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between arbitrary points, there being" no established marks on the 

 ground. This Hne will eventually have to be run out and located 

 on the ground, at which time it should be marked with forest 

 reserve monuments. The section below the proposed forest line 

 could then be leased, with a provision that a fence be built run- 

 ning across from the Kaapahu gulch to the Alanawainui pali, 

 thus making a barrier on the forest reserve boundary. 



Before fencing can be done, a number of points will have to be 

 located and marked on the ground all the way across Hana, Kipa- 

 hulu and Kaupo. This is work for which provision ought to be 

 made. The section of boundary just suggested could be run out 

 at the same time. 



The jNIanawainui gulch itself, with its subdivisions, is already 

 a natural reserve, but being all government land it had best be 

 included in the forest reserve. Above the waterfalls and stretch- 

 ing up to the edge of the crater is a section of government land 

 that was formerly used for grazing but which has been aban- 

 doned of late because it was so rough and also because the more 

 open places had become overgrown with the weed pamakani. 

 There is said to be only one entrance to this section — across a 

 hogback leading in from near the trail up the Kaupo gap, at 

 about the 4000-foot elevation. This trail is now fenced off. In 

 that all this upper section, above IManawainui, is the source of 

 the streams that drop into that gulch — water which I believe 

 sometime will be required for power development, — it is my judg- 

 ment that it should be included in the reserve. From conversa- 

 tions had with Mr. Antone Vierra and other ranch men in Kaupo, 

 I think that such action will meet with favor rather than oppo- 

 sition. 



Boundary. 



The lower boundary of the proposed Kipahulu forest reserve 

 may roughly be described as follows : 



Starting at the southwest corner of the Hana forest reserve, 

 the line runs across at the heads of the private grants on Kau- 

 makani and Papaulauana to the mauka boundary of Grant 3248 ; 

 thence across Alaenui to the ridge of Palikea ; thence at the head 

 of the private grants on Kikoo and I\Iaulili, across at approxi- 

 mately the elevation of the waterfalls in the main valleys to a 

 point arbitrarily to be established on the eastern boundary of Ka- 

 apahu ; thence around Kaapahu to a point on its western boundary 

 approximately coinciding with latitude 20° 40' ; thence across on 

 this line to the pali of Manawainui gulch ; thence into and across 

 the gulch to include the government lands therein ; thence up the 

 boundary of Kakio to the Kaupo-Kipahulu district boundary; 

 thence around and along the same to the point of beginning. 



The official and technical description of the line is now being 

 prepared by the Survey Office. 



