Her family and six other families are being evicted. All they own sits on six lots in Kahana. Soliven's house sits on a small parcel just off Kamehameha Highway.

State Department of Land and Natural Resources chairperson Laura Thielen has ordered her and the other families to vacate.

"I hear what you're saying but I also have to represent the many people of Hawaii who want to have access to the state parks," Thielen told them.

That's the reason for the eviction notices. The homes are on land that belongs to Kahana State Park. Residents have no legal right to be there. Notices to vacate are plastered everywhere and on everything.

By 6 a.m. Monday the families must leave with all their belongings.

"I don't know what we did so wrong to the valley to be treated this way," Thoran Evans said.

He's lived in a three bedroom home near the entrance to Kahana valley for most of his life. Friday he was packing for an uncertain future. He worries when he's gone the land will go to waste.

"The last time they evicted the last residents, they put a chain up, the grass is overgrown, people were dumping trash down there, and it turned into a murder scene," he said.

The residents have viewed themselves as caretakers. About fifty of them carried signs and sign waved outside the state building. The state said the residents have no claim on the property: no leases, no permits.

That's what the law says. There are 5,000 acres in Kahana Valley. The families facing eviction wonder why they can't just relocate to another area. They said Kahana's been their home for more than just years, but for generations.

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