Ka‘u Community Nears Its Goal
To Add Waiohonu To Forest Reserve

“I’ve never seen a proposal so rich with prom ise as this one,” said Susan Marinelli, a Hawai‘i resident who has been doing conser vation work for 21 years.

Last August, the Board of Land and Natural Resources voted to transfer a wild stretch of Ka‘u beach in Waiohonu from its department’s Land Division to the state Division of Forestry and Wildlife to man age as part of the Ka‘u forest reserve, much to the elation of conservationists who wish to protect the area’s rare native coastal strand plant community.