The Mauna Kea Forest Reserve - Report of the superintendent of forestry

Author:

Hosmer, Ralph S.

Title:

The Mauna Kea Forest Reserve - Report of the superintendent of forestry

Periodical:

The Hawaiian Forester and Agriculturist

Year:

1909

Volume:

6

Pages:

4

Subject:

Mauna Kea Forest Reserve Mamane-naio forest

Summary:

The subject of this report is the proposed setting apart of the upper slopes of Mauna Kea as a forest reserve. Unlike most of the Hawaiian forest reserves this project is not concered with water shed protection. Its purpose is to facilitate the systematic management of an area that can be used to better advantage for growing forest trees than for any other economic purpose. There is now on Mauna Kea a considerable stand of Mamani forest. At the higher elevation there is much land, now unproductive, that could well be planted with commercially valuable exotic trees. By setting apart the area as a forest reserve the existing forest can be made to be of greater service to the people of the Territory, while the afforestation of the upper slopes of the mountain will be facilitated. The section included in the proposed reserve may roughly be described as the upper slopes of Mauna Kea above an elevation of approximately 7,500 feet. The area is 66,600 acres.

Label:

Mauna Kea - General

URL:

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47156142#page/279/mode/1up

Date:

June 1909

Collection:

Periodicals