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these other places that depend on the PONC funding are important to <br />those who take care of them. These are the people's wahi panas. Not only <br />will the environmental health waiver because of the loss of forestry and <br />plants. The people that have put hours, days, weeks, months, years or their <br />entire lives into these places; Giving up their mana to the place; taking up a <br />special relationship with the place. These are their sacred places. Without <br />the funding there will be no more of these places. We will have lost a <br />connection to the aina that we cultivated over many years. <br />Mahalo Nui, <br />Tevis J. Peppers <br />