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Honolulu,  December  3,  1908. 
Board  of.  Agriculture  and  Forestry, 
Honolulu,  Oahu. 
Sirs : Your  Committee  on  Forestry  have  had  under  considera- 
tion the  report  of  R.  S.  Hosmer,  Superintendent  of  Forestry, 
under  date  of  October  14,  referring  to  the  proposed  Kohala 
Mountain  Forest  Reserve  in  the  Eastern  portion  of  North  Kohala, 
and  in  West  Hamakua,  Island  of  Hawaii,  and  hereby  recommend : 
That,  while  approving  of  the  recommendations  of  Mr.  Hosmer, 
we  do  not  feel  that  they  go  far  enough  in  the  protection  of  the 
watershed  of  the  Kohala  Mountains,  and  therefore  further  recom- 
mend that  not  only  the  area  proposed  by  Mr.  Hosmer,  but  the 
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  accom- 
panying 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  pos- 
sible. 
Yours  truly, 
H.  M.  von  Holt, 
Chairman ; 
W.  M.  Giffard, 
C.  S.  Holloway. 
I at  once  requested  Mr.  Wall  to  have  the  necessary  lines  run. 
This  blue  print  map,  sent  out  last  spring,  is  the  result.  It  shows 
the  boundaries  that  I recommended  be  adopted.  This  recom- 
mendation is  based  on  personal  examination  on  the  ground,  the 
first  soon  after  I came  to  the  Territory  in  1904,  and  I have  been 
on  the  ground  several  times  since.  I decided  that  this  little  gulch, 
Hooleipalaoa,  starting  behind  Puupili  and  coming  down  across 
Kahua  1 and  2 and  Kehena  2,  is  the  best  boundary  that  can  be 
adopted  as  the  western  limit  of  the  Kohala  Mountain  Forest  Re- 
serve. It  would,  of  course,  be  possible  to  carry  the  boundary  fur- 
ther out  on  Kehena  2,  but  the  cost  of  making  that  the  forest  line 
would  be  so  much  more  expensive  that  I did  not  feel  justified  in 
recommending  it.  A good  portion  of  the  Hooleipalaoa  Gulch  is 
sufficiently  deep  and  steep-sided  to  serve  as  a natural  barrier,  thus 
reducing  the  cost  of  fencing. 
On  this  big  blue  print  are  shown  the  areas  within  the  Hoolei- 
palaoa gulch ; also  the  areas  of  privately  owned  forest  land  be- 
tween the  makai  boundary  of  Kehena  2 and  the  plantations. 
