WEST MAUI FOREST RESERVE. 
Honolulu, Hawaii, November 26, 1910. 
Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, Hono- 
lulu, Hawaii. 
Gentlemen : — I have to submit as follows a report recom- 
mending that a small additional area be added to the West 
Maui Forest Reserve. The land in question is the remnant 
of the Government tract known as Polipoli, Waiehu, District 
of Wailuku, Island of Maui. Its area is 42 acres; it is not at 
present under lease. The area embraces the bare ridge be- 
tween the ilis of Ahikuli and Hananui, belonging, respective- 
ly, to the lands of Waiehu and Waihee, above the Waihee 
Irrigation Ditch of the Wailuku Sugar Company. The re- 
mainder of Polipoli, below this ditch, was recently sold 
(Grant 5279) to C. Brewer & Co., Ltd. 
The land is so situated as not to be available for agricul- 
ture, and from its character is of little value for any other 
purpose than growing trees. It is one of the areas of Gov- 
ernment land that will serve the people of the Territory best 
by being again brought under forest. The purpose of adding 
it to the West Maui Forest Reserve is that this may the more 
readily be accomplished. 
With Polipoli a definite proposition exists, as follows : 
Messrs. C. Brewer & Co., as a part of a general scheme for 
reforesting the bare slopes above the AA'^ailuku Sugar Co.'s 
holdings, have offered to plant and care for a forest on this 
land of Polipoli if the Government will set it apart as a forest 
reserve. The existing W est Maui Forest Reserve touches 
this remnant of Polipoli at its mauka end, so that the action 
now proposed is in effect merely an extension of boundary. 
As the land is of more value for forest than for any other 
use, I believe this offer is one that should be taken up. i\c- 
cordingly, I recommend that the Board of Agriculture and 
Forestry approve this project and call upon the Governor to 
hold the hearing and sign the proclamation necessary offici- 
ally to set apart the remnant of Polipoli as an addition to the 
West Maui Forest Reserve. 
[The technical description prepared by the Government 
Survey Office is here omitted.] 
Very respectfully, 
Superintendent of Forestry. 
Ralph S. Hosmer, 
