Page 3 - Hawaii Island MidWeek - Feb 3, 2021

PROOF POSITIVE
Stewards Of Cultural Landscapes
By Laura Kaakua, CEO of Hawaiian Islands Land Trust
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
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Hawai‘i is blessed with some of the most beautiful, fer- tile and culturally significant places in the world. Hawai- ian Islands Land Trust is a nonprofit that has protected 21,500 acres of Hawaiʻi’s coastlines, cultural land- scapes, and farms and ranch- es. HILT is Hawaiʻi’s locally based, statewide and nation- ally accredited land trust, protecting and stewarding lands through purchases and conservation easements. The organization is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2021.
holds open to the public and for education at no cost. We have kept our public preserves open during these hard times to help promote individual health and well-being in our communities, with adherence to social distancing and safety guidelines.
ments have already protected lands such as MAʻO Farms’ Palikea parcel on O‘ahu, large sections of ʻUlupalakua Ranch on Maui, and Puʻu o Hoku Ranch on Molokaʻi.
ment will inextricably alter Hawai‘i, sacrificing the very core of what makes these is- lands so special. Hawaiʻi’s people need places to recon- nect with the land, one anoth- er, and themselves.
HILT owns and actively restores and stewards pub- lic preserves throughout the Hawaiian Islands, which it
HILT also provides oppor- tunities for farmers, ranchers and fishpond stewards to per- manently commit their land to food production. Selling con- servation easements provides funds for farmers, ranchers and fishpond stewards to in- vest in their operations, and makes farming more afford- able by bringing down the land value to a true agricul- tural price. Conservation ease-
Hawai‘i’s identity, val- ues, culture and economy are based in the health of the land. Losing coastlines, fertile agricultural lands and historic landscapes to overdevelop-
To explore the ways you can volunteer and support Hawaiʻi’s conservation and food-producing future, visit hilt.org.
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