Sunday, December 28, 2014

A Virtual Tour Of Historic Varona Village - The Ewa Plantation Village The City Forgot About

A Virtual Tour Of Historic Varona Village - The Ewa Plantation Village The City Forgot About

By John Bond   Kanehili Cultural Hui

A Retrospective of the Continuing LONG STORY of the City Mismanagement of Varona Village




























 




 



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Ewa Plantation Prime Ag Land Still Retains Centuries Old Traditional Agricultural Features

West Oahu Residents Speak Out At Important Ag Lands And Hoopili Station Meetings


FTA and HART Rail Misrepresent The True Ewa Honouliuli Native Hawaiian Spirit Pathway


Honouliuli Ewa TCP's Are Important Wahi Pana (Sacred Places) On Multi-Dimensional Levels


Honouliuli Ewa's Makakilo Kalo'i Gulch - A Rare In Depth Survey Of This Important Cultural Property




Wednesday, December 24, 2014

The Honouliuli Pearl Harbor National Wildlife Refuge

The Honouliuli Pearl Harbor National Wildlife Refuge

By John Bond, Kanehili Cultural Hui

A visit to the US Fish & Wildlife Pearl Harbor, Honouliuli and Kalaeloa Refuge sites is very rewarding and great places to see rare and endangered Hawaiian birds, plants and the under the karst opae ula native Hawaiian shrimp. They can also use your help with periodic clearing, cleaning and weed pulling.


Pearl Harbor National Wildlife Refuge, in close proximity to historic visitor attractions such as the USS Arizona and the USS Missouri, serves to protect some of the last remaining wetland areas on O‘ahu. While the units of this refuge are small, they are vital to endangered wildlife and sensitive habitats along O‘ahu’s coastal area.

Pearl Harbor NWR was established in 1972 as mitigation for construction of the Honolulu International Airport Reef Runway. The Honouliuli and Waiawa Units are managed under a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Navy. The Kalaeloa Unit, once part of the former Barber's Point Naval Air Station, was established during military base closure proceedings in 2001 to protect native plants. Through these cooperative efforts with the Federal Aviation Administration, the State of Hawai‘i, and the U.S. Navy; the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service made Pearl Harbor NWR a reality.

Group photo for gallery

Volunteers contribute significantly to our work force and enable us to accomplish our mission: "working with others to conserve, protect, and enhance fish, wildlife, and plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people."

Pearl Harbor NWR is part of the O‘ahu NWR Complex. The management area consists of three units: the Waiawa Unit, Honouliuli Unit, and Kalaeloa Unit. All are closed to the general public in order to protect Hawai‘i’s endangered wildlife. Activities such as environmental education and volunteer projects, however, are permitted during the nonbreeding season of the ae‘o (Hawaiian stilt). At our Kalaeloa Unit of Pearl Harbor NWR, the opportunity exists to join community volunteers and partners to remove nonnative weeds and help stabilize and restore the native coastal vegetation community.

Hawaiian Water Birds


Hawaiian Moorhen

Hawaiian Stilt

Hawaiian Coot Chick

Koloa

  • Two endangered plants including the 'akoko the endangered Ewa hina hina occur on the Refuge among a mostly nonnative vegetation community. 
Endangered Native Plants


‘Ewa hinahina

‘Akoko

                                                             ʻIliahi aloʻe 

Maiapilo

Naio

Yellow Ilima

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Ewa Plantation Prime Ag Land Still Retains Centuries Old Traditional Agricultural Features

West Oahu Residents Speak Out At Important Ag Lands And Hoopili Station Meetings


FTA and HART Rail Misrepresent The True Ewa Honouliuli Native Hawaiian Spirit Pathway


Honouliuli Ewa TCP's Are Important Wahi Pana (Sacred Places) On Multi-Dimensional Levels


Honouliuli Ewa's Makakilo Kalo'i Gulch - A Rare In Depth Survey Of This Important Cultural Property

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

The HART Rail Library Of Traditional Cultural Properties, Unidentified TCP's and TCP Meetings

The HART Rail Library Of Traditional Cultural Properties, Unidentified TCP's and TCP Meetings 

Kanehili Cultural Hui

II. Traditional Cultural Properties


III. Identification and Protection of Archaeological Sites and Burials

III. Identification and Protection of Archaeological Sites and Burials


VI. National Register of Historic Places/National Historic Landmark Nominations


VIII. Mitigation for Specific Historic Properties

http://www.honolulutransit.org/planning/viii-mitigation-for-specific-historic-properties.aspx

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FTA and HART Failed To Recognize 

Federal Judge Ruling On Rail Route TCP's


Ewa Plantation Prime Ag Land Still Retains Centuries Old Traditional Agricultural Features

West Oahu Residents Speak Out At Important Ag Lands And Hoopili Station Meetings


FTA and HART Rail Misrepresent The True Ewa Honouliuli Native Hawaiian Spirit Pathway


Honouliuli Ewa TCP's Are Important Wahi Pana (Sacred Places) On Multi-Dimensional Levels


Honouliuli Ewa's Makakilo Kalo'i Gulch - A Rare In Depth Survey Of This Important Cultural Property


Monday, December 22, 2014

Ho'opili Project Is Definition Of Insanity - From Transit System To Really Massive Land Development Scheme

Ho'opili Project Is Definition Of Insanity - From Transit System To Really Massive Land Development Scheme

John Bond,  Kanehili Cultural Hui

You have to really wonder why so many experts in soil science, traffic, farming and three former governors OPPOSED the Ho'opili Project. The main PROPONENT for Ho'opili was Ex-Governor Abercrombie and we all know how popular he became after shoving it forward in 2012 with his pro-developer stacked Land Use Commission panel.

H-1 is already a total nightmare and this project will way OVERBUILD West Oahu adding 12,000 more homes on top of many other large home and land development projects. This will literally create a major environmental DISASTER with completely grid locked traffic. Absolutely everything is BAD about this project because it also paves over West Oahu's best farmland and creates massive polluted water runoff that will be directed either into Pearl Harbor or the offshore reef system.

Just for those who don't know, the REAL NAME for this area is not Ho'opili but instead Honouliuli which was a 1000 year old native Hawaiian food bread basket and traditional cultural place (TCP) supporting the largest Hawaiian population on the island of Oahu.

http://www.stophoopili.com/watch-testimony.html

Honouliuli farm lands are the Golden Triangle of deep rich chocolate brown volcanic soil fed by a multitude of natural freshwater springs from the Waianae mountains. It remains an ideal location for high volume fresh farm vegetables and sustainable agriculture today and covering it with concrete and asphalt will literally be a crime against the public.

All open areas of the Ewa Plain are now being filled in with buildings, concrete and asphalt. All this polluted surface water has to run off through gutters into either the ocean or permanent holding ponds.



Nearly all of the once bountiful ocean resources are
being killed off around the Ewa Plain...It's becoming a huge, polluted, traffic 
choked nightmare with continuous building approvals by City and State government officials.


This last open farmland area will soon be filled in with buildings, asphalt and concrete. When this was sugar cane fields the water naturally percolated back into the karst aquifer.

FTA and HART Failed To Recognize 

Federal Judge Ruling On Rail Route TCP's


Honouliuli Ewa's Makakilo Kalo'i Gulch - A Rare In Depth Survey Of This Important Cultural Property



Honouliuli Ewa TCP's Are Important Wahi Pana (Sacred Places) On Multi-Dimensional Levels



FTA and HART Rail Misrepresent The True Ewa Honouliuli Native Hawaiian Spirit Pathway


West Oahu Residents Speak Out At Important Ag Lands And Hoopili Station Meetings


Ewa Plantation Prime Ag Land Still Retains Centuries Old Traditional Agricultural Features



A Tomb Stone To A 1000 Year Old Native Hawaiian Traditional Cultural Place









Leilono to Kanehili Kaupe’a - Leina a ka uhane – The Spirit Leaping Place

  KANEHILI CULTURAL HUI Leina a ka uhane – The Spirit Leaping Place of Leilono to Kanehili Kaupe’a Archeological sites in Kanehili have clea...