There is a web of trusts that supports schools and social services for Native Hawaiians, and Kekama Helm believes it could be tapped to buy the Ranch outright and run it as a nonprofit. The lead item on their list, though, is seed money to create a trust to buy the Ranch. That might seem like a long shot, but then so did the campaign for Kahoolawe. If the Ranch goes away, jobs go away. But if you want to make a lot of money, go to Oahu or Maui.
People are here because they believe in Molokai.
You spend time with your family, your friends, you talk story, whatever. You don't have a lot of things. Here, you judge a man by his aloha spirit. You judge him by his heart. Joe Kane won an Overseas Press Club award for environmental reporting that is included in his 1995 book Savages .