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which depends upon this mountain slope for its supply of water. 

 A full report on this new reserve with recommendations for set- 

 ting it apart will be submitted at an early date. 



OTHER NEW RESERVES. 



During the month an examination was also made of 103.85 

 acres of vacant unleased government land adjacent to the present 

 reserve in Makua Valley, Oahu, which it is proposed to add to 

 the forest reserve. This project had already been presented to 

 and approved by you and now awaits a public hearing to be held 

 in the near future. 



The other five new forest reserve projects, mentioned in my 

 last report, which have already received your approval, will be 

 considered at a public hearing to be held at the Government Nur- 

 sery on Wednesday, June 19, at 9 o'clock a. m., published notice 

 of which, signed by the Governor, is now running in the daily 

 papers. 



INSPECTION OF WAIANAE FOREST RESERVES. 



From May 20 to 22 I made a three-day inspection of the four 

 forest reserves on the lee slope of the Waianae range, Oahu, in 

 company with Ranger Pililaau. As a result of this trip, a special 

 report on the need of reforestation in these reserves, which in- 

 cludes the plan of beginning the work by the establishment of a 

 forest nursery at Mikilua in the Lualualei Reserve, has already 

 been submitted to you and has already received your approval. 

 Other matters investigated during the same trip were as follows : 



In the Nanakuli Reserve the fence on the forest boundary built 

 last summer by lease requirement was found to be in good con- 

 dition except at one point at the head of the valley where it was 

 not stock-proof because of loose wires and where an obstruction 

 of bars in the stream bottom had broken down. A flock of at 

 least 30 goats was also observed in the forest reserve. Both of 

 these matters were called to the attention of the Land Commis- 

 sioner so that he could take them up with the holder of the lease 

 which requires the fence to be maintained in stock-proof condi- 

 tion and the goats to be kept out of the reserve. 



In the Lualualei Reserve I found the fence on the boundary 

 all in good stock-proof condition with no cattle within the re- 

 serve. The beneficial results of keeping cattle out are already 

 showing in the increased growth of native trees and in several of 

 the smaller valleys abundant streams were flowing. In fact the 

 supply of water is sufficient to justify the laying of several miles 

 of large pipe, on the part of the adjacent land owner, to watering 

 troughs in the Lualualei Valley. 



In the Waianae-kai Forest Reserve conditions are excellent 

 and the benefits of protection against stock, coupled with the tree 

 planting that has been done there in past years, are very apparent 

 with the result that floods have been greatly lessened and the 



