DEPARTMENT OF
Natural Resources and Environmental Management
NREM News and Events
Invasive, ecologically and economically destructive – yet prized as game, food, a source of income, and culturally important – wild pigs have substantially increased in density and range over the past decades. They represent one of the greatest wildlife management challenges that North America faces in the 21st century.
Our interview on HPR is live! You can listen to it here (just scroll down):
https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/post/conversation-hpd-expands-recruiting
Dry season is here, and the risk of wildfire is ramping up. How can producers protect their farms? Clay Trauernicht, Extension specialist in wildfire science and management in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, is partnering with O‘ahu Cooperative Extension to offer a webinar on “Assessing and Reducing Wildfire Risk on Your Farm.”
A new study by agro-ecologists Gavin McNicol and Rebecca Ryals shows how off-site composting of human waste is a full-cycle sanitation solution that increases safety, sustainability, even jobs. It also reduces greenhouse gas emissions and waste-borne illnesses—all while producing an effective fertilizer for agriculture.
For centuries, breadfruit has served as a major staple food in the Pacific Islands, and starting 200 years ago has spread widely across the global tropics. Lauded as a crop that could potentially transform tropical agriculture and address global hunger, breadfruit has high productivity, an excellent nutritional profile, and is a long-lived tree—whereas virtually all other world staples are annual crops.