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 The Boundary. 



In common with the usage in other Hawaiian Forest Reserve 

 projects, the boundary of the proposed Forest Reserve has been 

 drawn across both government and privately owned lands so as 

 to include all the area which in the judgment of the Superintend- 

 ent of Forestry should be permanently maintained as forest. 

 Starting on the Molokai Ranch boundary, at a point near the 

 pali overlooking the Leper Settlement and following the forest 

 fences across the Alolokai Ranch, the line runs along the south- 

 eastern slope of the Alolokai mountain as far as Halawa gulch, 

 from one to another of the triangulation stations erected at the 

 time the island was surveyed by the government. These points 

 are located on the ridges, practically at the edge of the exist- 

 ing forest. The line rans mauka of the heads of the greater 

 part of the many small lands along the southeast coast. 



Beyond Halawa the line is one of natural boundaries. It fol- 

 lows the sea coast but excludes, by description, "all the cul- 

 tivated or agricultural land in the valleys of Halawa, Wailau, 

 Pelekunu and Waikolu, all land in Waikolu, and Waihanau that 

 may be used or required for public purposes and all flat land 

 along the shore at the foot of the bluffs." 



At the Settlement the line runs up the pali, skirts the top of 

 the bluff for a way, and connects with the Molokai Ranch fence 

 by crossing the fee simple lands of the Meyer Brothers. 



The Meyers' Lands. 



Wth the exception of the Meyers' lands, practically all the 

 areas included within the reserve is now under forest or in 

 process of being reforested. Most of the forest at the east end 

 of the island is now, of course, subject to cattle grazing, but al- 

 most all the larger owners have expressed their intention sooner 

 or later of fencing off the forest. The Meyers' lands, on the 

 contrary, are now used regularly for grazing, and it is the inten- 

 tion of the owners to continue so to use them. The larger part 

 of the Meyers' lands wathin the forest reserve limits are now 

 open. 



In my judgment it would be for the best interests of the 

 island as a whole were these particular lands again got under 

 forest, more especially the portion of Kahanui bordering the 

 great Waikolu Gulch, through which land run the small gulches 

 that unite to form the Waihanau Gulch that comes out above the 

 Leper Settlement on the land of Makanalua. 



From a water supply standpoint this is a highly important por- 

 tion of jMolokai. because while the area is small, only about one 

 square mile, it is subject to heavy rainfall, while from its location 

 the Waihanau is a stream that could readily be diverted and put 

 to use. Speaking of this stream, the Waihanau, Lindgren says 

 (1. c. p. 31) : "Swamps line the borders and much water comes in 



