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for hunting goats here as a condition of the lease of the lower 

 Nanakuli lands is that the Haleakala ridge is partly in Lualualei, 

 Under the new lease of Nanakuli provision is made, along with 

 clauses covering the exclusion of cattle from the forest area, for 

 some goat hunting, but to exterminate the goats regular hunters 

 will probably have to be employed by the government. This is 

 a matter which ought to receive attention, not only in Nanakuli, 

 but as well in all the valleys along the leeward coast of Oahu. 



For the reasons above set forth, — in brief, that by helping the 

 native forest to come back at the head of Nanakuli Walley, the 

 local water supply stands to be improved, I do now recommend 

 that the Board of Agriculture and Forestry approve the setting 

 apart of the area covered by the following technical description 

 prepared by the Government Survey Office, as the Nanakuli 

 Forest Reserve, and I further recommend that the Governor of 

 the Territory of Hawaii be requested to proceed after the cus- 

 tomary manner, officially to set this area apart. 



[The technical description of boundary is here omitted as it 

 will later be published in the Forester as a part of the proclama- 

 tion of the Nanakuli Forest Reserve.] 



Very respectfully, 



Ralph S. Hosmer, 

 Superintendent of Forestry. 



maki:a-keaau forest reserve. 



Honolulu, Hawaii, September 10, 1912.. 



Committee on Forestry, Board of Agriculture and Forestry, Ho- 

 nolulu, Hawaii. 



Gentlemen : — I have the honor to submit as follows a report 

 recommending the creation of a forest reserve and the setting 

 apart as portions thereof of parts of the government lands of 

 Makua, Kahanahaiki and Keaau in the District of Waianae. 

 Island of Oahu. Included in the proposed reserve is also a small 

 ])ortion of the privately owned land of Ohikilolo, belonging to 

 Mr. L. L. McCandless ; (340 acres). The lower portions of the 

 two j?overnment lands first named arc under lease to ]\Tr. Mc- 

 Candless for a ten-year period, until February 21. l')20. The 

 lease (No. 730) contains the provision that a fence siiall be built 

 on the forest reserve boundary within one year after the date 

 of the creation of the forest reserve. The total area of the pro- 

 posed reserve, which I suggest be called the Makua Forest 

 Reserve, is 4716 acres. 



The object of the proposed Makua Forest Reserve is to con- 

 trol the slopes at the heads of the several important valleys on 

 the leeward side of the Waianae Range. The idea is. eventually, 

 to replace on these slopes a dense cover of forest — Hawaiian trees, 

 shrubs and undcr^rowtli — in the expectation that thereby the 



