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missioner to be used along with 37.57 acres of government land 

 (not in a forest reserve) on Hawaii in exchange for 40 acres of 

 land at Kaaawa, Oahu, belonging to Mrs. F. M. Swanzy which 

 the U. S. Army desires to acquire for camping purposes. 



Blue print diagrams of these four lots are herewith attached. 



Since these parcels of land are needed for perfecting govern- 

 ment exchanges of land and their withdrawal from the Hono- 

 lulu Watershed Forest Reserve will not be a detriment to the 

 reserve nor have any influence on existing watercourses, I recom- 

 mend that the Board approve their withdrawal and that the Gov- 

 ernor be requested to take the necessary further action to perfect 

 this. 



Respectfully submitted, 



C. S. JUDD, 

 Superintendent of Forestry. 



REPORT FOR MAY. 



Honolulu, Hawaii, June 15, 1918. 



Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Fqrestry, Honolulu. 



Gentlemen : — I respectfully submit the following routine re- 

 port of the Division of Forestry for the month of May, 1918: 



PROPOSED MOKULEIA FOREST RESERVE. 



During the first part of the month I spent seven days on the 

 north slope of the Waianae Range, back of Mokuleia, Oahu, 

 with government surveyors and completed the field work on the 

 proposed new forest reserve in this region which consists of 

 6290 acres of unleased government forest land. This work con- 

 sisted of locating on the ground the north line of the reserve 

 which stretches from the Kuaokala Reserve near Kaena Point 

 for a distance of about 7 .Z7 miles over very rough country to 

 Puu Pane on the boundary of the United States Military Re- 

 servation of Waianae-uka, and of placing 19 forest reserve monu- 

 ment pipes with flags at prominent points on the boundary line 

 which abuts private land. Owing to the presence of dairy and 

 ranch cattle which wander at large on the government forest land 

 with destructive results, it will be necessary to construct, by ar- 

 rangement with the cattle owners, a fence approximately five 

 miles long on this marked boundary. The area to be included in 

 the reserve is important as a conserver of water which is neces- 

 sary for the agricultural crops on the lower lands below. Here 

 are located one of the largest banana producing sections in the 

 islands, and large areas of rice and sugar cane, all of which are 

 irrigated by water from 21 wells sunk into the artesian basin 



