• TEACHING CHANGE PROGRAM: http://www.teaching-change.org/

    Biocultural Blitz at Puu Waa Waa to engage 4th graders in the intersection of environment and culture.

    Teaching Change 2
  • TEACHING CHANGE PROGRAM: http://www.teaching-change.org/

    Teacher Training Workshops for local middle and high school teachers on outdoor, immersive educational opportunities in natural resource management.

    Teaching Change 1
  • TEACHING CHANGE PROGRAM: http://www.teaching-change.org/

    Overnight field trips with middle and high school students from Hawaii Island to inspire and empower the next generation of natural resource managers for Hawaii.

    Teaching Change 3
  • Forest Stewards 2015: Educating and empowering community leaders to improve forest conservation in a peer-to-peer learning context. Photo: J.B. Friday

    Forest Stewards 2015
  • HBT: Protecting 10,000 ha of East Maui Watershed against miconia in partnership with Maui invasive Species Committee & National Park Service (J. Leary)

    HBT
  • Invasive Grass-Wildfire Cycle: Thousands of hectares burn each year In Hawaii threatening communities, agriculture & natural resources. C. Trauernicht, Fire Specialist

    Invasive Grass-Wildfire Cycle
  • Junior Extension Agent Oriana Rueda Krauss leads a field day at a future seed orchard for Acacia koa trees.

    Koa seed orchard
  • Extension Forester J. B. Friday examines an endangered Mauna Kea silversword ('ahinahina, Argyroxiphium sandwicense subsp. sandwicense).

    Extension Image 4

Extension and Outreach


HAWAIʻI FORESTRY EXTENSION

Learn about Hawaiʻi Forestry at the Hawaiʻi Forestry Extension program. Find information about tree species, tree pests and diseases, and forestry research. Find links to major topics relating to Hawaiʻi Forestry.

http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/forestry/

J.B. Friday, Extension Specialist, Forestry


RAPID ʻŌHIʻA DEATH

A new fungal disease is currently attacking and killing ʻōhiʻa (Metrosideros polymorpha), the most abundant native tree in the state of Hawaiʻi. On Hawaiʻi Island, hundreds of thousands of ʻōhiʻa have already died across thousands of acres from this fungus, called Ceratocystis fimbriata.

www.rapidohiadeath.org/

J.B. Friday, Extension Specialist, Forestry


RENEWABLE RESOURCES EXTENSION

The Renewable Natural Resources Extension Program at the University of Hawai‘i is a Targeted National Program supported primarily by the USDA. The goals of RREA include development of a stewardship ethic, an appreciation of biodiversity, and a knowledge base that will sustain natural resources.

J.B. Friday, Extension Specialist, Forestry


PILINA ʻĀINA

Pilina ʻĀina, formerly the Teaching Change program, is a partnership between NREM, the Akaka Foundation for Tropical Forests, and the USDA Forest Service. Grounded in Hawaiʻi lifeways and practices, Pilina ʻĀina works with Hawaiʻi island schools and communities to provide immersive and empowering ʻāina-based (land, ocean; that which feeds) career-connected educational opportunities focused on environmental change through a foundational emphasis on building pilina (relationship) to place. By doing so, with our network of collaborators and partners, we are collectively creating the next generation of bioculturally grounded future conservationists and land stewards. The majority of our work centers on the ʻāina and rural communities of Hilo Palikū and North Kona/South Kohala in connection to the Laupāhoehoe and Puʻuwaʻawaʻa units of the Hawaiʻi Experimental Tropical Forests, as well as the ma uka forests of the Hakalau National Wildlife Refuge, dearly referred to as our Piko ʻĀina, and our kumu who are focal to our work. The program began in 2012 and in the past 13 years we have engaged over 5,000 students and 560 kumu in immersive aloha ʻāina programming. We offer a wide array of programs including but not limited to: an annual Teacher Training Workshop, quarterly overnight student field courses, Summer, Fall and Spring Intersession programs, Holoholo Kīpuka, Puʻuwaʻawaʻa and NEON day trips, ‘ohana workdays, tabling at community events, and the annual Pu‘uwa‘awa‘a Biocultural Blitz & ʻŌhiʻa Trail Challenge. Learn about these opportunities and more at our website linked here.

https://www.pilinaaina.org/

Creighton Litton, co-Principal Investigator

Leilā Dudley, Program Coordinator, pilina.aina@akakaforests.org


WILDLAND FIRE PROGRAM

Pacific islands are particularly vulnerable to wildland fire and other climate-related hazards due to the tight linkages among upland and coastal resources, the sensitivity of native ecosystems to the combined stress of disturbance and invasive species, and changes in cultural practices and land use.  The CTAHR Wildland Fire Extension program supports a diverse set of clients engaged in land management, public outreach, and emergency response by providing information and developing tools to mitigate the threat and impacts of wildland fire and other hazards on valued resources.  The program also works to develop climate science knowledge among fellow extension faculty to identify strategies and opportunities for their clients to mitigate and adapt to climate change. 

www.nrem-fire.org

Clay Trauernicht, Assistant Extension Specialist, Wildfire Management