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after this pu’u. It’s kind of hard to make out in this aerial imagery but this is Pu’u Eke right here <br />and then the summit, the actual summit of Kohala is right here and the summit’s name or one of <br />the summit’s names is Kaumu o Kaleiho’ohie and there’s other names but this is the name that <br />is most commonly found on maps both historic and modern. As I said before, this is a sub-set <br />slide show and so this image of this map was meant to talk about our transit surveys and so <br />within the unit there’s 4 transit survey features that we have that we’re planning use for <br />monitoring purposes, we’ll be monitoring forest health through vegetation surveys both native <br />vegetation and non-native, we’ll be monitoring forest bird populations and we’ll be monitoring <br />ungulate signs and, let’s see – you can see to the stream off to the side – that’s Kilohana Stream <br />– I just figured I’d keep that on this map because that’s another important water source – it’s <br />not actually coming out of the Eke unit but there’s the thought, you know, any additional, I <br />guess, what’s the best way to put this, any abundant forests in this area is supporting its other <br />nearby forests – so by Eke being protected it’s going to secure native forests that provides <br />greater health to the surrounding forest and so that in effect – that should affect surrounding <br />streams as well. Yeah, I just wanted to leave – to give you some time for brief questions – this is <br />my team from Kohala Center in Waimea as well as a couple of folks that work for Kohala <br />Watershed Partnership and in the backgrounds, you can see \[unclear\], ohia lehua and Eke. Eke <br />there is on the right, yeah, I just want to say mahalo to everyone taking a little bit of time to <br />watch this brief slide show. Thank you. <br /> <br />AA: Thanks, Jake. Any questions or comments from the Commissioners? <br /> <br />BL: Brian Ley, District – 4. OK, did you guys have any – how many feral cats you got in that area? <br /> <br />JM: Feral cats? <br /> <br />BL: You got any there? Yeah, since the \[unclear\] might get to the screen to get down to the thing <br />that seems like it would be a bigger issue than some pigs ‘cause we’ve got the feral cats and the <br />rats pollute the waters where it’s way serious issues with the water… <br /> <br />JM: So, I have no idea what the feral cat population is there. But it, I think for us feral cats and rats <br />and mongoose – predators in general – aren’t the first priority because we’re losing metric tons <br />of soil from the cloud forest through pig digging, foot traffic, sedimentation washing from the <br />slopes. We’re actually losing the soil in that forest due to the pig impact. And so, right now I <br />think the feral pigs is definitely the priority for the move out of that native forest. As a reminder, <br />pigs were introduced, yeah, so – just along the lines - same along the lines of cats and rats and <br />mongoose. But I think taking care of the largest animals first that are eroding the area and, also <br />contributing to ohia scarring, rapid ohia death, um, vegetation destruction – I think that’s like <br />the main priority is right now and the landowner on \[unclear\] property is very supportive of that <br />action as well – they see those things happening as well. <br /> <br />LT: E, aloha, Leomana, District – 3, thank you for your presentation. <br /> <br />JM: Aloha. <br /> <br />LT: Um, you know, I grew up on Mauna Kea so I never really hunted Kohala and I never go out there <br />hunt ‘cause it’s kind of territorial with hunting – you know that – so I wanted to ask if there are <br />10 <br /> <br /> <br />