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Comm 26-074 <br />From:Megan Lamson <br />To:Shalan Crysdale <br />Cc:Nohealani Ka"awa; Bill Gilmartin; Hannah Bernard <br />Subject:Re: PONC support letter requested for TNC"s application for Hilea land protection <br />Date:Thursday, January 29, 2026 10:05:56 PM <br />Attachments:HWF LOS for Hlea - PONC Jan 2026.pdf <br />Aloha and see attached :) <br />Did you want us to share this directly with the PONC commission or will you folks share it <br />with the nomination / submission packet? <br />Best, <br />Meg <br />On Wed, Jan 28, 2026 at 2:21PM Shalan Crysdale <scrysdale@tnc.org> wrote: <br />Aloha kakou, <br /> <br />I am humbly asking you consider submitting a letter of support for The Nature Conservancy’s proposal to <br />purchase and manage 1,916 acres in Hlea using county PONC funds. Please find the attached support letter <br />template \[insert your information bracketed in blue\] and map/information packet about the property to <br />st <br />support TNC’s application for county of Hawaii PONC funding, due at the end of this month on January 31. <br />Should you decide to send in a support letter on TNC’s behalf, please copy Nohea and I in the email so that <br />st <br />we can put your letter into our application packet when we submit it on the 31. Letters will still be taken <br />st <br />after the 31 and submitted as public testimony. <br /> <br />For more background on the Hlea land protection project, watch last year’s presentation to BLNR where we <br />were awarded $2 million towards the purchase price. <br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2Q3SLAr2xA <br /> <br />Thank you, <br />Shalan and Nohea <br />The Nature Conservancy <br /> <br /> <br />Shalan Crysdale Ka Field Office <br />Director, Hawai‘i Island Forest 95-6006 Mmalahoa Hwy <br />Program <br />Nlehu, HI 96772 <br />scrysdale@tnc.org <br /> <br />(808) 4 43-5 413 <br />nature.org/hawaii <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />