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What new rules or protocols have been duly authorized and adopted to afford confidence in this process to properly evaluate impacts upon traditional and cultural practices as expressed at Ka'upulehu? As was noted by then LUC Chair Alan Hoe, the Kohanaiki / PASH decision raised more questions than it answered with regard to the land use application and permitting process as it relates to traditional and customary practices. The case presently being appealed before the Hawai'i Supreme Court, may nudge us towards some of those much needed answers. A well reasoned and prepared Integrated Resources Management Plan has been provided by the applicant, However this addresses the management of resources which they have self-identified and validated, not the systematic analysis and evaluation of impacts to all of the cultural resources and practices identified ihere in. For example: The 1800 'a'a flow surrounded Hinakapo'ula. Hinakapo'ula is a named wahi pana (Appendix A, page 31). This flow emerges from the cloud and dry forests, the domain of Kumokuhali'i (Ku who spreads the hali'i of greenery over the island, moku). Kuka'ohi'alaka (Ku who resides in a particular 'ohi'a further associated with Laka) is known from Pu'u Honua'ula near to the summit of of Hualalai, Hainoa (Appendix A, page 32). The southern lobe of the 1800, Ka'upulehu flow is 'a'a lava. The lava crept along, kulipe'e, moving like "an old woman" (Appendix A, page 28) creating the jumbled flow front that we cross when coming to Kalaemano from the Kona Village side. It is said by Kamakau, that Pele came from the inlands, hungry for the awa from the ponds at Kiholo and Ka'upulehu (Appendix A, page 18). Archaeological features on this flow are few. Archaeological features are the signature of our ancestors' presence on the land. In our family's practice, 'The absence of our ancestors' signature upon the landscape speaks as clearly as the presence of their signature upon the land." (Appendix A page 96) This flow is wao akua, a region of the gods, as compared with wao kanaka a region of men. Natural resources are cultural resources. The natural landscape is the cultural landscape. This lava flow is a cultural resource.