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00:00:39: CHARLIE [NARRATING]: In my travels and experiences all over the world, one of the bit issues is preserving, yet progressing. And how do you find a balance. One hundred per cent preservation for land and land’s sake, doesn’t always work. Sometimes you have to figure out how to incorporate people, and the lands, and the whole mixture.; [MUSIC PLAYS]; CHARLIE [NARRATING]: There’s some beautiful homes right here. And that’s the American dream, to have a home. And I can see those who live here wanting to protect it, but there’s so many who want to be a part of that, and how do you kind of blend that want to expand and yet want to preserve?; [MUSIC PLAYS]
00:01:25: BLAKE: There’s always going to be the need to find places where people can live, where people can work. But I think an integral part of quality of life is having places like this, like Kavella Bay, where you can get away, have a moment of rest and ease, away from your daily life and a place where you can teach your children about the natural environment, about the ocean.
00:01:51: GROUP OF GIRLS: Keep the country country!; [MUSIC PLAYS]; BLAKE: I wanted to show you these photos I have in the trunk.; CHARLIE: That’s cool.; BLAKE: Yeah. So this is actually the Pupukea Paumalu property, it’s an aerial shot. So we’re standing way over here. The property stretches a mile along the coastline, so it actually overlooks surf spots, like Pipeline, and Sunset Beach. It's really neat because part of the property comes all the way down next to Sunset Elementary School, so with my finger if I draw the outline of the property you see what a significant part of the North Shore it is. It's 1,129 acres in total.; [MUSIC PLAYS]; CHARLIE: So if this is now in the ownership of the land trust, how will it be used?; BLAKE: There’s actually a Boy Scout camp and a Girl Scout camp. Pretty much right next to each other, at the Mauka or the most mountain edge of the property, and so the idea would be to get the school children onto the property, get the Scouts onto the property, and get them involved with native plant restoration activities. What’s kind of neat besides the surfing spots that we’re seeing, this whole coastline out here is actually a sanctuary for the humpback whales. And then down here you can kind of see Keiki and that rocky coastline there. Keiki stretches down over towards Waimea Bay, and that area’s a marine life conservation district. For fish and turtle and whatnot.
00:03:31: CHARLIE: Blake, I’ve been reading in the press about the governor getting involved in Turtle Bay. Can you tell me about it?; BLAKE: Recently the governor of the state of Hawaii announced plans to help conserve this area, which has been a longstanding community concern. And one of the things that we’re really looking forward to is having this beach and this coastal area protected for future generations for the benefit of the public. There’s a lot of additional lands that we hope to protect along the way, but this will be a significant milestone, so we feel like we’ve got a lot of momentum and our dream is much closer than maybe we had once thought.
00:04:02: CHARLIE: There are so few pearls of the planet left. And the North Shore happens to be one of them. That it’s worthwhile to try to protect it now. Get involved. Protect the North Shore.; END OF FILM; [MUSIC PLAYS]

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Hawaii's North Shore is one of the planet's precious pearls. Join Charles Annenberg Weingarten as he visits the area covered by the North Shore Community Land Trust, an organization dedicated to preserving Hawaii's majestic mountains, pristine coastline, and ocean habitats.