Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 29, Number 5, 1 May 2012 — Milestone achieved with North Kohala purchase [ARTICLE]

Milestone achieved with North Kohala purchase

The Trust for Puhlie Land has completed its 25th project in Hawai'i with the facilitation of a 27.5-acre purchase of shoreline land in North Kohala by a Kohala nonprofit. The land, whieh will be protected from development, was purchased by Maika'i Kamakani 'O Kohala through a $1.3 million public-pri-vate partnership involving: the State Legacy Land Conservation Program ($975,000), Dorrance Family Foundation ($100,000), Freeman Family Fund of the Hawai'i Community Foundation ($100,000), TPL's Hawaiian Islands Advisory Council member Edmund 01son ($25,000), Kohala community ($17,390), HEI Charitable Foundation and Hawai'i Electric Light Co. ( $ 15,000) and landowners Chad and Jenifer Davis, who donated $67,610 in land value. TPL, a private, national nonprofit organization said he project wouldn't have been possible without a grant from OHA supporting a TPL manager position, as well as years of start-up support by TPL's Hawaiian Islands Advisory Couneil co-chair Kimo Campbell, who recently passed away. Maika'i Kamakani 'O Kohala will ensure community access to the property for recreational, eultural and agricultural purposes, TPL said. According to TPL, the land was onee the site of King Kamehameha's taro patches and fishpond, and houses the remains of heiau and a sacred site thought to be places of workshop for chiefly lines down through Kamehameha.