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SOUTH KONA FOREST RESERVE. 
On December 28, 1910, the Board of Commissioners of 
Agriculture and Forestry approved the recommendations of 
the Superintendent of Forestry that certain forest lands in 
the District of South Kona, Hawaii, be declared a forest re- 
serve. There follows the report of the Superintendent of 
Forestry, setting forth the reasons why this action should be 
taken. The date of the public hearing in connection there- 
with is January 28, 1911. 
REPORTS OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF FORESTRY. 
Honolulu, Hawaii, November 21, 1910. 
Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry. 
Gentlemen : — I have to submit a report with recommenda- 
tions in regard to the creation of a forest reserve in the Dis- 
trict of South Kona, Island of Hawaii. The area proposed 
to be set apart includes the greater part of the section of 
forest land from the land of Waiea to and including the land 
of Manuka, just over the boundary line in the Kau District, 
lying between the upper limit of the area that has been 
cleared for agriculture and the boundary of the land of Ka- 
huku, well up on the slope of Mauna Loa. For convenience 
in description this proposed reserve has been divided by the 
surveyor into two sections, Waiea-Kipahoehoe and Kapaa- 
Manuka. These are separated by a block of privately owned 
land, in part homesteads, that it is not deemed advisable to 
include at present in the proposed reserve. For these two 
areas I propose the name South Kona Forest Reserve. 
The proposed South Kona Forest Reserve is made up of 
both government and privately owned land. The total area 
is 50,612 acres. Of this, 31,730 acres, or 63 per cent., belongs 
to the Territory. A considerable part of the government land 
(13,915 acres) is not under lease, so that it can be set apart 
at once unconditionally. The remainder will come into the 
fully reserved class upon the expiration of the existing leases. 
So far as it has been possible to ascertain, the owners of pri- 
vate lands within the proposed reserve are generally in favor 
of the forest policy of the Government and intend to manage 
their holdings in general conformity with the plans proposed 
by the Territorial Government. In particular, the Bishop 
Estate, owners of the land of Kapua, have already, in a re- 
cently executed lease, made provision for the reservation of 
the forest on that land within the boundaries recommended 
in the present report. As elsewhere in the Territory, the pri- 
