HAWAII ISLAND (HawaiiNewsNow) – A geophysical survey will close Waipio Valley Road to all traffic starting next week.

County of Hawaii officials said the road will be closed from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. between the Waipio Valley lookout and the beach access road beginning on Tuesday and continuing through Friday.

The survey is part of the Waipio Valley Road Safety Improvement project and will look at subsurface conditions on the road.

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But one person’s nuisance is another’s cultural symbol, a dynamic that has also played out in Miami and other cities with populations of wild chickens. Kealoha Pisciotta, a Hawaiian cultural practitioner and animal advocate, disagrees with killing feral chickens simply because they’re a nuisance. Some chickens today descended from those brought to the islands by early Polynesian voyagers, she said. “The moa is very significant,” she said, using the Hawaiian word for chicken. “They were on our voyaging, came with us.” The Hawaiian Humane Society opposes letting residents kill the chickens “as a means of population control unless all other strategies have been exhausted.”

Chicken eradication bills have failed over the years, said Rep. Scot Matayoshi, a Democrat representing the Honolulu suburb of Kaneohe who backs the idea of controlling the birds’ numbers. “I think there are people who are taking it more seriously now,” he said. Still, wild chickens aren’t likely to make a cheap dinner. The meat is tougher than poultry raised for harvesting, and the feral birds can be a vector of disease. Aiona has grown tired of spending his retirement telling park-goers to stop feeding the chickens. And while he doesn’t recommend that anyone eat them, he welcomes anyone who wants one to come get it. “No charge,” he said.