Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

AL: Yes.
KM: That’s where your camp was
AL: Uh-hmm.
KM: So, your water was coming from Waihü, like that
AL: Yes, yes.
KM: And you said, it was Harry Fergerstrom who planted those trees up on top The pine
trees
AL: Yes, he put ‘um up. Harry would go there, he’d go some place there and he’d see. But
the only thing is of course he…well, maybe that’s the only ones that grow good.
KM: Yes.
AL: It’s not the native trees.
KM: Not native, yes.
AL: He was thinking of pine trees.
KM: Yes, adapted to that alpine kind of environment. There weren’t really many alpine type
native trees that were fast growing also, yeah.
BL: No, strange thing too, about the trees that he planted. None of the coniferous trees that
he planted ever begat themselves.
KM: They didn’t spread
BL: No, they never did.
KM: Interesting.
BL: None of the, I gathered cones from each one of them just to see and there was…
KM: No viable
BL: No viable.
KM: Interesting.
BL: I thought so, too.
KM: Mana maybe.
BL: I don’t know, but it’s true, all the way from Kaluakauka all the way up, way above Pu‘u
Lä‘au you know
KM: Yes, the Pu‘u Lä‘au tree patch.
BL: Right… [end of interview – continued on May 17 th 2002]
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