While our commitment has not wavered, we lack the ability to carry it our. Partnerships appear to be our only feasible option. Students removing Guava at Kokee Discovery Center. Left to right is Luvelyn Butac, Duane Nelson and Meagan Wright. Koke'e Museum Executive Director Marsha Erickson sees the partnership as laying the groundwork for a healthy relationship between the community and public lands.
Ordinary people can make a difference in tackling pressing land-management problems.
This program is just one way we can all support State Parks Division, which is currently funded by the State of Hawai'i at far below skeletal levels. These forests nurture culturally valuable plants such as maile and mokihana, as well as endangered species that grow nowhere else on earth. Pulling Privet on Faye trail. W eed control strategies will involve manual and mechanical methods where practical, such as the pulling of seedling in areas of new infestations of widespread weeds such as Kahili ginger, or weeds just beginning to spread such as privet. The scope of the program will be augmented by the judicious use of herbicides.