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PROTECT KAHWoLAWE 10HANA 1733 Wili Pa Loop, B-1 Wailuku, Hawaii 96793 January 24,2026 VIA EMAIL:ekf(dedithkaiiakaolefotuidatiou.org Edith Kanaka`ole Foundation 1500 Kalaniana`ole Street Hilo,HI 96720-4914 VIA EMAIL:kam-aela.kaapana@tpl.org tpl.org Trust for Public Land 1164 Bishop Street, Suite 1512 Honolulu,Hawaii 96813 Re: Support for the protection and purchase of Ka`alaild Kula,Ka`alaiki,Ka`u,Hawaii Island To Whom it May Concern, The Protect Kaho`olawe `Ohara strongly supports the Ka`u community,Edith Kanaka`ole Foundation, and Trust for Public Land's effort to purchase and protect Ka`alaiki Kula (approximately 1,600 acres)in Ka`alaiki,Ka'u,Hawaii Island. Ka`alaiki Kula runs between highway 11 on the ina kai side and Ka`alaild Road on the ma uka side. Protecting the kola lands would ensure the entire ahupua`a is preserved,allowing this area to serve as a cultural educational site demonstrating the importance of ahupua`a land management practices as well as protecting significant cultural and archaeological sites including a railroad trestle and `Imakakaloa Heiau, one of two intact hula heiau in the Hawaiian Islands. Edith Kanaka`ole Foundation is a Hawaiian cultural-based non-profit 501(c)(3)organization established in 1990 to maintain and perpetuate the teachings,beliefs,practices,philosophies, and traditions of the late Luka and Edith Kanaka`ole. EKF's mission is to elevate Hawaiian intelligence through cultural education founded on the teachings and traditional practices of Edith and Luka Kanaka`ole. EKF possess a high level of Hawaiian cultural knowledge and skills relating to land and resource practices as well as cultural site restoration,protocol,and ritual. The Protect Kaho`olawe `Ghana is an islands-wide grassroots Hawaiian organization celebrating and activating around our 50th Anniversary this year.Our mission is to perpetuate Aloha`Aina throughout our islands through cultural,educational and spiritual activities that heal and revitalize the cultural and natural resources on Kaho`olawe.We are the Kahu`aina (stewards)of Kanaloa Kaho`olawe. We have worked closely with the `Ghana Kanaka`ole,since Aunty Edith named us an`Ghana for Kaho`olawe in 1976 and together with her daughter,Nalani Kanaka`ole,gave us our Makahiki ceremony and protocols. We continue to work with the Edith Kanaka`ole Foundation to protect sacred lands on Kaho`olawe and Mauna a Wakea and engage in their workshops and planning.Having worked with them for over fifty years,we have personally witnessed their undying aloha for our`aina that has been formalized in intergenerational commitments to realizing the ea(life)of Hawaii.We wholeheartedly endorse their initiative to purchase and support Ka`alaiki Kula lands in Ka`u,Hawaii. 5ugg.26-05