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Kamehamehaʻs fish pond and kalo patches are noted. Also noted is the nearby shoreline named Mahu. Kauholanuiamahu is the grandfather of Līloa.

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Kamehameha Retires to Kauhola After Battle

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Kamehameha Retires to Kauhola After Battle

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After "the last of Laupahoehoe" Kamehameha and his men retire to Kauhola to farm.

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Hawaii Countyʻs Public Access, Open Space and Natural Resources (PONC) fund supports the preservation of Kauhola.

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Hawaii Real Estate Market & Trends | Hawaii Life

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Throughout the United States, county governments have dedicated funds to purchase and maintain land as open space for conservation, recreation, and historic preservation. Relative newcomers to the concept, each of the four counties in Hawaiʻi has created a similar fund via charter amendment, with Kauai and Maui pioneering in 2002, Hawaii County in 2006, and Honolulu County (Oʻahu) in 2007.

Here are links to each of those funds:
Map from 1897 showing section of North Kohala coastline approved for County Open Space Purchase. This is an example of documentation for the importance of these lands to the history of Kamehameha I.
Hawaii County Open Space Fund Successful at Protecting Important Places

In the face of inevitable continued development of the Hawaiian islands, there is no question that the residents of each island overwhelmingly support the protection of places that have important ecological, historical, cultural or recreational value. And there is no question that the property taxes dedicated to these funds have gone to protect important places. Hawaiʻi Countyʻs program has been the poster child for the process.

Hawaii Countyʻs Public Access, Open Space and Natural Resources (PONC) fund was approved and reaffirmed by public vote at 2% of property taxes, and later added an additional .25% for maintenance of the properties purchased. So far 14 properties have been purchased - in total about 4,451 acres. The total cost was $39.34 million, and PONC county funds were leveraged with $10.5 million in matching funds from the State and/or private land trusts and donations.
Aerial of the area in the historic map today. Kauhola Point in the foreground is preserved and County Resolutions are in place for the adjacent shoreline at Halelua, as well as Hapuu to Kapanaia Bay.
The Hawaii County Charter Commission is reviewing a proposal for the 2020 ballot asking voters to cut back open space funding to a total of 1% of property taxes, including both acquisition and maintenance funds. Other changes would allow the County Council to suspend the fund in "emergencies" or when "too much money accumulates".

With the effects of the recent Kileaua eruption in the Puna district affecting the Countyʻs budget, it is easy to see why the $19.6 million in the PONC fund would be a tempting target. However, it was three years ago when I testified at the County Council meetings that resulted in approval of the resolutions authorizing purchase of the Halelua and Hapuu to Kapanaia properties to protect this stretch of coastline with undisputed conservation values - cultural/historical, recreational, and environmental. Only one of the properties has been purchased to date, and that was only achieved in April of this year. The remaining North Kohala properties already approved for purchase by the County Council have a value in excess of $10 million.

In other words, the balance in the open space fund is not for lack of property in need of protection. The County itself has been slow to spend money under its own process.

County Open Space Trends on Maui, Oahu and Kauai

One of the other arguments made for reducing Hawaii Island 's open space funding is that it is more than the percentages allocated on other islands. Ignoring the differences in the size of the property tax base relative to the protection opportunities, letʻs look at the other island briefly.

This year Maui County voters approved allowing their 1% fund to be used for maintenance as well as acquisition. The Council member arguing for the change explained that after the fund spent $9.5 million to purchase Hamakualoa, it took him another 2-1/2 years to get funding needed $75,000 for signage and fencing from other sources. Earlier preservation purchases on Maui include Waihee Dairy, Kaehu Bay, and Kawaikapu Preserve. There is $6 million currently in the fund, not a lot of money given land prices on Maui.

On Kaui, voters initially approved .5% of property taxes for their Public Access, Open Space and Natural Resources Fund, and then raised that amount to 1.5% ten years later and then voted to return to a lower amount as money has not been spent. While the existence of the fund reflects "Kauai residents' desire that the island's special heritage sites and experiences will be preserved, the environment protected, and recreation and access opportunities for all of the people will be enhanced and protected for all time," it has proven difficult to identify willing landowners on properties submitted by the public for protection.
Map from Turtle Bay Resort
On Oʻahu, as on the Big Island, the City and County of Honolulu has successfully partnered with the state, federal government, and both national and local land trusts to leverage open space funding. Most notably, expansion plans at Turtle Bay Resort on the North Shore had for decades triggered community concern over the loss of lands with significant conservation values. The historic agreement reached in 2015 for $45 million, included purchase of 52.6 acres by the state and 7.6 acres by the City and County, and placed conservation easements over 600 acres owned by Turtle Bay Resort. More than 4.5 miles of coastline has been protected.

Conservation and development are two sides of the same coin. If you want to participate in protecting special places in Hawaiʻi, Hawaii Lifeʻs Conservation and Legacy Lands initiative is here to help.

Posted on in Big Island, Conservation, Hawaii, Kauai, Land, Maui, Oahu, Conservation, Conservation and Legacy Lands, County Charter, Historic Preservation, Legacy Lands, Natural Resources, Open Space, Preservation, Public Access

About the Author

Beth Thoma Robinson

Beth Thoma Robinson is a REALTOR Broker, Director, Conservation and Legacy Lands , BIC with Hawai'i Life. You can email me at beth@hawaiilife.com or via phone at (808) 443-4588.

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Throughout the United States, county governments have dedicated funds to purchase and maintain land as open space for conservation, recreation, and historic preservation. Relative newcomers to the concept, each of the four counties in Hawaiʻi has created a similar fund via charter amendment, with Kauai and Maui pioneering in 2002, Hawaii County in 2006, and Honolulu County (Oʻahu) in 2007.

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Kamehameha Living in Kauhola; Kauhola Period or Laupahoehoe

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Kamehameha Living in Kauhola; Kauhola Period or Laupahoehoe

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Kauhola Period aka Laupahoehoe

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ʻO Kauhola ke kane, ʻO Neiula ka wahine.

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OHA's Kīpuka Database is a geographical information system (GIS) that utilizes the latest mapping technologies to provide a window into native Hawaiian lands.

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kau.hola Pukui-Elbert Haw to Eng,

vi.

1. To open, unfold, as a tapa; to expand, as a flower in bloom. Cf. hola.

2. To lose consciousness, as in an epileptic seizure; heart attack, stroke.

KAU-HO-LA Andrews Haw to Eng,

s. Some disease of the neck and chest.

KAU-HO-LA Andrews Haw to Eng,

v. To open; to expand; to unfold, as a kapa folded up; as a flower in blooming.

Kauhola (kă'u-hō'-la), n. Parker Haw to Eng,

Disease of apoplectic nature resulting in a sudden loss of consciousness.

Kauhola (kă'u-hō'-la), v. Parker Haw to Eng,

To open; to expand; to unfold, as a tapa; as a flower in blooming. Syn: Uhola.

Kauhola (kā'u-ho'lă): Parker Haw to Eng,

the art of stupefying fish. Cape, Kohala, Hawaii.

Kauhola Place Names of Hawaiʻi,

Point, Kohala qd., Hawaiʻi. (For. Sel. 268–269.)

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He huʻa no ka nalu o Kauhola. A white water foam for the wave of Kauhola. This is a line from a mele kūʻauhau for Queen Emma Kalanikaumakaamano Kaleleonālani Rooke.

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Kauhola Point Lighthouse Near the northern tip of the Big Island, Kauhola Point juts out into the Pacific Ocean. Steep cliffs surround the point on either side, and reefs extend from the point for roughly two miles. After several ships wrecked off the point, the Hawaiian Government constructed a wood-frame, forty-foot tower, topped by an enclosed lamp room.

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Kauhola Point has been used as a gathering place since ancient times. King Kamehameha I used the land as a place of respite after times of war—a place where he could focus on family, recreation, and agriculture. Local lore even tells of him teaching his wife Ka`ahumanu how to surf in the waters of Maliu offshore.

Today, families in North Kohala enjoy fishing, swimming, and surfing on the property, which local school children in Malama Kai Foundation's Ocean Warriors Program also use as an outdoor classroom for marine educational programs. Local educators also have plans to use the area for on-site agriculture, native reforestation, and shorebird rehabilitation programs.

In April 2012, The Trust for Public Land purchased the 27.5 acre Kauhola Point property and transferred it to the nonprofit community organization Maika'i Kamakani 'O Kohala, Inc., which will preserve the undeveloped open viewplane, maintain access for cultural and recreational purposes, and steward the property's cultural sites.

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malama kai foundation's ocean warriors program

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Kauhola Point has been used as a gathering place since ancient times and is still used for camping, fishing, swimming, and surfing.

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FINNEY, BEN R. “SURFING IN ANCIENT HAWAII.” The Journal of the Polynesian Society 68, no. 4 (1959): 327–47. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20703767.

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Halelua- East of Kauhola Point

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Hawaiʻi State Library

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Subject: Kauhola, Hawaii
appears in the legend: "Story of Lonoikamakahiki"
in the book: Fornander, Abraham, Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-Lore, Volume 4
on pages: 256-363
HSL Call Number: H 398.2 Fo v.4
UHM Call Number: AM101 .B4473 v.4 1985
Online: http://www.archive.org/details/FornanderCollection4 Subject: Kauhola, Hawaii
appears in the legend: "Legend of Halemano"
in the book: Fornander, Abraham, Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-Lore, Volume 5
on pages: 228-263
HSL Call Number: H 398.2 Fo v.5
UHM Call Number: AM101 .B4473 v.5 1985
Online: http://www.archive.org/details/FornanderCollection5 Subject: Kauhola, Hawaii
appears in the legend: "Legend of Kalaepuni and Kalaehina"
in the book: Fornander, Abraham, Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-Lore, Volume 5
on pages: 198-207
HSL Call Number: H 398.2 Fo v.5
UHM Call Number: AM101 .B4473 v.5 1985
Online: http://www.archive.org/details/FornanderCollection5 Subject: Kauhola, Hawaii
appears in the legend: "Stories From the Legend of Laieikawai"
in the book: Fornander, Abraham, Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-Lore, Volume 5
on pages: 406-417
HSL Call Number: H 398.2 Fo v.5
UHM Call Number: AM101 .B4473 v.5 1985
Online: http://www.archive.org/details/FornanderCollection5 Subject: Kauhola, Hawaii
appears in the legend: "Keaulumoku's Prophecy"
in the book: Skinner, Charles M., Myths & Legends of Our New Possessions & Protectorate
on pages: 276-277
HSL Call Number: H 398.2 S
UHM Call Number: GR112 .S5
Online: http://www.archive.org/details/mythslegendsofou05skin Subject: Kauhola, Hawaii
appears in the legend: "Legend of Halemano"
in the book: Fornander, Abraham, Selections from Fornander's Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-Lore
on pages: 250-293
HSL Call Number: H 398.2 Fo
UHM Call Number: GR385 .F67 Subject: Kauhola, Hawaii
appears in the legend: "Kaiana, the Last of the Hawaiian Knights"
in the book: Kalakaua, David, and Rollin Mallory Daggett, The Legends and Myths of Hawaii: The Fables and Folk-Lore of a Strange People
on pages: 383-408
HSL Call Number: H 398.2 K
UHM Call Number: GR385 .K35
Online: http://www.archive.org/details/legendsmythsofha00kala Subject: Kauhola, Hawaii
appears in the legend: "The Prophecies of Keaulumoku"
in the book: Kalakaua, David, and Rollin Mallory Daggett, The Legends and Myths of Hawaii: The Fables and Folk-Lore of a Strange People
on pages: 353-367
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UHM Call Number: GR385 .K35
Online: http://www.archive.org/details/legendsmythsofha00kala Subject: Kauhola, Hawaii
appears in the legend: "The Story of Laieikawai"
in the book: Kalakaua, David, and Rollin Mallory Daggett, The Legends and Myths of Hawaii: The Fables and Folk-Lore of a Strange People
on pages: 455-480
HSL Call Number: H 398.2 K
UHM Call Number: GR385 .K35
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YOU SEARCHED FOR: The Subject: Kauhola, Hawaii Your search retrieved 9 references.Results are displayed in order by Subject, Source, Legend.

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“Laieikawai: A Legend of the Hawaiian Islands.” The Journal of American Folklore 13, no. 51 (1900): 241–60. https://doi.org/10.2307/532910.

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McGregor, Davianna Pōmaika‘i. “Waipi‘o Mano Wai: Waipi‘o, Source of Water and Life.” In Na Kua`aina: Living Hawaiian Culture, 49–82. University of Hawai’i Press