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scripticn is now on file in the said Survey Department ; copies 

 of which said maps and description are now on file in the 

 office of this Board and made a part hereof; be approved as 

 a forest reserve to be called the Na Pali-Kona Forest Reserve. 



Resolved, That the Board recommends to the Governor 

 that the Government lands lying- within the boundaries of the 

 said proposed Na Pali-Kona Forest Reserve be set apart by 

 him, subject to vested rights therein, after the hearing- required 

 by law, as the Na Pali-Kona Forest Reserve. 



Adopted at a meeting of the Board of Agriculture and For- 

 estry, held on April 30, 1907. 



REPORT OF THE CO.MATITTEE ON FO'RESTRY. 



Honolulu, April 22, 1907, 



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

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

 bally reported that in the judgment of the Committee the 

 property mentioned in the report of the Forester should defi- 

 nitely and for all time be set apart as a forest reserve. It is 

 essentially forest land and is of greater value for a forest re- 

 serve than for anything else. The land cannot advantageous- 

 ly be utilized for any other purpose. The bulk of the prop- 

 erty is at a very high elevation and includes many gulches 

 and ridges. A large portion of the area is now very heavily 

 wooded. This property has a tremendous value as a source 

 of water supply to the adjacent agricultural lands. 



On behalf of the Committee Mr. Carter recommended that 

 the report of the Forester be adopted and that the usual 

 request be made to the Governor as regards a public hearing. 



It being duly moved and seconded, the Board voted to 

 adopt the report of the Committee on Forestry and to request 

 the Governor to take the action desired. 



REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF FORESTRY. 



Honolulu, April 22, 1907. 



Committee on Forestry, Board of Commissioners of 

 Agriculture and Forestry, Honolulu. 



Gentlemen : — I have the honor to submit the following re- 

 j-jort, with recommendations, upon the project to create a 

 forest reserve in the Districts of N,a Pali and Kona on the 

 Island of Kauai. The report is based on a personal examina- 

 tion of the locality made by me during the summer of 1906, 

 supplemented by information obtained during previous visits 

 to Kauai and in other wavs. 



