Kaohe 2. 



On the part of Kaohe 2, between the mountain road and 

 the upper line of the upper Pohakea homesteads, the forest 

 has been destroyed by one cause and another, the chief among 

 them being fire, until with the exception of a few groves of 

 Koa and a section of the Mamani belt, practically the whole 

 area is open country which could only be reforested by arti- 

 ficial means. Except for the Koa groves already mentioned 

 there are not enough trees left to furnish seed, even were the 

 other factors governing natural reproduction favorable, which is 

 distinctly not the case. 



Realizing the importance of the protection which an open 



