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Comm 26-074 <br />From:Michelle Galimba <br />To:Shalan Crysdale <br />Cc:Nohealani Ka"awa <br />Subject:Re: PONC support letter requested for TNC"s application for Hilea land protection <br />Date:Wednesday, January 28, 2026 3:48:07 PM <br />Attachments:Hilea PONC LOS 1.28.26.pdf <br />Aloha Shalan and Nohea, <br />Please fiind my testimony attached. <br />On Jan 28, 2026, at 2:17PM, Shalan Crysdale <scrysdale@TNC.ORG> wrote: <br />Aloha kakou, <br />I am humbly asking you consider submitting a letter of support for The Nature Conservancy’s <br />proposal to purchase and manage 1,916 acres in Hlea using county PONC funds. Please find <br />the attached support letter template \[insert your information bracketed in blue\] and <br />map/information packet about the property to support TNC’s application for county of Hawaii <br />st <br />PONC funding, due at the end of this month on January 31. Should you decide to send in a <br />support letter on TNC’s behalf, please copy Nohea and I in the email so that we can put your <br />st <br />letter into our application packet when we submit it on the 31. Letters will still be taken after <br />st <br />the 31 and submitted as public testimony. <br />For more background on the Hlea land protection project, watch last year’s presentation to <br />BLNR where we were awarded $2 million towards the purchase price. <br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2Q3SLAr2xA <br />Thank you, <br />Shalan and Nohea <br />The Nature Conservancy <br /><image002.jpg> <br />Ka Field Office <br />Shalan Crysdale <br />95-6006 Mmalahoa Hwy <br />Director, Hawai‘i Island Forest Program <br />Nlehu, HI 96772 <br />scrysdale@tnc.org <br />(808)4 43-5 413 <br />nature.org/hawaii <br /><Hlea protection project.pdf><PONC Attachment C LOS Template \[Draft\].docx> <br /> <br />