Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 28, Number 9, 1 September 2011 — MEA O LOKO [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MEA O LOKO

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MO'OLELO NUI I G0VER FEATURE Bringing pono to Wao Kele o Puna p«ge 16 BY KEKOA EN0M0Ī0 Partners in an ongoing collaboration, OHA and the Department of Land and Natural Resources are working to restore righteousness to the Hawai'i lsland rainforest M0RE 'ĀINA/LANO & WATER C0VERAGE: Hawai'i Conservation Conference highlights, PAGE 7 1 Healing the land along the H-3, PAGE 10 1 William Aila Jn brings a lifetime of resource management to the DLNR, PAGE 14 1 Kūkākūkā on proposed wind farm for Lāna'i, PAGE 21 HO'OKAHUA WAIWAI | EG0N0MIG 8ELF-8UFFICIENCY OHA awards nearly $1 million to 4 nonprofits page 6 Grants will support programs in education, art and more

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HO'ONA'AUAO | EDUCAT10H Hoa 'Aina o Mākaha - educates young, fertile mind$ page 8 BY SARAH PACHEC0

This OHA grantee not only teaches keiki and their parents how to grow their own portable gardens, it partners with Mākaha Elementary to expose keiki to the land that surrounds them

Ni HANANA | Events Celebrating Hawai'i's fairer $ex page 23 BY KATHY MUNENO Did you know that Hawaiian women were leaders in the lslands' suffrage movement? Learn about this and more at the Distinctive Women of Hawaiian History Program coming in October

Courtesy photo: Kai Cocquio