Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

KM: Springs
DW: Springs.
KM: ‘Ae, oh.
DW: Almost to the springs. Gradually, gradually we extended the road that way, and the road
we had at Kole, into the gate, into the fence. We connected the Kole Road into the Hale
Pöhaku.
KM: You did connect it.
DW: We headed towards Kahinahina past through Päpalekökï.
KM: See, that’s all the way out to here. Here’s Päpalekökï.
DW: Hmm, Päpalekökï yeah, that’s this one [pointing to location on map]. … [thinking]
Kaupakuhale.
KM: Oh, Kaupakuhale. Yes, yes.
DW: Yes, Kaupakuhale.
KM: Oh gosh, okay.
DW: This was a rough road that we barely made it. We had a Portuguese guy, Frank Pavao.
LW: [chuckling]
DW: He’s a treasure [chuckling] but, we had to hire a small bulldozer, the Chow brothers, the
Chow brothers had a ranch…
KM: Cho
LW: Chow, I think Chow.
KM: Okay.
DW: They had a ranch… [thinking]
KM: Kuka‘iau side
DW: Yes, Kuka‘iau.
KM: Okay.
DW: [thinking] Anyhow, he (Chow) had the bulldozer and he built part of the way and then put
an ahu, you know, put stones together. There were many arguments about that, and all
of a sudden [chuckles], we left him alone and it was very cheap construction. I forget how
much a mile, we built this road. They are hunter trails, because when you control the
sheep, you had to get the hunter pressure, because these pockets of sheep would just
chew up the mountain.
KM: What were you protecting There were things like…
DW: What
Conservation efforts on Mauna Kea undertaken to stop decline of forest due to destruction by sheep:
KM: What were you protecting from the sheep What kind of plants
DW: The whole mämane forest, the tree line was quite obviously…the tree line was
decreasing rapidly. From the fence in these areas when the fence where… The original
fence was zig- zag like this you know [pointing to fence line on map]
KM: Uh-hmm.
DW: And this is the boundary, Hawaiian Homes and State Land.
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