Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

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Paddock lands of the ‘äina mauna–Pä‘auhau,
Hänaipoe, Keanakolu, Waipunalei, Laumai‘a, Humu‘ula and Kalai‘eha:
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Here, this is HTS Plat 613, Mauna Kea and the Forest Reserve Lands. I’m assuming
you’re talking about these big fenced paddocks here
That’s right. Where’s Hänaipoe
Hänaipoe…here’s Hänaipoe Camp and Paddock right there.
Okay, these cattle from Pä‘auhau, yearling heifers, would be driven to Hänaipoe, and
then next day, very early, you take these cattle to Keanakolu.
You come all the way around Here’s Keanakolu Cabin here.
So, in the meantime, the year before, you’ve done the same thing, taking cattle up here.
Now, these have grown out.
At Keanakolu or Humu‘ula, Kalai‘eha
All through here, Keanakolu right through Kalai‘eha. Those are all heifers. You take these
yearlings up and you’d have a different crew, the Humu‘ula crew that picks up a
thousand or twelve-hundred, two year old heifers. Bring ‘um to Keanakolu and then you’d
come down, this gang would meet this gang, and you’d switch. This Humu‘ula gang
would take this bunch of cattle up to Keanakolu.
Wow!
And the Waimea gang would take these down. So these are two year olds coming down.
They get down to Makahälau and then they were separated. All the good ones were
saved for breeding, all the junk ones were sent to Honolulu. They were fattened up there.
This whole area, Kalai‘eha, Humu‘ula, Keanakolu, was all good fattening lands also
For heifers, yeah. And another thing, they were fairly safe from bulls, so they wouldn’t get
häpai. This was all mountain country, no bulls, forest, no bulls.
You folks maintained fence lines through here all the time right As a part of keeping the
cattle out of the forests
Most of it, yes. Except where they touched Shipman’s land of Pu‘u ‘Ö‘ö. Then it was a
fifty-fifty deal. But all state lands.
Yes, mauka fence
Yes.
When the cattle came from this side, it was early in the morning when they met. Perhaps
about what time, Rally
About daylight.
He told me, he said, it’s too bad, it would be nice if you could go up there and see.
Because when the cattle come together and the herds pass, they don’t mix up, the men
were that good. They said, it is so beautiful because there’s a water hole there, Rally
At Keanakolu, yes.
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