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there’s many other access points in Kohala not just on Kohala Mountain Road, I just do a <br />research there. <br /> <br />LT: Right on, mahalo. <br /> <br />JM: Yeah. Any other questions? <br /> <br />RD: Yeah, Duerr, District – 1. How big is the parcel? <br /> <br />JM: Ah, so, the fence is not complete, but it’s estimated to be around 650 acres, sorry, I’m getting <br />mixed up with another private landowner unit – I think it’s gonna be closer to about 540 acres, <br />sorry. <br /> <br />RD: And then the next question is – how are you eliminating the Himalayan ginger? <br /> <br />JM: So we’re got this ginger removal plan that we’ve been crafting for the past two years and it’s <br />taking into account other ginger removal projects on the Island. So we’ve reached out to folks at <br />the Big Island Invasive Species Committee, we’ve reached out to folks at Volcano National Park <br />that have done a lot of ginger removal and we’re pretty much, just practicing the set of <br />guidelines that follows really similar techniques to what has been going on already, but our <br />main thing with clean water is trying to secure a clean water source and to me that also means <br />using as little herbicide as possible, so, our goals are to try to eliminate the big patches of ginger <br />using a very diluted solution of Escort herbicide, but when possible hand pull any juveniles that <br />come up and we haven’t totally completed the ginger removal plan and the guidelines yet, but <br />we’re getting pretty close with that – it should be done around March of next year for that. <br /> <br />RD: Thank you. <br /> <br />AA: Any other questions? Comments? Abraham, District – 5. It’s not just your organization but <br />there’s a lot of even for DOFAW – you guys use the pigs as a main source of spreading rapid ohia <br />death and everything – but it seems like you guys just finding the easiest path to take and get <br />out the biggest problem. But let’s say you guys get all the pigs out from your guys’ property then <br />what is your guys’ next move after that, right, so rapid ohia death and soil sedimentation – are <br />you guys planning to keep public out, I mean, you’re on private property so technically you can, <br />right? <br /> <br />JM: Yeah, so Queen Emma Land Company is definitely private property and, yeah, I can’t speak for <br />Queen Emma Land Company ‘cause I’m not one of their employees, but, I think that if we can <br />work with community to remove the pigs and remove the ginger from forest\[unclear\] to the <br />point where we can actually go in and do restoration of the plant, um, endemic native species <br />and fill in the places that have been destructed, that would be along the lines of where we <br />would be going and I guess speaking to rapid ohia death. I’ve been working in Kohala since <br />about 2004 and, you know, well before ceratocystis came along and started wiping out our ohia <br />trees and the areas that have been pig free – if you compare them to areas that they’ll have pigs <br />– and you look at the ohia trees were in those protected areas they’re so much more abundant <br />and healthy than the ones outside that are just getting their roots trampled by hooves all day, <br />every day and no understory, no forest health with the layers of forest that are basically <br />disappearing where you have a couple of big trees and then the lower forest stages are all – just <br />12 <br /> <br /> <br />