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 DIVISION OF FORESTRY. 



ADDITIONS TO THE KOOLAU AND HANA FOREST 

 RESERVES— MAUI. 



Acting under the provisions of Act No. 4 of the Session 

 Laws of 1907, the Superintendent of Forestry brought before 

 the Board of Agriculture and Forestry at the meeting held on 

 April 30, 1907, a recommendation to increase the area of gov- 

 ernment land actually set apart in the forest reserves estab- 

 lished in the districts of Koolau and Hana, Island of Maui. 

 Under the old law these lands were included within the re- 

 serves but were not subject to the control of the Board in any 

 wa}'. By the proposed action they will be set apart as in- 

 tegral portions of the two reserves. During the period of 

 existing leases all the rights acquired thereunder will continue 

 to be exercised by the lessees, but upon the expiration of the 

 leases, the lands will automatically come into the fully re- 

 served class. The area of the lands to be so set apart in the 

 Koolau Forest Reserve is 15,930 acres; in the Hana Forest 

 Reserve, 7.013 acres. 



The advantage of this new law is that it enables adjoining 

 owners and other persons interested to know definitely what 

 the Government's policy will be in regard to certain forest 

 lands when the existing leases run out. In the Koolau Re- 

 serve the reservation of these lands fulfills the Government's 

 obligation under the agreement entered into last autumn with 

 the plantations controlled by the Alexander & Baldwin in- 

 terests. 



As usual with forest reserve projects, the report of the Su- 

 perintendent of Forestry and the resolutions adopted by the 

 Board are published herewith. 



RESOLUTION RELATING TO THE KOOLAU (MAUI) 

 FOREST RESERVE. 



Resolved, That those certain lands in the District of Koo- 

 lau, Island of Maui, described in general terms as follows: 

 Those portions of the government lands of Honomanu ; Kea- 

 nae, Mauka ; Wailua, i and 2 Mauka ; Wailua-Ulaino Forest, 

 two tracts ; within the boundary of the Koolau Forest Reserve 

 and containing an area of 15,930 acres, more or less, as recom- 

 mended in a report of the Committee on Forestry, made o'l 

 April 30, 1907, based on report of the Superintendent of For- 

 estry, dated April 23, 1907, which reports are on file in the 

 office of the Board of Agriculture and Forestry; the boun- 

 daries of which proposed reservation more particularly appear 



