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of unfavorable circumstances its actual reservation has again and 

 again been delayed. Fortunately, however, the forest itself has 

 not suffered in consequence, for through the construction of 

 fences on the mountain, built voluntarily by the owners or lessees 

 of adjoining land, or under the requirements of leases, cattle 

 have been excluded and the forest cover maintained in good con- 

 dition. 15esides the summit of the mountain, which is mainly in 

 government ownership, the Kohala Mountain forest reserve also 

 embraces the private reserves at either end of the mountain that 

 have for manv years now been maintained respectively by the 

 Pacific Sugar Co. above Kukuihaele. and by the several Kohala 

 sugar plantation companies in the section above their cane fields. 

 Under recently made land leases the forest fences bordering the 

 forest on government land will be repaired and maintained. 



The L'pper Waiakea and Upper Olaa forest reserves together 

 form a continuous block of forest on the lower slopes of Manna 

 Loa above the agricultural land lying back of Hilo town. The 

 areas of these tracts, which are wholly in government ownership, 

 are respectively 51.800 acres and 9280 acres. There is no run- 

 ning water coming from this forest, but, as pointed out by the 

 Superintendent of h'orestry in his report, it is for the interest of 

 the people of Hawaii that such a body of forest as this be given 

 the protection and proper administration which a ft^'est reserve 

 implies. ( )n tlie l'p])er Waiakea forest reserve are land leases 

 that have yet some years to run. Upon their exj)! ration the full 

 reservation of the area for forest purposes will take i)lace auto- 

 matically. 



The Honolulu Watershed forest reserve, as its name imjilies, 

 embraces the slopes of the main mountain range back of Hono- 

 lulu, from Kalihi to Palolo \^alley. It includes an area of 6950 

 acres, of which 5000 acres is government land. The object of 

 this reserve is to protect the catchment area from which is drawn 

 the city's water supply. Being set apart as a forest reserve, the 

 upper portions of the land can be given better ])rotection than if 

 left merely as tracts of unleased government land ; lower down, 

 through coo])eration with the water works de])artment. better 

 care can be given Id making all the a\ailal)le sources of supi)l\' 

 do their full duty. 



.'\t the public hearing on ( )ct()ber S. there was als(^ considered 

 a modification of the boundary of the Moloaa forest reserve on 

 Kauai. In this case 8.S acres were eliminated as not being es- 

 sential to the reserve and of greater value for grazing, and .^4 

 acres were added. I'rovision has recently been made so that the 

 entire lower boundary of this reserve will soon be protected by 

 a forest fence. When this fence is completed cattle will be shut 

 out of the forest on the whole windward sidr of Kauai. 



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