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bodied in a detailed plan for planting. It is unnecessary to 
discuss this matter here further than to say again that the 
first step in any plan must necessarily be the total removal 
from the island of all cattle, sheep and goats. The reclama- 
tion of Kahoolawe will be anything but an easy task, but I 
believe it is possible. 
RECOM M ENDATION . 
For the reasons given above I do therefore now recom- 
mend that the entire Island of Kahoolawe, in the County of 
Maui, Territory of Hawaii, be set apart as a forest reserve, 
to be called the “Kahoolawe Forest Reserve.” 
If the Board of Agriculture and Forestry approve this 
proposal, I would suggest that the members so signify and 
that the Board request the Governor to call and hold the re- 
quired hearings, and thereafter to set apart this island as 
the Kahoolawe forest reserve. 
Very respectfully, 
Ralph S. Hosmer, 
Superintendent of Forestry. 
FOREST RESERVE HEARING. 
KAHOOLAWE. 
Minutes of a public hearing re the creation of the Kahoo- 
lawe Forest Reserve, and the setting apart of certain lands 
in the Hilo, the Kau, and the Hamakua-Pali Forest Reserves 
on Hawaii and the Ewa Forest Reserve on Oahu, held by the 
Governor of the Territory and the Board of Commissioners 
of Agriculture and Forestry, in the office of the Board at the 
Government Nursery, on Saturday, August 20, 1910, at 10 
o’clock a. mi. 
Present: Governor Walter F. Frear; Mr. Marston Camp- 
bell, President and Executive Officer of the Board ; Mr. 
Alonzo Gartley, representing C. Brewer & Co.; Air. Allan 
Herbert; Air. Ralph S. Hosmer, Superintendent of Forestry; 
Air. David Haughs, and Air. H. E. Walker, reporter for the 
Evening Bulletin. 
The Governor opened the hearing with the statement that 
its purpose was to consider the proposition of setting apart 
the Island of Kahoolawe as a forest reserve, in accordance 
with notices duly published in the Pacific Commercial Ad- 
vertiser and the Hawaii Herald, as requested by law. 
At the request of the Governor, Air. Campbell read from 
the minutes of the meeting of July 20, 1910, the action taken 
by the Board of Agriculture and Forestry in regard to Ka- 
