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growth. AVhcn the old time cover is restored it is beheved that 

 the springs and small streams rising on the slopes can be much 

 more depended on than at present. In a district naturally as 

 dry as is Waianae, every possible source of water counts, and is 

 therefore worthy of being carefully protected. The creation of 

 these reserves is a step in this direction. 



Following are the reports of the Superintendent of Forestry 

 setting forth the reasons why these areas should be made forest 

 reserves. All three projects have been approved by Committee 

 on Forestry, and its recommendations were adopted by the full 

 Board at the meeting held on March 21, 1913: 



REPORTS OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF FORESTRY. 



NANAKULI FOREST RESERVE, 



Honolulu, Hawaii, August 9, 1912. 



Committee on Forestry, Board of Commissioners of Agriculture 

 and Forestry, Honolulu, Hawaii. 



Gentlemen : — Following is a report, with recommendations, 

 upon the setting apart as a forest reserve of the mauka portion 

 of the unleased government land of Nanakuli, District of Wai- 

 anae, Island of Oahu : 1010 acres. 



The proposed Nanakuli Forest Reserve joins on the north the 

 Lualualei Forest Reserve, proclaimed November 30, 1906, and on 

 the east a proposed reserve embracing the upper portions of the 

 fee simple land of Honouliuli, which latter project will shortly be 

 brought before the Board for consideration. 



Nanakuli is the first from the south end, of the valleys on the 

 western side of the Waianae Hills. In topography it is similar 

 to the other valleys on that side of the range, as far as and includ- 

 ing ]\Iakua. All present essentially the same problems and in 

 general should be treated more or less alike, although each valley 

 has an individuality that makes separate consideration desirable. 



One essential point in common is that all these valleys are on 

 the lee side of Oahu and hence are in a dry district where every 

 source of water, ])resent or prospective, has high value. The 

 forest problems here are to restore, as far as may be practicable, 

 the original conditions of forest cover on the upi)cr slopes, where 

 appear the scanty but highly valuable springs, and to arrange 

 for the extension of the forest, naturally or by artificial planting, 

 on such sections of the lower slopes as cannot to good advantage 

 be devoted to more intensive forms of agriculture. 



In Nanakuli the forest line has been drawn around tlic upper 

 portion of the valley, at the base of the steep slopes. Above this 

 line, in my judgment, the native forest should be assisted to conie 

 back and should thereafter be there maintained. If this is done 

 I believe that sjirings that are now irregular and that flow only 



