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that we really put forward is, is nominating properties for purchase by the County and, <br /> and raising money to do that so one of the properties which I'll talk about in a minute, is <br /> south of, of Pepeekeo Mill [unclear] and then the other one which we nominated this <br /> year is Kawainui and so that's on the Onomea scenic route where that old white <br /> wooden—whatever it is 6 tons bridge—it's on either side of that. It's makai of the road <br /> —40 acres on either side and so, we're hopeful at some point that those get purchased <br /> and preserved in perpetuity. That's really the mission of Makahanaloa and so those are <br /> some of our successes. Do you guys do that at all? We're still figuring it out. <br /> The next four slides [unclear]. Mostly plantation ohana whose guys is putting in like a <br /> trail for us, yeah, there's some successes—on one of our Aloha Aina days, Dick Fraser <br /> and Leila Dudley, and I'm not the next one—challenges—and this is something I know <br /> you guys are familiar with so—the map is of that TMK that we nominated for PONC <br /> purchase, that's—you can see Puu Honua at the top there—so it's about a mile of <br /> shoreline—38 acres—and we'll talk about a little bit more. That was in 2021. So, here <br /> we are in almost 2025. But just in general we have continuous problems with blockage, <br /> lack of maintenance for our easements and this is for easements that our fishing trails <br /> [unclear] that the community uses that nobody knows about and we just use and we <br /> just help to maintain them —one of our guys said the access is overgrown and we go cut <br /> it and some of'em are for County public access easements and so remember I said that <br /> the County accepted or was working with us on, on this and so there's public accesses <br /> where the County doesn't have a department to maintain those even though that <br /> they've accepted responsibility for that maintenance and that's something I want to talk <br /> to you guys about it and maybe we can figure out a process to do that. There's typically <br /> little to no enforcement by the County despite the complaints— have numerous <br /> complaints for the accesses just right north of Puu Honua where that big metal gated <br /> subdivision is and, I mean, the last one they cut—illegally cut trees—dropped them in— <br /> right on the shoreline. Called the state, called the county— no follow-up—we had to go <br /> down there and clean up the wood—Zendo—the recommendation for a fine was ten, <br /> you know, it can be up to $10,000 per tree—they got fined $2,000 for all of it and then <br /> Zendo waived the fine because for whatever reason. We won't go there cause he's not <br /> with us anymore, but, yeah, I mean, borderline corruption, if not outright. We don't <br /> have a stable source of funding really. We're hoping that it if one of these gets <br /> purchased that we can tap into those stewardship funds— no - that would be amazing <br /> but, there's no—there's no pocket of money that we can get funded for this work <br /> despite us doing a public good and so that's something maybe we can remedy, and <br /> then there's no mapping of the trails for Hilo or Hamakua. During Mahele right, it was <br /> too hard to run those, run all those gulches, right, and the main mode of transportation <br /> was by canoe for that area so the surveyors never got out there so we have no map of <br /> like, Na Ala Hele—we have no map of Ala Kahakai, we have, you know, even the railroad <br /> which was built on a traditional trail doesn't have preserved access, right? It's private <br /> property all over there. And so those are just some of the challenges that we face. We <br /> really felt like we got [unclear] our side in COVID like whoa man—a bunch ainas got <br /> bought up and, most of it is by people from, from not here and no offense to them but <br /> they have no connection maybe with the fishers and the hunters of this area, so those <br /> 6 <br />