WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:01.520 --> 00:00:03.120 Aloha and welcome. 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:10.720 We're happy to have you join us today  for this webinar entitled Hanalei Ahupua'a   00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:16.480 management in contemporary times. 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:26.560 Hold on let me just do a technical  thing. Cindy can you see the screen ? 00:00:29.200 --> 00:00:31.520 Yep you're good. Okay great thanks.   00:00:32.640 --> 00:00:39.840 You are among over 400 folks who have registered  for this webinar and whether you are nearby or a   00:00:39.840 --> 00:00:47.120 little further away we appreciate the opportunity  to connect with you. This webinar series is hosted   00:00:47.120 --> 00:00:53.600 by the NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries  and is a great way to learn about some of the   00:00:53.600 --> 00:01:01.040 exploration, research and discoveries occurring  across our Sanctuary system and about some of our   00:01:02.800 --> 00:01:09.280 partnerships with those in the community  that are doing community based programming.   00:01:10.800 --> 00:01:18.640 During the presentation all attendees will be in  listen-only mode. You're welcome to type questions   00:01:18.640 --> 00:01:25.120 for the presenter into the question box located in  the bottom of the control panel on the right hand   00:01:25.120 --> 00:01:30.800 side of your screen. You may use the question box  to let us know if you have any technical issues   00:01:32.320 --> 00:01:39.520 and we will be monitoring the question box and  respond as soon as possible. We are recording   00:01:39.520 --> 00:01:45.520 this session and we'll share the archive webinar  with registered participants via the sanctuaries 00:01:47.200 --> 00:01:59.040 website. Okay I seem to having  some problems advancing, 00:02:02.480 --> 00:02:07.840 hold on a second. 00:02:13.840 --> 00:02:15.200 Excuse me, Cindy 00:02:17.440 --> 00:02:18.160 00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:24.880 Yes, if you click away from the control P  or click your actual powerpoint slide and   00:02:24.880 --> 00:02:30.960 then you should have regained control of the  chat. Switching slides. Okay very good, thank you. 00:02:34.240 --> 00:02:39.600 I'm Jean Souza, your host for the webinar and  I'm the Program Specialist with the Hawaiian   00:02:39.600 --> 00:02:44.400 Islands Humpback Whale National Marine  Sanctuary based at Kauai Ocean Discovery   00:02:44.960 --> 00:02:52.800 in Lihue on the island of Kauai. I'm joined  today by Cindy Among-Serrao, who is based on   00:02:52.800 --> 00:02:59.840 the island of Oahu and by Superintendent  Allen Tom who is based in a headquarters   00:02:59.840 --> 00:03:08.240 on the island of Maui. This webinar is also part  of the Kauai Ocean Discovery Speaker Series. 00:03:12.880 --> 00:03:19.600 NOAA manages a system of marine and fresh water  protected areas called National Marine Sanctuaries   00:03:19.600 --> 00:03:27.280 and Marine National Monuments that are found  throughout the coastal U.S. and Territories. These   00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:34.240 special ocean and Great Lakes areas have been set  aside by Congress to better understand and protect   00:03:34.240 --> 00:03:40.560 these underwater treasures for current  and future generations. The National Marine   00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:46.480 Sanctuary system consists of 14 National Marine  Sanctuaries and two marine National Monuments   00:03:47.200 --> 00:03:54.320 they encompass more than six hundred thousand  square miles of marine and Great Lakes waters   00:03:54.320 --> 00:04:01.440 that stretch from Washington state to the Florida  Keys and from Lake Huron to American Samoa. 00:04:04.960 --> 00:04:08.880 The National Marine Sanctuaries and Marine  National Monuments seek to preserve the   00:04:08.880 --> 00:04:15.680 beauty and biodiversity of these special areas.  Some of the nations most significant cultural   00:04:15.680 --> 00:04:19.520 and maritime heritage resources  are located within their boundaries.   00:04:20.640 --> 00:04:26.960 Sanctuaries and Monuments are also known for  their research monitoring programs, resource   00:04:26.960 --> 00:04:31.280 protection and management initiatives  that protect these underwater treasures. 00:04:34.400 --> 00:04:41.040 National Marine Sanctuaries serve serves excuse  me, National Marine Sanctuaries serve as living   00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:44.080 classrooms and places for community stewardship.   00:04:45.040 --> 00:04:50.240 Our education outreach programs provide  engaging and fun learning opportunities. 00:04:53.120 --> 00:04:59.280 The Hawaiian archipelago spans a distance of about  1500 miles and is home to two of these special   00:04:59.280 --> 00:05:07.120 places, Papahanamokuakea Marine National Monument  in the uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian islands   00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:15.760 is the largest fully protected area on the planet.  In the main Hawaiian islands, the Humpback Whale   00:05:15.760 --> 00:05:22.480 National Marine Sanctuary was designated in 1992 and  is jointly managed by the NOAA Office of National Marine 00:05:22.480 --> 00:05:27.360 Sanctuaries and the State of Hawai'i  through its Division of Aquatic Resources. 00:05:29.440 --> 00:05:34.560 More than half of the humpback whales in the  North Pacific seasonally use the waters around the   00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:41.280 Hawaiian Islands as the principal winter breeding  and calving grounds. The Sanctuary's mission is to   00:05:41.280 --> 00:05:46.880 protect Hawai'i's humpback whales and their habitat  through education, research and resource protection   00:05:46.880 --> 00:05:51.840 efforts. We work with the community and  other partners to fulfill our mission. 00:05:56.080 --> 00:06:03.760 The Sanctuary boundaries encompass portions of  the near shore waters of off the islands of Kauai   00:06:04.720 --> 00:06:11.280 Oahu, Moloka'i, Lanai, Maui and Hawai'i. 00:06:16.080 --> 00:06:23.040 Our speaker today is Maka'ala Ka'aumoana of the island  of Kauai. Maka'ala is the executive director of the   00:06:23.040 --> 00:06:30.960 Hanalei Watershed Hui, which was founded in 1998.  She's also the vice chair of the advisory council   00:06:30.960 --> 00:06:36.400 for the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National  Marine Sanctuary and she's a member of the Kauai   00:06:36.400 --> 00:06:47.840 Ocean Discovery Community Advisory group. Maka'ala,  welcome and we will turn the program over to you.   00:06:48.400 --> 00:06:58.080 Good morning. Aloha everyone, happy to be here.   Welcome to those of you who are around my island   00:06:58.080 --> 00:07:05.520 home and those of you who are from far away, other  places. I will no doubt be saying some things that   00:07:06.480 --> 00:07:11.920 are unfamiliar to you and use some some vocabulary  and terms that you may not recognize and   00:07:11.920 --> 00:07:18.640 please be sure to ask about that if I do  in the question box. I'm happy to provide   00:07:18.640 --> 00:07:25.520 further explanation as needed. As is  the tradition of this place my name is Maka'ala Kaaumoana 00:07:28.720 --> 00:07:35.360 Maka'ala is not a translation of an english word  it refers to "maka" which is eyes and path "aala" 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:45.040 path so the word actually means watchful and  vigilant for those who know me they figure it fits.   00:07:45.040 --> 00:07:50.480 Yeah somehow my Auntie knew that it was the  right name for me when it was given to me   00:07:50.480 --> 00:07:58.240 traditionally at the age of one. Before I  begin I apologize for anything I might say   00:07:58.240 --> 00:08:05.920 that causes offense to anyone, it is unintentional  and I seek to make that right if if needed.   00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:16.800 I'm going to go directly to my slide and  welcome all of you. I'm so excited to do this   00:08:18.320 --> 00:08:25.040 this is the interestingly enough the slide is  perfect for what we're talking about today because   00:08:25.840 --> 00:08:33.360 this picture shows a watershed. So for those of you  in other parts of the world or on continents this   00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:40.080 would be a typical watershed, with a mountain on  the right and a mountain on the left and and then   00:08:40.080 --> 00:08:50.720 the base the valley basin. However in our tradition  this picture actually shows four ahupua'a. All four   00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:59.440 of those ahupua'a are also the name of the streams  that bound them. So our ahupua'a and this situation   00:08:59.440 --> 00:09:21.840 are designated by the streams on their  boundaries so this is one watershed, four ahupua'a. 00:09:29.600 --> 00:09:35.840 00:10:28.080 --> 00:10:31.840 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:58.160 Making sure I go to the right thing here. I want  to tell you that that oli, that chant is done by   00:10:59.520 --> 00:11:06.160 Devin Kamealoha Forrest who is now a  a well-known kumu, a teacher of hula   00:11:07.120 --> 00:11:14.160 in Hawai'i at the time he was a  young student and he is from this ahupua'a, this  00:11:15.280 --> 00:11:26.000 area his family has been for many generations in  this place and he speaks of his, of his homeland   00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:34.320 of the rains, of the winds, of the places  that he knows and loves and of the things of   00:11:34.320 --> 00:11:43.280 the things that are treasured there, the medicines,  the flowers, the activities, the paddling, etc. 00:11:46.960 --> 00:11:55.840 So I need to get out of my screen there  we go okay this is a map of Kauai with the ahupua'a. Lots right ? So when you think of an ahupua'a 00:12:02.240 --> 00:12:08.640 it is often thought of as a translation for a  watershed and you can tell from this map that in   00:12:08.640 --> 00:12:14.560 many situations it is, just like the first slide  I showed you but in some situations it is not.   00:12:15.520 --> 00:12:23.280 Traditionally the boundaries were based on  having the necessary essential things that   00:12:23.280 --> 00:12:29.040 humans needed to live there, not all the things  they needed there would be some trading going   00:12:29.040 --> 00:12:37.680 on but essentially the things they needed and  each ahupua'a may have one person who oversaw all of   00:12:37.680 --> 00:12:43.840 the activities what we call a konohiki or there  may be several there may be one who knew fishing.   00:12:43.840 --> 00:12:50.160 There may be one who knew farming, there  may be one who was connected somehow to the   00:12:50.160 --> 00:12:56.560 local chief and of course politics always  played a role. They didn't always get along.   00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:05.520 Obviously man has found a way to have friction  about resource management since man began paying   00:13:05.520 --> 00:13:12.320 attention to resources, so yes occasionally they  fought over water, yes occasionally they fought   00:13:12.320 --> 00:13:22.080 over land. But these are the ahupua'a of one island.  So you can see that it's not a it's not a   00:13:22.080 --> 00:13:27.600 small subject that we're trying to tackle here  today and therefore I'm focusing on just a few   00:13:28.320 --> 00:13:34.640 and these ahupua'a there are a few of these  that are still recognized today but for the most   00:13:34.640 --> 00:13:39.600 part unless you see it on a map like this you  would not you would not know that they are there. 00:13:45.360 --> 00:13:46.320 The definition of ahupua'a comes from an ahu, 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:57.360 it's a stone structure some would call it a  shrine, some would call it a thing but it's   00:13:57.360 --> 00:14:01.840 it's a place where different  special activities would occur   00:14:02.560 --> 00:14:12.960 and in this case the pua'a is a pig a very valuable  commodity, fed a lot of people and was often used   00:14:12.960 --> 00:14:19.920 to pay the land tax to whoever the alii or  the chief was of that area and most of the   00:14:19.920 --> 00:14:27.280 time they would place the payment, in this case  a pig on top of the ahu and that's where we get  ahupua'a. 00:14:28.880 --> 00:14:38.640 Now an ahu can be for many other purposes it might  be a place where fishermen stand to see the fish,   00:14:38.640 --> 00:14:45.360 watch the ocean, it might be a place where people  pray, it might be a place where people gather for   00:14:45.360 --> 00:14:53.200 other purposes, agricultural kinds of activities  etc. but the word ahupua'a we think comes from this. 00:14:55.600 --> 00:14:59.120 I know that these words are  blurred and that's half intentional.   00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:09.520 I just want you to see how complex the inside  of the ahupua'a can be. This is from mauka to makai, mauka - ma uka 00:15:11.760 --> 00:15:17.280 toward the mountain, and makai toward the  sea. Kai the sea, so I just wanted you to   00:15:17.280 --> 00:15:25.840 have a sense of all the different places  and things and spaces are within an ahupua'a. 00:15:29.360 --> 00:15:38.080 This is a an artist's rendition of a typical  Kauai ahupua's this one is supposed to depict   00:15:38.080 --> 00:15:44.640 Limahuli and actually it does a pretty good job  if you look at the actual geography of of that ahupua'a.   00:15:46.080 --> 00:15:53.040 This is a picture of what it may well have  looked like and you can see all of the activity.   00:15:53.600 --> 00:16:01.120 These were not passive places man was an  active participant, he was a partner of the land.   00:16:01.920 --> 00:16:08.400 The Hawaiian perspective is not that he was  particularly a steward because man was not in   00:16:08.400 --> 00:16:17.440 charge of, man was a partner too or kin, brethren  of of the land and so you can see where people   00:16:17.440 --> 00:16:24.400 lived and where they farmed and where they  fished. It would include fishponds and   00:16:24.400 --> 00:16:31.360 taro lo'i, or terraces as well. It was also  important that they have access to the very high   00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:39.840 mountain areas where many of the important plants  medicines etc existed as well as the realm of the   00:16:39.840 --> 00:16:46.800 gods, the spirit world the spiritual heavens were  part of the ahupua'a. They were not separate from. So an ahupua'a   00:16:48.640 --> 00:16:56.560 literally ran from the spirit world, the  realm of the gods, down to the deep blue sea.   00:16:57.200 --> 00:17:04.000 In modern times we talk about it as extending to  the fringing reef but the way my kupuna taught   00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:09.920 me it goes to what they use the color to describe  the depth right so it was to the deep blue sea.   00:17:11.920 --> 00:17:16.480 You can see how they were directing the water.  Water was running naturally and they were using   00:17:16.480 --> 00:17:23.840 it as it went downstream not ever capturing it, not  ever depleting it, but using it. The best part of   00:17:23.840 --> 00:17:31.840 this story is this ahupua'a still exists intact, it  is managed by a single land management scheme and   00:17:31.840 --> 00:17:40.960 it is intact. Kauai's North Shore has several  ahupua'a that are intact there are many across   00:17:40.960 --> 00:17:48.480 Hawai'i but not as many as used to be of course.  But Kauai's North shore we still have three,   00:17:49.520 --> 00:17:59.520 Limahuli, Lumahai and Waipa are all owned by single  land management and so they are all still   00:17:59.520 --> 00:18:06.960 intact. This is Kauai's North Shore, the Bay and the  center is Hanalei. Princeville is on the far right   00:18:08.320 --> 00:18:15.120 and it goes to the end of the road. So for  those of you who have never been to Kauai   00:18:15.120 --> 00:18:18.720 the road does not go all the way  around. It gets to the mountainous   00:18:18.720 --> 00:18:26.800 area and it stops, so when you get to the end of  the road, you turn around and go back and it is   00:18:26.800 --> 00:18:34.560 a place of seven one-lane bridges, it is a  narrow two-lane road. This is not a an urban   00:18:34.560 --> 00:18:42.720 environment at all but the ahupua'a of  this area Haena and Wainiha start at the very end on   00:18:42.720 --> 00:18:50.720 your left Haena next to that Wainiha, next to  that Lumaha'i, then Waikoko, Waipa, Waioli and Hanalei. 00:18:54.560 --> 00:19:01.360 Okay Cindy this is where we put a  poll, you have the poll question ready ?   00:19:03.280 --> 00:19:10.240 Aloha everyone so we are going to launch a poll  question. Let me just pull it up for everyone.   00:19:10.240 --> 00:19:19.840 So all attendees are able to vote or choose your  best answer for this question. The question is what   00:19:19.840 --> 00:19:27.600 is the correct meaning of an ahupua'a ? We have land  division usually extending from the uplands to the   00:19:27.600 --> 00:19:37.520 sea. Land division located only in the uplands and  land division located only in the coastal areas. So   00:19:37.520 --> 00:19:46.240 we're going to give some more time for folks to  get your votes in we have around 65 percent of attendees   00:19:46.240 --> 00:19:53.280 currently voted already so wait a little  bit longer but everyone get your votes in. 00:19:58.320 --> 00:20:05.840 All right so we're about 75 percent of all attendees  voted so we are going to close the poll 00:20:08.720 --> 00:20:15.760 and then I will share the results real fast.  So excellent job a hundred percent of folks   00:20:15.760 --> 00:20:22.800 voted that the correct meaning of an ahupua'a is a  land division usually extending from the uplands   00:20:22.800 --> 00:20:31.840 to the sea. Thank you everyone for doing this  poll. That's great as a retired teacher I'll   00:20:31.840 --> 00:20:37.120 tell you that that warms my heart. Thank you  so much and thank you for participating. It's   00:20:37.120 --> 00:20:44.960 kind of a big deal, it matters right  so thank you. Okay we were gifted    00:20:46.480 --> 00:20:54.160 a very special gift by one of our elders who came  from Haena, he had been taught the names of all the   00:20:54.160 --> 00:21:02.640 reefs and he gave them to us to record on a map.  Now I will tell you this map does not have all   00:21:02.640 --> 00:21:12.080 of them, it was extensive, so some places all over  the world but here in Hawai'i some places we still   00:21:12.080 --> 00:21:21.520 know somebody still knows the names of these of  these reefs and knowing these names is very very   00:21:21.520 --> 00:21:27.680 important not just a fisherman, it would  be important to beach goers, it would be   00:21:27.680 --> 00:21:33.680 important to farmers, it would be important  to boaters, because each of these names   00:21:34.320 --> 00:21:42.160 provides an instruction, it tells something about  that place on this map. There's actually a channel   00:21:42.160 --> 00:21:48.720 that's called baby drowned and obviously that's  not a place you want your children to be playing.   00:21:49.280 --> 00:21:58.320 So it's it's useful in contemporary times to know  the names of your places and if you are living   00:21:58.320 --> 00:22:04.880 somewhere, where someone is around that might know  them please try to retrieve them and record them.   00:22:05.440 --> 00:22:13.200 Just sticking them on a map like this is very  very useful in this case the people of Haena   00:22:13.200 --> 00:22:20.480 still exist, the families are still there many  of them are still working the land and fishing   00:22:20.480 --> 00:22:28.640 the ocean and so we're very very fortunate that  we still have these these names. Do you know   00:22:28.640 --> 00:22:34.400 the names in your place ? I think most of us  know the local stream, we know the local mountain,   00:22:35.360 --> 00:22:43.840 it's a great start and those names if they  weren't changed in recent times provide really   00:22:43.840 --> 00:22:48.320 critical information for how to take care of  that place and what that place was used for. 00:22:51.360 --> 00:22:56.720 So today we're going to talk about the  ahupua'a of Hanalei because that's where I work.   00:22:57.280 --> 00:23:04.880 My husband was born in Hanalei, I was not.  I was born on the Windward side of Oahu   00:23:06.080 --> 00:23:16.320 but the weather's a lot like where I came from it's wet and it's green and there's a lot of    00:23:16.320 --> 00:23:25.040 water flowing all over the place and Hanalei  is known for its rains. There are many names   00:23:25.600 --> 00:23:34.400 for the rains in Hanalei, the mist that comes  from this direction or the pouring thundering   00:23:34.400 --> 00:23:39.840 rains that come from that direction or this rain  that happens at this time of year. So there are   00:23:39.840 --> 00:23:46.880 many many names and all of those names matter  they tell you about that, about that thing. So this the ahupua'a 00:23:46.880 --> 00:23:53.840 of Hanalei and when I showed you the first  picture we were looking in the other direction.   00:23:53.840 --> 00:24:01.520 So this these are the ahupua'a that that you saw  what wasn't in that picture is the one at the very   00:24:01.520 --> 00:24:08.960 top which is Waileia and so in fact if you really  look at the entire watershed in the western   00:24:08.960 --> 00:24:16.480 sense of watershed there would be five ahupua'a, little  Waileia's is just you know little bitty bitty ahupua'a that is there 00:24:19.520 --> 00:24:24.320 and most people don't even know that it  exists but it has a stream and so it is an ahupua'a. 00:24:27.760 --> 00:24:31.840 Okay we have another poll question.   00:24:32.960 --> 00:24:38.320 All right aloha everyone we're  gonna pull up our second poll question. 00:24:41.040 --> 00:24:47.840 And it is just launched. So this is do you know  what ahupua'a you live in ? So it's a yes or no   00:24:47.840 --> 00:24:53.760 question. Just want to see if folks are familiar  with the ahupua'a that they live in currently.   00:24:55.280 --> 00:24:59.840 So as we wait for attendees to vote.   00:25:00.960 --> 00:25:06.480 We will give you a few more times so  far 60 percent of attendees have voted. 00:25:12.720 --> 00:25:17.920 All right and a few more seconds  for folks to get their votes in. 00:25:20.240 --> 00:25:23.600 All right so we are going to close the poll. 00:25:26.320 --> 00:25:35.200 And now we will share it. All right so do you know  what ahupua'a you live in? So 68 percent of you have voted   00:25:35.200 --> 00:25:45.520 yes and then 32 percent of you have voted no and back to  you Maka'ala. That's great thank you so much that   00:25:45.520 --> 00:25:50.880 so I wonder if you live in a place where you don't  call it an ahupua'a but maybe you call it something   00:25:50.880 --> 00:25:56.880 else maybe you should yeah you might you might  think about that maybe you call it something else.   00:25:57.520 --> 00:26:04.560 Okay this is the source of all the  water in the Hanalei River. This is the   00:26:04.560 --> 00:26:11.520 mountain in the middle of our island this is Wai'aleale and it is one of the wettest places on earth   00:26:12.400 --> 00:26:19.040 and all of the water that enters the  Hanalei River enters from this point. 00:26:21.280 --> 00:26:28.640 This is a seldom seen view of the upland  of the Hanalei. The Hanalei is 16 miles long   00:26:29.520 --> 00:26:36.160 eight miles of it is darn near vertical and there  is an old trail that goes up here but it's not   00:26:36.160 --> 00:26:43.360 well used anymore. What I do want you to notice  in this picture that lighter plant there is kukui. 00:26:45.840 --> 00:26:48.800 There are not very many natives in this picture. 00:26:50.240 --> 00:27:00.560 Between past hurricanes and fires most of the  native plants have been outdone by invasives. 00:27:04.960 --> 00:27:12.960 The river runs naturally there's no impediment  none of the Hanalei is hardened or channelized   00:27:13.760 --> 00:27:24.240 or directed in any um in any way. It's not a  um it's not an unnatural stream it gets to   00:27:24.240 --> 00:27:32.800 run where it wants to run. In our world and in I've been studying some of the Japanese   00:27:34.400 --> 00:27:40.560 information and history about their their streams  and rivers and they're teaching me that the forest   00:27:40.560 --> 00:27:47.920 and the sea are lovers. So if the forest is not  all native and not healthy then neither is the sea. 00:27:51.520 --> 00:27:58.880 So in 1998, the Hanalei river was designated an  American heritage river one of 14 in the United   00:27:58.880 --> 00:28:06.720 States it is the only tropical river and it is the  only river west of the West Coast. The next nearest   00:28:06.720 --> 00:28:14.480 one is the Willamette and when that occurred the  community was charged with developing a watershed   00:28:14.480 --> 00:28:22.080 action plan which we did and that is why you have  me to listen to today the community at that point   00:28:22.080 --> 00:28:29.120 elected a program coordinator and that is me.   And so I was in fact elected to this position   00:28:29.120 --> 00:28:35.840 and they've just never held another election, so  I'm still here. This is the Hanalei and   00:28:35.840 --> 00:28:40.960 quite a bit of the Hanalei community for those  that have never been to Kauai this would be a   00:28:40.960 --> 00:28:50.720 place that you could see from an overlook on the  highway. In this program of the American   00:28:50.720 --> 00:28:58.880 Heritage River, the advantage is not funding, the  advantage is not more rules, the advantage is an   00:28:58.880 --> 00:29:08.880 open relationship, a partnership with many federal  agencies and so beginning in 2000 ,we started   00:29:08.880 --> 00:29:15.360 doing a lot of scientific investigation beginning  with the mauka land. Studying what was there   00:29:16.080 --> 00:29:24.480 and then in 2002 did it conducted a total maximum  daily load study to determine what pollutants   00:29:24.480 --> 00:29:29.360 existed. The Department of Health did that, the  Environmental Protection Agency guided that   00:29:30.000 --> 00:29:35.120 and that began a series of further studies and  plans to identify and address pollutants in the   00:29:35.120 --> 00:29:40.800 Hanalei river and bay. An Environmental Protection  Agency targeted watershed initiative grant was   00:29:40.800 --> 00:29:46.080 awarded to Hanalei, we were one of the first in  the nation to ever get one of those it was a   00:29:47.040 --> 00:29:54.960 a two-year program and that was followed by a  watershed based plan which used that data so each   00:29:55.520 --> 00:30:03.920 each plan, each study, each research project  built on the one previous and then we began   00:30:03.920 --> 00:30:11.120 to really characterize the watershed and produce  strategies to improve the quality of the water.   00:30:13.040 --> 00:30:20.640 This folks is my granddaughter and to just tell  you how long we've been at this, she is now the   00:30:20.640 --> 00:30:30.160 mother of seven. She is holding up a jar because  of course I enlisted my grandchildren to   00:30:30.720 --> 00:30:38.080 begin the work in the Hanalei that the community  said they cared most about. When we asked the   00:30:38.080 --> 00:30:42.240 community what they were concerned about,  they said we want to know what's in the water.   00:30:42.800 --> 00:30:48.720 We want to know if it's fishable and swimmable and  some of us said how do you know what the Clean   00:30:48.720 --> 00:30:55.920 Water Act said? They didn't but they knew what they  cared about and so the focus of the early years of   00:30:55.920 --> 00:31:04.560 our program was on water quality. In those days the  State singularly was responsible for collecting   00:31:04.560 --> 00:31:10.320 water samples, analyzing them and reporting them  to the public there weren't any community efforts. 00:31:12.560 --> 00:31:20.880 Our response was to find a way for the  community to better understand its water   00:31:21.600 --> 00:31:27.120 and to look for itself as to what was there  and we came across this system and I don't have   00:31:27.120 --> 00:31:34.400 stock in this company, this isn't my boogie  but this happens to be an I-dex company system   00:31:34.400 --> 00:31:39.920 and the reason that I'm going to the trouble of  showing it to you is because without this system   00:31:39.920 --> 00:31:45.200 the community could not have conducted  the work that we did. It's a closed system.   00:31:45.200 --> 00:31:52.560 Nobody was exposed to any bacteria or any  chemicals. This is this is a very very safe   00:31:53.760 --> 00:32:01.200 way for volunteers to collect information  and as a result of some of our work   00:32:02.160 --> 00:32:11.680 the EPA and the Department of Health both use the  results as reportable results. So our community   00:32:12.240 --> 00:32:19.920 augmented the Department of Health monitoring  which was being done weekly and we did one more   00:32:19.920 --> 00:32:25.920 day and two more days a week sometimes and then  we quickly chilled them and drove them down to the   00:32:25.920 --> 00:32:31.600 Department of Health for their analysis  and their reporting. And then periodically   00:32:32.240 --> 00:32:39.280 we did snapshot sampling at 30 sites and plus  across the watershed. Volunteers would fan out   00:32:40.080 --> 00:32:46.240 to 30 different sites, collect water all at  the same time and then we would analyze it   00:32:46.240 --> 00:32:56.240 using this I-dex system. It's a very very volunteer  friendly system with with minimal training and   00:32:56.240 --> 00:33:05.440 minimal equipment. A community can see for  itself what's going on and help itself   00:33:05.440 --> 00:33:13.440 to make things better and not depend on on  government or a corporation to do it for them.   00:33:15.120 --> 00:33:20.960 We did obtain some funding to help pay for  this process it's not terribly expensive but   00:33:21.600 --> 00:33:25.920 everything costs and community  donations supported that effort as well. 00:33:28.320 --> 00:33:36.160 As a result of this work we did determine  that the main cause of bacterial pollution in   00:33:36.160 --> 00:33:43.360 the Hanalei River water was   Enterococcus caused by or sourced from   00:33:44.080 --> 00:33:50.240 both pigs and birds in the mauka  lands and people in the valley.   00:33:51.520 --> 00:33:58.000 When I asked the scientists "well what is it more  of?" and they'd say it's pretty much half half. So   00:33:58.800 --> 00:34:03.760 no matter what we do in Hanalei to address  the bacterial pollution it is important   00:34:03.760 --> 00:34:12.000 for people to understand that if we replaced  every one of the 200 cesspools that still remain   00:34:12.000 --> 00:34:20.080 in the Hanalei valley we would never get pure  pure clean water because we can't control the   00:34:20.080 --> 00:34:28.320 birds and the pigs and their contribution  shall we say to the to the pollutants.    00:34:28.320 --> 00:34:37.520 Doesn't mean we shouldn't try and we did we  were funded to provide support for houses to   00:34:37.520 --> 00:34:44.640 replace their cesspools with state-of-the-art  septic systems that provided treatment,   00:34:45.440 --> 00:34:51.840 real treatment they were tertiary systems,  aerobic and anaerobic with a UV disinfectant.   00:34:52.560 --> 00:34:57.280 There was a cost involved we got funding to  defray some of that cost for the homeowner   00:34:58.720 --> 00:35:05.840 and it did require a small electrical service  to run the pumps and fans and it did require   00:35:05.840 --> 00:35:11.520 by federal statute, an annual inspection  to make sure the unit was functioning.   00:35:12.720 --> 00:35:18.640 We didn't get any takers. Nobody wanted somebody  coming on their property once a year to check   00:35:18.640 --> 00:35:26.320 the system and people were very nervous about the cost of the monthly fee. It was interesting   00:35:26.320 --> 00:35:31.840 they weren't so concerned about their share of  the installation cost, they were more concerned   00:35:31.840 --> 00:35:38.320 about an ongoing cost of electricity which would  have amounted to about thirty dollars a month.   00:35:39.040 --> 00:35:46.160 So we didn't get any takers. Some people  are replacing their cesspools voluntarily now   00:35:46.160 --> 00:35:52.480 but until 2050, 2050, there's  no law forcing them to do that. 00:35:55.920 --> 00:36:01.200 There's a lot of reasons that we should be trying  to do our very best to take care of the Hanalei.   00:36:01.200 --> 00:36:06.480 One of the reasons it was designated in American  Heritage is that it has all five of the native   00:36:06.480 --> 00:36:15.360 gobi, the o'opu. These are these are way cool  fish they're very niche oriented. One   00:36:16.240 --> 00:36:23.760 variety stays in its own little part of  the river and one of them can climb a thousand   00:36:23.760 --> 00:36:31.840 foot waterfall because its belly fin has morphed  into a sucker and there are times at night   00:36:32.480 --> 00:36:36.240 if you get yourself up high enough  in the mountain next to a waterfall   00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:42.000 you can actually see the movement it  looks like the rocks are moving but it's   00:36:42.000 --> 00:36:48.800 the o'opu climbing the waterfall. It's an amazing  thing and so we had enough natives in the stream   00:36:49.600 --> 00:36:56.160 to make it worthwhile doing our very very  best to try and improve the quality of the river.   00:36:57.760 --> 00:37:00.960 This is an example of one  of the threats of the o'opu.   00:37:01.680 --> 00:37:07.840 This fellow actually stole a chain-link fence  from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Refuge   00:37:08.400 --> 00:37:18.080 and created this trap and it is specifically  to trap o'opu because o'opu are treasured   00:37:18.960 --> 00:37:24.240 by many but specifically treasured  by the Filipino community who 00:37:26.320 --> 00:37:30.720 loved them in their own homeland but also  really liked them here and there was a law   00:37:30.720 --> 00:37:36.800 in Hawai'i that they could not even possess the  fish so it became a very valuable commodity   00:37:37.440 --> 00:37:44.560 and this fellow traps the o'opu and trades  them to others for crystal methamphetamine 00:37:46.880 --> 00:37:53.200 and I think it's still going on.  These are fishermen along the Hanalei   00:37:54.800 --> 00:38:01.680 these folks are probably not fishing for  o'opu they are probably fishing for tilapia. 00:38:01.680 --> 00:38:07.040 It's not a fish that I'm used to eating I  understand that it's that it's good fish to   00:38:07.040 --> 00:38:13.520 eat these fishermen love the tilapia.  The local people, local Hawaiians in   00:38:14.080 --> 00:38:19.440 Hanalei probably would not find that fish  that tasty but these folks certainly did   00:38:19.440 --> 00:38:27.120 and I use this image to demonstrate  how important fishing is in this river. 00:38:30.880 --> 00:38:39.920 These gentlemen and their little granddaughter  drive over an hour to get to the Hanalei to   00:38:40.480 --> 00:38:48.480 throw net from this boat and the reason they do  that, when I ask them they no more fish their home.   00:38:49.680 --> 00:38:55.200 So because the Hanalei has, the Hanalei  gets this kind of attention. I don't   00:38:55.200 --> 00:38:59.840 see this very often but these  fellows are there quite regularly 00:39:05.120 --> 00:39:07.200 and of course we have the Hanalei pier. 00:39:09.440 --> 00:39:14.400 Fishing from this historic pier which was  once used to deliver products grown in the   00:39:14.400 --> 00:39:22.160 Hanalei valley such as rice, oranges, cotton and  taro for export it's now a recreational pier   00:39:23.120 --> 00:39:27.840 and used every single day  for people to catch dinner.   00:39:29.520 --> 00:39:34.160 We love our Hanelei pier, and on that the  state national historic register as well.   00:39:35.360 --> 00:39:42.000 The valley is also home to our protected  water birds, our endangered water   00:39:42.000 --> 00:39:47.200 birds threatened and endangered. There  is a Fish and Wildlife Service Refuge   00:39:47.760 --> 00:39:55.040 in the center of the of the valley, in the river  and the river runs through it and taro grows there   00:39:55.600 --> 00:40:06.720 and these birds and and that taro live  together in that environment. The threats   00:40:07.600 --> 00:40:18.320 to these birds are disease and also feral  cats. So although they are in a protected Refuge   00:40:18.320 --> 00:40:27.360 it is not a fenced Refuge, it's not contained  and avian botulism and feral cats are a problem. 00:40:30.240 --> 00:40:38.800 The cats are fed by people up  on the hill and then fed cats hunt   00:40:38.800 --> 00:40:45.360 and they come down the hill and eat the native  birds so there is a trapping effort going on   00:40:45.360 --> 00:40:50.400 but feral cats are the threat to all of  our native birds, so in this picture on   00:40:50.400 --> 00:40:55.680 the very bottom right is the native koloa  maoli, the native duck which is quite rare   00:40:56.320 --> 00:41:05.120 with that duck is our nene, our Hawaiian  goose and then our stilt and our alae keokeo and our alae ula 00:41:11.840 --> 00:41:20.640 Hanalei is known for having known and understood and  written its history and for protecting as much   00:41:20.640 --> 00:41:27.280 of it as it can and an example is before the  bridge this was how you got across the river   00:41:27.280 --> 00:41:32.960 there are some wonderful stories about the  the old chinaman that ran the barge he didn't   00:41:32.960 --> 00:41:38.560 charge a lot but sometimes he just didn't want  to go and you had to wait until he wanted to go   00:41:39.360 --> 00:41:47.360 and then the bridge came and protecting the  bridge became a concerted effort of the community   00:41:47.360 --> 00:41:55.600 and one of the first focuses of its historic  attention so it's on the State and National   00:41:55.600 --> 00:42:02.880 Historic Register but so is the whole road. So from  the top of the hill to the end of the road at Ke'e,   00:42:02.880 --> 00:42:10.240 in Haena it's all on the State and National  Historic Register as a historic corridor.   00:42:10.800 --> 00:42:16.240 So this is one of the seven bridges in this  picture it looks pretty bad it does look a   00:42:16.240 --> 00:42:21.440 little better than that today but it's still  the maintenance of it is still a challenge. 00:42:24.240 --> 00:42:34.640 One of the pollutants of the Hanalei river is the  sediment and the bacteria attaches itself to the   00:42:34.640 --> 00:42:43.840 sediment and is carried downstream, so the sediment  and the bacteria combine to make a a pollutant   00:42:44.480 --> 00:42:50.800 and this kind of sloughing or sliding occurs  often along the Hanalei and in the valley   00:42:51.440 --> 00:42:56.400 because those are not native plants and  they don't have the root systems to hold   00:42:57.200 --> 00:43:03.120 the dirt that's one reason. The other  is that Kauai is a sloughing volcanic   00:43:03.120 --> 00:43:11.840 rock, so the island is aging it is the oldest of  the Hawaiian islands and as it ages it slides.   00:43:13.360 --> 00:43:21.760 A rainy day in Hanalei is a rainy day in Hanalei  valley and probably going to close the road.   00:43:22.560 --> 00:43:29.520 I have seen the road close from flooding when  there wasn't a drop of rain in Hanalei when all   00:43:29.520 --> 00:43:36.640 the water came from just the mountain but most  often when we get the heavy rains the valley   00:43:36.640 --> 00:43:44.560 fills up like a bathtub and the road is inundated  and the road closes. It's closed for as many as   00:43:44.560 --> 00:43:54.320 several days sometimes but most often it closes  until there's a tide shift, so six or seven hours.   00:43:54.320 --> 00:44:00.640 When the rains come this is what this river  looks like we call it running chocolate pay   00:44:00.640 --> 00:44:06.080 attention to out in the bay look how far out  that that mud goes it's pretty incredible   00:44:07.840 --> 00:44:14.400 the the term chocolate make it makes it kind of  sound like it's an okay thing it's it's not an   00:44:14.400 --> 00:44:21.360 okay thing all rivers do this I understand and in  many places this is why the deltas are so fertile   00:44:21.360 --> 00:44:25.280 but in this case it's going  out to sea and it's impacting   00:44:26.000 --> 00:44:32.400 our near shore coral reefs which  we depend on for our resources, for a   00:44:32.400 --> 00:44:38.480 fishery but we certainly depend on them too  for safety from storm sea storms and also   00:44:39.680 --> 00:44:45.680 you know different kinds of impacts that the  reef protects us it also provides you know the   00:44:46.480 --> 00:44:53.680 the sand and the reef provides some of the  world's most famous surfing. So this is a side view   00:44:54.320 --> 00:45:00.240 of the watershed that I showed you in the first  slide but this is the one that shows all of the   00:45:01.440 --> 00:45:08.400 all of the mud and this is not a rare thing  this happens three or four times a year. 00:45:11.680 --> 00:45:18.560 In March of 2018 we had a famous flood  50 plus inches fell in Hanalei and what   00:45:18.560 --> 00:45:24.320 some folks call a rain bomb and this is a  picture of some of the damage that occurred   00:45:24.880 --> 00:45:32.160 in Hanalei at the at Blackpot park it  destroyed buildings and obviously didn't do   00:45:32.160 --> 00:45:39.200 much for these cars and did an extraordinary  amount of damage, an unusual amount of damage   00:45:39.840 --> 00:45:46.880 and taught many lessons I'm hoping  that some of them will be remembered 00:45:46.880 --> 00:45:55.600 and we've made some adjustments in in the  planning etc of of our program and and of Hanalei 00:45:56.800 --> 00:46:03.440 itself. The Hanalei Watershed  Hui is working now on flood mitigation   00:46:04.720 --> 00:46:11.680 studies and we'll be implementing some of the  results of that work to try and reduce the   00:46:11.680 --> 00:46:17.760 impacts of some of this kind of flooding. This kind  of a flood teaches you a lot. The main thing it   00:46:17.760 --> 00:46:24.240 teaches you is how powerless you are and how some  good plans don't necessarily help you but we we   00:46:24.240 --> 00:46:31.040 went to school we're hoping that we can learn from  this this 50 inches of rain just overwhelmed us. 00:46:33.520 --> 00:46:37.520 This is a sunny day. Bring you  back to a more positive picture.   00:46:38.320 --> 00:46:47.120 This is the iconic Hanalei with all of the the  taro lo'i, the taro field you see them in   00:46:47.120 --> 00:46:57.280 a variety of stages of production there  and this valley the scene here and the   00:46:57.280 --> 00:47:08.240 extended valley of all of Hanalei produces well  over 75 percent of Hawai'i's taro. It is a   00:47:09.600 --> 00:47:16.720 it is the view you see of Hanalei as you come  down come down the hill and enter 00:47:16.720 --> 00:47:23.840 the valley it's don't think i don't think  anybody goes that doesn't take a picture of this. 00:47:26.800 --> 00:47:33.280 And this is a closer up picture for those of  you not in Hawai'i of the taro this happens to   00:47:33.280 --> 00:47:39.440 be right behind my office. I get no sympathy when  I say to people oh I gotta go to my office today   00:47:40.080 --> 00:47:43.200 if they've been there and they know  that this is what I'm looking at yeah   00:47:44.480 --> 00:47:53.760 so sad right? It's it's magnificent and all of those water birds and and you can   00:47:53.760 --> 00:48:00.480 see a little stilt in the front there and all  these these this taro is an amazing plant.   00:48:02.400 --> 00:48:09.200 It is the ultimate sustainable crop I took these  pictures myself right behind my office this is a   00:48:09.200 --> 00:48:15.760 family with some paid help harvesting taro and  I like this series because it demonstrates how   00:48:15.760 --> 00:48:22.560 sustainable this crop is. Every part is used  so for those of you that are not familiar,   00:48:22.560 --> 00:48:28.800 in the bucket on the bottom right in  the bin those will all be replanted.   00:48:30.480 --> 00:48:38.240 The corms will be eaten, the leaves will be eaten  and the remaining part will be replanted for   00:48:38.240 --> 00:48:46.240 next year's crop. This crop used to be taro used  to be probably a little over a year in the growing   00:48:46.240 --> 00:48:53.600 and now that it's pushed pretty fast because it's  in such demand this is a very very healthy crop   00:48:53.600 --> 00:49:02.720 it requires moving water, cannot grow in stagnant  or still water it requires cool cool moving water. 00:49:05.760 --> 00:49:08.400 Okay we have a poll question Cindy? 00:49:11.280 --> 00:49:17.680 All right aloha everyone for our  third and final poll of this webinar.   00:49:19.360 --> 00:49:27.280 Place names are often derived from  a story, an instruction, a warning,   00:49:27.280 --> 00:49:34.320 a resource or all of the above? So as  we wait for folks to get their votes in   00:49:35.600 --> 00:49:42.640 you might remember Maka'ala talked about some place  names earlier, so now we are just kind of testing   00:49:42.640 --> 00:49:51.440 your memory. So we have 60 percent of attendees  voted so definitely get your votes in an I will   00:49:52.080 --> 00:50:00.320 close it in a few more seconds and if you  guys have any more questions. There's a lot   00:50:00.320 --> 00:50:04.160 of great questions coming in feel free  to send them in through the question box. 00:50:06.880 --> 00:50:13.840 All right so around 72 percent of attendees  have voted so I am going to close the poll 00:50:16.400 --> 00:50:24.000 and now I will show the results all right  so 96 percent of you have got it correct. So place   00:50:24.000 --> 00:50:32.400 names are often derived from all of the above,  a story, an instruction, a warning, and a resource.   00:50:33.600 --> 00:50:43.440 All right and back to Maka'ala. Thank you Cindy. One  of the things that happened in Hanalei was the   00:50:43.440 --> 00:50:52.560 conversion of our community to a resort. Nobody  did it on purpose, it wasn't a thought or a plan   00:50:53.280 --> 00:50:59.120 it happened because Hanalei is so gorgeous  because it has good surf and because it's a great   00:50:59.120 --> 00:51:06.080 place to play and because it's a friendly little  village and so people want to come there, they want   00:51:06.080 --> 00:51:12.000 to stay there, they don't want to stay in a hotel  someplace else and so many of the houses were   00:51:13.600 --> 00:51:22.240 were converted from residences to vacations to  vacation rentals at that point the community   00:51:22.240 --> 00:51:30.000 said "Whoa we think that we are not as resilient, we  are not as capable of taking care of ourselves, we   00:51:30.000 --> 00:51:38.000 are not as smart as we once were and so we began  developing a community disaster resilience plan.   00:51:39.600 --> 00:51:47.280 This plan includes listening to the elders,  talking to the business folk, doing a lot of   00:51:47.280 --> 00:51:54.080 planning, you can see the you know we all know the  famous post-it routine and where are those   00:51:54.080 --> 00:51:58.400 things that are important to us, where are those  things that are at risk, what are what are those   00:51:58.400 --> 00:52:04.080 things that can help us if we have a disaster,  during the disaster, right after the disaster,   00:52:04.800 --> 00:52:11.040 how can we learn to recover better and it's  a community process that continues to this day.   00:52:11.680 --> 00:52:19.440 We were just funded for the next phase of that  process and and we will be conducting it   00:52:19.440 --> 00:52:26.720 very soon. This is an example of the conversion I'm  talking about, so these two little houses on the   00:52:26.720 --> 00:52:32.880 top still exist getting a little bit squeezed  out by the kind of structures at the bottom.   00:52:34.160 --> 00:52:41.520 People want bigger houses, they want gates,  I don't know why, you really don't know why,   00:52:42.240 --> 00:52:47.360 they fell in love with Hanalei that they  saw up on the top and then they came and   00:52:47.360 --> 00:52:54.000 they changed it to that that you see on the  bottom I don't have a way to explain that. 00:52:56.880 --> 00:53:02.320 This is Hanalei. This picture was taken by  a friend of mine who is a surfer and she   00:53:02.320 --> 00:53:08.320 looks at this all the time and i she's  always appreciating what she's seeing.   00:53:09.360 --> 00:53:16.400 Good heavens look at that, I mean she's on her  board and this is what she's looking at, so   00:53:18.080 --> 00:53:25.440 some of the most active volunteers and committed  folk we have are our surfers. They care about   00:53:25.440 --> 00:53:31.600 the water obviously but they also care about  the place they have a penchant for renaming things   00:53:31.600 --> 00:53:37.680 which is I find annoying but that's what they do  they name places, you know for the kind of surf   00:53:37.680 --> 00:53:43.520 that's there or whatever their experience was or  for some famous person. I of course would rather   00:53:43.520 --> 00:53:48.560 they'd use the place names that place had but  nonetheless it gives them a connection to those   00:53:48.560 --> 00:53:57.040 places and this is true all over where surfers  play, where surfers work, where surfers are surfers   00:53:57.040 --> 00:54:02.800 and this is this is one of the most  famous surfing locations in the world.   00:54:04.160 --> 00:54:09.840 One of the pieces of work we're so proud of is   00:54:11.280 --> 00:54:19.600 the longest benthic ecosystem study in Hawai'i  began in 1992 runs to the present and    00:54:20.800 --> 00:54:30.000 this is Alan Friedlander and Eric Brown's work.  21 monitoring sites have been in place since 1992   00:54:30.960 --> 00:54:38.240 to study the coral larval production recruitment  and settlement. So this is the coral larval   00:54:38.240 --> 00:54:44.480 settlement plate and this is our very  fancy laboratory that's my garage    00:54:45.440 --> 00:54:51.840 and they're sorted and then packaged  and then they are analyzed in a in a   00:54:53.760 --> 00:54:57.760 a real a real laboratory  but this is how we dry them. 00:55:00.240 --> 00:55:04.000 Community can. We're also very  proud to have hosted the coral   00:55:04.000 --> 00:55:07.520 reef assessment monitoring  program from 1997 to present 00:55:10.160 --> 00:55:18.000 I want to point out that in 1995 Hanalei  bay had the highest coral larval recruitment   00:55:18.000 --> 00:55:21.600 rate in the world and we don't know why. 00:55:24.320 --> 00:55:30.160 This is a map we use with our community it  depicts the different jurisdictions the yellow   00:55:30.160 --> 00:55:37.280 highlight shows the special management area,   the darker blue in the middle is a mooring area   00:55:37.280 --> 00:55:44.160 and this depicts the Hawaiian Islands Humpback  Whale National Marine Sanctuary, the entire bay   00:55:44.160 --> 00:55:53.440 is in the Sanctuary which I guess is why you  have me here today. We're very proud of the   00:55:53.440 --> 00:55:59.680 fact that we publish a Hanalei moon and tide calendar. This is a connection between the   00:55:59.680 --> 00:56:05.200 agencies that want to help and the fishermen and  the community. The community loves this calendar   00:56:05.200 --> 00:56:10.240 because it's the only one that just has Hanalei tides  but the fishermen are the ones that asked for it   00:56:11.760 --> 00:56:16.480 it it they wanted that they didn't want to do the  math translating the tides from someplace else   00:56:18.160 --> 00:56:21.600 and so we're very proud we've published  this calendar now for nine years.  00:56:22.400 --> 00:56:31.200 We've self-funded it which means Maka'ala  passing the hat and this is one of our most   00:56:32.240 --> 00:56:37.120 active programs this is the Makai watch program  it's the partnership with the State of Hawai'i   00:56:37.680 --> 00:56:44.080 in taking care of your own place this  is kind of like a neighborhood watch   00:56:44.720 --> 00:56:51.600 and it's Makai watch, it's not an enforcement  arm, it's it's eyes and ears for enforcement,   00:56:52.400 --> 00:56:59.600 helping the the community partner with  the agencies so that we work together   00:56:59.600 --> 00:57:04.160 to take care of our place and I get to show  this one because that's my husband in the boat. 00:57:08.400 --> 00:57:15.280 Mahalo I'm so glad that I had the opportunity  to be with you today and to share the story   00:57:15.280 --> 00:57:22.080 of Hanalei. We have many agency partners.  I've highlighted a few here the stars of   00:57:22.080 --> 00:57:28.000 the show are the people of Hanalei who hang in  there, who are resilient, who are committed to   00:57:29.040 --> 00:57:35.440 keeping Hanalei Hanalei and using  contemporary methods and science to   00:57:36.080 --> 00:57:42.800 take care of their place, we're grateful  for this opportunity and for Hanalei.   00:57:42.800 --> 00:57:47.840 The story is still being told, the impacts of  climate change are unfolding before our eyes.   00:57:48.480 --> 00:57:53.360 Will taro still grow in the valley when  salt water intrudes? Will coastal flooding force   00:57:53.360 --> 00:57:59.120 people in agriculture to higher ground? Will we  find the balance that once was the ahupua'a system?   00:58:01.120 --> 00:58:07.840 Stay tuned. Mahalo and here is  my contact information. Mahalo 00:58:16.400 --> 00:58:21.200 Alright, Mahalo Maka'ala, that was a great presentation. So as you  folks know we're kind of getting near the   00:58:21.200 --> 00:58:29.200 end of our webinar time, so to be mindful of  folks times, all you guys questions that you   00:58:29.200 --> 00:58:37.920 did submit we will gladly send them to Maka'ala and we will send them out with her   00:58:37.920 --> 00:58:43.920 answers via email that you registered with.  So thank you guys for all those questions for   00:58:44.560 --> 00:58:49.840 but now we are going to kind of finish  off our webinar with a few ending slides. 00:58:55.200 --> 00:58:59.680 Okay I guess it's my turn so again I want to thank Maka'ala for that great talk.   00:59:00.240 --> 00:59:06.320 She is also on our sanctuary advisory council and  she always is driving the bus on that Council as   00:59:06.320 --> 00:59:11.520 well.I also want to thank Jean and Cindy for  doing all the prep work, we still have some   00:59:11.520 --> 00:59:17.040 prep work to do we will this video has been  recorded we will be closed captioning it not 00:59:31.120 --> 00:59:35.920 it available oh by the way I'm Allen Tom I'm the  superintendent and I'm the one that Maka'ala  00:59:35.920 --> 00:59:42.800 yells at when we don't do enough things that are  in Hanalei. Next slide please Cindy. I do want to   00:59:42.800 --> 00:59:47.360 let people know that you do get a certificate  of attendance. You get one hour of professional   00:59:47.360 --> 00:59:52.720 development so this certificate will be emailed  to you probably by the end of the week once we   00:59:52.720 --> 01:00:00.080 get the complete attendees list put together . Next slide please Cindy. We are always looking   01:00:00.080 --> 01:00:06.240 for comments I know many of you have written  questions in the chat box we will be sending those   01:00:06.240 --> 01:00:12.640 to Maka'ala, but we will also be teasing out  any questions, if you have ideas for other   01:00:12.640 --> 01:00:18.880 topics, if you're if you're actually a teacher, I know there is a school online who participated   01:00:18.880 --> 01:00:26.480 in this talk today, that's good information for  us to know how we can best provide new lectures   01:00:26.480 --> 01:00:34.080 for everybody. Next slide. So coming up I just want  to put a plug in for some great lectures we have   01:00:34.640 --> 01:00:39.680 in the works if you go to the ONMS webinar home  page you'll see that there's a whole list of talks   01:00:40.240 --> 01:00:45.440 coming up not just about Hawai'i but I think  there's one on the maritime heritage of North   01:00:45.440 --> 01:00:51.920 Carolina of our sanctuary out on the East  Coast, we have Papahanamokuakea, Dr. Randy Kosaki,   01:00:52.800 --> 01:01:00.480 We have Dr. Barkley talking about sperm whales in  next week and then coming up after this slide   01:01:00.480 --> 01:01:06.800 I have two more, three more actually I want to  talk about we have an actual teacher's workshop   01:01:06.800 --> 01:01:13.040 that we're getting going to have in March it's  a two-day series it's only two hours each and we   01:01:13.040 --> 01:01:19.040 will have educators from the three sanctuaries  out here in Hawai'i, the Humpback Whale Sanctuary,   01:01:19.040 --> 01:01:24.720 Papahanamokuakea and the National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa as well as the Waikiki Aquarium.   01:01:24.720 --> 01:01:30.960 So if you're interested in in learning a little  bit more about some of the lessons that we do in   01:01:30.960 --> 01:01:37.840 our sanctuaries please feel free to register for  that talk and the next two speakers are actually   01:01:37.840 --> 01:01:43.280 homegrown from Hawai'i. These are ones that we will  be hosting from the Humpback Whale Sanctuary side.   01:01:43.280 --> 01:01:50.160 We have a talk of again from a a person from  Kauai, Dr. Heather Ward, she'll be talking   01:01:50.160 --> 01:01:56.400 about octopi, cephalopods or he'e in Hawai'i and  I understand I have not heard the talk but I've   01:01:56.400 --> 01:02:04.400 heard it's excellent and the next talk after that  will be on whale sharks so not the marine mammal   01:02:04.400 --> 01:02:12.240 but the fish so we have whale sharks sharks in our  sanctuary here and definitely this talk will be of   01:02:12.240 --> 01:02:17.520 great interest to many people and again I want to  thank everybody I want to thank our speakers and   01:02:17.520 --> 01:02:24.400 I want to thank all of you for attending and  that concludes our talk for today. Again you will   01:02:24.400 --> 01:02:33.840 get a note when the video is ready so again thank  you everybody for uh participating today. Mahalo