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Don Couch Announcement About Monkey Pod Trees Upstaged Community Meeting?

WHAT did he say??     Maybe caused by holiday weekend “hangover,” combined with World Whale Day all day Saturday activities, or guys thinking it was a Monday, but a light turnout at this month’s community meeting did not dampen the enthusiasm of Nutritional & Physical Actiity Coalition’s (NPAC) Mike Morris and Sandra Mc Guinness as they addressed making Kihei more...

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Stop the Chop! Save Monkey Pod Trees on S. Kihei Rd.

Kihei residents, Kihei Community Association members, members of the Maui Outdoor Circle Board, and members of the Maui County Arborist Committee gathered Saturday,  June 11th to encourage Mayor Arakawa to preserve the four large monkey pod treees located on South Maui Road in front of the Maui Schooner condominiums.  The mayor has scheduled a closed door meeting with the KCA board on Monday...

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Fate of Monkey Pod Trees on S Kihe Road

Here’s how the Monkey Pod Tree grove along So Kihei road presently appears, with the majesty of the four challanged trees and their roots exposed for examination. The community awaits the decision of the mayor on the fate of the four  40 + year old trees, whose roots have been upsetting the sidewalk built over them. The county arborist says remove the trees, but an independent arborist...

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No decision on Kihei “Exceptional Trees” nomination by Council

Three years after the Maui County Arborist’s Committee unanimously accepted KCA member Dr. Marilyn Colvin’s nomination of the “MPQ,” the first four (southernmost) Monkey Pod trees fronting the Maui Schooner Condos makai SKR for exceptional status designation, Council Member Don Guzman (Kahului)scheduled a hearing at his EAR committee on the matter this week (3/18/14) The matter was...

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Why are the trees being numbered? (Answer)

UPDATE: (8/16/12)  Mahalo to Councilman Don Couch for the answer to this inquiry. The numbers were painted on the trees by the County Arborist, to assess the tree’s impacts to the proposed pouring of sidewalks with forms being placed & potential root pruning to the stability of the trees. – Each tree has a number that is 3 times diameter at breast height, D.B.H.; this distance is...

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Threatened Trees Are Out of The Woods

By ILIMA LOOMIS – Staff Writer (iloomis@mauinews.com) , The Maui News KIHEI – The monkeypods will stay. More than a year after county officials first announced that four monkeypod trees would be removed along South Kihei Road, sparking a back-and-forth battle with tree lovers who wanted to see them saved, officials confirmed that they would accept the recommendation of the Kihei...

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KCA reaches agreement with County Administration regarding Trees on S. Kihei Road

Following a KCA Street Tree Committee meeting with Public Works Director David Goode on March 8, the Board of Directors voted unamimously to submit the requsted letter of agreement to the Director to leave the trees in place and get the sidewalk repaved as soon as possible. Here is the letter. March 17, 2012 David Goode Director of Public Works 200 South High St. Kalana O Maui Bldg 4th fl...

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Kihei Street Trees keep KCA in the (Maui) News

Sunday March 4,2012  Maui News; Matthew Thayer FIRST PHOTO: Supporters of four monkeypod trees facing possible removal wave signs along South Kihei Road on Saturday morning. Marilyn Colvin (waving) said a proposal to move the trees rather than cut them down still misses the mark. “We want them here; this is our urban forest,” she said. “We want them to to stay here, and we...

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Kihei residents take to the street to “save the trees”

A vibrant assembly ranging from keiki to kupuna, lined S Kihei Road (SKR) Saturday (3/3/12) morning, under the watchful guidance of community officer Brad Hickle, exercising their constitutional rights, while not violating MCC 12.42 for “sign waving,”  to express support to keep all the Monkey Pod trees lining the roadway on the makai side in the 900 block in place, where they have...

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“Maui Now,” www.mauinow.com, featured article 2/29/12- Kihei Trees

This MAUI NOW article appears on their website, http://mauinow.com/ Plans to Move Kihei Monkey Pods Prompt Protest February 29th, 2012 · No Comments · Comments Via Facebook (7) · Featured, Maui News Share|                           By Wendy Osher A coalition of community groups are joining together this weekend to rally against the...

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Kihei Community plans rally to protect street trees Saturday 3/3/12 900 AM

In reaction to Councilman Don Couch’s public announcement at the KCA monthly meeting on 2/21/12, that the now notorious quartet of Monkey Pod trees on So. Kihei Rd  (SKR)  makai, fronting and shading the Maui Schooner resort, will be uprooted and moved, a coalition of members of the Maui Outdoor Circle, Maui County Arborist Committee and KCA’s Street Tree Committee announced a rally...

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Who is caring for Kihei’s old trees?

A grove of Monkey pod trees literally overshadows the farmer’s market by the former Suda’s Store (now ABC) on land owned by the Weinberg Foundation on So Kihei Rd in North Kihei. From a distance, the aged stately trees seem fine, but recent “pruning” does not appear to be done in the best manner for the trees. As Maui Time’s Anu asked, ” If Maui is full of...

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KCA Street Committee says, “Save da trees; Cover da Roots.”

  The very active Street Tree Committee is already taking action, asking the administration to re-cover the exposed roots and irrigate those now infamous four Monkey Pod Trees on S Kihei Road to prevent damage. While the administration has readily agreed to cover the exposed roots, while deciding how to do so, the endangered tree area has remained unchanged for months. The committee has offered...

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Community Holds Keys to 4 Kihei Trees’ Future

Mayor, staff meet with KCA, present possible alternatives June 18, 2011 By MELISSA TANJI – Staff Writer (mtanji@mauinews.com) , The Maui News Four monkeypod trees in Kihei that tree lovers and community members want to save from Maui County plans to cut them down are safe – at least for now. The fate of the trees fronting the Maui Schooner Resort, as well as the fate of other...

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Mayor Arakawa Meets with KCA BOD 6/13/11 Regarding trees on South Kihei Road

        PRESS RELEASE FROM KIHEI COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION 6/14/11 Mayor Arakawa’s meeting with KCA Board of Directors on the trees on South Kihei Road The KCA board would like to express our appreciation to Mayor Arakawa and his staff for meeting with us on Monday concerning the fate of the four monkey pod trees on So. Kihei Road. We value the fact that the administration took the time to...

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Aged Trees in Kihei to be cut down by County?

Four Monkey Pod trees at 790 So Kihei Road are slated to be cut down  soon, apparently because they are upsetting a portion of the sidewalk. The trees, estimated to be at least 40 years old, are located on the makai side of the road by the Maui Schooner resort. A group of residents are appealing to the county to halt this process until the public can weigh in and offer alternatives to this...

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Maui Green and Beautiful Newsletter and Event

    10/10/23 #kihei We are posting this M G & B Newsletter for community awareness 2023 Update Aloha Members and Tree Friends! LAHAINA BANYAN & TREESCAPE The Lahaina Banyan, treasured symbol of hope and renewal, is recovering, thanks to renowned Oahu arborist, Steve Nimz of Tree Solutions Hawaii. Steve and the Treecovery group are also guiding the recovery of the 10-15% trees...

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The grove on S. Kihei Road remains in place

  7/23/22 #kihei     The only place along S. Kihei Road (SKR) where you can drive, walk (there IS sidewalk here) or bicycle (if you trust the sharrows*) beneath a grove of shade trees is between Kulanihakoi and Waipuilani.  This grove of Monkey Pod trees are now protected to some extent because they have been declared exceptional trees.   ...

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Walking Safely Along and Crossing South Kihei Road

6/5/18 #kihei  UPDATE  KCA testified for our requested crosswalk on SKR this afternoon at Chair Cochran’s IEM committee, and it was passed unanimously 6/2/18 #kihei. So we are walking along that short pleasant area of SKR makai  shaded by the long challenged grove of Monkey Pod trees; you know the ones the mayor is always trying to remove and blames them for every...

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Can Ulua Beach Park area be restored?

UPDATE: Unfortunately it now appears the county administration will not accept an offer from this coalition to purchase and relocate several large monkey pod trees at no county expense. The group has offered to replace some of the small trees just planted after removal of numerous healthy mature shade trees in the County parking lot. In a very positive environment this morning (5/4/12,)...

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