What efforts are being made to preserve Kailua's history?

Detailed answer

Ulupō Heiau was partly restored in the early 1960s, marked with a State plaque in 1962 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. Kawainui Marsh became a Ramsar wetland in 2005, and most of it is a state wildlife refuge. Nonprofit groups restore areas of the old fishpond using traditional practices. The Kailua Historical Society, founded in 2001, collects oral histories and published the book Kailua: In the Wisps of the Malanai Breeze.