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Ongoing conservation work can continue to evolve from species-specific conservation (e.g., Albizia eradication) to focus on ecosystem restoration across multiple land ownership to protect Hawai`i's biodiversity and support local farms. • Maintaining healthy, native-dominant forests offers immense savings of biocultural (Remove) and water resources that might otherwise be lost to the impacts of climate change (Remove) and invasive species. • Conservation lands hold significant value in the water resources they represent. • Incentivizing and developing regenerative land uses without further regulations or fines, such as agroforestry, can provide sustainable opportunities to ecosystems and communities. • Hawai`i can become a statewide adaptation and resiliency leader by focusing on its unique strengths and diversity to evolve with changing realities. Urban forestry can be prioritized or incentivized in the County Code. This means more regulations and possible fines. No thank you! Change to: Support the further growth of current urban forestry Watersheds Establish more place-based watershed partnerships to create unique management plans that incorporate the generational knowledge of those water systems and protect our island's watersheds and local farms. Strengthen the integration of Hawaiian biocultural remove resource management and traditional ecological knowledge across County government )rt local farms. Practice an integrated approach to ecosystem-based collaborative management that considers the entire ecosystem ical communities. Watershed protection and management require collaboration and coordination across all levels of government and must include effective community engagement. Revise to: Support Watershed and management coordination which integrates local communities. Stewardship • Hawai`i Island has a large variation of its unique natural biomes and ecosystems.