Wai Watchers: The Vital Role of Volunteers in Watershed Health
March 1, 2018 (Ke Ola Magazine)—This is a story of how communities are uniting and strengthening to protect the quality of our water from the mountains to the coast, of people rebuilding relationships with life and their connection to the Earth. From the cloudy mists among ‘ōhi‘a trees in the Kohala Forest Reserve, to the dew that drips into mountain streams to mingle with ‘ōpelu (mackerel scad) and wana (sea urchin) at the coastline—all water is connected. So too are the humans who live together on Hawai‘i Island.
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