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 REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON FORESTRY. 



At the meeting of the Board held on April 30th, 1907, Mr. 

 A. W. Carter, Chairman of the Committee on Forestry, ver^ 

 bally reported that the Committee approved the recommenda- 

 tions contained in Mr. Hosmer's report on a proposed change 

 of status in certain of the lands in the Koolau and Hana Forest 

 Reserves on Maui, and recommended to the Board that the 

 matter be brought to the Governor's attention in the usual way. 



By vote of the Board, this report was approved and adopted. 



REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OE FORESTRY. 



Flonolulu, April 23, 1907. 



Committee on Forestry, Board of Commissioners of Agricul- 

 ture and Forestry, Honolulu. 



Gentlemen : — Act No. 4 of the Session Laws of 1907 amends 

 Chapter 28 of the Revised Laws of Hawaii, b}^ empowering 

 the Governor to set apart government land as forest reserves, 

 Avhether it is under lease or not, provided that if the land is 

 under lease, the reservation shall not afifect the vested rights 

 thereby acquired. Under the terms of this act I hereby recom- 

 mend the reservation as ''lands actually set apart" of the tracts 

 of government land now under lease, within the boundaries 

 of the Koolau and the Hana Forest Reserves on Maui. 



The reasons for the creation of the forest reserves on th * 

 windward side of Maui were fully discussed by me in former 

 reports. The arguments there set forth apply with equal 

 force to the lands now under consideration, which form inte- 

 gral parts of the two reserves as established. They need not 

 be repeated here. 



For purposes of reference it may be stated that my report 

 upon the Koolau Forest Reserve was made under the date .^f 

 July 28, 1905, published in the Forester and Agriculturist for 

 August, Vol. II, pp. 234-240. Reports on the Hana Reserve 

 were made on March 2 and April 6, 1906, published in the For- 

 ester and Agriculturist for November, 1906, Vol. Ill, pp. 353- 

 358. The Koolau Forest Reserve proclamation appeared in 

 the Forester for September, TQ05, Vol. II, pp. 272-273 ; that of 

 the Hana Reserve in the issue for December 1905, Vol. Ill, 

 pp. 418-419. 



In connection with the setting apart of the lands in the 

 Koolau Reserve it should be borne in mind that in the agree- 

 ment entered into last autumn between the Government and 

 the Alexander & Baldwin plantations, whereby the manage- 



