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PETITION RE FOREST RESERVE ABOVE PUPUKEA. 
Maunawai, Oahu, T. H., December 10, 1909. 
To the Honorable 
Marston Campbell, 
Commissioner of Public Lands, 
Territory of Hawaii, Honolulu. 
Petition : 
We, the undersigned, settlers and homesteaders of Pupukea- 
Paumalu, respectfully ask that all that portion of the Government 
lands above the present homesteads, including the Waimea drain- 
age, be set aside as a Forest Reservation for the conservation 
and protection of the remaining forest on said land. 
If the continued destruction of the undergrowth and forest 
now going on, by marauding bands of cattle, is continued, this 
section of the Island of Oahu will eventually become barren and 
worthless, as it is entirely dependent upon the rainfall for cultiva- 
tion. 
There is not a place on this Island where the baneful results 
of the destruction of the forest by cattle are so manifest as are 
to be found in this section. The abandoned kuleanas and taro 
patches are mute object lessons of days gone by, when this sec- 
tion supported a large and prosperous Hawaiian population. In 
those days the table lands were covered with forest growth, and 
streams flowed through ever}^ gulch from the mountains to the 
sea, supplying life-giving water to taro patches and kuleanas, 
long since abandoned, where toda}^ are to be found only barren 
gulches and wind swept table lands. 
We respectfully ask that this, the only source of our water 
supply, so essential to our future prosperity, and the moisture con- 
serving forest, be given the greatest protection possible and ex- 
tended whenever practicable. 
For all of which we ask your protection and encouragement. 
Respectfully submitted, 
C. J. WHEELER, 
LOUIS A. GINACA, 
L. B. NEVIN; 
F. S. LYMAN, Jr., 
J. P. LOONEY, 
H. B. STOCKS, 
O. T. BOARDAIAN, 
J. G. OWEN, 
C. A. J. GINACA, 
F. E. HALEY, 
E. K. ELLSWORTH, 
LESLIE C. CLARK, 
E. C. WINSTON, 
MRS. LUCY :M. JOSEPH, 
MRS. T. H. GIBSON, 
HENRY G. GINACA. 
