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additional  area  suggested  by  him  on  page  8 of  his  said  report* 
together  with  the  small  additional  area  as  shown  on  the  1901 
map  of  the  island  of  Hawaii — marked  in  blue — (the  said  map 
accompanying  the  Governor's  Report  of  1906),  be  included  in  the 
said  Forest  Reserve. 
And  the  Committee  further  recommends  that  the  Superintend- 
ent of  Forestry  be  instructed  to  at  once  proceed  without  further 
delay  to  locate  said  proposed  additional  area,  as  above  recom- 
mended, and  report  back  to  the  Board  at  the  earliest  date  possible. 
Yours  truly, 
H.  M.  von  Holt, 
Chairman ; 
W.  M.  Giffard, 
C.  S.  Holloway. 
REPORT  OF  THE  SUPERINTENDENT  OF  FORESTRY. 
Honolulu,  Hawaii,  October  14,  1908. 
Committee  on  Forestry, 
Board  of  Agriculture  and  Forestry, 
Honolulu,  Oahu . 
Gentlemen  : — I have  the  honor  to  submit  herewith  a report 
with  recommendations  on  the  proposed  Kohala  Mountain  Forest 
Reserve  in  the  Districts  of  Kohala  and  Hamakua,  Island  of 
Hawaii. 
LOCATION. 
The  section  included  in  this  proposed  forest  reserve  may  rough- 
ly be  described  as  embracing  the  area  of  existing  forest  on  the 
Kohala  Mountain  not  already  included  in  the  Hamakua  Pali 
Forest  Reserve,  together  with  the  private  forest  reserve  above 
Kukuihaele,  maintained  for  many  years  by  the  Pacific  Sugar  Mill 
Company,  and  the  two  forest  covered  gulches  at  the  west  end  of 
the  mountain,  Honokane  and  Pololu,  owned  respectively  by  the 
Bishop  Estate  and  by  the  Government.  The  total  area  of  the  pro- 
posed Kohala  Mountain  Forest  Reserve  is  approximately  27,160 
acres. 
OBJECT. 
The  Kohala  Mountain  Forest  Reserve  is  created  essentially  as  a 
protection  forest  to  assist  in  the  conservation  of  water  on  the  Ko- 
hala Mountain.  The  Kohala  Mountain  lies  between  two  districts 
that  contain  considerable  areas  of  land  that  can  only  be  made  pro- 
ductive in  a large  way  through  irrigation.  As  it  is  the  only  avail- 
able source  of  water  supply  for  these  districts,  the  Kohala  Moun- 
