4.8.2022

Na Ala Hele Trails & Access

Nā Ala Hele is the State's Trail and Access Program, created to manage public resources related to hiking. The program manages trail access and conducts trail maintenance in order to provide important public services including recreational opportunities, experiences related to cultural history and historic trails. These trails are also important for access into natural areas for management, research, hunting, and wildfire response.

Service on this day may include: Trail duties such as clearing, leveling, removing invasive plants, trail maintenance/building, hand weeding, or weed whacking.

If you would like to learn more about Na Ala Hele Trails please visit their website.

Transportation: Not provided – due to COVID-19 participants are responsible for their own transportation. Driving directions will be provided once you are signed up.

Rescheduled

5.19.2022

5.20.2022

Mauna Kea Watershed Alliance

Choose 1 day only

Seating limited to 8 participants on each day.

The MKWA seeks to manage critical watersheds on a landscape-level by initiating planning for priority areas with the goal of implementing management actions.

This day will be focused in the Waipahoehoe Unit and comprised of an educational component, stopping at various places along the way to the site, sharing mo‘olelo, ka‘ao, the history and management strategies of the area; as well as a service component of planting the native koa (Acacia koa) and mamane (Sophora chrysophylla) trees.

If you would like to learn more about MKWA please visit their website.

Transportation: Due to COVID-19, everyone needs to drive themselves to the junction of the Mauna Kea Access road and Mana road. From there, 4WD vehicles will transport members to the worksite in strict accordance with CDC Guidelines on reducing the spread of COVID-19.

6.10.2022

Hawaii

Wildlife

Fund

Hawaiʻi Wildlife Fund’s mission is to protect native wildlife, focusing on coastal and marine wildlife species across Hawaiʻi, including the hawksbill sea turtle (honuʻea) and the Hawaiian green sea turtle (honu), and many other finned, feathered, flippered, and plant friends.

Our service of the day may include invasive species removal (focused on mangrove), marine-debris removal, estuary restoration, or fishpond restoration.

If you would like to learn more about HWF, please visit their website.

Transportation: Not provided – due to COVID-19 participants are responsible for their own transportation. Driving directions will be provided once you are signed up.

7.13- 7.15.2022

Hakalau Forest National Widlife Refuge

The mission of the National Wildlife Refuge System is to administer a national network of lands and waters for the conservation, management and, where appropriate, restoration of the fish, wildlife and plant resources and their habitats within the United States for the benefit of present and future generations.

Service on this trip may include: trail maintenance, out planting of native understory, and restoration of part of their facility.

Be sure to bring layers as the climate can change quickly from hot and dry, to cold and wet.

If you would like to learn more about Hakalau Forest please visit their website: https://www.fws.gov/refuge/Hakalau_Forest/

Transportation: USFS will be providing 4X4 vehicles to transport members to the Hakalau refuge in strict accordance with CDC Guidelines on reducing the spread of COVID-19.

8.12.2022

Ulu Mau Puanui

Learn the historical significance of The Kohala Dryland Agricultural Field System, how it fed thousands, created a surplus that built for the Hawaiian nation, and was an innovation done nowhere else in the world.

This day will focus on ancient Hawaiian field systems. We will hike Puʻu Kehena to see the remnants of the field system, we will do our service in one of their 3 mala. Based on the phase of our mahina (moon) we will either, plant, harvest or weed. At the end of the day we will reflect on the work of the ancestors and our kuleana moving forward.

If you would like to learn more about Ulu Mau Puanui please visit their website.

Transportation: Not provided – due to COVID-19 participants are responsible for their own transportation. Driving directions will be provided once you are signed up.

9.2022

Transportation: Not provided – due to COVID-19 participants are responsible for their own transportation. Driving directions will be provided once you are signed up.

10.2022

Transportation: Not provided – due to COVID-19 participants are responsible for their own transportation. Driving directions will be provided once you are signed up.

11.2022

Transportation: Not provided – due to COVID-19 participants are responsible for their own transportation. Driving directions will be provided once you are signed up.