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line of the top lots be fenced. Up to a few months ago no fencing 

 had been made, but the time is not up for another year. 



The jMakua Forest Reserve project has been pending for a 

 considerable time, one reason for the delay in getting final action 

 on it being that it was expected to include all the forest lands 

 on the Waianae hills in one reserve, and Makua was held up 

 awaiting action on other tracts. It has lately been decided to 

 set apart several smaller forest reserves, separately. 



Based on the reasons herein set forth, I do now recommend 

 that the Board approve as the Alakua-Keaau Forest Reserve the 

 area covered by the technical description which accompanies this 

 report, and that the Governor of the Territory be called upon to 

 hold the required hearing and thereafter to create this reser\e 

 and set apart as portions of it the government lands within ils 

 bounds. 



[The technical description of boundary, prepared as C. S. F. 

 No. 2396 by the Territorial Survey Office, is here omitted, as it 

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

 tion of the IMakua-Keaau Forest Reserve.] 



Very respectfully, 



Ralph S. Hosmer, 

 Superintendent of Forestry. 



KUAOKALA FOREST RESERVE. 



September 9, 1912. 



Committee on Forestry. Board of Commissioners of Agriculture 

 and Forestry, Honolulu, Hawaii. 



Gentlemen : — The following report recomending the setting 

 apart as a forest reserve of a portion of the government land of 

 Kaena, Kuaokala Mountain, District of Waialua, Island of Oahu, 

 is resi)cctfully submitted for your consideration. 



The area proposed to be set apart is situated on the upland 

 plateau mauka of Kaena Point at the western extremity of the 

 Waianae Range It includes part of the government lands of 

 Kuaokala, District of Waialua and Kaawaula (government). Dis- 

 trict of Waianae. Both lands are now under lease to Mr. L. L. 

 McCandless, respectively Leases No. 739 (expiring Jan. 1, 1916) 

 and 730 (expiring February 21, 1920). The total area of the pro- 

 posed Kuaokala Forest Reserve is 434 acres. 



Kuaokala consists of a gently sloping upland, much cut up 

 by lateral valleys, most of which run toward the north. It is 

 cut off from the low lands along the shore by a steep pali and is 

 only accessible over rough trails. The apjiroximatc elevation of 

 the mauka part of the upland is from 1400 to 1500 feet. The 

 land has been used for a long time for grazing cattle. Of late 

 years, at any rate, it has been but com]).'iratively lightly stocked. 



The purpose in proposing the reservation of a jiart of Kuaokala 

 for forestry is to secure protection for a water head that locally 



