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The area is already fenced and protected from stock and since 

 it lies between two adjacent pieces of forest reserve land it 

 should properly be added to this reserve system. 



For this reason I recommend that the 30,000 square feet of 

 land near 22 Miles, Olaa, Puna, Hawaii, deeded to the Territory 

 by Mr. F. G. Snow be added to "and made a part of Sec. C. of 

 the Olaa Forest Park Reserve and that the Governor be requested 

 to take the necessary steps to accomplish this. 



Respectfully submitted, 



C. S. JUDD, 

 Superintendent of Forestry. 



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Forest Reserve Withdrawals 



Olaa Forest Reserve. 



Honolulu, April 26, 1920. 

 Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, Honolulu. 



Gentlemen : — Subsequent to the setting apart of the Olaa For- 

 est Reserve in the District of Puna, Island of Hawaii, on De- 

 cember 31, 1918, I had occasion to run out some lines with a 

 government surveyor near 24 Miles on the Volcano Road, and 

 it was discovered that a portion of the reserye, amounting to 

 81.7 acres, consisted of agricultural land on which potatoes and 

 corn were being raised. 



All of the 20,030 acres of the Olaa Forest Reserve has been 

 laid out in the past into lots with the idea that it would be home- 

 steaded but, after repeated failures, bona fide homesteaders 

 have given up the attempt to cultivate the land, and it was to 

 prevent further forest destruction by grazing in this vast forest 

 under lease that it was set apart as a reserve. 



The small area in question, shown on the accompanying blue- 

 print map, is probably the only piece of land in the reserve which 

 is more valuable for agriculture than for forest purposes at th^ 

 present time, and its inclusion in the reserve was not known 

 until this later survey was made. 



Since the 81.7 acres is strictly agricultural land and is now 

 under cultivation, it seems best to withdraw it from the reserve 

 so that it may be leased by the Land Office in the usual lawful 

 manner. If this is done, the applicant for the lease has agreed 

 to fence the entire boundaries of this land. 



For this reason I recommend that the Board approve the with- 



