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Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge
Comprehensive Conservation Plan
strategies are designed to provide suitable habitat that should help increase populations of native
pollinators.
Higher densities of pigs at this elevation have disturbed native Carex sp. bogs which have
converted to nonnative Juncus sp. bogs.
In the Wilderness Review conducted for the HFU (Appendix D), lower elevations of the Refuge
below 5,000 ft (Inventory Unit B2) met the minimum criteria for a Wilderness Study Area (WSA)
designation. Management activities in this unit will be conducted in a manner that maintains the
wilderness character by using the minimal tools necessary to achieve Refuge purposes, as required
under the Wilderness Act of 1964 and USFWS policy (610 FW 1-4,Wilderness Stewardship).
Should the Wilderness Study, to be conducted subsequent to the CCP, indicate that Unit B2 can be
managed under a Wilderness designation without affecting management for Refuge purposes, this
unit may be recommended for wilderness designation. If the unit is recommended for wilderness
designation through the findings of the Study, and subsequently designated as wilderness by
Congress, the unit will continue to be managed in perpetuity using the minimal tools required for
wilderness areas. This unit is depicted in Appendix D.
Objective 3.3: Restore, and then protect and maintain, native montane wet koa/‘ōhi‘a forest.
Restore and then protect and maintain approximately 5,000 acres of native montane wet koa/‘ōhi‘a
forest for endangered plant and animal species, with the following attributes:
• Occurs from 5,000-6,000 ft;
• Mixed age class of koa and ‘ōhi‘a-dominated forest;
• Midcanopy is dominated by a mix of flowering and fruiting trees (e.g., ‘ōlapa, ‘ākala, pilo,
pūkiawe, ‘ōhelo, kōlea, kāwa‘u), mixed ferns, and epiphytes;
• Ground cover is dominated by native ferns, native shrubs (e.g., ‘ōhelo, pūkiawe) and herbs;
• No ungulates (e.g., pigs, cattle);
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