Final Comprehensive Conservation Plan - U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge
Comprehensive Conservation Plan
Table 2-1. Summary of CCP Actions.
Objectives CCP Action
1.1: Restore and Protect Native
Montane Wet ‘Ōhi‘a Forest
(2,000-4,500 ft elevation) at KFU
1.2: Restore, Protect, and Maintain
Native Montane Mesic Koa/‘Ōhi‘a
Forest
(4,500-5,800 ft elevation) at KFU
1.3: Protect, Maintain, and Restore
Native Dry Koa/‘Ōhi‘a/Māmane Forest
(5,800-6,100 ft elevation) at KFU
1.4: Develop and Implement
Propagation and Outplanting Program
at KFU
1.5, 5.3: Investigate and Initiate
Landscape-level Habitat Conservation
Measures
2.1: Protect & Maintain
Lava Tube and Skylight Communities
at KFU
3.1: Protect and Maintain Native
Montane Wet ‘Ōhi‘a/Uluhe
(Dicranopteris sp.) Forest (2,500-4,000
ft elevation) at HFU
3,000 acres. Remove ranch debris. Build and maintain 17
mile ungulate-proof fence. Remove pest animals.
Eradicate/control invasive plants. Conduct annual invasive
plant survey; conduct survey for pest animals (based on
surveys control threats). Outplant threatened and endangered
(T&E) plants in units 2 and 3 and build site specific fencing
for these plants.
1,800 acres. Remove ranch debris. Build and maintain
fence, eradicate/control invasive plants, and remove pest
animals. Conduct annual invasive plant survey; conduct
survey for pest animals (based on surveys control threats).
Outplant native plants. Address wildfire through hazardous
fuels treatment, maintaining fuelbreaks, developing fire
prevention program.
500 acres. Remove ranch debris. Build and maintain fence,
eradicate/control invasive plants, and remove pest animals.
Conduct annual invasive plant survey; conduct survey for
pest animals (based on surveys control threats). Outplant
T&E plants and build site specific fencing for these plants
500 T&E plants and 2,000 native plants provided annually
for restoration. Develop native plant nursery at Mauna Loa
field camp site, collect seeds and cuttings, develop (in 7
years) staff, volunteer, and partnering programs.
LPP completed within one year. Identify habitats to support
focal species; develop protection strategies; work proactively
with partners, neighbors, and private landowners where
appropriate to meet conservation goals and develop specific
project proposals for land acquisition, cooperative
agreements, and/or conservation easements as key
conservation opportunities arise and willing parties are
identified.
Remove ranch debris. Build and maintain fence and develop
site specific access protocols to limit human disturbance to
habitat. Eradicate/control invasive plants, and remove pest
animals. Conduct survey for pest animals (based on surveys
control threats). Inventory and map communities and
support additional investigations and research.
7,000 acres. Remove pest animals, eradicate/control invasive
plants, build site-specific fencing to protect T&E plant
populations and Carex sp. bogs. Conduct annual invasive
plant survey; conduct survey for pest animals (based on
surveys control threats). Inventory vegetation, complete
Wilderness Study.
Chapter 2. Refuge Management Direction 2-9