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government land makes up 71 per cent, of the total area of the 

 proposed reserve. 



Tantalus Forest and Makiki Park. 



In addition to the valley heads and the slopes of the backbone 

 ridge of the island, there have also been included in the proposed 

 reserve the Tantalus forest and the Makiki park. The latter in- 

 cludes the Alakiki water reserve. This park was set apart by a 

 proclamation by the governor, issued in compliance with a request 

 contained in House concurrent resolution No. 18 of the legisla- 

 ture of 1911. The upper part of the valley contains springs that 

 form a part of the city's water supply. The slopes above them 

 need to be guarded from contamination. Lower down a part of 

 the valley is now the site of an experiment garden of the Division 

 of Forestry, where plants of economic importance new to the 

 Territory are started and propagated for distribution. The man- 

 agement of the Makiki park as regards forest work was officially 

 turned over to the Board of Agriculture and Forestry by the su- 

 perintendent of public works, in July, 1912, but this in no way af- 

 fected the control or administration of the water works in that 

 valley, any more than setting apart the proposed forest reserve 

 will interfere with the operations of the bureau of water works in 

 that valley or in Nuuanu. 



The Tantalus forest, as all old residents of Honolulu know, 

 was planted by the local government between the early 80"s and 

 1898 at a very considerable outlay of time and money. A consid- 

 erable portion of this forest was subsequently discovered to be on 

 privately-owned land. In 1907, as a part of a land exchange, the 

 Territory re-acquired possession of this tract, Kalawahine. The 

 Tantalus forest has for several years now been looked after by 

 the Board of Agriculture and Forestry, although still vesting in 

 the Land Office. One reason for including it in the proposed 

 forest reserve is that it may, without any question, be brought 

 under the full jurisdiction of the Board of Agriculture and For- 

 estry. 

 The Boundary. 



Starting on the Ewa ridge of Kalihi valley, the boundary of the 

 proposed Honolulu Watershed forest reserve follows the makai 

 line of two government tracts, a remnant and the land of Kaloa- 

 loa ; thence it runs across the heads of two smaller gulches on the 

 lands of Kamanaiki and Palama, past the head of Waolani valley 

 above the Country Club, to and across Nuuanu valley on the 

 makai line of the main Nuuanu Valley water reserve and up the 

 east wall of Nuuanu to the Pacific Heights ridge on the line be- 

 tween the government and the grazing land owned by the Dow- 

 sett Company. Then makai, along the ridge, toward Pacific 

 Heights to a point opposite the west mauka corner of the land 

 of Kalawahine, across Pauoa to the same, and makai along the 



