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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON FORESTRY. 
To the Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry : 
At a meeting of your Committee on Forestry, held Tuesday, 
January 14, 1908, at 10 A. M., at the office of the Chairman in 
the Judd Building, the following recommendations were unani- 
mously agreed upon : 
WEST MAUI FOREST RESERVE. 
Your Committee recommends that the Board take favorable 
action on the report of the Superintendent of Forestry, under the 
date of December 7th, 1907, outlining the establishment of the 
West Maui Forest Reserve, to contain an approximate area of 
44,440 acres. 
Respectfully submitted, 
(Signed) G. R. Carter, Chairman, 
W. M. Giffard, 
" C. S. Hollow ay, 
Forestry Committee. 
Dated Honolulu, January 15, 1908. 
The foregoing report was approved by the Board and ordered 
placed on file at the meeting held on January 15, 1908. 
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF FORESTRY. 
Honolulu, December 7, 1907. 
Committee on Forestry, 
Board of Agriculture and Forestry, 
Honolulu. 
Gentlemen : — 
I have the honor to submit herewith a report with recommenda- 
tions, on the project to create a forest reserve in the Districts of 
Lahaina, Wailuku and Kaanapali, Island and' County of Maui, 
to be known as the West Maui Forest Reserve. This report is 
based on investigations made by me during different visits to 
Maui, but particularly during May and June, 1907, when in com- 
pany with Mr. S. M. Kanakanui, of the Government Survey 
Office, I fixed on the ground the main points along the proposed 
boundary. 
LOCATION. 
The section included in the proposed West Maui Forest Re- 
serve may be roughly described as embracing the entire top of 
