Rccoiiuitciidafioii. 



For the reasons i^iven above I do now recommend that the 

 board approve the creation of the Kipahuki forest reserve and 

 request the Governor of the Territory to hold the required 

 hearing's and thereafter to issue a prochuuation setting the gov- 

 ernment lands apart. 



Very respectfully, 



Ralph S. Hosmer, 

 Superintendent of Forestry. 



OLAA FOREST PARK 



REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF FORESTRY. 



Honolulu, Hawaii, July 15, 1914. 

 Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and T^orestry, Honolulu. 



Gentlemen : — I have to recommend as follows the creation of 

 a small forest reserve in the Olaa section, Puna district, Hawaii, 

 to be known as the "Olaa Forest Park Reserve." 



The purpose of this project is to preserve for its beauty, its 

 scenic interest and its scientific value the last remaining strip of 

 the heavy native Hawaiian forest along the Volcano road, to- 

 gether \vith a grove of koa trees facing the road at 29 Miles. The 

 former area consists of the untaken Olaa homestead lots border- 

 ing the Volcano road, mauka of Glenwood, between the tw'cnty- 

 three and the twenty-five-mile posts. It is the one place in the 

 Territory where without effort or exertion the visitor to the 

 Islands can still see the dense native forest in its primitive con- 

 dition. 



The Glcnxvood forest. 



The area proposed to be set apart consists essentially of lots 

 Nos. 363, 364, 277 to 380. and 389 to 391 of the original Olaa 

 Tract homestead .subdivision, a total of 374 acres. All of these 

 lots still vest in tlie government. The majority of them were 

 never taken up. Those that were have since reverted to the Ter- 

 ritory. All are covered with heavy forest, consisting of a stand 

 made up principally of large ohialehua trees with a dense under- 

 growth of ferns, vines and shrubs. The lots named form a solid 

 block across which runs the X^olcano road. Adjoining this block 

 are a number of privatcly-f)wncd lots, on wlii( li the forest cover 

 is of like character. It is the intention of the owners of these lots 

 to continue to protect the forest on them. In effect this increases 

 the size of the proposed reserve and insures the ])erpetnation of a 

 block of ffjrest large enough to maintain itself. 



