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There’s existing partnerships with other groups to help maintain it so that <br />\[unclear\]. So those five trails were: the Puuwaawaa Cone Trail, The Ohia Trail, <br />which is the trail you can hike from Puuwaawaa from the hiker check-in station <br />to the base of the puu. The old Makaula Trail which is in the Makaula unit of <br />Honua’ula Forest Reserve – if you go up Kaloko Drive in Kona off Makahi Street <br />– so that’s that area; what’s been called the Kulamekahui – mountain biking <br />park – some people call that - by Quarry Road off steam baths and bicycle park <br />– and then the Palila Forest Restoration Trail. So those were added on the <br />th <br />October 9 Board of Land and Natural Resources meeting. And so those are <br />under now – nothing has changed as far as, you know, the trails were already <br />under DOFAW management it’s just within DOFAW they’re not specifically <br />administered under the Na Ala Hele Program and therefore follow the Na Ala <br />Hele rules – the benefits of which, of course, we have a little bit more control <br />over the users as it relates to the use of those trails specifically as opposed to a <br />general forest reserve for game management and \[unclear\]. Anyway, it just <br />adds that extra layer of ruling... <br /> <br />NP: Yeah. <br /> <br />JB: ….to the users of those areas. <br /> <br />NP: Right, and we wanted to thank Na Ala Hele for writing to the AG requesting <br />that the rules could be made that hikers wear a glaze orange just as a safety <br />thing so hunters would be able to see them now that the – with the forest… <br /> <br />JB: Nani – let me clarify on that… <br /> <br />NP: Yes, please, that’s exactly right… <br /> <br />JB: Yeah, so, what Nani is alluding to is some of the background of the process of <br />our making these trails Na Ala Hele Program Trails. So, again, we have an <br />advisory council and so I always go to our advisory council seeking advice – I <br />bring up our proposals for projects we’re working on – including something <br />like this – even though it’s just administrative we want to make sure they’re <br />well aware and get their advice and seek their approval, even though the true <br />formal comes from the Board of Land and Natural Resources and so all those <br />trails were brought up to our advisory council. The Palila Forest Discovery Trail <br />4 <br /> <br /> <br />