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Physical Setting <br />The subject property (TMK: 7 -7-08: 20, 31 & 100) is located in Pahoehoe 2 and 3' <br />Ahupua'a, North Kona District, Hawai'i Island. The property is bordered by MI Drive along <br />its makai or western border, and by private properties along the north, east and south boundaries <br />(see Figure 3). In addition, the Great Wall of Kuakini (Site 6302) forms the eastern boundary of <br />the subject parcel. Currently, a two -story house is located on the subject property fronting Ali'i <br />Drive. <br />Borthwick et al. (1997) describe the vegetation on the subject property as follows: <br />The vegetation on the property is fairly dense and consists mainly of alien plants like koa <br />haole (Leucaena leucocephala), kiawe (Prosopispalllda), 'opiuma (Plthecellobium duke), guinea <br />grass (Panicum maximum), and morning glory vines (lpomoea indica). An overgrowth of night- <br />blooming cereal (Hylocereus widows) and wood rose (Meremia tuberose) covers the north and <br />southwest edges of #18002 platform. <br />The subject property encompasses an area of approximately 7 acres. The property rises <br />in elevation from west to east (makai to mauka) from roughly 10 to 100 feet above mean sea <br />level. Sato, Ikeda, Paeth, Smythe and Takehiro (1973) describe the soils in the area as Punaluu <br />extremely rocky peat, with a typical stratigraphy of 4 inches of black peat underlain by pahoehoe <br />bedrock. The average rainfall for this area of Hawaii is 30 to 40 inches a year (Armstrong <br />1973). <br />4 <br />EXHIBIT B <br />