Spring 2025

This semester project sought to provide the North Shore Community Land Trust’s (NSCLT) sub organization, Waialeʻe Lako Pono (WLP), the stewardship organization of a 30-acre restoration site within the ahupuaʻa of Waialeʻe, with a comprehensive conceptual master plan for future reference and adoption. This document is intended to consolidate place-based and site-specific natural resource management objectives into a foundational framework to guide future design and decision-making for leaders and community members at WLP. This conceptual master plan considers and incorporates the needs and perspectives outlined in the 2019 community vision document into a streamlined implementation guide, and references Kawela Farrant’s 2020 thesis as a guiding document. After multiple class visits to on-site work days during the Spring 2025 semester, review of existing materials, and discussions with Kawela and other leaders at WLP, four main management methods emerged to explore as sections in this master plan; hydrological influences (which includes natural and social aspects), regenerative organization models, university engagement opportunities, and nature-based solutions. This document is organized into two sections: the first will explore existing conditions of each of the four areas and the second will evaluate and consider new management practices, and synthesize proposed management pathways.