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Here are some desciptions of a variety of different projects for a few of our clients that are conservation agencies.


Dept. of Land and Natural Resources:
Division of Forestry and Wildlife

Kawainui Marsh:
Cut down and herbicide invasive Paperbark trees (Melaleuca quinquenervia) in the marsh. (These trees use a lot of the water that is in the Kawainui Marsh area. If the amount of paper bark trees increases in the marsh the amount of water will decrease.)

Mokulua Islands:
Herbicide invasive plants and grass. Pono Pacific also out-planted native coastal plants such as Aheahe (Chenopodium oahuense) Naio (Myoporum sandwichense) and Naupaka Kahakai (Scaevola sericea) in hopes of preventing further erosion of the islands.

Wailupe:
Placed diphacinone bait stations and snap traps in Wailupe Valley to remove rats from the area during the Elepaio (Chasiempis sandwichensis ibidis) breeding season. Monitored the Elepaio during the breeding season to gather nesting data.

U.S. Navy

Lualualei:
Cut and herbicide invasive plants such as Tree Daisy (Montanoa hibiscafolia), Christmas berry (Schinus terebinthifolia), Lantana camara, Clidemia hirta, and Coral berry (Rivina humilis) to create more habitat for a native endangered Abutilon sandwichensis plants as well as other native plants that have a seed bank in the area including Olopua (Nestegis sandwichensis), Lonomea (Sapindus oahuensis), and Papala kepau (Pisonia var.). In addition, Fence maintenance was applied.

The Nature Conservancy

Honouliuli Preserve:
Placed diphacinone bait stations and snap traps in the Honouliuli preserve to remove rats from the area during the Elepaio (Chasiempis sandwichensis ibidis) breeding season.
Monitored the Elepaio during the breeding season to gather data about nesting behavior and nesting success.

Ducks Unlimited

Ohiapilo:
Set diphacinone bait stations, as well as live traps to control rat, mongoose and cat populations in wetland habitat.
Monitored native wetland bird populations. Vegetation control and removal, of Batis maritima, Pluchea indica, and Kiawe (Prosopis juliflora).

Na Ala Hele

Maunawili Trail:
Maintain this 15.5 mile trail system with machetes, saws, and weed eaters. Trail path is kept three feet wide and side wall trimmed to head high level. Over handing branches and fallen trees are trimmed or removed.

Division of Forestry and Wildlife
Kamehameha Schools
United States Fish and Wildlife Service

Youth Conservation Corps & AmeriCorps programs:
Coordinates and developed all financial, logistical, and educational material for this summer and year-round program. Pono Pacific also assists in grant writing and fund raising for this program. This program is a University of Hawaii and AmeriCorps corporation sponsored.

Pono Pacific has coordinated the Youth Conservation Corps since 2001. The Youth Conservation Corps has benefited several hundred youth throughout six of the Hawaiian Islands, and over 25 conservation agencies.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services

Puuanahulu / Kipuka Oweowe:
Responsible for fencing, building water catchment tanks, and repopulating three exclosures with native / endangered plants. Pono Pacific wass responsible for coordinating and managing the various entities involved in the restoration of this site.