194 



Keauohana Forest Reserve, Hawaii. Area 272 acres. Ap- 

 proved by the Board on January 18, 1918. 



Addition to Makawao Forest Reserve, Maui. Area 263 

 acres. Approved by the Board on January 18, 1918. 



Withdrawals from the Honolulu Watershed Forest Re- 

 serve, Oahu, for road exchange purposes. Area 1.76 acres. Ap- 

 proved by the Board on April 24, 1918. 



The setting apart of these new reserves brings the present 

 total number of forest reserves in the Territory up to 42, with a 

 total area of 773,951 acres, of which 521,557 acres, or 69 per 

 cent., is government land. 



According to custom the reports of the Superintendent of 

 Forestry on these individual projects are printed herewith, as are 

 also the Governor's proclamations. 



Division of Forestry 



PROPOSED PAPAPAHOLAHOLA SPRING RESERVE, 



KAUAI. 



Honolulu, Hawaii, November 27, 1917. 



Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, Honolulu. 



Gentlemen : — I have the honor to recommend the setting 

 apart as a forest reserve of the government land at Kalaheo, 

 Kauai, formerly known as the Papapaholahola Spring Reserva- 

 tion, consisting of 54.4 acres. 



This area was originally reserved, at the time the Kalaheo 

 homesteads were opened for settlement, for the purpose of pro- 

 tecting the original water supply for these homesteads. At the 

 point marked "Spring" on the attached map there is a small 

 reservoir from which there is a pipe extending down to the home- 

 steads supplying them with water for domestic purposes. The 

 county owns the water works and has expended approximately 

 S20,060 on the system. 



At the time this area was originally reserved it was under the 

 jurisdiction of the then Superintendent of Public Works, but 

 on September 25, 1908, he turned the control of this land over 

 to this Board so far as its care and tree planting was concerned. 

 Since then, Mr. Walter D. McBryde, in charge of the sub-nursery 

 of this Board, has consistently planted up the area with trees for 

 water conservation purposes and has cared for them so that 

 today more than three-quarters of the area is well covered with 

 a dense, healthy, young forest. 



The setting apart of this land as a regular forest reserve would 

 not interfere in any way with the use of the water which is de- 

 rived from it, but by making it a permanent forest reserve the 

 preservation and improvement of forest conditions on the water- 



