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Preservation in the News: a captivating tour spotlights the lighthouse at Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge renamed the Daniel K. Inouye Kilauea Point Lighthouse after the late Senator. ********* PHOTO: HAWAII TOURISM AUTHORITY A view of the lighthouse’s dramatic location overlooking the ocean. Tours illuminate Kauai lighthouse's beauty, past By Cheryl Chee Tsutsumi Honolulu Star Advertiser, May 24, 2015 Old and worn — like a fisherman who's spent too many days in the wind and sun." That was Louise Barnfield's impression of the lighthouse at Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge when she saw it on her first visit to Kauai in January 2008. The senior manager for Oracle Corp. and her husband, who were then living in the San Francisco Bay area, visited Kauai five times after that before retiring there in August 2012. On four of those trips, they returned to the lighthouse and were happy to see restoration work underway. "I started volunteering at the refuge the week after we moved to Kauai," Barnfield said. "By then, the lighthouse was shrouded in scaffolding and tenting. A sign said the work would be completed for its centennial on May 1, 2013." COURTESY JILLIAN COSGROVE/USFWS The Daniel K. Inouye Kilauea Point Lighthouse, left. In 1909, the U.S. government purchased the 31-acre site for it from Kilauea Sugar Co. for $1 and allocated $75,000 for the project. Construction began in July 1912, and the station was dedicated on May 1, 1913. Its beacon could be seen from 20 miles at sea, 90 miles from the air. Kilauea Point Light Station, later called Kilauea Point Lighthouse, guided ships past Kauai's rugged north coast for more than 60 years (see sidebar). During its centennial [...]

Preservation in the News: Imaging technology allows for a clearer image and a way to monitor changes for Hawaii petroglyphs, many of which are located at sites at risk due to volcanic activity. ********* Petroglyphs in fine detail Imaging technology new to Hawaii brings out details of ancient carvings at an Army base By Nina Wu Honolulu Star , May 24, 2015 Photo credit: Jamm Aquino / jaquino@staradvertiser.com Torie Robinson, right, a cultural resources technician with the Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii, pointed to an anthropomorphic figure on a basalt rock face in January at Fort Shafter in Kalihi. At left is cultural resources specialist Anthony Casciano. To the naked eye, the faint carvings at Fort Shafter appear to include a human figure holding a canoe paddle over two other figures. The panel is one of more than seven Hawaiian petroglyph features archaeologists discovered 15 years ago on a rock face atop a small, brush-covered hillside known as Kahauiki Stream at U.S. Army Pacific headquarters between Kalihi and Moanalua valleys. With the help of a cutting-edge technology new to Hawaii — reflectance transformation imaging, or RTI — archaeologists recently discovered the panel has quite a few more human figures, or anthropomorphs, along with several dog figures. The artistic style is consistent with petroglyphs dating to the pre-contact era (before 1778), according to U.S. Army Cultural Resources Program archaeologist Alton Exzabe. Before RTI was employed, he said, the petroglyphs were documented using regular photography, scaled drawings and hand sketches. "The sketches didn't seem to show everything we were seeing," Exzabe said. "RTI allows us to get a more precise, as well as clearer, image, and a way to monitor changes more accurately." Exzabe's [...]