The board of land and natural resources shall classify all public lands and in doing so be guided by the following classifications:

1. Intensive agricultural use

Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 171-10

  • Animal unit: means one mature cow or horse; two yearling steers or heifers; five mature sheep; twelve weaned lambs; two colts. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 171-1
  • Board: means the board of land and natural resources. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 171-1
  • Carrying capacity: means the maximum number of animal units which an area will support over a period of years without injury to the soil, forage resources, tree growth, watershed, or unwarranted interference with other services of the land. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 171-1
  • Land: includes all interests therein and natural resources including water, minerals, and all such things connected with land, unless otherwise expressly provided. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 171-1
(A) First class–Lands highly productive of intensive crops such as sugarcane, pineapples, truck crops, and orchard crops.
(B) Second class–Lands having medium productivity for intensive crops.
(C) Third class–Lands having fair to marginal productivity for intensive crops.
2. Special livestock use

(A) First class–Lands highly suitable for special livestock uses such as swine, dairy, and poultry production. In making the determination, consideration shall be given to drainage, climate, topography, proximity to market, and transportation and compatibility to adjoining land use, among other considerations. “Dairy” as used for disposition purposes means a “dry lot” dairy without allowance for grazing.
(B) Second class–Lands suitable for special livestock uses, but inferior to those of first class.
3. Pasture use

(A) First class–Lands having a potentially high economic animal unit carrying capacity and capable of correspondingly high live weight gains per acre per year, such as, less than five acres per animal unit per year and more than one hundred pounds live beef gains per animal unit per acre per year.
(B) Second class–Lands having a potentially medium economic animal unit carrying capacity and capable of moderate live weight gains per acre per year, such as, five to twenty acres per animal unit per year and twenty to one hundred pounds live beef gains per animal unit per acre per year.
(C) Third class–Lands having a relatively low animal unit carrying capacity and producing correspondingly low live weight gains per acre per year, such as, more than twenty acres per animal unit per year and less than twenty pounds average live beef gains per animal unit per acre per year.
4. Commercial timber use

(A) First class–Lands of high suitability for growth of merchantable timber having mean annual growth potential under normal forest management practices with yields exceeding amounts such as one thousand board feet per acre, and with location and terrain presenting favorable logging, transportation, and marketing conditions.
(B) Second class–Lands of high suitability for growth of merchantable timber having mean annual growth potential under normal forest management practices with yields exceeding amounts such as one thousand board feet per acre, and with location and terrain presenting less favorable logging, transportation, and marketing conditions.
(C) Third class–Lands of medium suitability for growth of merchantable timber having mean annual growth potential in amounts such as five hundred to one thousand board feet per acre under normal forest management practices, and with location and terrain presenting favorable logging, transportation, and marketing conditions.
(D) Fourth class–Lands of medium suitability for growth of merchantable timber having mean annual growth potential in amounts such as five hundred to one thousand board feet per acre under normal forest management practices, and with location and terrain presenting less favorable logging, transportation, and marketing conditions.
(E) Fifth class–Lands of relatively low suitability for growth of merchantable timber having mean annual growth potential less than an amount such as five hundred board feet per acre, and with location and terrain presenting favorable logging, transportation, and marketing conditions.
(F) Sixth class–Lands of relatively low suitability for growth of merchantable timber having mean annual growth potential less than an amount such as five hundred board feet per acre, and with location and terrain presenting less favorable logging, transportation, and marketing conditions.
5. Quarry use

Lands having sufficient quantity and quality of rock, gravel, and sand for purpose of commercial use.

6. Mining use

Lands bearing sufficient quantity and quality of mineral products for purpose of commercial mining and use.

7. Recreational use

Lands suitable for use and development as parks, playgrounds, historical sites, natural area, camp grounds, wildlife refuge, scenic sites, and other such uses.

8. Watershed use

Lands suitable for the use and development as watersheds or for the development of water, and requiring necessary restrictions on other uses.

9. Residential use

Lands suitable and economically feasible for residential development and use.

10. Commercial and industrial use

Lands suitable and economically feasible for commercial and industrial development and use.

11. Hotel, apartment, and motel use

Lands suitable and economically feasible for hotel, apartment, and motel development and use.

12. Resort use

Lands suitable and economically feasible for resort development and use.

13. Unclassified uses

Lands not otherwise classifiable under the foregoing sections.

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