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LOCATION, 



The section proposed to be reserved is the high table land 

 embracing the upper part of Na Pali and Kona Districts. 

 The area is roughly rectangular in shape, some fifteen miles 

 long by some six miles wide, with the major axis running N. 

 W. and S. E'. The tract may be described in general terms 

 as that portion of the Waimea Upland, embracing the mauka 

 portion of the Distrits of Na Pali and Kona, Island of Kauai, 

 which is bounded on the South and West by a line drawn 

 across the ahupuaas of Hanapepe, Makaweli and Waimea, 

 between points on the main ridges where the general level a 

 the upland breaks into the steep palis of the canyons ; on the 

 Northwest by the palis of Na Pali District; on the North and 

 East by the Districts of Halelea and Puna : and on the South- 

 east by the land of Wahiawa. The area included within the 

 boundary thus described is given by the Survey Office as 

 60,040 acres. 



OBJECT. 



The purpose in setting apart this section as a forest reserve 

 is essentially that of forest protection. In the area within 

 the boundary jfbove outlined are a number of streams of great 

 potential value for the development of power and for irriga- 

 tion. The object of the proposed Na Pali-Kona Forest Re- 

 serve is permanently to protect the forest on the catchment 

 basins and at the headwaters of these streams against injury 

 of all kinds, that the forest cover may be kept intact and per- 

 mitted to exert its influence on equalizing and maintaining 

 the flow, as well as by helping to prevent erosion. This last 

 feature is important because it is very desirable that as little 

 material as possible be carried down stream in time of flood, 

 to be deposited on the arable lowlands and also because clear 

 water is an item^well worth considering where a stream is 

 to be harnessed to drive power wheels. 



Another benefit to be obtained from his reserve is the in- 

 fluence on precipitation that under certain meteorological 

 conditions is unquestionably exerted by a body of forest 

 of the size, and so situated as is that on the Waimea upland. 

 The laws that control the relation of forest and rainfall are 

 not yet understood but the result of their action is sufficiently 

 tangible, in these islands at any rate, to justify their being 

 reckoned with. 



DESCRIPTION. 



The proposed Na Pali-Kona Forest Reserve is made up of a 

 few large lands which are at present controlled by a few persons 

 only. The following table gives the names of the several tracts 

 with the area and other information in regard to each. It is 

 based on data furnished bv the Survev Office: 



