SPECIAL NOTE!--No workday on October 20--see you next week!
SOUTH MAUI VOLUNTEERS
Join us every Monday morning from 7:30 -9:30am-- Meet at the north end of the Kihei Boat Ramp by the orange cones or look for the sign indicating where we are working that day. You'll see us in the lime green VOLUNTEER vests at one of the Kamaole Beaches when we have a project going on at the dunes.
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ACTION NEEDED!! VOTE FOR OUR BEAUTIFUL SOUTH MAUI TRAIL AND HELP US EXTEND IT ALONG THE COAST!
We've just been selected as a finalist in the Nature Valley "Save the Trails" competition, and we need your vote! Please show your support for the SOUTH MAUI CORRIDOR by clicking here to vote http://www.wheresyours.com/SaveTheTrailsVote.aspx
Please vote today, as voting ends October 31st!
We are in the top 20 finalists, and the ten winners are chosen by the number of votes they get. We are competing against some hefty mainland data bases, so please vote today! If we win, we'll receive $5,000 in much needed funding, which we'll use to purchase tools, materials, and trail signs.
PLEASE VOTE TODAY!
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TRAIL NOTES: It's already October and the wedge-tailed shearwater ('Ua'U Kani) population of chicks looks wonderfully healthy this year! Sometimes, you can be lucky and see a chick peer out from a burrow. We'll be banding chicks on the 23rd of October--come join us! You may stay on the main paths to observe--remember that the burrows are fragile and we don't want to crush any of them.
Picture above was taken in late September.
On October 3, a group of 100 intermediate students came down to the trail and dunes to work for their SOS (Save Our Shores) program. They will be weeding, removing invasive plant species, maintaining & clearing trail access paths, and picking up rubbish and cigarette butts. The group arrived at 8:30 am and left at 11:15. Thank you to these great young people for their service!
