Re: PUEO GETS BILL: LETTER TO EDITOR STARADVERTISER
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On Thursday, January 25, 2018, 6:42:00 AM HST, laurel douglass <douglassl001@hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
On Jan 25, 2018, at 5:22 AM, Michael Lee wrote:
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Breaking! OAHU NEIGHBORHOOD BOARD REACTS TO PUEO COUNT Re: mahalo ke akua
From: Pueo Country <pueocountry@gmail.com>
To: Michael Lee <keakuaskahu777@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2018, 6:26:46 PM HST
Subject: Breaking! OAHU NEIGHBORHOOD BOARD REACTS TO PUEO COUNT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Area Native Hawaiian Cultural Practitioner, Michael Kumukauoha Lee, has released suggested language for a neighborhood board to take immediate action upon in response to the plight of the endangered Hawaiian short-eared owl, the Pueo, at the University of Hawaii West Oahu Campus.
The Makakilo, Kapolei, Honokai Hale Neighborhood Board #34 is expected to release an agenda later this week on the status of Pueo inhabiting the University of Hawaii West Oahu campus in response to Lee's suggestion. The language suggested by Lee for the proposed initiative to be taken up by neighborhood board #34 is pasted below.
Of concern to Lee, is the University of Hawaii Manoa & State of Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources Report to the Hawaii State Legislature, dated October 2017, on population distribution of Pueo on Oahu that reads in part:
Eleven Pueo were documented inhabiting the island of Oahu.
The Report states of the eleven Pueo documented, Pueo were quantified as present at the University of Hawaii West Oahu campus (page 7) and were observed by ornithologist Dr. Javier Cotin.
REPORT on DISTRIBUTION of PUEO POPULATION on OAHU
The language for the proposed PUEO HABITAT CONSERVATION PRESERVE @ THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII WEST OAHU CAMPUS is now on youtube for dissemination- watch it here: https://youtu.be/srr-
In response to the Report, the community of the Makakilo, Kapolei, Honokai Hale Neighborhood Board #34 is expected to entertain a motion at their next meeting- to be on January 24, 2018, from 7PM- 9:30PM at Kapolei Hale, that may in part read, as suggested by Lee and offered for adoption,
MOTION for consideration:
REQUESTING 150-ACRES OF PRIVATE DEVELOPMENT LANDS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII WEST OAHU CAMPUS BE DEDICATED AS A HABITAT CONSERVATION PRESERVE
Whereas, on the island of Oahu, within its Honouliuli Ahupua’a, there lacks a management area for the proliferation of the endangered Hawaiian Short-eared Owl, Asio flammeus sandwichensis, herein named the Pueo - a sacred bird recognized as an Aumakua and family member to many Native Hawaiian people; and
Whereas, the University of Hawaii West Oahu non-campus lands consist of 286.5 acres, called Private Development Lands and is available to serve as a bird refuge as recommended by K. Nagata in his 1996 Biological Survey of the property; and
Whereas, the Interim Report Regarding the Pueo Study to the Hawaii State Legislature dated October 2017, included findings that Pueo inhabit the University of Hawaii West Oahu campus; and
Whereas, the proposed Habitat Conservation Preserve at the University of Hawaii West Oahu campus would consist of approximately 150-contiguous acres and predominately cover areas proven to be utilized by Pueo for foraging, courting, mating, sleeping, perching and nesting activities; and
Whereas, as is contained within Phillip Bruner’s 2005 assessment of fauna on the property for the University of Hawaii West Oahu campus, Bruner incorrectly concluded that development of the 500-acre property would not displace any threatened or endangered avian specie nor contribute to the loss of its habitat, including all migratory species of birds protected by the Migratory Species Act, and as such, Bruner’s findings are not a truthful, nor an accurate representation of the property’s characteristics witnessed today on the property; and
Whereas, Nagata’s Biological Survey findings of 1996 concluded seventeen species of birds inhabiting the property at the University of Hawaii West Oahu campus of which many of these avian species are protected by the Migratory Species Act; yet, no Habitat Conservation Plan was included in the development plans for the University of Hawaii West Oahu campus to remediate the decimation of habitat for these various birds upon the development of the Private Development Lands; and
Whereas, the decision by the City and County of Honolulu to create an Urban Growth Boundary for the purposes of initiating a Second City in the vicinity of Honouliuli; East Kapolei, as is contained in the 1997, 2002, and 2007 Oahu General Plan, did not include in that plan any wildlife area in the Urban Growth Boundary as remediation for the loss of Pueo habitat from slated development plans; and
Whereas, Native Hawaiian Cultural Practitioner, Michael Kumukauoha Lee, has defined the boundary for the Habitat Conservation Preserve as the Malden Hawaiian Trail to the north, Kapolei Golf Course to the west, Kualaka’i Parkway to the east, and Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to the south, and by direct observation, historical accounts, and scientific studies, the area where Hunehune Gulch and Kaloi Gulch traverse and eventually converge through the University of Hawaii West Oahu campus, has been documented as Pueo habitat for centuries; and
Whereas, a Habitat Conservation Preserve to be developed at the University of Hawaii West Oahu campus would provide refuge for birds protected by the Migratory Species Act such as Ibis, Heron, Plover and Barn Owl, as well as the federally protected Hoary Bat and Stilt, and also the State of Hawaii endangered Hawaiian Duck and Coot, in addition to the Pueo that are being extirpated from within the Urban Growth Boundary, its Honouliuli Ahupua’a, and 32,000 acres defined as the Ewa Plain; and
Whereas, knowing there are only eleven Pueo on Oahu, and that the Pueo are in need of habitat to get off of the endangered species list, one would assume that where there is productive Pueo habitat owned by the State of Hawaii, that the State would then act accordingly to protect that habitat; now, therefore
Be it resolved, that the University of Hawaii Board of Regents, its President Mr. David Lassner, and the University of Hawaii West Oahu Chancellor, Dr. Maenette Benham, are to be contacted by the Makakilo, Kapolei, Honokai Hale Neighborhood Board #34 for the purposes of inviting the Regents, UH President, and Chancellor of the University of Hawaii West Oahu to its neighborhood board meeting to discuss with the community how the Habitat Conservation Preserve would be a superior and preferred end use for a portion of the Private Development Lands and for the University of Hawaii Board of Regents to take immediate action to dedicate 150-acres for such purposes; and
Be it further resolved, that the Makakilo, Kapolei, Honokai Hale Neighborhood Board #34 send a letter to Hawaii State Senator Mike Gabbard, and State Representative Ty Cullen, requesting the two legislators introduce legislation this upcoming legislative session for the necessary approvals for the University of Hawaii West Oahu campus to secure the 150-acre Habitat Conservation Preserve.
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