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The sustainability radio show airs every other Friday from noon - 1:00 PM on KKCR. Tune to 91.9 FM island wide or you can stream the show via the internet at www.kkcr.org.
Today we talk with in-studio guest and taro farmer Don Heacock and phone-in guest Deputy Director of Oregon's Watershed Enhancement Board (OWEB) about using the watershed, or ahupua'a here in Hawai'i, as a geographical boundry to manage local resources. We'll briefly discuss House Bill 1948 and Senate Bill 1853 that both seek to set up 'Aha Moku Councils in all the traditional moku throughout Hawai'i. A moku, or district, is a land division typically made up of two or more ahupua'a, or watershed systems. Kaua'i has five moku: Na Pali, Halele'a, Ko'olau, Puna and Kona.
Guest were:
Don Heacock is the District Aquatic Biologist for the Department of Land and Natural Resources. His passion is preserving aquatic ecosystems. A day on the job can range from helping whales during a stranding to pollution clean-ups. He is also an off-the-grid homeowner, taro farmer and member of he Nawiliwili Watershed Council here on Kaua¹i.
Ken Bierly is Deputy Director of the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board. Ken is now a bureaucrat who started out as a wetland ecologist. He is a passionate advocate for community based watershed scale conservation. He currently manages the agency grant program and coordinates with recovery planning for salmon. On weekends you can find him with shovel or polaski attacking invasive blackberries in a watershed project near his home.
Callers were:
Makaala Kaaumoana is the Executive Director of the Hanalei Watershed Hui.
Rhonda Libre is the President/Executive Director with the Kaua'i Westside Watershed Council.
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