So many exciting events! Be sure to check out the Endowment Campaign, join us on the Walk for the Wild on October 15th, and join the Holoholo Challenge during the month of October. There is also information about the latest refuge volunteer trips, the most beautiful ‘ōhi’a tree, and more.

New funding to protect birds from threats such as mosquitos; Volunteer Trips Resume; Research Post: Pockets and pathways to invasion: Monitoring avian disease-carrying mosquitoes in the face of climate change; Congratulations Baron; Refuge Bird Survey Summary, and more.

Hakalau’s 2021 Endowment Fundraising Campaign Update; Research Post: Where’s the carbon? Forest carbon cycling research at Hakalau Forest NWR; Stories from the early history of the Refuge by Andy Kikuta, Are Happy-Faced Spiders Really Happy?, and more.

Hakalau’s 2021 Matching Gift Campaign for the Endowment; Research Post: Towards developing an “early warning system” for mosquitoes and mosquito-transmitted disease at Hakalau; A short history of the University of Hawai`i at Hakalau, and more.

Exciting Facilities Update; Steve Kendall Retirement; Forest regeneration following ungulate removal in a montane Hawaiian wet forest; Innovative Solution to Koa Seedling mortality at Frost Prone Elevations; and more.

President’s Pearch; Refuge update from Summer 2020; Events, Christmas Shopping and Mahalo to Donors; Research News; Birds Not Mosquitos: Preventing Extinctions;  Hakalau Forest – the early years; and more.

Landscape-level mosquito suppression to protect Hawaii’s birds, Stories form the early history of the Refuge, Refuge Manager’s update, and more. 

Update from the Refuge Manager, Research in the Refuge: Restoring the forest, Stories from early history of the Refuge and before including paniolo times and the Forest Bird Survey, Opportunities for members and volunteers.

Manager’s Update, Farewell to Cashell Villa, Jessica Loeffler: Kupu Intern, Hakalau and Pacific Friends in Homer, Alaska, How to help the Friends, and Upcoming events.

Manager’s Report by Tom Cady: New staff, new land acquisitions, outplanting, forest restoration, biology, volunteers, outreach, and more; Research in the Refuge: Growth rate and age of trees at Hakalu by Pat Hart; Volunteer T-Shirt Contest winner; Upcoming Events on the Refuge.

President’s perch: Connecting people to the Refuge by J. B. Friday; Refuge happenings: Weathering the storm by Cashell Villa; Dollar for dollar Challenge Grant for the Endowment; Paradise Lost? Hawaii’s 192 year mosquito history by Jolene Sutton.

President’s Perch (Controlling mosquitoes in Hawai’i); introducing Tom Cady, acting Project Leader for the Refuge; Teaching Change: Inspiring Positive Environmental Change in Local Youth; August members-only trip planned for the Refuge.

President’s Perch, New Endowment Fund, Spring Open House, 20 Years of Forest Regeneration, Celebrating Success and Confronting Challenges on the Refuge, Rapid Ohia Death, Refuge Manager’s Update.

President’s Perch, Refuge Manager’s Update, winter and spring service trips to the Refuge.

Teaching Change youth environmental education program, New program for propagation rare plants on the Refuge, Refuge manager’s report, and From the President’s Perch.

Koa moth defoliates trees in the Refuge; lecture on the Teaching Change program September 17th; Refuge Open House October 19th; upcoming service trips in December; from the President’s Perch, and new t-shirts: what colors do you want?

New volunteer cabin roof (thanks donors!), Teaching Change to Local Youth at Hakalau, Presidents’ report, Refuge update, and more.

Rare birds found at lower elevations within Hakalau Forest for the first time in decades, October Open House, Volunteer days at Hakalau, FOHF volunteer appreciation luncheon, FOHF President’s notes and the volunteer cabin roof replacement, Refuge manager’s report.

Open House 2011, website update, Hawaii Wildlife Center, 2012 Jack Jeffrey Conservation Education Award, t-shirts and hats for sale, annual membership meeting 2012, Extincition in Paradise.

How goes the ‘io?, bird trends, President’s perch, volunteering, service trips.

New board member bios, refuge update, open house 2010, Friends t-shirts for sale

Congresswoman Hirono visits Hakalau, Open house, support for the Comprehensive Conservation Plan, what’s up at the Refuge.

Annual meeting, Jack Jeffrey Conservation Award, bird walk, President’s message, greenhouse water tank fundraiser, FOHF t-shirts.

ARRA funding for new storage building, Kona Forest unit, the ohia lehua tree, greenhouse water tank fundraiser, volunteers.

President’s message, extraordinary volunteers, greenhouse water tank fundraiser, Hakalau Gulch interpretive trail, team ‘I‘iwi, Open House 2008, new FOHF logo.