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Kawaiholo o Kānewai a me Kalauhaʻihaʻi
(2026-05-06) Kohlby Soong; Kohlby Soong; Chanel Yee; Grace Cajiski; Yinphan Tsang
This University of Hawai’i at Mānoa Social-Ecological Systems Analysis of Natural Resource and Environmental Management class project developed an educational poster on the social-ecological dynamics of Kalauhaʻihaʻi and Kānewai, the last two remaining loko iʻa in Maunalua Bay, in collaboration with Maunalua Fishpond Heritage Center (MFHC). These remnant wahi pana are testaments to the power of thriving social-ecological systems to be ʻāina momona (abundant food systems). Generations of colonization, land privatization, and urban development—including the Henry J. Kaiser Hawaiʻi Kai development in the 1960s and the 1990 Kalanianaʻole Highway expansion—severed freshwater flows, destroyed habitat, and disconnected cultural practices from place. Drawing on a constructivist epistemology that recognizes multiple knowledge systems as equally valid, we integrated peer-reviewed literature, grey literature, oral histories, and experiential community hana at MFHC workdays to synthesize a comprehensive understanding of the Kalauhaʻihaʻi and Kānewai SES. Using the Linked SES Framework (Biggs et al.), we explore the nested social-ecological relationships that connect watershed hydrology, loko iʻa ecosystem, keystone species, and community caretaking. We find that a participation and implementation gap (not a knowledge gap) currently constrains loko iʻa restoration, and that ʻāina education is a primary lever for closing it. We designed our poster to accompany teaching at the pond, centering ʻike kupuna while also highlighting biophysical processes. This work is part of the movement to cultivate the next generation of stewards of these wahi pana.
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Keawāwa Wetland Action Plan
(2026-04) Henriques, Alexander; Balbin, Mary; Bobby, Fulton; Tsang, Yinphan; Livable Maunalua Hui
In summary, the goal of this action plan is to address the emerging dead zone near the center of the marsh part of Keawāwa Wetland, a 3-acre wetland next to Koko Marina in Hawaiʻi Kai (also known as Maunalua Bay). The main recommendations of this plan include further water quality testing utilizing a YSI as well as contaminant testing in collaboration with the University of Hawaiʻi’s S-LAB, removing excess biomass from the marsh prior to the wet season, and fostering deeper collaboration between Livable Maunalua Hui and Oʻahu Club (the co-owners of the property). In implementing the recommendations included in this plan, Livable Maunalua Hui can enhance their existing initiatives to restore the wetland through biocultural stewardship and improve the local community’s connection to ʻāina.
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Letter addressed to Richard H. Chambers about his stepping down from chairmanship (1982); Memorandum to the Pacific Territories committee from Richard Chambers a new Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia (1981); Letter correspondence between Harry Gibbs and James R. Browning about an invitation to attend the 5th south Pacific Judicial Conference (1981); Information regarding South Pacific Judicial Conferences 1-4
(1981)
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Memorandum to Judge Chambers and Kennedy from James Browning about an enclosed Memorandum from Roger Ritter about a Draft Bill on the Pacific Territories (1982); Letter correspondence between Richard Chambers and Carl H. Imlay about the Department of Justice's preliminary draft designed to repeal several statutory provisions relating to the Virgin Islands and attached is the Bill and analysis of the Bill (1982); Letter correspondence between the committee of Pacific Territories and WIlliam E. Davis about the Department of Justice's Bill (1982)
(1982)
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Letter correspondence Edward DLG. Pangelinan and Robert A. Hefner about comments on the Department of Interior proposed changes to 48 USC 1694 and attached is the proposed Amendment (1982); Letter correspondence between the Law Offices of Micronesian Legal Services corporation and Senator Lowell P. Weicker about the "Senate committee on Energy and National Resources' Draft Legislation" (1982); Letter correspondence between James R. Browning and Richard Chambers about an attached letter correspondence between Carl H. Imlay, et al. about edits to a draft of legislation (1982)
(1982)
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Letter correspondence between Richard Chambers, et al. about a proposed letter regarding legislation (1982); Proposed letter correspondence between Carl H. Imlay and Anthoney Kennedy about proposed legislation (1982); Letter correspondence between Paul Calvo and Pedro San Juan about comments on a preliminary draft of legislation (1982); Letter correspondence between Antonio B. Wonpat and Charles H. Troutman about the Interior Department's draft proposal for amending the Organic Act of Guam (1982); Letter correspondence between Pedro A. San Juan and Daniel H. MacMeekin about San Juan's request for comments on draft legislation (1982)
(1982)
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Letter addressed to Richard Chambers about his Wish to be relieved of the Chairmanship of the Committee on the Pacific Territories (1982); Letter correspondence between Anthoney Kennedy, et al. about the Pacific Territories Committee (1982); Letter addressed to Richard I. Miyamoto about his transfer (1982); Letter correspondence between the Pacific Territories committee and Judge kennedy confirming a meeting (1982); Letter correspondence between Richard Chambers and Jim Browning about Northern Marianas (1982); Memorandum between Anthoney Kennedy and Jim Browning about the Northern Marianas (1982); Letter correspondence between James R. Browning and Alfred Laureta about Laureta taking home leave (1982)
(1982)
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Letter correspondence between Warren E. Burger and Anthoney M. Kennedy about "Pacific Territories committee" (1985); Email correspondence Jenifer Hee, Soifer Aviam, and Jon Van Dyke about the South Pacific Judicial conference history (2007)
(1985)
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Memorandum between Judge Kennedy and the Pacific Territories Committee about the "Sixth South Pacific Judicial Conference" (1984); Address to the South Pacific Judicial Conference by Anthony M. Kennedy; Report of the Judicial Conference Committee on Pacific Territories, Agenda No. F-14, by Anthony M. Kennedy (1986)
(1984)
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Memorandum between the Pacific Territories Committee and WIlliam E. Davis about "Proposed Federal Jurisdiction over Marshall Islands" (1985); Receipt of names in Correspondence (1985); Letter correspondence between Harold Fong and Daniel Bent about the "Impeachment of Federal Criminal Jurisdiction over the Kwajalein Missile Range, Marshall Islands" (1985); Excerpt from the House Congressional Record, Sec. 292 Jurisdiction (1985)
(1985)