Report Title:

DLNR; Trails; Walking Trails; Native Plants; Appropriations

 

Description:

Designates the Pi'ilani walking trail from Makena to Kapalua on the island of Maui as a Hawaiian coastal cultural heritage corridor and appropriates funds to improve the trail.

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1028

TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO WALKING TRAILS.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 

     SECTION 1.  The legislature recognizes the importance of walking trails as part of Hawaii's natural resources and cultural heritage.  The alaloa trail on the island of Maui, also known as the king's highway, is an ancient trail that encircled the island of Maui, connecting villages and heiaus scattered on Maui's coastal areas.  King Pi'ilani, a fourteenth-century chief of East Maui and the Hana districts began construction of the alaloa trail, which was completed by his son.  Stretching more than one hundred thirty-eight miles around Maui, it became the only ancient highway to encircle the coastline of any of the Hawaiian islands.  A Hawaiian elder, Eddie Pu, has walked the entire Pi'ilani trail, as it is known today, for the past thirty years as a spiritual quest that renews and reconnects him to the life and energy of the land and his ancestors.

     The purpose of this Act is to designate the Pi'ilani trail from Makena to Kapalua as an important Hawaiian coastal cultural heritage corridor and to appropriate funds for trail improvements, including but not limited to the planting of native Hawaiian plants, so that the trail can be used and enjoyed by more members of the general public.

     SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $        , or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2007-2008, and the same sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2008-2009, to reestablish and improve the Pi'ilani trail on the island of Maui.

     The sums appropriated shall be expended by the department of land and natural resources for the purposes of this Act.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2007.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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