NOTE: This event is open to members of The Kohala Center’s Circle of Friends only. To become a member or to renew your membership, click here or contact Cortney Okumura at The Kohala Center at cokumura@kohalacenter.org or 808-887-6411.

Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō Trail

Led by wildlife biologist and award-winning photographer Jack Jeffrey, this two-and-a-half mile adventure will take us in search of native forest birds along the Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō Trail on Saddle Road. We’ll hike through several kīpuka (older “islands” of native forest remnants surrounded by one or more younger lava flows) of different ages. Located on the windward slopes of Mauna Loa at a 6,000-foot elevation, Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō Trail provides habitat for numerous native Hawaiian forest birds, including the very rare and endangered ‘akiapola‘au (Hawaiian honeycreeper), the ‘ōpe‘ape‘a (Hawaiian hoary bat), as well as many endangered native plants and some non-native bird species. Learn about the history of the trail and see how non-native species have affected native koa and ‘ōhi‘a forests over the last 200 years; and how grazing has led to the extinction and endangerment of many native plants and birds.

Registration includes boxed lunch.

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