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So, there you have my seven pointed proposal. After already having discussed this area with the. State Historian, Mark Smith, L}~rnan House Museum, and Herbert Kawainui Kane, as well as researching out the fact that this site shows up nowhere in the Hawaiian registered historic sites leads me to believe that it is not a Hawaiian site but more likely just an old paniolo site that's been long abandoned. However, it is still terrain that is mostly non-usable as anything but jungle/forest/habitat to many wild animals and plantlife, and to bring in ignorant masses to massacre the area before it can be cautiously studied and hand researched by professional archaeologists, ornithologists, etc., would be almost a crime against the species already living in and claiming this area as their habitat. I would like to preserve this area in the state that it is in. I feel the land has called me to do so. And to not be allowed to would be, like my Shawnee ancestors, like driving me along another Trail of Tears. This is a very unique and special area. You apparently have no idea what kind of place this really is. You don't sleep in it, you don't live init. I must only assume you live on the outskirts of it not even really knowing what goes on here or what it really like. I saw the fear in allyour eyes when you were lost in here and it had its hold on you. And now, you want to feel part of it, because it is so special, so beautiful that you want to make it your own, control it, conquer it. I feel that the current committee plans make it into something that everyone can trash and ruin for the non-human things that are there just so you can feel like you arc stronger than it, just so that you can suck up the strength that flows through the place info your own deaf veins. And inthe end you will weaken the place and, ultimately, kill the good thing that's there. To open it at this time (before more intensive, private research can be done), to the general public is to invite it to ruin and the houses around it to criminal elements. 1 am asking you to do a very great thing, I know, but 1 feel I was placed on this site to protect it and guard it as best I can, as a warrior guarding the cave where the tribe is hiding. Please allow me to continue doing this in a larger, more socially-serving manner. Please allow this site the private dignity it truly deserves for just a while longer. It would be a shame to lose something of great historical or ecological impact just because of a "committee" deciding to do so on paper, mostly so they can claim some kind of political credit for having been part of a project. Please consider my proposal as a bona fide expression of a long-term resident, with children who are fourth generation on this island, to protect, preserve and respect the aina as only someone w-ho was chosen by the aina could do. If the land itself has asked me to take care of it, then what person could better be chosen by humankind. Thank you for your attention to this matter. J.C. Shinpaw CC: Paradise Park Hui Hanalike Receivership Entities Pres. of Hui Hanalike, Walter Moe