Steve Kendall: 30 years with Wildlife Refuges; introducing new staff: Leah Messer; Hawai‘i Island Festival of the Birds (virtual for 2020!); Applying Wolbachia bacteria to Save Hawaii’s Forest Birds by Chris Farmer (American Bird Conservancy); The Beginning of Management of the Refuge by Jerry Leinecke; and more.

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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.