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for the sections above their several plantations have been kept 
fenced, respectively by the Pioneer Mill Company, the Wailuku 
Sugar Company, the Olowalu Company and the Honolua Ranch. 
The formal creation of a reserve recognizes these private reserves 
and gives to them, as it were, the stamp of official approval. 
THE BOUNDARY. 
The line laid out as the boundary of the proposed West Maui 
Forest Reserve runs from one to another of the principal topo- 
graphic points above the limit of agricultural land, being so drawn 
as to exclude all land that is at present under cultivation or that 
is likely to be needed for agricultural use. The agricultural land 
in the valleys is excluded from the reserve by an exception clause 
in the description. 
The elevation of the line varies with locality. Behind Lahaina 
it is in the neighborhood of 2000 feet. Along the foot of the 
steep slopes back of Olowalu it drops to about 1000 feet. Over 
the shoulder of the mountain, above McGregor's Landing, across 
the land of Ukumehame, as has already been noted, it rises to 
about 3000 feet. Back of the Wailuku Plantation from Waikapu 
to Waihee it averages from 1200 to 1500 feet, while through 
Kaanapali the line varies in elevation from 1000 to 2000 feet. 
At all the principal stations along the line forest reserve monu- 
ments have been erected to mark permanently the points on the 
ground. Permission to erect these monuments, w T here they 
happen to stand on privately owned land, was granted by each of 
the plantation companies, with the understanding that the govern- 
ment thereby in no way acquired any right or title to the area 
defined. The purpose of the monuments is to show clearly on the 
ground, just where the line is, so that there may be no misunder- 
standing as to what constitutes the limits of the reserve. 
RECOMMENDATIONS. 
On the basis of the facts above set forth, I now recommend 
that the Board request the Governor to create at the West Maui 
that the Board requests the Governor to create as the West Maui 
Forest Reserve the area within the boundary hereinafter technic- 
ally described and to set apart as portions thereof, after the hear- 
ing required by law, the parts of the government lands within the 
reserve boundary : the included portions of Ukumehame, Olowalu 
and Puuiki, being unleased, to be definitely set apart at once ; the 
other government lands, being now under lease, to be set apart 
subject to the existing leases, as provided by the amendment to 
Chapter 28 of the Revised Laws, made by Act 4 of the Session 
Laws of 1907. 
