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The area where the planting is to start is immediately above 

 Waimea Village, above and including the upper end of the 

 Puukapu Homestead Tract, on a slope of the Kohala Mountain 

 that is tributary to springs from which water is piped down to 

 the plains below. The area to be planted under the auspices of 

 the Ranch is the adjoining fee simple land. Together the two 

 tracts will make a continuous block. 



FOREST FENCE AT PUPUKEA. 



In this connection mention may be made of the construction 

 by contract during the summer of 1910 of about a mile and a 

 half of forest fence on the outside boundaries of the Pupukea 

 Forest Reserve, Oahu, to keep cattle out of the woods. The cost 

 of this fence was borne jointly by this Board and the Ranch 

 Department of the Oahu Railway and Land Co. 



In several localities stretches of forest fence have been built 

 along forest reserve boundaries, or in places where a fence shuts 

 off access to the reserve, by sugar plantation companies and other 

 private corporations. If there were a regular fencing fund avail- 

 able so that the Government could cooperate with corporations 

 in the cost of fencing, as well as build fences itself, it would be 

 possible to secure the construction of many miles of fence in 

 places where it is very much needed. 



CONDEMNATION OF FOREST LAND ON KOHALA MOUNTAIN. 



Following a thorough investigation of the question and sev- 

 eral abortive attempts to get something done in the matter of 

 the actual reservation of the forest at the north-west end of the 

 Kohala Mountain, the Board finally succeeded in getting the 

 Sugar Plantation Interests of the Kohala District to contribute 

 a substantial sum to be used for the purchase of certain privately 

 owned forest lands of strategic importance in the proposed Ko- 

 hala Mountain Forest Reserve. Twenty-four thousand dollars 

 was raised in this way, especially with the idea of securing the 

 forested portion of the land of Kehena 2 lying to the east of the 

 Hooleipalaoa gulch, belonging to the Estate of the late James 

 Woods, Esq. The money was contributed on the understanding 

 that the Territory should fence and where necessary, plant the 

 area acquired; this to be done upon the transfer of the fee to 

 the Government. Failing to come to terms with the trustees of 

 the Woods Estate, the Government, in the autumn of 1910, in- 

 stituted condemnation proceedings to acquire the land by eminent 

 domain. The case has not yet come to trial. In the meantime, 

 pending the adjustment of this matter, the project of setting apart 

 the Kohala Mountain Forest Reserve has been temporarily 

 held up. 



