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promote agricultural education, and implement <br />Policy 43, and Community Action 5.] <br />■ Everybody against growing the trees but it was <br />the largest investment since sugar & it provided <br />jobs. [No Change: forestry included as ag] <br />■ DHHL land is lease land <br />o Are those lease processes clear? [Revision: <br />see proposed new County Action and <br />Community Action as noted above] <br />■ USDA-NRCS Board – Contact Mayor Kenoi <br />■ Hamakua's depleted mauka forests need to be <br />restored to restore watershed vitality. [No <br />Change: see Section 4.6_] <br />o Some capacity issue with some of those <br />organizations. [No Change: issue noted.] CDP can speak to reforestation of mauka areas: <br />incentive to take cattle down to lower areas & <br />■ Community understand there are many types of reforest mauka areas. <br />agriculture. [No Change] [No Change: see Policy 39. For mauka areas <br />zoned as agriculture, the CDP cannot stipulate <br />4.4 Protect Mauka Areas & Fores the land cannot be used for grazing. This is a <br />highly controversial issue (reforestation vs. <br />■ CDP seems to assume all forestry as just mauka. mauka cattle grazing). Watershed education is <br />Would like to see recognition that forestry can key to better land management – see Section <br />and is practiced lowland. Be realistic about 4.6] <br />various land uses that take care of the 'aina. <br />(Depends on jurisdiction. Also, people's aspect — <br />want recognition.) [No Change: issue noted; <br />likely the CDP final draft will be reorganized in ■ <br />format and wording may be revised around <br />forest issue – see revision to Section 4.4 header <br />above] X i% 1% <br />■ Any type of development in mauka areas should ■ <br />be restricted. [Relates to CDP mention of <br />cultural/religious practices.] [No Change: see <br />Policy 39] <br />■ Lease 4 years; required to remove all trees & kill <br />new ones; first right of refusal to be biofuel; <br />trying to ship Eucalyptus out as quick as possible. <br />[No Change] <br />Forest corridors to restore watershed: 100ft <br />each side of gulches restores native species, <br />water quality. [No Change: see Policies 39, 42, <br />43, K6kua Actions 12, 14, 15.] <br />Forestry has lots of benefits for land <br />o Less run-off <br />o Native Habitat <br />o Producing Carbon <br />o But add a cow and get equal (or greater) tax <br />benefit <br />o Consider carbon sequestration as a tool <br />[No Change: See Appendix V4A, Focus Area: <br />Wao.] <br />HAMAKUA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN (CDP) I Section 4: Protect and Enhance Natural and <br />Cultural Resources <br />