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RECOMMENDATION. 
For  the  reasons  above  outlined — which  may  be  summarized  by 
the  statement  that  the  purpose  of  the  reserve  is  to  facilitate  the 
management  of  the  forest,  present  and  prospective,  on  the  upper 
slopes  of  Mauna  Kea — I do  now  recommend  that  the  Board  of 
Agriculture  and  Forestry,  request  the  Governor  to  set  apart,  in 
accordance  with  law,  as  the  “Mauna  Kea  Forest  Reserve,”  that 
portion  of  the  non-agricultural,  unleased  government  land  of 
Kaohe,  in  the  district  of  Hamakua,  Island  and  County  of  Hawaii, 
within  and  above  the  boundary  hereinafter  described. 
OFFICIAL  DESCRIPTION. 
Following  is  the  technical  description  of  the  boundary  of  the 
proposed  Mauna  Kea  Forest  Reserve,  prepared  by  the  Govern- 
ment Survey  Department  as  C.  S.  F.  No.  2001,  and  accompanied 
by  Registered  Map  No.  2060.  (Here  omitted  because  it  appears 
in  the  official  proclamation,  printed  elsewhere  in  this  issue  of  the 
Forester.) 
Very  respectfully, 
Ralph  S.  Hosmer, 
Superintendent  of  Forestry. 
THE  WAIHOU  SPRING  FOREST  RESERVE. 
REPORT  OF  THE  SUPERINTENDENT  OF  FORESTRY. 
Honolulu,  Hawaii,  April  15,  1909. 
Committee  on  Forestry, 
Board  of  Commissioners  of 
Agriculture  and  Forestry, 
Honolulu. 
Gentlemen  : — I have  to  recommend  the  setting  apart  of  a por- 
tion of  the  unleased  government  land  of  Makawao,  also  known  as 
the  Haleakala  Tract,  in  the  District  of  Hamakuapoko,  Island  and 
County  of  Maui,  as  a forest  reserve,  to  be  called  the  Waihou 
Spring  Forest  Reserve.  The  total  area  of  this  proposed  reserve 
is  84  acres.  Seventy-four  acres  is  government  land,  the  other 
ten  belongs  to  the  Haleakala  Ranch  Company. 
The  object  of  the  proposed  Waihou  Spring  Forest  Reserve  is 
to  assist  in  protecting  the  sources  of  the  Waihou  Spring.  Waihou 
is  one  of  the  very  few  permanent  springs  on  the  western  slope  of 
