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think it’s over a hundred miles of damaged fence line and then another facet that, again, <br />we’re working on this because – seeking help to get this taken care of – the cost to the <br />overall industry – what I mean by that is most of that is grazing land – and we have to <br />look at the graze land from a couple of perspectives – first of all we have just the <br />industry itself – the cattle industry and I – the numbers I’ve been putting together we’ll <br />probably have a couple million dollars lost in grazing capability over the next couple, <br />three, four, five years. It kind of depends how quickly we can recover the range but our <br />range production is not going to be there. A second facet of that – just as the overall <br />economy itself – when you impact that much grazing you impact that many ranchers – <br />the economy of the whole overall agriculture economy in the region gets severely <br />impacted. So that’s a concern and I don’t know how to quite evaluate that one yet. And <br />then thirdly we have an environmental cost and what I mean by that is the damage to <br />the range – we have 47,000 acres estimated that we have lost – the recovery of that <br />range from a fire standpoint – well, excuse me, from a grass standpoint – that doesn’t <br />come back right away and that’s pretty much a seasonal growth area and so we have <br />this open, bare soil – we have lots of dust concerns and the concern was air quality in <br />Waikoloa Village – as it worked out it was more of a problem for Puuanahulu region <br />cause the winds were carrying the dust that way. But that’s one concern. We also have <br />all these denuded plains that if we have huge flooding it could take a lot of that top soil <br />and take it down to the coastline –that’s another concern. We have aquifer recharge <br />that without the grazing or the grasslands to hold some of that moisture our aquifer <br />recharge is going to be impacted. How do we measure that? We really don’t know so <br />these are other areas that have a value – I know I’m trying to recede all of this – we <br />were talking within the millions of dollars to try and get a different - or some sort of <br />coverage on this land going forward. Overall, the question was – how much is it gonna <br />cost the county to fight the fire – several million dollars at least and it’s still being tallied. <br />Impact overall losses probably over 10 million dollars and probably I’m gonna guess at <br />least another 5 million and those are pretty educated guess as far as the loss of <br />productivity in those range lands going forward. So, you know, if you add all that <br />together it’s somewhere probably between 15 and 20 million dollars total economic loss <br />to the region. <br /> <br />BL: Thank you very much. <br /> <br />TR: Any other questions? <br /> <br />WC: Yeah, Tim this is Willie-Joe. <br /> <br />TR: Hey, Willie-Joe. <br /> <br />WC: I have not a really a question – I have a suggestion that may be – we can work on in the <br />future – we can sit down and talk about it a little more, but, this is kind of regards to the <br />dozer operators and by no means am I trying to say that they’re not capable operators <br />but I think it would probably be a good idea and maybe we can work with the Fire <br />9 <br /> <br /> <br />