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inviting us to share updates tonight. Thank you. If you all have any questions – I <br />know that was a quick one – just giving you guys a quick overview. <br /> <br />AA: Yeah, that’s fine. Thank you, Kalena. Anybody have any questions for Kalena. <br /> <br />BL: Brian – District 4. I get a question. How many acres are you guys planning on <br />fencing and eradicating? <br /> <br />KB: Right now we don’t have enough funding so you’re looking at our 3-acre <br />enclosure and a 17-acre enclosure that we just got a grant funding for – <br />otherwise that’s the only really fenced units we have. <br /> <br />BL: You have plans for future fencing or anything like that. <br /> <br />KB: Ah, not right at the moment ‘cause of funding. <br /> <br />BL: But you guys would have no problem fencing he whole thing and eradicating <br />everything out of there? <br /> <br />KB: No, that would be impractical. I think the property is too large. I think if we’re <br />going to fence and we have funding – we would fence those green units – let me <br />go back to that map. You see these green units here? <br /> <br />BL: Yeah. <br /> <br />KB: But they’re also connected to lava flows so we have to be mindful of our money <br />so we don’t really want to invest a huge amount of money in areas that are <br />gonna get flowed over again. I’d say it’s the puu – we have a Puu Kauka and a <br />Puu Heiheiahulu – those are high – higher up and we could probably surround <br />those and use our money wisely – but mostly it’s the green areas. Even \[unclear\] <br />exposure is bright in a very invaded area but we want a place that we can work <br />with our volunteers and reach so that’s why we just fenced a 3-acre area there. <br /> <br />BL: OK. I just, you know, I have some concerns – everyone says, you know, we’re <br />doing this so we can continue our cultural practice and gathering but then we put <br />fences up – keep people out and eradicate everything in there so there’s nothing <br />to gather so… The end result is we’d have fenced properties with noboby <br />accessing it, nobody can, ah, you know, sustainability and everything else, you <br />know, I’m all for, you know, fencing and protecting critical habitat and plants but <br />this large scale fencing and eradication is like we’re seeing on the Kona side, I <br />know Puna’s not a bad idea cause it’s so wet – but on the dry side where we’ve <br />got all the invasive grasses that are just burning all of our dry forest right now <br />‘cause, you know, we have no game management – we fenced and eradicated <br />and let the weeds get out of control and now we’re paying the consequences so, <br />you know I just – this is just my concern, like I said, the little 3, 5 acres, you <br />know, I like that – replanting and having a base where the seeds can move on <br />8 <br /> <br /> <br />