WAIMEA, Hawai‘i Island, Hawai‘i (February 9, 2023)—A five-year effort to protect and improve the nearshore marine environment and improve coral ecosystem health in the Kawaihae 1 (Honokoa) Watershed was recently completed by The Kohala Center (TKC), an independent nonprofit organization based in Waimea on Hawai‘i Island.
WAIMEA, Hawai‘i Island, Hawai‘i (February 1, 2021)—A two-year effort to protect and improve water quality and ecosystem health in Hawai‘i Island’s Pelekāne Watershed was recently completed by The Kohala Center, an independent nonprofit organization based in Waimea.
KAWAIHAE, HAWAI‘I ISLAND, Hawai‘i—October 17, 2019—The Kohala Center has been awarded a $260,000 grant from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs Community Grants Program to support forest restoration and stewardship training in Kohala from ma uka to ma kai.
WAIMEA, HAWAI‘I ISLAND, Hawai‘i—April 3, 2019—One of Hawai‘i’s most degraded watersheds is receiving some much-needed attention.
The Hawai‘i State Department of Health (DOH), through their Polluted Runoff Control Program and in partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is helping restore watersheds in the state and supporting the implementation of polluted runoff control projects in key watersheds. DOH is collaborating with the State’s Department of Land and Natural Resource (DLNR) and Hawai‘i Island-based The Kohala Center to implement a rotational and targeted grazing program to support erosion control in the Pelekāne Bay watershed, in which a majority of the land is privately owned and used for cattle grazing.
KAMUELA, Hawai‘i—February 20, 2018—The Kohala Center is offering two outdoor-education programs for Hawai‘i Island high school students during the public school spring intersession, March 19 through 23. Participants who successfully complete the weeklong programs are eligible to receive a $125 to $250 stipend in the form of a VISA gift card to commend their dedication to natural resource college, career, and community pathways.
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KAMUELA, Hawai‘i—May 11, 2017—Hawai‘i teachers and their students will have opportunities this year to leave the classroom and study firsthand the island’s ahupua‘a, or traditional Hawaiian mountain-to-sea land divisions.
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KAWAIHAE, Hawai‘i—February 9, 2017—For Waimea residents Gunner and Elli Mench, supporting reforestation efforts on Hawai‘i Island is all about giving back.
As owners of Harbor Gallery in Kawaihae, which curates a Wood Show twice a year largely featuring pieces made with materials grown on Hawai‘i Island, they wanted to support an organization dedicated to protecting and reestablishing native forests. Since 2009 the couple has donated more than $40,000 of their Wood Show proceeds to The Kohala Center to support its Kohala Watershed Partnership (KWP) program.
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KAMUELA, Hawai‘i—June 4, 2015—The Kohala Watershed Partnership, a sponsored program of The Kohala Center, recently received funding to undertake a three-year photography project that will capture images from some of the wildest and least accessible locations on Kohala Mountain. “Images of Kohala: Source of Water, Source of Life” is intended to inspire appreciation of native Hawaiian forests by documenting the flora, fauna, water, and atmospheres of Hawai‘i Island’s oldest and most ecologically diverse mountain.
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