From Maui News

Maui County has purchased 64 acres of undeveloped property fronting Kaehu Bay, preserving the wetland and fishponds in a $996,000 deal brokered with the Trust for Public Land and other groups, according to an announcement Tuesday.

“We have been fortunate to work with the Paukukalo and Waiehu communities, The Trust for Public Land and the Maui County Council to purchase this invaluable coastal land and save it from proposed development,” said Mayor Alan Arakawa. “Our local communities are especially dependent on our shorelines for subsistence, recreation and well-being, so it is important that the coastal wetlands at Kaehu Bay will now remain a priceless cultural and natural resource on Maui for generations to come.”

The property includes more than 4,500 feet of shoreline at Kaehu Bay, located between the mouths of the Waiehu and Iao streams. It is one of the last undeveloped shoreline parcels and includes a network of wetlands and fishponds…

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