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Committee, Kahalu'u Bay Education Center (KBEC), Friends of Ho'okena Beach Park, Hui Aloha Kiholo, Hui
<br />Malama o Mo'omomi, Laupahoehoe Advisory Council, Mauna Kea Watershed Partnership
<br />Potential Next Steps:
<br />■ Establish management priorities
<br />o Consider stakeholder input, feasibility, and potential benefit/impact when establishing priorities.
<br />o To prioritize coastal resources that require protection and/or management, identify major land
<br />covers, land uses, and polluting activities, as recommended by the ORMP (see Appendix V4A).
<br />Community concern for development impacts, coastal hazards, and safe access to ocean resources
<br />will likely be priorities. Given the significance for Waipi'o Valley, it will be handled in a separate
<br />focused initiative. Alow
<br />■ Document historical and current conditions in high priority areas using local, place -based knowledge and
<br />the best science available 1�%
<br />• Clearly identify resources, their significance, and threats.
<br />• Start with existing documentation and maps in the CDP (including the Community Profile and
<br />Appendix V4A), historic maps, past studies, fishermen, hikers, surfers, local Hawaiian families with
<br />ahupua'a-specific knowledge, and other existing resources.
<br />Map popular fishing, surfing, swimming, and hiking areas. Though they shouldn't be publicized,
<br />commonly used areas should be identified so that they can be protected and managed.
<br />Inventory and map undocumented resources in coastal areas, including coastal fish populations,
<br />estuaries, anchialine pools, tidal wetlands, coral reefs, vegetation, turtle nesting and feeding sites,
<br />and monk seal habitat.
<br />Take great care to keep information about sensitive resources unpublished and not public in order
<br />to minimize impacts, theft, vandalism, and other breaches in protocol.
<br />■ Develop site-specific and watershed -specific management plans tailored to high-priority areas and
<br />resources.
<br />■ Implement management plans for priority areas and resources
<br />Organizational Considerations: The Action Committee may want to establish one or more subcommittees to
<br />spearhead this action. Likewise, it may want to ask community partners to assume responsibility for some
<br />of the steps. It may also be helpful for groups to focus on specific high-priority sites or areas.
<br />Other Resources: Coastal and Estuarine Land Conservation Program, Farm and Ranchland Protection
<br />Program, National Coastal Wetlands Conservation Grant, Nature Conservancy.
<br />Community Action 4: Support the organization of a community-based hui for fisher people of the
<br />Hamakua Coast.
<br />Need: Diminishing access to public hunting, gathering, and shoreline areas and the closure of the Planning
<br />Area's only boat ramp in Laupahoehoe have eroded the community's ability to hunt, fish, and provide
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