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Puu'waawaa, has expressed interest in the project and lives near Honokaa and could serve as informal consultant. Undoubtedly there would be interest and participation from individuals in the Honokaa/Haina community. The Honokaa High School principal has indicated that their Agriculture program or their Alternative Education Academy would be the likely residence of educational engagement in developing this property as forested areas. Whether college credit might apply, as is the case with the students participation in the Hui Mau project, would be a consideration. Interest in and encouragement for this proposed program has been expressed by the Hamakua Youth Center here in Honokaa, and thus might lead to some level of participation. However, the Youth Center students are generally younger, in the grade school and junior high range, and their participation in transformation of this environment might be limited to enjoyment. The Hamakua Heritage Center director likewise has been enthusiastic toward support for the image of public transformation of this property, and would be especially helpful in situating the property in its historical context. 2. Preservation of historic or culturally important land areas and sites. Cultural remnants have been thoroughly erased by over a century of plantation Sugar Cane cultivation on the property. Currently this is intermittent pasture for cattle. It is the case however that this property and the adjoining areas do have cultural and historical significance. This particular parcel was owned initially by William Rickard in Grant from the Kingdom. Mr. Rickard, storied owner of the elegant and historic Honokaa traveler's inn/boarding house (now Salvation Army managed), served prison time for his support of Lilioukalani after the overthrow of 1893. Mr. Rickard's grandson is now on the board of the Hamakua Heritage Center which has an extensive collection of Mr. Rickard's writings and files (many boxes). Going further back into veiled history, it is likely that the `old heiau' marked on the accompanying maps of 1870 and 1880 represents the Ka Loa heiau, one of approximately ten named heiau in the Hamakua district, and only one of two that I am aware of to be distinctly marked on maps of the era. Several of this number are in Waipio and on the close rimland. Then the Malanahae, Kawela and Wawaimakilo heiaus did once lie between Honokaa and Waipio. Then this heiau marked `old heiau' on these maps is likely to be the Ka Loa heiau. The Manini Heiau once stood in the coastal area of Paauilo, perhaps in the Koholalele Landing area. This `old heiau' (see maps), appears to lie a short distance from the east side boundary of this nominated property in a beautiful diminutive valley. It appears to lie on the boundary of this property itself in the maps from the 1800s, but then subdivision of lands after the plantation closed in 1995 seems to have located the Heiau's site within the adjoining property but close to the boundary. Survey by the State Historical Division carried out two years ago, after these maps were pointed out to them, has not identified remnants of the heiau however. At that time three years ago, on this adjoining property there were multiple short remnants of stone `walls' present close to the cliffs, but apparently of more recent origin. There was a large spherical stone perhaps 30 to 36 inches in diameter sitting on compacted ground constrained by 8" to 12" stones in a small semi-circle under a tree at approximately 100 yards from the cliffs. The original heiau stones likely were removed for construction of a berm across the small valley of this east side adjoining property. This Sugg.26-03