Mälama Mähäÿulepü - Malama Mahaulepu

Fall 2006
Mälama Mähäÿulepü
ÿOHANA O MÄHÄÿULEPÜ, Our Community Roots
By Napua Wong Romo
in that time when, as young people, we spent
IWetourwasespecially
days off from school and work at the beach.
liked Mähä`ulepü which was
accessible through the old mill. This was back in the
late 60’s and early 1970's. Some of us were still
teenagers.
Leadership Homes, proposed a huge resort residential
development at Mähä`ulepü. This included the two
and a half miles of secluded beach lands, the last
unspoiled area on the South Shore.
So, as a group of young "radicals" and with help from
the Niumalu people, we formed ÿOHANA O
MÄHÄÿULEPÜ and started meeting at Poÿipü Beach
Park. We assigned chores to volunteers to gather
information about the proposal and the dates of Land
Use Commission meetings. We distributed newsletters
and pamphlets that we printed with our own printing
press!
We wanted not only to stop Mähä`ulepü from being
developed but to educate our community as to what
would happen to the town of Köloa if we didn't do
something about this change. We knocked on doors,
wrote petitions and so on. At our first State Land Use
Commission hearing at Wilcox School Cafeteria in
Lïhuÿe, we bused there. Chang's Bus Service brought
Köloa residents to Lïhuÿe so they could speak at the
hearing. It was the first time a community spoke out
against a development proposal. It was a media
goldmine, and our issues were featured in Hawaii
Business Magazine as the "greening of Kauaÿi."
With all the energy to make our views known there
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“Korean Rock”, a favorite landmark, was destroyed by
Hurricane Iniki.
1970’s Photo by Napua Romo
At that time Niumalu residents were facing evictions,
and my four sisters and I were very involved with
their struggle. We were learning about land use
issues, laws and how to work with government
officials. One person, George Cooper, an attorney
and writer, was instrumental in helping us understand
the workings of the "system", doing behind the
scenes work, making sure all the dots were
connected.
In 1974, while Niumalu was facing evictions, the
South Shore was slated for major land reclassification
from agriculture to urban. A national developer,
Mälama Mähäÿulepü
Napua Wong Romo and her moÿopuna ÿEÿelekoa Emery enjoy
Mähäÿulepü
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Photo by Robert Zelkovsky
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The Dunes Of Mähäÿulepü: Places to Respect
ähäÿulepü displays the diversity and beauty of
coastal land forms: beaches, dunes, cliffs, estuary
and wetlands. Of these interacting features, the dunes,
puÿu one or puÿe one, are perhaps the most unassuming
but important geo-ecologic features. These sand hills
are essential to healthy beaches. They are profoundly
significant to Native Hawaiians.
Because dunes act as “banks,” they shrink as well as
grow. Higher summer swells and storms pull sand
from the beaches, eroding the front face of the dunes.
This sand is “borrowed” and deposited into the ocean
to sandbars or suspended sand cells. After the high
surf events, ocean currents return the sand to the
beach. The steeper front face of the dune begins to
Haupu
Kawelikoa Pt.
Waimea Canyon Basalt
Papamoi Sand Dunes
Paoo Pt.
Paoo Lithified Dunes
Kawailoa Bay
Kawailoa Beach
Kamala Sand Dunes
Some of the sand dunes & lithified dunes of Mähä`ulepü
Active Natural Processes
Three dune areas, Kämala, Papamoi and Häÿula, mass
behind the two miles of coastline from Punahoa Point to
the base of the ridge that separates the watersheds of
Kïpü Kai and Mähäÿulepü.
In some places,
Mähäÿulepü’s dunes extend as far as a mile inland and
400 feet above sea level.
As part of the dynamic system of coastal areas, dunes
change daily, seasonally and over eons. Mähäÿulepü is
rich in the three ingredients needed to create dunes:
sand on adjacent beaches - largely ground up marine
plant and animal materials from the off shore reefs and
limestone shelves; wind - the prevailing trades blowing
from the Northeast for millennia; and something to stop
or trap the sand - ideally low lying grasses and vines
whose root systems anchor the dunes.
The wind, flowing inches over the beach, lifts the small
and medium grains of sand that fall downwind due to
gravity. Landing, they strike and ricochet more grains
into the air flow. This constant lifting and transporting
of sand piles finger-shaped mounds, dunes. The dunes
migrate downwind, developing gentle, windward back
slopes and steeper leeward fronts.
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Photo by Chuck Blay
berm up; vegetation grows on the eroded face, and
the dune stores sand for future beach replenishment.
Dunes have been a basic feature of Mähäÿulepü, as
well as the rest of Poÿipü coast and other coastal
areas of Kauaÿi, for hundreds of thousands of years.
In fact, the dramatic limestone headlands of this area,
including the Punahoa headland, the Makauwahi
sinkhole, Papamoÿi and Päÿao Points, are ancient
hardened sand dunes, cemented through lithification.
The transformation of dune sands to limestone has
occurred over the past 350,000 years of the
Pleistocene Epoch during which at least three major
interglacial periods and two major glacial periods
have occurred. In interglacial times sea level was at
a high stand, as it is today. During glacial periods
sea level was as much as 400 feet lower and the
shoreline a mile or more seaward.
The active dunes seen at Mähäÿulepü today began
forming 4,000 to 5,000 years ago. It takes tens to
hundreds of years for weak cementation to occur.
We experience that first level of lithification as we
walk the coastal headlands and note that our very
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Mälama Mähäÿulepü
Daisy LaFrance Kapaka-Arboleda
November 13, 1946 – March 29, 2006
LaFrance Kapaka-Arboleda, advisor and inspiration
to Mälama Mähä`ulepü, died of cancer this spring.
She was a well-known organizer, motivator and
staunch champion for the betterment of Native
Hawaiians and all of us.
During her all too short life, La France
accomplished so much including:
ŠRaising two daughters with her husband Joe,
ŠHaving a career as a nurse, ŠHelping to found the
Hawaiian Farmers of Hanalei, an economic
development and watershed restoration project
known as
Waipä,
ŠInitiating
a
n
d
dir ec ti ng
Habitat for
Humanity,
ŠServing
as one of
the
first
a n d
longest
members
of
the
Kauaÿi
B u r i a l
Council,
ŠWorking
as Community Resource Coordinator for the Office
of Hawaiian Affairs, ŠHelping Niÿihau leimakers to
establish a cooperative and Anahola residents to
establish a community center.
LaFrance served on numerous non profit and
governmental boards and commissions whose
concerns included developing affordable housing,
economic development, restoration of cultural sites
and land preservation.
LaFrance was truly from Mähä`ulepü, as well as
from Hulëÿia on the east side of Mt. Häÿupu. She
descended from a kuleana landholder and also from
a shareholder of the Mähä`ulepü Hui, once owners
of the ahupuaÿa. From an early age, she was
responsible for her ancestral heritage in this area.
La France saw and lived centered in a continuum of
past, present and future. Her unique perspective, her
generosity, as well as her intelligence and energy
made her simultaneously a conservator and an
innovator who actualized bold but practical visions.
Her dedicated work continues, but her knowledge of
genealogy and the places of Kauaÿi, her warmth,
sense of humor, her voice and her principled
example are irreplaceable.
The calm presence of Mt. Häÿupu - beckoning and
shining, visible from and looking far - will always
recall LaFrance.
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ÿOHANA O MÄHÄÿULEPÜ
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were other matters challenging the success of our
group. How was a bunch of young people going to
fund this work? At that first hearing some of the
other concerned citizens started donating money to
help the cause. We
held T-shirt sales,
garage sales and
jewelry sales.
It
was hard work but
still fun for us
because we were
young. That's the
secret
of
a
successful endeavor
- you need young
people.
And
we
did
succeed.
Public
resistance
and
evidence
of
collusion between
the developer and a
decision
maker
made Leadership
Homes withdraw its
proposal.
One of our goals to
protect Mähä`ulepü
was to keep it
undeveloped, so our
Kobe Viloria, age 6, shows his
grandkids
could
catch, papio and lai. Taught by
enjoy it just as we
his grandfather Stan Yoshimori,
did. For me this
Kobe is the sixth generation of his
family to learn to fish at
determination to
Mähä`ulepü.
protect Mähä`ulepü
Photo by Beryl Blaich
has come full circle.
My first grandchild
has tasted and played in the sand.
So when you walk along the beach or hike along the
fisherman’s trail or drive along the bumpy roads,
think about us.
Think about what could have been built: four hotels,
a marina, expensive luxury homes on the ridges,
paved parking lots and two golf courses.
Think of my grandchild, who can still play at
Mähä`ulepü for now
and, I hope, forever.
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The Dunes Of Mahaÿulepu
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footsteps can break and crumble the surface, exposing
the marine and land fossils preserved in the limestone.
Harder limestones, such as those quarried from the
Punahoa headland, have become increasingly lithified
over hundreds of thousands of years.
Human History
Native Hawaiians, whose habitation of this area may
date back a thousand years, buried their dead in sand
dunes, as well as in caves, lava tubes and under
monuments, house floors or in heiau platforms.
Mähäÿulepü is a storied burial area. Indeed, the place
name is commonly interpreted to mean mä (towards),
häÿule (dropped), pü (together), or
all fallen together.
Legends tell of ancient battles fought
in this area: Perhaps thirty
generations ago, the heroic demigod
Palila is said to have singlehandedly
defeated an army here, defending his
father’s kingdom.
Twenty one
generations ago, the ambitious Big
Island chief Kalaunuiohua (Lau) had
conquered all of the other islands.
Lau was stopped at Mähäÿulepü by
Kukona, father to the reknown chief
Manokalanipö. Although the mighty
fleet and army of King Kamehameha
twice tried to invade Kauaÿi but
never reached the island, it is said
that scouts did land at Mähäÿulepü
and were killed.
The long known presence of burials in the dunes makes
coastal Mähäÿulepü a sacred place to Native Hawaiians.
That Mähäÿulepü is a sanctuary and place of mysterious
events is common knowledge to old-timers of the Köloa
region and Kauaÿi who respect and even avoid the area.
While it feels almost improper even to write this history,
the increase in numbers of visitors from outside the area
requires educating people so that all of us will treat the
dunes with utmost reverence as we do cemeteries,
churches and spiritual sites. By walking quietly through
the dunes to the beaches, not disturbing the sand and
plants, not driving vehicles onto the beach and by
removing ÿöpala and debris, we protect and respect these
cultural places.
Disappearing Dunes
At the coast, human activity and
natural process converge intensely.
Quarrying for road fill and sand
mining for beach replenishment do
take place at Mähäÿulepü. Over the
last two centuries, dunes have been
destroyed all over Hawaiÿi. Indeed,
the truly vast sand dunes of Maui may
be gone within six years. Homes,
subdivisions, have been built upon
dunes. Roads go through dunes. But,
mostly, dunes have been mined to
make cement.
Now, sand is
increasingly needed to replenish
eroding beaches, beaches long
denuded of dunes.
Sesbania tomentosa. ÿohai
The dunes of Mähäÿulepü are not
unique, nor are they entirely
unaltered. But being typical and less
Battleground or not, Mähäÿulepü
disturbed makes them rare and
was well inhabited. In the 1850s,
valuable today. The dunes quietly
Drawing by Mel Gabel, Makauwahi Cave Reserve
the area at the base of Punahoa
express the juxtaposed basics of
Point, along the beach and dunes was known as the
natural and human life: impermanence and continuity.
village of Mähäÿulepü. Native Hawaiian land claims
Sources:
describe house sites, taro and fishponds, salt pans and a
public school. This would have been an ideal place to
Chuck Blay & Robert Siemers, Kauai’s Geologic History, A Simplified
Guide, 2004.
live, with nearby Waiopili spring, Kapunakea Pond and
two streams flowing into the ocean along the coast.
Ilima Loomis, “Like Sand in an Hourglass” Maui News, Sunday February
12,
2006.
Waiopili heiau, whose degraded remnants are within the
quarry, attests to the importance of the area.
T. Edward Nickens, “True Nature/ Beach Blanket’ Audubon September –
Silver leafed shrub, with delicate orange to
scarlet flowers, once on all the islands to
elevations as high as 2500 feet, is now
endangered and restricted to a few coastal
places.
Interestingly, Mähäÿulepü Beach, also called “Gillin’s”
for the builder of only house in Mähäÿulepü, was
marked as Puÿu leoleo on an 1898 map. Puÿu leoleo
can mean hill or dune of “of wailing, as for the dead.
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October 2006.
“Draft Erosion Management Alternatives for Hawaii”, University of Hawaii
Sea Grant Extension Service & State DLNR Office of Conservation &
Coastal Lands, July 2004.
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Mälama Mähäÿulepü was re-established in 2000 and achieved tax-exempt non profit
status in 2002. We deeply thank each of individuals and organizations who
generously contributed to this cause over the past six years, including:
*An asterisk (*) signifies repeat donors
Josiah Adams*
Arnold & Jane Albrecht*
Anonymous*
Anonymous*
Peter Anthony
Arntz Family Foundation*
Marilyn Joy Axtell
Terese Barich
Brooks & John L. Bartelt
Charles Bass*
Donna M. Batchelor
Tom Batey
Stephanie Bauman
Allan Beall*
Ruth M. Beckner
Dana & Dorothy Bekeart
Henry & Heidi Bibber
Thomas P. & Patricia Biehn
Gary & Beryl Blaich
Elaine Bowls*
The Brainerd Foundation
Jonathan J. & Bobbe Jean Bridge*
Puanani Burgess
William S. Cadow III*
Susan & Eric Campbell
The Capital Group Companies.
Charitable Foundation*
Kenneth W. & Chris Carlson*
Donn & Gale Carswell*
Donald & Dorothy Cataluna*
Lee Cerioni
Cindy Chamberlin*
Peter T. Chamberlin
Chamberlin Associates
David Chang*
Randy W.G. Ching*
Karen Ciabattoni
Richard Q. Coffman
Joan Conrow
Anita Cook
Thomas Cook
Samuel A. & Mary M. Cooke*
Jim & Pat Crafts*
Robert A. Culbertson
Terry Dalsemer & Gail Owen
Judith A. Dalton*
Eugene P. Dashiell, Environmental
Planning
Carol Ann Davis & Walter Briant*
Lilian de Mello
Evelyn DeBuhr & Frank Rothchild*
Marjorie Dente*
Nanette Chang Dettloff
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David L. & Sara A. DeZerega*
Jeri di Pietro*
Dawnie & Howard Dickenson
Sandra & Duane Dicus
Dr. John B. Dillon*
Robert W. & Lila M. Dolan
Donald & Beatrice Donohugh*
Martha & Thomas Doutt*
Jim Duma & Madeline Kane
Virginia Dunas*
Robert D. Ehrlich
Dr. David & Martha Elpern
Marion S. Esteb*
Linda Estes*
Jennifer Esty
Pamela Farfa'n
Margaret Ferguson
Joy & Chuck Ferguson
Carol Finger
Howard & Rosalind Fisher*
Laura Fitzsimmons
Tim Flynn
Donn & Nancy Forbes*
Laurel A. Francis
Frances N.* & Hal Frazier*
Caryl P. Freeman*
Margery Freeman*
Debra J. Friedman
Ron & Edith Fritzshe
Rev. Noriaki Fujimori
El Arco Iris Fund
Melvin L. & Vera C. Gabel*
Danitza Galvan & Jeffrey Earle
Judy Gardner*
Mary J. Getten
Rondi & Jane Gilbert-Mauldon*
Michael Givens
Dan Gladding*
Starr Grenier
Keath P. Hacker*
Walter & Pauline Hadama*
Carol Hagen & John Patt*
Branch Harmony & Yojana Grace
Diane Hamby
Diana Hennessey
Charles E. & E. Marolyn Hile
Arnold G. & Christine Holden*
Susan & Bill Holliday
Allan & Judy Honda
Kauhi Hookano
Arius Hopman*
Hui o Laka
Jennie & Howard Hutchins
Mae K. Isonaga
Dennis Jackson
Kevin Jaeger
Fred & Diane Jager*
Jesse Jardin
Jessie L. Jardine
Dr. Louis & Ann Jensen*
Doug Jung
Miki Kaipaka
Suzanne K. Kashiwaeda*
Dawn & Delano Kawahara
Lucy Kawaihalau
Lisa & Anthony Kay
Kayak Kauai*
Kim Klein & Stephanie Roth*
Ann L. Krumboltz
Joe & Marty Kuala*
Marty Kuala*
Elaine Kubota & Christopher Jordan*
Sueno Kunimura
Kevin C. Kuzma
Bonnie & Mickey Lake*
Barbara D. Larsen*
Johannes & Barbara Larsen
The Lawrence Foundation*
Thomas P. & Carmen T. Legacy*
Carla C. & David B. Lehn*
Catherine Lerza
Pamela & Don Lichty
William Reese Liggett
Liz Lipsky
Wesley Lisker & Abby Cohn
Pamela Littlefield*
Karl & Catherine Lo*
Gertrude D. Long
Marianne R. Luken
Dr. Jack & Claire Sasaki-Lundgren
Bert & Janis Lyon*
Virgina A. Lyon*
James Macchi
Carol J. Marsh
Frank E. & Laura Marsh*
Judy Martin
Cammie Matsumoto
Robert E. McBride*
Mark & Kelly McCaslin
Candice McCaslin*
The McCaslin Company
Dr, David R. & Ute A. McDonald*
Jensey McGraw*
Anne McKenna
Wayne Medeiros
Helen & Wayne Mehl*
Robert Z. Melnick
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Mahalo to Our Donors
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Mark E. Merritt & Lorena Barrientos*
Sandra Meyers
Naotoshi & Lucille Mikasa
Larry L. & Gaye S. Miller
Kate Moore
Olivier Munier
Mr. & Mrs. Ikito Muraoka*
Helen & George Nakano*
Arta L. Needham & Plezena Shack
Lionel Medeiros & Mary Neudorffer*
Ola's Hanalei Ltd.*
Polli C. & Dennis J. Oliver
Anne E. O'Malley*
Cheryl Parkins
George R. Pascua
Joni & Eric D. Paulsen
The Regnar Paulsen & Beverly Paulsen
Foundation.
Ron & Mary Pawl*
Dena Peoples
Richard L. & Dorothy H. Perry, Jr.
Jim Phillips*
Carla & Jorge Piedrahita*
Lynn Pizzitola*
Pohaku T's*
Kim Potter
Anthony S. Power*
Billy Provost
Mark Query*
Allan & Judy Rachap*
Jacquelyn Ramos-Schoening*
Wayne Rapozo
Rayne Regush
Cary M. Richman
Monroe & Esther Richman*
Maria & Luis Rivera
Barnes & Ba Riznik*
David Roach
Barbara & Scott Robeson*
Robin Robinson*
Della Rogers
Jeanne M. Ross
Renee Rossi & Fred Duffy
Tracy C. Schalwitz*
Jonathan Scheuer & C. Kloster
Glen Schot
Greg Schredder*
Kazuo & Norma Senda*
Heidi Sherman
Clyde & Sarah Shiraki*
Rob Siemers
Sierra Club, Kauai Group*
Gary Smith, Mokihana Pest Control*
Eleanor Snyder*
Maria C. Snyder
Howard F. Sommer & Linda A. Waldman
James F. Sone
Ray Songtree
June & Dale Stark*
Vicki & Tory Stewart
Shaler & Carolyn Stidham*
Dana C. Stidham & Craig Rabon
Ann-Elise Stidham
Marge Stock
Jennifer S. Stock
Phyllis & Horace Stoessel
Terris Stornetta & Larry Clayman*
Michael & Donna Sunnafrank
Neal G. & Linda Sutherland*
Gabriela Taylor
Daniel Tehaney & Ruth Beckner*
Bruce Ten & Sherri Potts*
Ron Terry*
Don Thornburg
Teresa Tico
C.M. Cushla Tucker*
Susan & John Ullis*
Ellen Wagner
Ed Walsh
Maria Walker & James Trujillo
Wendy Webber
Cristal Weber*
Victoria Weller
Eric Wesselman
Christopher White*
Frances H. White*
Charles R. & Hau`oli Wichman
Mark Wigent
Carol & Gaylord Wilcox*
Erika A. Wilcox*
Ron Wiley*
Alma G. Wise
Helen P.* & Joseph Yahner
Helen L. Young*
Thomas A.N. Young*
Dr. Sheldon & JudithYucht*
David Yukimura
Jiro & Jennie Yukimura*
Maurizia Zannin*
Larry & Carolyn Zaroff
Marjorie F. Ziegler
Louise K. Zovanyi*
Grants Applied for & Received:
The Atherton Family Foundation
Arntz Family Foundation
The Cooke Foundation
Environmental Support Center
Hawaii Community Foundation: Natural
Resources Conservation Fund, Capacity
Building Grant
The Lawrence Foundation
Sierra Club Foundation
“M
ähä`ulepü is as important to the people of the
Hawaiian Islands as Yellowstone and Yosemite Parks
are to the continental United States. It is a pristine,
rugged, breathtaking place that is loved by residents and
visitors alike. Money must be found to purchase this
wonderful place from the present landowners for present and
future generations. Mähä`ulepü must be preserved.”
Carol Ann Davis and Walter Briant
Carol Ann Davis and Walter Briant are long time Poÿipü
residents. Carol Ann is a well-known photographer, painter, business
owner and activist. Walter, a respected engineer and businessman in
both the public and private sectors, is a windsurfer and hanglider.
Some of the 25 volunteers at summer's end clean up of the
beaches and dunes.
Photo by Missouri visitor & participant Jeremy Niednagel
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MÄLAMA MÄHÄ` ULEPÜ
ACTIVITIES 2005-2006
Resource Development, Volunteer Recruitment and
Support
• 22 Stewardship Committee meetings
• 5 Board of Director’s meetings
• Numerous committee & work meetings
• Educational sessions
Outreach & Education
• Hikes by Sierra Club
• Tours by Mälama Mähäÿulepü
• Köloa School Program visits
• New flyer, newsletter, bumper sticker, new t-shirts
• Community Event Booths
Agricultural & Environmental Awareness Fair for 5th graders
Banana Poka Festival, Kökeÿe
Family Ocean Fair, Kïlauea Point Wildlife Refuge
Köloa Days events & Parade
Kauaÿi County Fair
Hanalei Taro Festival
• 2 Grant applications funded, 1 pending
Stewardship & Research
♦ 2 beach clean-ups
♦ Commence marine resources inventory planning
♦ 3 Makauwahi area Work Day ♦ 2 planning workshops
♦ Preservation models research
Mälama Mähäÿulepü thanks the following
individuals and businesses for their capable
assistance to us during the past year:
‘The Atherton Family Foundation ‘Carl Berg,
ecologist ‘Chuck Blay, geologist ‘David Boynton,
educator/photographer ‘David & Lida Burney, paleoecologists ‘Captain Andy’s Sailing Adventure ‘The
Cooke Foundation ‘John Davison, Davison Arts ‘
Doug Jung, Nomad Media ‘Eugene Dashiell,
Environmental Planning Services ‘Johana Gomez, Hale
Halawai Hanalei ‘Grove Farm Company: Warren
Haruki, CEO, Miles Shibata, President, ‘Mark Jeffers &
Robert Zelokovsky, Storybook Theater ‘Kauai Business
Services ‘Lea Kaiaokamaile, (8th Generation LLC) ‘
Jody Kjeldsen & staff, Poÿipü Bay Resort Association ‘
Michelle Licke, Money Management ‘Wayne
Medeiros, Pyramid Insurance ‘Nalu Underground &
Free Spirit Sports ‘Nite Owl T-shirts ‘Pohuku T’s ‘
Printing Services Corporation ‘Lindsey Schmidt,
designer ‘Charlie Stanton, newsletter layout editor ‘
Surfrider Foundation ‘Ken Woods, botanist∆
‘‘‘‘Our remarkable and committed volunteers who
donated over 1,200 hours to activities of Mälama
Mähäÿulepü in the last 12 months.‘‘‘‘
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THE MISSION OF
MÄLAMA MÄHÄ`ULEPÜ
Mälama Mähä`ulepü is working to
preserve, for future generations, the
irreplaceable natural and cultural
resources of Mähä`ulepü.
We believe that the Kaua`i community,
and its visitors, deserve the
continuing experience of this
beautiful and historic place as an
undeveloped area, with compatible
a g r i c u lt u r a l , e d u c a t i o n a l a n d
recreational uses.
To achieve preservation, we educate
ourselves and others about Mähä`ulepü.
We seek supporters and partners.
We strive to be an inclusive, innovative,
competent, and collaborative, non profit
organization.
2006 Officers
2006 Board of Directors
David Chang, President
Judy Dalton, Vice-President
Jeri di Pietro, Secretary
Nancy Bushnell, Treasurer
Margery Freeman
Mercy Labrador
Suzanne Kashiwaeda
Napua Romo
Kalanikumai a Maka `O Na Ali`i Hanohano
Serenity found at Mähäÿulepü late in the afternoon
Photo by Sara DeZeraga
Published by: Mälama Mähäÿulepü
PO Box 658, Köloa HI 96756
For more information and meeting times,
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