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GETTING SOLID RESULTS FOR HAWAIIANS Some examples during Mahealani'stenure at Natfve Hawaiian Legal Corporation: # Wao Kele o Puna, enforced gathering rights based on traditional 8c customary practices. # Waikoloa, stopped Statefrom giving away public landsto private developers, requiring fair market lease rents. # Waimea, Hawai'i, stopped Statefrom leasing 52,000 acresto private ranch while Hawaiian homestead applicants waited over 40 years. # Honokahua, South Kona; Lahainaand many areasthroughout Hawai'i, saved kuleana and Konohiki lands for Hawaiian families against corporate claims of adverse possession. # Pi'ilani Heiau, worked with traditional caretaker'ohana and publictrust entity to ensure preservation and protection in perpetuity. # Ke'anae-Wailuanui, ongoing restoration of27 streamsfor East Maui taro farming communities. # Wai'anae, helped community establish traditional subsistence eeonomie development projects, including Ka'ala Farms and Opelu Project. # Ho'olehua, protected waterfor homestead agricultural uses by stopping diversions and obtaining designation of Molokai as water management area. # Hawaiian Home Lands, ongoing effortsto enforce Constitutional provision mandating adequate funding for homesteading program. # Hawaiian Home Lands, represented Waiting Listapplicants in $600 million settlement and recoveryof1 6,000 acresfortrust beneficiaries. # Pila'a, Kaua'i; loleka'a, O'ahu, stopped surrounding landowners from blocking kuleana access. www.mahealaniwendt.com