Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

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Laumai‘a, Hopuwai, Keanakolu.
Had gorse out there when you were young
No more.
No.
Only gorse I seen was by what you call that, Shipman’s place.
Pu‘u ‘Ö‘ö, that one, or Pua‘äkala
Puakala. That’s the only place, the gorse was in the gulch.
Oh yeah, by Pua‘äkala.
Worse than puakala that. You know that weed we get, puakala.
That’s right, yes the native poppy.
This is worse.
Oh, yes.
It’s really sad, not too long ago, I went over the mountain.
You did
With Sonny’s daughter.
Yes.
Oh, sad.
Thick the gorse, yeah
Thick, real thick.
Can’t even get through it.
No. Before, when you go around Humu‘ula you look the mountain you see nothing but
pig digs around, you no see nothing of that now Now it’s all gorse right up to Hopuwai.
Hopuwai, kind of hakahaka, but to there it’s thick.
It’s going to be a real challenge and you know the ranch is responsible to clean up.
Yes.
Leasing the land, to clean that up, according to the lease. And the lease ends in August.
I don’t know what the ranch is going to do.
Yes, that’s real tough. When you went out there, even like between Humu‘ula, Pu‘u ‘Ö‘ö
up to Hopuwai like that. Did anyone ever point out any old Hawaiian places to you out
there that you remember
No.
You folks didn’t see stone walls or old house sites or things
Get lot of stone walls.
Get stone walls. Part of the ranch or earlier
That’s the olden days, stone walls.
Olden days.
Like down below Kalai‘eha House, get part of the stone wall too.
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