Screen shot of the Halelea Moku on the north shore of Kauai from GoogleEarth.
Island Breath offers preview of Ahupuaa map of Kauai for use with GoogleEarth software.
Since 2007, two Island Breath editors (Jonathan Jay and Juan Wilson) have been working with the Aha Keole Council, and others, to establish a map of the traditional Hawaiian land divisions of Moku and Ahupuaa (roughly bio-regions and major wastersheds respectively).
In November 2008, they published their efforts and the Kauai Ahupuaa-Moku map became the Aha Keole Council representation of our islands land management areas.
Since then, they have refined those boundaries with further analysis and heavy use of GoogleEarth aerial photography and 3D topography. They are now providing a preliminary release of this newer map for comments.
Source: Juan Wilson, Island Breath
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1 Sheila from GoVisitHawaii // Dec 17, 2009 at 7:05 am
What an interesting image. Doesn’t it look like green velvet? Makes me want to reach out and touch all those ridges.
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