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Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge
Comprehensive Conservation Plan
Goal 3: Protect, maintain, and restore subtropical rainforest community, on the windward slope of
Mauna Kea as habitat for all life-history needs of endangered species (e.g., forest birds, ‘ōpe‘ape‘a,
plants, and invertebrates).
Pahuhopu 4: E ho‘opalekana a mālama i ka ‘āina nenelu ma Hakalau.
Goal 4: Protect and maintain wetland and aquatic habitats (e.g., streams and their associated riparian
corridors, ponds, and bogs) on the Hakalau Forest Unit.
Pahuhopu 5: E ho‘opalekana a mālama i ka ‘āina mau‘u i mea e kāko‘o ai i ka ho‘ōla hou ‘ana i ka
hui manu nēnē.
Goal 5: Protect and maintain grassland habitat to support nēnē population recovery.
Pahuhopu 6: E ‘ohi‘ohi i ka ‘ikepili ‘epekema (waihona ‘ike, nānā pono, ‘imi noi‘i, ana ‘ike) e pono
ai ka ho‘oholo ‘ana i ke ‘ano o ka ho‘okele ‘ana iā Hakalau ma Mauna Kea a me Mauna Loa.
Goal 6: Collect scientific information (inventories, monitoring, research, assessments) necessary to
support adaptive management decisions on both units of the Hakalau Forest NWR.
Pahuhopu 7: E kipa mai ka po‘e malihini a me ka po‘e maka‘āinana no ka hana manawale‘a ‘ana i
mea e kama‘āina ai lākou i ka nohona o ka waonahele a me ka ‘oihana mālama ma Hakalau.
Goal 7: Visitors, with a special emphasis on experience gained through volunteer work groups and
local residents, understand and/or value the native forest environment and management practices at
Hakalau Forest NWR.
Pahuhopu 8: E ho‘opalekana a mālama i nā kumu waiwai a me nā wahi pana Hawai‘i no ka
ho‘ona‘auao ‘ana i nā hanauna o kēia wā a me ka wā e hiki mai ana.
Goal 8: Protect and manage cultural resources and historic sites for their educational and cultural
values for the benefit of present and future generations of Refuge users and communities.
1.11 References
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McClung. October 2005. Hawaii’s Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy. Department of
Land and Natural Resources. Honolulu, Hawai‘i. 722 pp.
Olson, S.L. and H.F. James. 1984. The role of Polynesians in the extinction of the avifauna of the
Hawaiian Islands. Pages 768-780 in P.S. Martin and R.G. Klein (eds.). Quaternary extinctions: a
prehistoric revolution. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ.
Olson, S.L. and H.F. James. 1991. Descriptions of thirty-two new species of birds from the Hawaiian
islands: Part I. Non-passeriformes. Ornithological Monographs 45:1-88.
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