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Kealoha Family Lo'i 2025 PONC Suggestion Form Kealoha Family Lo'i 2025 PONC Suggestion Form - Additional Required Information Attachment A. Provide a Tax Map Key Plat map and a property map with the Property boundaries and/or proposed access outlined or highlighted. Confirm the Council District. The properties are within Council District 9. Provided are a Tax Map Key Plat map as well as a project map, both showing the property boundaries (see two attachments titled "Attachment A"). Attachment B. Provide a clear statement detailing how public acquisition would fulfill one or more of the above resource values. Explain the intent, long-term vision, and/or strategy of this proposed acquisition. • Education &Access: This property serves as a location for cultural 'aina (land which feeds) based education and connection (impactful access) which we understand has a strong impact in providing opportunities for physical, spiritual and emotional wellbeing and healing. Here is a link to a video made by Kohala High School students and their mentor during a visit to the Properties: 1ht;tpsoyi ,.can irn g!l eos ;..., ;' , ng , ; � . • Historica & Cultural Importance: The site features intact stone walls from historic lo'i kalo (traditional wetland agricultural system for taro) that have been put back into production by the family. Per the archeologist this is a rare site where the plantation did not destroy the lo'i. This Properties are also culturally important for the family's contribution to the perpetuation of hula. • Preservation of Natural Resources, Significant Ecosystems and Buffer Zones; and Protection of Watershed lands to Preserve Water Quality and Water Supply: The Properties sit at a critical location for the health of Niuli'i and Wakani Streams forming its boundaries, which the land use on the subject Properties have an ultimate affect on the health and wellbeing of the waters and river ecosystem and biocultural resources, as well as the shoreline and nearshore ecosystems as the Niuli'i Stream enters into Keokea Bay at the location of a County park used by the community as a gathering and ocean recreation spot. Perservation of the lo'i kalo are also in a way designed and engineered to serve as important buffer zones for streams. Lo'i kalo also function to provide more opportunities and higher rates of surface water to ground water recharge, in all helping to preserve water quality and water supply. • Preservation of Agricultural Lands: The conservation easement is intended to protect in perpetuity lands that had been used for traditional Hawaiian agriculture for generations. Long Term Vision & Strategy: The Kealoha family has stewarded these Properties for generations. In recent years a family member together with other young men in the Kohala community laboriously cleared invasive species and returned the lo'i kalo to health. This Page 1 of 7