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<br /> PROJECT PLAN
<br /> A. PROJECT NAME (see Instructions):
<br /> (Maintenance) Ho'ohui No Wai'ele and (Management) Digitized Resource
<br /> Database--Implementation Phase
<br /> B. PROJECT LOCATION (Use TMKs. See Instructions):
<br /> 3-1-4-003:003, 3-1-4-003:037
<br /> C. IDENTIFY PERSONS AND ORGANIZATIONS WHOM YOU EXPECT WILL
<br /> PARTICIPATE IN THE PROPOSED PROJECT ACTIVITIES (see Instructions):
<br /> For"Ho'ohui No Wai'ele,"Diga(Geoffrey)Kern will be co-coordinator and primary field technician.Ann Kobsa and Jaya Dupuis will be invasive plant control consultants. Matthew
<br /> Roderick,Jasmine van den Heuvel,Kumsa Maphalala,Isaiah Kalaukoa,James Springer,and up to four others will be field technicians. Keone Kalawe will be lineal descendant
<br /> cultural advisor,in lieu of still-forming Wai'ele Advisory Council. An estimated fifty individual community volunteers will participate in cleanup events. Close coordination will continue
<br /> with Malama O Puna,501 c(3);the Koa e Community Association will provide its volunteer roster and promotion;and Hawaii Little Fire Ant Lab will continue to consult.
<br /> For"Digital Resource Database: Implementation Phase,"Ryan Perroy of LH Spatial Data Visualization and Analysis Lab is the primary contractor. His lab will coordinate with a
<br /> helicopter pilot,data collection field specialists,and a computer technician to assemble the package of deliverables. Diga Kern is project manager,and consultants are archaeologist
<br /> Lokelani Brandt,heiau architect Keone Kalawe,curriculum consultant Ilana Stout,and LH indigenous cropping systems expert Noa Lincoln. One Wai'ele-specific part-time GIS
<br /> technician/database Curator will be contracted with.
<br /> D. PROPOSAL AND PROJECT DESCRIPTION (Briefly describe the long-range goals)
<br /> for the property and the objectives o f your proposal for stewardship grant funding. See example
<br /> in Instructions)
<br /> What is the long-range goal or vision for the property?
<br /> HER and MOP share the the vision of active participation of descendants with ancestral ties,community residents,students from the
<br /> broader community,and the public working together to foster and maintain respectful public use,sustainable,traditional harvest of
<br /> renewable resources,and, most importantly,an ethic of responsible stewardship of this precious place. Our vision includes preserving
<br /> the area, largely unchanged,in perpetuity.
<br /> Due to development along our island's coastline and recent lava flows in lower Puna,there are few remaining areas of such intact
<br /> native/cultural forest and shoreline,and fewer still that are protected.Wai'ele is adjacent to Kahuwai,owned by Kamehameha
<br /> Schools/Bishop Estate(KSBE),which itself contains 4000 linear ft.of shoreline protected from development.The 2000 ft.of shoreline in
<br /> Wai'ele together with Kahuwai makes for over a mile of protected shoreline,with adjacent native/cultural coastal forest and preserved
<br /> archaeological features. Together with the adjacent Halepua'a Section of the Nanawale State Forest Reserve,these properties
<br /> represent over 1000 acres of protected lowland wet tropical forest. The one-lane Government Beach Road, lined with ancient mango
<br /> trees protected by the County Exceptional Tree Ordinance,connects these forests with the communities of Wa'awa'a, Koa'e,and the
<br /> wider world.
<br /> During the 2023-24 cycle, Malama O Puna facilitated meetings led by three native Hawaiian stakeholders(Keone Kalawe Leila Kealoha,
<br /> and lopa Maunakea)to develop a framework for selecting a steering committee to guide Wai'ele's long-term planning. The June 30,
<br /> 2024, "Working Papers"that resulted from these meetings"represent ideas and approaches from a consortium of individuals and groups
<br /> engaged in attempts to steward lands that are of importance to our native Hawaiian population,are critical habitat for indigenous plant
<br /> and animal species,and which need to be preserved and managed in an inclusive way that draws in the expertise and energies of the
<br /> communities where these lands are situated." The template allocates decision-making positions to Kupuna, Makua, `Opio,scientific
<br /> community members,and neighbors/community members. It is our expectation that once completed,this template will be applied and a
<br /> dedicated Wai'ele Advisory Council will form,inheriting long range goal formation and visioning from MOP and HER.
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