The Palila is found at elevations between about 7000 and 9500 ft, the approximate elevation of the present treeline. The forest extended to nearly 10,000 ft before feral horses, cattle, and sheep destroyed it. The last wild horses and cattle were not exterminated from Mauna Kea until the 1930’ s. At the present time feral sheep, especially, are a serious threat to any significant regeneration of this interesting native forest (see R. E. Warner, Pacific Discovery 13:6, 1960). Hordes of pigs and smaller numbers of goats add to the problem. Much of the Palila’ s habitat lies within the Kaohe Game Management Area and the contiguous Mauna Kea Game Management Area, both of which are owned and controlled by the State of Hawaii. The two areas contain about 10,000 acres of mamane-naio forest. Unfortunately, political pressure by a small group of hunters and other uninformed people have made it impossible for the professionally trained personnel of the State Division of Fish and Game to set adequate hunting seasons and bag limits, or to put into practice other wise management practices. Consequently, sheep and pig populations build up to the point where it can be stated emphatically that the Palila do, indeed, inhabit a dying forest, as Warner pointed out several years ago. Contributing to the