Kaua`I Conservation Expo & Expeditions

NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN & THE KAUA`I CONSERVATION ALLIANCE PRESENT

KAUA`I CONSERVATION EXPO & EXPEDITIONS

SEPTEMBER 7-9, 2016 • KAUA`I, HAWAI`I • IUCN WCC SPECIAL EXCURSION Welcome Table of Contents

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2 01 Introduction Schedule at a Glance

WELCOME TO THE KAUAÌ CONSERVATION EXPO AND EXPEDITIONS! WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2016 - CONSERVATION EXPO McBryde Garden, Poìpū, Kauaì The National Tropical Botanical Garden (NTBG), and the Kauaì Conservation Alliance (KCA) are partnering to present the Kauaì Conservation Expo and Expeditions (KCEE) - a Special 8:30 AM to 9:30 AM Expo Opening Ceremony Congress Excursion for the IUCN World Conservation Congress on the island of Kauaì. Although remote, Kauaì is a biodiversity and conservation hotspot. Due to the threat of extinction of many 9:30 AM to 3:30 PM Conservation Marketplace of Conservation Organizations species of its flora and fauna, considerable resources and professional talent are focused here. Lunch This landmark event will take place over the course of three (3) days, and will highlight the Music and Cultural Events incredible diversity and scope of conservation work, science and research the partnering organizations Garden and Facility Tours (Horticulture Center, Allerton Garden, Native Plant conduct on the Island of Kauaì. More than thirty (30) conservation and environmental organizations Garden are partnering to create this Special Congress Excursion that offers participants ten (10) different field excursions and myriad opportunities for hands-on activity. The Kauaì Conservation Expo and 3:30 PM to 8:00 PM Optional Sunset Tour of Allerton Garden Expeditions will foster connections between local practitioners, global leaders, and educators and 3:30 PM to 8:00 PM Optional Charter Cruise with Captain Andy Sailing create conversations in current and past conservation efforts and practices that might change the world. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2016 - MAUKA TO MAKAI FIELD EXCURSIONS A variety of activities and workshops are being offered during the three day event; each event must be signed up for individually on the WCC Special Excursion website. Attendees may choose not Choose only one (1) all-day field excursion to participate in all three days of activity; however participation in Day One’s celebration and Expo is encouraged to provide the broadest perspective on Kauaì conservation. 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM Strategies to Address Threats to Montane Wet Forest Fauna and Flora Detailed information about each day and excursion is available in this KCEE booklet. Read 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM Saving the Hotspot: Biodiversity Conservation in Diverse Mesic Forests on for further information about each excursion, biographies of event leaders, and registration and accommodation information. Additional information can also be found online at kauaiconservation. 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM Rare and Native Plant Restoration at Kalalau Exclosure org, the website of the Kauaì Conservation Alliance or NTBG.org/KCEE. 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM Sustainability and Indigenous Perspectives and Practices for Engaging and Training the Next Generation 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM Reef Management by the Community – Hāèna and North Shore Kauaì photo here

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2016 - CHANGE THROUGH TIME FIELD EXCURSIONS Choose only one (1) all-day field excursion

8:00 AM to 4:30 PM Limahuli Garden and Preserve – Stream Restoration, Native Forest Restoration 7:30 AM to 6:00 PM Nualolo Kai: A Hawaiian Cultural & Archeological Experience 7:30 AM to 4:30 PM Makauwahi Cave Reeserve 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM Malama Hu`leia Watershed Restoration: Destruction of Alien Species on Kaua`i 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM Monitoring of the Carbonate and Volcanic Sand Beaches of Kauai`s Mana Coastal Plain

02 03 Day 1: Conservation Exposition Day 1: Optional Activities

KAUAÌ CONSERVATION EXPO SUNSET GARDEN TOUR WITH DINNER McBryde Garden, Poìpū, Kauaì Allerton Garden, Poìpū, Kauaì DATE: Wednesday, September 7, 2016 DATE: Wednesday, September 7, 2016 LOCATION: McBryde Garden, Poìpu, Kauaì LOCATION: McBryde Garden, Poìpu, Kauaì TIME: 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM TIME: 3:30 PM to 8:00 PM COST: $75.00 per person COST: $95.00 per person CAPACITY: Minimum 50 persons, maximum 190 persons CAPACITY: Minimum 20 persons, maximum 60 persons TRANSPORT: Pick-up locations at Lihue Airport, Courtyard Marriott, Aqua Kauai Beach Resort Extend your visit to NTBG with dinner in the gardens at the Allerton Garden Beach House, and Day 1 of the Kauaì Conservation Expo and Expeditions (KCEE) opens with a visit to the National a sunset view from Lāwaì Kai beach. Tropical Botanical Gardens (NTBG) in Poìpū, Kaua’i. This all-inclusive day includes: The Allerton Garden was designed by Robert Allerton and his adopted son John Gregg. They • Expo opening ceremonies, hula, introduction and welcome by NTBG Director, used the Lāwaì Stream as the spine of the garden, creating a series of garden “rooms” that unfold Chairman and CEO, Chipper Wichman; between the stream bank and the cliffs. The result is a masterpiece of tropical romanticism with a • Conservation Marketplace of Kauaì Conservation Organizations; magical bamboo forest, rock faces with maidenhair ferns, and phenomenal vines with brilliant scarlet flowers. It is a well-ordered paradise where nothing appears artificial, yet nature is so under control • Garden tours (self-guided/guided), that not a leaf is out of place • Music, cultural events, craft demonstrations in the Canoe Garden; • Choice of tours: Horticulture Center, Allerton Garden, Native Hawaiian Gardens, or the SUNSET CHARTER CRUISE Botanical Research Center, as many as you can fit in for the day Captain Andy’s Sailing, Port Allen, Kauaì • Lunch DATE: Wednesday, September 7, 2016 The mission of the National Tropical Botanical Garden is to enrich life through discovery, LOCATION: Insert Address scientific research, conservation, and education by perpetuating the survival of plants, ecosystems, and cultural knowledge of tropical regions. NTBG is dedicated to preserving tropical plant diversity TIME: 3:30 PM to 8:00 PM and stemming the tide of extinction through plant exploration, propagation, habitat restoration, COST: TBD scientific research, and education. NTBG’s gardens and preserves are safe havens for at-risk species CAPACITY: TBD that otherwise may become extinct. NTBG’s South Shore Gardens include the McBryde Garden and the Allerton Garden, as well as the Administration, Education and Science buildings, as well as a state-of-the-art horticulture facility. McBryde Garden is nestled in the picturesque and historic Lāwaì Valley. The area affords a kaleidoscope of distinct micro-environments which are cool, hot, wet, dry, Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec dignissim suscipit dui, vitae lake, cliff or meadow. McBryde Garden has become a “botanical ark” of tropical flora; it is home vestibulum quam consequat et. Sed vel eros at enim interdum tincidunt quis sed lacus. Phasellus to the largest ex situ collection of native Hawaiian flora in existence, extensive plantings of palms, sodales sapien mauris, ac efficitur felis feugiat ac. flowering trees, Rubiaceae, Heliconias, orchids, and many other plants that have been wild-collected Nullam laoreet leo libero, eu bibendum risus pulvinar eu. Maecenas euismod placerat libero quis from tropical regions around world. Flowing through the garden is the Lāwaì Stream, bordered by a vulputate. Duis et lectus faucibus, lobortis ipsum vitae, fermentum enim. Sed pulvinar consequat lush greenbelt. Thematic plantings focus on Hawaiì native and Polynesian-introduced plants, plants massa sit amet gravida. In eu dui eget leo aliquam viverra. Donec vel augue ac magna porta dictum. of economic and food value, and the evolving biodiversity of plants. Curabitur velit lectus, lacinia porttitor pellentesque ut, rhoncus quis urna. Quisque eget dictum purus. NTBG is engaged in conservation, research, and maintains reference collections (living, Curabitur tincidunt, tellus nec eleifend eleifend, ex mi placerat purus, quis elementum leo orci at library, and herbarium) assembled through discovery and collaboration. Research includes botany, nunc.non egestas quis, tempor non sapien. Cras eu lacus eget tortor porta elementum at non tortor. ethnobotany, horticulture, conservation biology, and restoration ecology conducted by staff through programs and institutes. NTBG has a wide spectrum of educational courses, publications, lectures, and visitor programs.

04 05 Day 2: Mauka to Makai Field Excursions Choose one (1) all-day excursion

INTERPRETIVE HIKE: STRATEGIES TO ADDRESS THREATS TO MONTANE SAVING THE HOTSPOT: BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION IN THE DIVERSE WET FOREST FAUNA AND FLORA MESIC FORESTS OF KAUAÌ MEA, KAUAÌ Kokee State Park, Waimea, Kauaì Kokee State Park, Waimea, Kauaì

DATE: Thursday, September 8, 2016 DATE: Thursday, September 8, 2016 TIME: 7:00 AM to 5:30 PM TIME: 7:00 AM to 5:30 PM COST: $25.00 per person (includes lunch and hotel transport) COST: $25.00 per person (includes lunch and hotel transport) CAPACITY: Minimum 24 persons, maximum 48 persons CAPACITY: Minimum 10 persons, maximum 15 persons TRANSPORT: Pick-up locations at Courtyard Marriott, Aqua Kauai Beach TRANSPORT: Pick-up locations at Courtyard Marriott, Aqua Kauai Beach Resort Resort This event is a day hike made up of small groups to be led by partner organizations in Kōke‘e Kauaì is the most bio-diverse island in the Hawaiian Archipelago, and contains some of the best State Park and Alakaì Plateau to familiarize participants with Kauai`s forest birds and plants, and remaining examples of lowland mesic forests in the islands. Species rich areas include Kōke‘e State to discuss their threats and cutting edge strategies to recover them, including predator, ungulate, Park, Kalalau Valley, and Kuia Natural Area Reserve (NAR). Kuia’s diverse lowland mesic forest is disease and weed control. Along the trail, “expert stations” from each of the partners will showcase high in plant biodiversity with 177 native species, 144 of which are endemic to Hawaiì, and 52 taxa their current preservation and resource management work. Station stops include: Pihea Vista; here are endemic only to the Island of Kauaì. These forests were once the predominant forest type on a representative from the Kauaì Endangered Seabird Recovery Project will talk about seabirds, and Kaua’i but are now restricted to steep rocky terrain and cliff faces on leeward slopes below 3,000 ft. show how they are using sound recorders and cameras to monitor their populations. Additionally, at elevation. The Kuia NAR is also a popular hunting area for locals on Kauaì. Pigs, goats, black-tailed a different station, the Plant Extinction Prevention Program staff will talk about saving endangered deer (all introduced ungulates), and invasive plants are the primary threats to endangered native plant plants, while the Kauaì Forest Birds Recovery Project and The Nature Conservancy will discuss species throughout the mesic forests of Kauaì. In partnership with Pacific Islands Fish and Wildlife fencing, feral animal and invasive weed control using innovative technologies. Finally, the US Fish and Office (PIFWO), the Division of Forestry and Wildlife (DOFAW) Natural Area Reserve Program Wildlife Service (USFWS) will discuss endangered species and native ecosystems as well as funding (NARS) a series of exclosures in Kuia NAR were constructed to protect rare plant populations from mechanisms for habitat restoration on private and state lands. There will be an opportunity to observe the threats of ungulates. The NARS program works with local hunters to remove ungulates from the current conservation and management practices such as mist-netting and banding of endemic Kaua’i exclosures and other organizations, such as the Kōke‘e Resource Conservation Program to conduct forest birds. restoration within the exclosures.

This event is hosted by the Kauaì Forest Birds Recovery Project; The Nature Conservancy, and In the morning, participants will travel with partner organizations in 4WD vehicles to one of the Kauaì Endangered Seabirds Recovery Project these exclosures located within the Kuia NAR at Paàiki. Participants will take a short but steep hike to the exclosure where they will assist with restoration efforts such as planting common and rare plants and removal of non-native plants.. Attendees will receive a tour of the exclosure from representatives of the NARs Program, PIFWO, and Kōke‘e Resource Conservation Program; this exclosure is now home to hundreds of endangered plants (Kokia kauaiensis, Delissea kauaienis, Doryopteris angelica etc.).

If the road is not accessible due to weather, participants will go to the Nualolo exclosure which does not require a 4WD vehicle to access, but necessitates a ¼ mile hike down Nualolo Trail. After lunch, participants will receive an interpretive tour of some of the best remaining examples of mesic forests within Kōke‘e State Park lead by NARS, KRCP and PIFWO.

This event is hosted by the Hawai`i Department of Land and Natural Resources – Division of Forestry and Wildlife, Hawai`i Native Areas Reserves; Kōke‘e Resource Conservation Program and Pacific Islands Fish and Wildlife Office.

06 07 RARE AND NATIVE PLANT RESTORATION AT KALALAU EXCLOSURE SUSTAINABILITY AND INDIGENOUS PERSPECTIVES AND PRACTICES FOR Kokee State Park, Waimea, Kauaì ENGAGING AND TRAINING THE NEXT GENERATION Kauaì Community College, Lihue, Kauaì

DATE: Thursday, September 8, 2016 DATE: Thursday, September 8, 2016 TIME: 7:00 AM to 5:30 PM TIME: 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM COST: $25.00 per person (includes lunch and hotel transport) COST: $40.00 per person (includes lunch and hotel transport) CAPACITY: Minimum 10 persons, maximum 20 persons CAPACITY: Minimum 5 persons, maximum 30 persons TRANSPORT: Pick-up locations at Courtyard Marriott, Aqua Kauai Beach Resort TRANSPORT: Pick-up locations at Courtyard Marriott, Aqua Kauai Beach Resort Visit the Kalalau Exclosure and learn about past and current restoration efforts from Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) – Division of Forestry and Wildlife (DOFAW) Kauaì This event will focus on sustainable living careers Such as Agriculture, Resource Monitoring Botanist and Rare Plant Propagator. Discussion will include current restoration practices and and Marine Biology in the natural environment.. The Kauaì Community College (KCC) will host conservation efforts currently being pursued. After which attendees will take part in projects which highly interactive events where the participants will: 1) learn about Hawaiian indigenous practices may include: invasive species removal, seed collections, and native species out-planting. and values connected with conservation, 2) experience inter-disciplinary programs designed to engage, teach, and mentor young adults in conservation and sustainability, and 3) interact with undergraduate This event is hosted by the Hawaiì Department of Land & Natural Resources, DLNR – DOFAW, students and faculty who are engaged in research projects and life-long learning. The themes will and Ka Ìmi Naàuao O Hawaiì Nei Institute reflect education as a journey, the incorporation of indigenous knowledge, cultural transfer of tradition and responsibility from one generation to the next. The tentative schedule of events (which may be modified as needed) may include:

• Hawaiian protocols and cultural connection • Students and faculty will lead and join with participants in a heart, mind and hands sharing of Hawaiian ways of knowing/interacting with nature, followed by illustrated presentations on Kumulipo and Mele a Pakui to build a foundation for Hawaiian understanding and practices; • Hawaiian mythology and land practices connecting land and sea; • Field observation of loi kalo (i.e., taro) and surrounding plantings; • Hands-on, interactive, skill-based exploration of Ulutopia (breadfruit research field), a blend of science and Hawaiian tradition on campus conducted by Sharad Marahatta, Ph.D. This activity will include an exchange of ideas between participants and scientists while cultivating connections for future collaboration; • Experience the Ho`ouluwehi – This is the Sustainable Living Institute on campus which focuses on aquaponics, apiary, and sustainable housing; and • Opportunity for attendees to experience and savor local island foods and flavors through the skills of KCC Culinary Arts students and faculty.

08 09 Day 3: Change Through Time Field Excursions

REEF MANAGEMENT BY THE COMMUNITY Choose one (1) all-day excursion Hāèna and North Shore Kauaì LIMAHULI GARDEN AND PRESERVE – STREAM RESTORATION, NATIVE DATE: Thursday, September 8, 2016 FOREST RESTORATION TIME: 8:30 AM to 6:00 PM Hāèna, Kauaì COST: $75.00 per person (includes lunch and hotel transport) DATE: Friday, September 9, 2016 CAPACITY: Minimum 10 persons, maximum 24 persons TIME: 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM TRANSPORT: Pick-up locations at Courtyard Marriott, Aqua Kauai Beach COST: $135.00 per person (includes lunch and hotel transport) Resort CAPACITY: Minimum 10 persons, maximum 25 persons Pre-colonial Hawaiian life was based on an ahupuaà system of land and resource management TRANSPORT: Pick-up locations at Courtyard Marriott, Aqua Kauai Beach which evolved to protect the water and other natural resources that sustain all life. A typical ahupua’a, Resort or land division, extended from the highest point in the mountains down to the sea. Ahupua’a boundaries often followed watershed lines, providing each community with adequate fresh water, Limahuli Valley is the second-most bio-diverse valley in the Hawaiian archipelago, and home fertile land, abundant marine life, and forest resources necessary to sustain life in these areas. Through to a remarkable botanical garden and nature preserve. Habitat restoration and the creation of the ahupuaà system, the Hawaiians created a community-based approach of self-sustaining resource conservation collections of rare plants have been ongoing for over a decade in the Lower reaches of management. the Preserve (LLP). In the last four years, nearly 5,000 listed plants have been reintroduced to the LLP including seven (7) species that are considered at high risk of imminent extinction by both IUCN Today, a new evolution of this community-based system (i.e., ahupuaà) is emerging on the north and the USFWS, and nine (9) endangered species considered to be in decline. Recently (c. 2015), in shore of Kaua’i which utilizes both traditional Hawaiian knowledge, and western science-based partnership with the USFWS Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program, and with support from local resource management. The following programs and projects will be featured as the centerpiece of this Hawaiian families who traditionally access the forest for cultural use, approximately 4,100 feet of excursion: strategic lineal fencing was installed to prevent feral pigs from accessing and degrading the forest and restoration project area. The “ungulate control” fence protects a vital natural resource that supports • Hanalei Watershed Hui rare plant conservation on Kauaì, while maintaining access for traditional cultural practices of local • Hawaiian Islands National Marine Sanctuary Hawaiian families.

• Waipa Foundation: Participants will: 1) receive an interpretive overview of the National Tropical Botanical Garden’s • Hanalei Moon Calendar and Pono Fishing Practices Limahuli Garden and Preserve and the restoration project, 2) hike to the fenced /restoration project area, and 3) reintroduce common and rare plants within the restoration project area. • Limahuli Garden and Preserve • Hā`ena Community-Based Subsistence Fishing Area This event is held by the Limahuli Garden and Preserve in partnership with the USFWS Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program with a presentation by Hawai`i Islands Land Trust. Format and structure of this event will be designed to ensure that learning is interactive, participatory and reciprocal amongst a potentially global community of watershed management practitioners. Learning how to define sustainability in a place-based setting that is meaningful to communities in terms of building resilience in a changing world, creating opportunities for nutritional self-sufficiency, and protecting the natural resources that are the lifeblood of the community are important aspects of this activity.

In partnership with World Commission on Protected Areas, Waipa Foundation, Limahuli Garden and Preserve, NOAA-ONMS, Hawaiì Department of Aquatic Resources, Hāèna, Hui Makaàinana o Makana Community Based Subsistence Fishing Area

10 11 NUALOLO KAI: A HAWAIIAN CULTURAL & ARCHEOLOGICAL EXPERIENCE MAKAUWAHI CAVE RESERVE Nualolo Kai, Kaua`i Maha’ulepu, Kaua`i DATE: Friday, September 9, 2016 DATE: Friday, September 9, 2016 TIME: 7:30 AM to 6:00 PM TIME: 7:30 AM to 4:30 PM COST: $175.00 per person (includes boat ride, lunch, snacks and hotel transport) COST: $60.00 per person (includes lunch and hotel transport) CAPACITY: Minimum 12 persons, maximum 26 persons CAPACITY: Minimum 10 persons, maximum 100 persons TRANSPORT: Pick-up locations at Courtyard Marriott, Aqua Kauai Beach TRANSPORT: Pick-up locations at Courtyard Marriott, Aqua Kauai Beach Resort Resort Attendees will travel by zodiac boat, along with Hawaiian kupuna (elders) of the Napali Coast Explore the “sinkhole” site of paleo-biological research and native plant restoration, on the Ohana and the National Tropical Botanical Garden, to the ancient Hawaiian village archeological Mahaulepu Beach shoreline of south Kaua’i. site of Nualolo Kai on the scenic isolated Na Pali Coast. Attendees will learn about Native Hawaiian land and sea ecosystems, as well as the epic ocean journey of ancient Polynesians and the plants The Makauwahi Cave on the south shore of Kauai is Hawaii`s largest limestone cave, the richest they traveled with. Attendees will be provided the opportunity to engage with Hawaiian cultural fossil site in the islands, and a uniquely preserved archaeological site. It is part of the Makauwahi practitioners and explore their restoration efforts. Cave Reserve, a research area and living museum on Grove Farm Company property, dedicated to multidisciplinary studies of the past. It is also home to large-scale experiments in ecological Hosted by Sabra Kauka of the Napali Coast Ohana and Mike DeMotta of the National Tropical restoration and native species conservation. On abandoned farmlands and quarry lands surrounding Botanical Garden. the cave, native plants and animals have returned successfully in response to innovative restoration techniques inspired by the adjacent fossil record of pre-human and Polynesian-era biota.

Acres of restored forest land, dune vegetation, and wetland habitat feature the opportunity to see and learn about successfully translocated populations of rare native plants, as well as reclaimed habitat for endangered waterbirds, and a Polynesian-style farm operated by Hawaiians from remote Ni`ihau Island. There are numerous published scientific studies from this site, including, but not limited to: detailed paleo-ecological records of pre-contact and Polynesian/Hawaiian ecosystems; sedimentological evidence for a prehistoric mega-tsunami; ancient DNA studies to elucidate Polynesian migration routes; survival and fecundity results for more than 3000 translocated native plants of 81 different species; ecological studies of the efficacy of using captive giant tortoises in weed control; formal naming and description of many new species of extinct birds and insects; and documentation of a unique living ecosystem of blind cave invertebrates. These studies will be used to educate attendees about the unique conditions of the site and the restoration activities that have been used successfully.

Our visit includes a half-day tour of the Makauwahi cave, assisting in archaeological site and restoration projects, eating lunch catered with traditional Polynesian foods, including some grown on- site, and a service-learning opportunity to include planting native trees and shrubs on adjacent quarry lands. There will be time to walk the adjacent beach, dunes, and sea cliffs.

Hosted by the staff and volunteers of the Makauwahi Cave Reserve, with buses provided by Grove Farm, Inc

12 13 MALAMA HU`LEIA WATERSHED RESTORATION: DESTRUCTION OF ALIEN MONITORING OF THE CARBONATE AND VOLCANIC SAND BEACHES OF SPECIES ON KAUAÌ KAUAI`S MANA COASTAL PLAIN Hu`leia Fishpond, Kauaì Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kekaha, Kauaì DATE: Friday, September 9, 2016 DATE: Friday, September 9, 2016 TIME: 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM TIME: 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM COST: $80.00 per person (includes lunch and hotel transport) COST: $50.00 per person (includes lunch and hotel transport) CAPACITY: Minimum 10 persons, maximum 20 persons CAPACITY: Minimum 10 persons, maximum 20 persons TRANSPORT: Pick-up locations at Courtyard Marriott, Aqua Kauai Beach TRANSPORT: Pick-up locations at Courtyard Marriott, Aqua Kauai Beach Resort Resort Attendees will travel by Hawaiian style outrigger canoe up the Huleia River from Nawiliwili- Throughout Hawaii seasonal variation in sand erosion and accretion far exceed the annual Numilu to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Huleia Refuge to a Fishpond Restoration Site. averages observed on most beaches. This activity aims to inform attendees of the implications for Attendees will enjoy a presentation by Malama Huleia, a grass-roots non-profit organization with a planning for climate change and sea level rise; how to more adequately understand how Hawaii beach mission to eliminate the invasive red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) from the Huleìa and Puàli systems work; and how to best approach coastal zone (beach) management and/or how to adjust to Rivers in the Nawiliwili Bay watershed on southwest Kaua’i. Removal of the invasive mangrove is their seasonal and annual fluctuations. the first step toward restoring the Alekoko fishpond, the largest Hawaiian Fishpond on Kauai. The presentation includes a visit to the Puàli pilot project to observe the results of the estuarine tidal This hands-on workshop and field excursion, led by a professional geologist, addresses how marsh restoration, and then to the Alekoko fishpond view point which will provide a panoramic scientists manage the systematic monitoring of the carbonate sand beaches of Kekaha and the Pacific overview of the watershed/project area and a paddle up the river to the USFWS wildlife refuge for a Missile Range Facility (PMRF) portion of the Mana Coastal Plain and the Waimea-Kīkīaola volcanic discussion of endangered species recovery. sand beach system. These beach systems, dominated by alongshore movement of sand, are among Hawaii’s most dynamic. Seasonal fluctuations along the shore amount to changes in beach widths This program will focus on the process of weaving cultural and ecological resources in guiding of nearly 200 meters (600 feet) although erosional trends are prevalent along the coast. Additionally, and achieving their mission; creating governmental and community support, and providing assistance human modifications (i.e., shoreline armoring) have resulted in undesirable changes, including and guidance in the development of a stewardship program. Interactive discussions include the exacerbated shoreline erosion and beach disappearance. invasive nature and effects of mangrove in Hawaii, and overcoming the stigma that mangrove is always a “good” habitat. Additionally, attendees will learn about removal methodologies, as well as Hosted by The Edge of Kauaì, Dr. Charles Blay, geologist, Dr. Steven Taylor, Kauai Community the process of working with landowners and building partnerships. Discussion will also include the College, Ruby Pap, Sea-Grant Program of the University of Hawaii, and Jana Rothenburg identification of native plants, birds and fish that are utilizing the area after removal of the highly invasive red mangrove.

Hosted by Malama Hu`leia and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Hu`leia Refuge.

14 15 Presenter and Excursion Leader Biographies

DAY 1: CONSERVATION EXPO Diane Ragone - Director of the Breadfruit Institute Charles R. “Chipper” Wichman, Jr. President, Chief Executive Officer, and NTBG Dr. Ragone was appointed Director of the Breadfruit Institute in 2003 and Director has worked at the National Tropical Botanical Garden since 1989. She is an authority on the conservation and use of breadfruit, conducting horticultural Chipper joined the NTBG in 1976, graduating from its Horticultural Internship program. He spent his and ethnobotanical studies on this important Pacific staple crop for 30 years. Her early career developing Limahuli Garden. During this time, he obtained a Special Subzone designation extensive fieldwork on over 50 islands in Micronesia, Polynesia, and Melanesia in the Conservation District for the entire Limahuli Valley, restored ancient taro terraces, developed a enabled the NTBG to establish the world’s largest collection of breadfruit at its Kahanu Garden in collection of rare and endangered native Hawaiian plants, opened the garden to educational tours, and Hāna, Maui. The Breadfruit Institute was created to promote the conservation and use of breadfruit added the 989-acre Limahuli Preserve. Subsequently Limahuli was named the Best Natural Botanical for food and reforestation. Current research involves collaborative projects to develop in vitro Garden in the United States by the American Horticultural Society. methods to conserve and distribute breadfruit cultivars; nutritional and salinity studies; molecular and Through numerous grants, Mr. Wichman was able to fund extensive native habitat restoration work in morphological studies to understand taxonomic relationships, origin, and distribution of breadfruit in the Limahuli Preserve, which continues today. In addition to his work in conservation and education, the Pacific; and ethnobotanical studies on traditional uses of breadfruit in Polynesia and Micronesia. Dr. he has led efforts to perpetuate and preserve native Hawaiian culture. He spearheaded a four-year Ragone is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Hawai`i in the Department of Tropical Plant and Indigenous Communities Mapping Initiative Project at Limahuli. This collaborative project focused on Soil Sciences. She is the author of more than 80 publications on breadfruit, ethnobotany, horticulture, researching and documenting traditional cultural knowledge and land use relationships and perpetuating and native plant conservation. Dr. Ragone holds a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Horticulture from the University traditional practices within the native community. When he assumed leadership of the organization of Hawai`i and a B.Sc. from Virginia Tech. in 2003, Mr. Wichman brought renewed focus to NTBG’s conservation and horticulture efforts and

a greater appreciation of the native Hawaiian culture. Under his leadership, NTBG built its fourth building at the headquarters campus, a major research facility which has received wide attention for its Tobias Kohler - Director of the South Shore Gardens “green architecture,” and has undertaken a multi-year plan for improvements to the McBryde Garden. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Suspendisse molestie leo Chipper has been very active in the Hawaiì Conservation Alliance, and his leadership was instrumental felis, non tincidunt arcu tincidunt eu. In lorem lectus, volutpat at ligula eget, sodales in getting the World Conservation Congress to Hawaiì this year. aliquam massa. Nam mollis, neque sed semper laoreet, ligula diam fermentum nunc, id semper dolor ipsum id augue. Sed consequat varius enim, tempor finibus eros facilisis quis. Nullam tempor ligula non est interdum, a interdum nisi tincidunt. David H. Lorence - Director of Science and Conservation Pellentesque augue diam, luctus ac libero ut, imperdiet vestibulum nulla. Nullam lacinia lorem in imperdiet pulvinar. Aenean luctus turpis ut pretium luctus. Morbi cursus orci magna. Maecenas metus Dr. David Lorence occupies the B. Evans Chair of Botany and came to the National Tropical Botanical massa, vestibulum vitae ultricies eu, bibendum non quam. Duis gravida, sem quis consectetur eleifend, Garden in 1987. He is the Senior Research Botanist for the organization. Research specialties are nibh urna mattis est, nec bibendum lectus justo at diam. Vestibulum sit amet velit est. systematic studies of tropical plants, floristics, and invasive plant species. His systematic research focuses on Pacific and neotropical members of the large and diverse Rubiaceae family, which includes coffee, Sed et nisl eget ex rutrum euismod. Nulla euismod lacus arcu, id imperdiet sapien consequat eget. quinine, and gardenias. He also studies the Monimiaceae family of the Malagasy region and tropical Suspendisse massa purus, lacinia non efficitur quis, fringilla nec nulla. Phasellus erat ante, dapibus id America and ferns. bibendum vel, posuere quis turpis. Quisque ultricies sed augue sit amet accumsan. Curabitur rhoncus purus sit amet diam gravida semper. Donec mollis pellentesque velit, at vehicula tellus egestas maximus. Dr. Lorence’s floristic research includes a multi-institutional collaboration on a “Vascular Flora of Maecenas imperdiet aliquet mi. Sed justo diam, maximus vel sapien sed, mollis pellentesque enim. the Marquesas Islands,” contributing partial treatment of the Rubiaceae for “Flora Mesoamericana,” Phasellus eget est eget tellus rutrum fermentum et vel sapien. and participating in a project to develop annotated checklists of the plants of Pohnpei and Kosrae in Micronesia. His research on invasive species includes restoration efforts targeting Hawaiian dryland forest and exotic species invasion in Mauritius wet forest communities. He has carried out extensive fieldwork in Hawaiì, Samoa, the Marquesas, Micronesia, New Caledonia, Mexico, and the Malagasy region. Dr. Lorence directs the research library and herbarium at headquarters, curates NTBG’s collections of Rubiaceae and of Zingiberales, and serves on the board of the Heliconia Society International.

16 17 DAY 2: MAUKA TO MAKAI FIELD EXCURSIONS Melissa SP Fisher, Deputy Director of the Kauaì Program for The Nature Conservancy Dr. Lisa “Cali” Crampton, Project Leader, Kauaì Forest Bird Recovery Project Melissa joined the Kauaì Island program in 2008 as the Program Coordinator Dr. Crampton (“Cali”) has been the Kauaì Forest Bird Recovery Project’s Leader since April 2010, and has served as the Conservancy’s Kauaì Island program deputy director since overseeing research into the ecology and conservation of Kauai’s native forest birds. She obtained 2011. She has a bachelor’s and a master’s in business administration, concentrating her Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology from the University of Nevada at Reno on non-profits, from Loyola Marymount University and Marylhurst University, in December 2004, where she examined the landscape ecology and conservation of Phainopeplas, respectively, and is responsible for overall project development and management to ensure that the threatened passerines in southern Nevada. Her first professional experience in Hawaii was at the USGS Kauaʻi program is on track to successfully deliver on its goals. She played an integral role in the Kilauea Field Station on Hawaiì Island, where she analyzed field data on the population and behavioral facilitation and writing of two Environmental Assessments and Management Plans necessary to build ecology of the endangered Laysan teal to improve monitoring and management strategies implemented strategic fences to enclose irreplaceable watershed areas and native ecosystems. Due to the Kauaì by the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Subsequently, for the US Forest Service, she analyzed impacts of program being the coordinators for the Kauaì Watershed Alliance, Melissa works closely with public recreation on abundance of Sierra Nevada forest birds, small mammals and carnivores, before finding and private landowners to ensure their understanding of proposed projects. Having spent four years her way back to Hawaiì in her current capacity. Recently she participated in a Structured Decision sailing a 35 foot sailboat with her husband from Washington to Panama unquestionably prepared her for Making exercise to determine how best to avert extinction of two endangered birds on Kauaì; the the job of planning field projects in remote areas. preferred solution was a hybrid of ex situ and in situ activities. Although the former was funded by government agencies, there was not enough money to fund some of the in situ activites. Thus Cali Christopher Mottley, Presenter, Saving the Hotspot turned to crowd funding, and raised almost $40, 000 to buy highly effective rat traps to protect birds received his first degree a B.A.S in Environmental Studies from American from predation. An unexpected but very welcome consquence was the huge amount of media attention University Washington D.C. He then completed two years as a Peace Corps generated by this campaign, which provided an opportunity for outreach about the impacts of rats on Volunteer In Senegal, West Africa where he was an Agroforestry Extension island ecosystems. Agent. His final Degree was completed in 2006, at the University Of Queensland, Australia where he received a Masters’s of Environmental Management with a focus in Natural Resources Management. Mr. Mottley has been with the Division of Forestry and André F. Raine, Endangered Avian Research Project Coordinator, Kauai Endangered Wildlife Kauai for several years, he was first a Natural Area Reserve Specialist, managing logistics, Seabird Recovery Project staff, invasive species removal, and fence installation. He is currently the Kauai Natural Area Reserve Dr. Raine is the Endangered Avian Research Project Coordinator for the Kaua’i Endangered Seabird Program Manager. Recovery Project, and has directed the project since 2011. This is a research and management project which aims to reverse the decline of three endangered native Hawaiian seabirds – the Newell’s Shearwater, Hawaiian Petrel and Band-rumped Storm-petrel. His current work focusses on addressing Michelle Clark, U.S. Fish and Wildlife the threats facing these birds, both in the upper montane colonies where they breed and in the lowlands Michelle Clark received her degree in Conservation Biology, Evolution and where they face a number of anthropogenic threats on their nightly migration routes to and from their Ecology from the University of Hawaii at Hilo in 2001. Michelle has been working colonies to the sea. in the field of conservation and habitat restoration in the Hawaiian Islands for Dr. Raine has a PhD in Ornithology, an MSc in Conservation and a BSc in Wildlife Biology. He has over 15 years. She started her career helping farmers, ranchers and non-profit been working professionally in the field of conservation for 20 years and has coordinated a wide range organizations to conserve natural resources as a Soil Conservationist with the US of avian and conservation projects around the world, including Zambia, Peru, the United Kingdom, Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resource Conservation Service. In 2008, she joined the US Fish Malta, Bermuda and the Seychelles. Dr. Raine’s main focus is ornithology, with a specialization in and Wildlife Service, Pacific Islands Fish and Wildlife Office. As Kauai’s Partnerships Biologist, she seabird research. works with partners to address invasive species threats to native plants, birds and invertebrates in a range of habitats including, cave environments, coastal areas, mesic and wet forests and montane bogs. Email address : [email protected] Project Website address : http://kauaiseabirdproject.org/ Project Facebook page : Kauai Endangered Seabird Recovery Project

18 19 Mapuana.R. O’Sullivan Lynlie Waiamau (Endangered Plant Propagator) Hawaiì Department Mapuana O’Sullivan is the Kauai Natural Area Reserve Specialist for the Division of Forestry and of Land Wildlife’s Natural Area Reserve Program. She received her undergrad in Biology from the University & Natural Resources, DLNR – DOFAW) Lynlie Waiamau graduated in 2006 of Hawaii and is currently pursuing a Masters in GIS from Penn State University. She has been with a Bachelor’s in Hawaiian Studies as part of the Hui Konohiki Program at the with the Natural Area Reserve Program for four years now, but began her career in natural resource University of Hawaii, Manoa. Studies involved Natural Resource Management in management in California with a small non-profit organization, the Center for Natural Lands Hawaii, with an emphasis on Botany and Ethno-botany. After graduation in 2006, Management. After two years in California, she made her way to Kauaì to intern and later be Lynlie worked briefly for Na Pua No’eau as an assistant to the Kauai Coordinator, providing learning employed by the Kokeè Resource Conservation Program. Through all of these experiences her love opportunities for native Hawaiian students in the field of natural resource management, native plant and appreciation for Kauai’s unique ecosystems and biodiversity has grown. propagation and restoration. In 2007 Lynlie was hired as a Horticulture Research Technician with Division of Forestry and Wildlife, and has managed the Kauai Rare Plant Facility in Koke’e for the last 8 years. She is responsible for the propagation and reintroduction of Kauai’s most rare and endangered Katie Cassel, Director, Kokee Resource Conservation Program native plant species. To complement restoration efforts for rare plants, Lynlie also grows a variety of Katie Cassel: Katie Cassel worked at Hui o Laka/Kokeè Natural History Museum as Volunteer common native plants for reintroduction as well. In addition to her work as the Kauai Rare Plant Coordinator and Program Assistant from 1993-98. In 1998 she founded the Kokeè Resource Facility Horticulturalist, Lynlie has managed the DOFAW Field Nursery responsible for growing native Conservation Program with grant funding to help control invasive species in the Kokeè and Alakai plants for sale to the public and any plant restoration projects for Forestry & Wildlife. regions. The program has grown to 4 staff and benefits from 9,000 hours per year of volunteer time; the

program has removed over 10 million weeds in 17 years. Ambyr-Mokiao-Lee, Education Specialist, Hawaii Department of Land & Natural Resources, DLNR-DOFAW Eben Manini-Field Technician Ambyr Mokiao-Lee was born and raised on the Island of Oahu and graduated Conservation Technician with KRCP for 10 years with a lifetime experience in ranching on Kaua`i. from Kalani High School in 2000. After graduation she attended the University Taken courses in agriculture and horticulture. of Hawaii at Manoa where she graduated with her Bachelors degree in Natural Resource Management in 2005. She was interested in marine coastal management and began to work as a Natural Resource Specialist in Kailua-Kona studying anchialine pool ecosystems. She then pursued a Master’s degree in Tropical Conservation Biology and Environmental Science from the University of Hawaii at Hilo and graduated in 2012. Ambyr is currently the Outreach and Spencer Kashiwa,-Field Technician Education Specialist for the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Forestry and Graduated in 2014 from UH Manoa with a degree in Natural Resources and Environmental Wildlife on Kauai. She works to educate the public and children on native plants and animals and the Management. Currently Conservation Field Technician staff at KRCP importance of forestry in Hawaii.

Keahi Manea, Secretary of Kaìmi Institute, teacher and student of Adam Williams, Kauaì Botanist, Hawaiì Department of Land & Natural Resources, Hawaiian culture including hula and music, and advanced student of DLNR – DOFAW Hawaiian language. Retired from Dept of Health in Epidemiology. Mr. Williams was born and raised along the San Mateo County coast of the San Francisco Bay Area in In 1978, Keahi began hula classes in Kaumakani KauaÌ with Roselle Northern California. After graduation from Half Moon Bay high school he first became interested in Keliìhonipua Bailey and was invited to join the performing team the next year. plants while working at a tree nursery in Santa Rosa, CA. What started as an interest soon blossomed Under her direction, she was privileged to perform at Merrie Monarch three into a passion for horticulture and all things relating to plants, eventually leading Mr. Williams to pursue times during those years, as well as the 150th anniversary of the founding of Lahainaluna School, and a degree in Botany with a minor in Plant Production and Management from the University of Hawaii many other venues. After taking a decade-long break, Keahi returned to hula with Roselle, and began at Manoa. In addition to working at nurseries in California and Hawaii before and during college, teaching hula classes at Kapaà, KauaÌ, in 1996, continuing until retirement in 2011. Travelled with Mr. Williams has also worked for the Ko‘olau Mountains Watershed Partnership, the Harold L. Lyon KaÌmi to Europe, India, and US mainland Arboretum and the State of Hawaii’s Rare Plant Program. Currently he serves as the Kauai District Botanist for the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Forestry and Wildlife, where he endeavors to conserve the many unique and rare plants of the Garden Island through hands- on management, active collaboration, and long-term planning.

20 21 Dennis Chun is the current Coordinator of Hawaiian Studies and Assistant Professor at Brian Yamamoto, Professor of Botany at Kaua`i Community College Kaua‘i CC. He received his M.E. Ed Admin. from the University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa, and a BA in and Research Associate and Instructor at the National Tropical Hawaiian Studies from the University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa. He has also served as a counselor at Kaua‘i Botanical Garden CC as well as a teacher/counselor at Kamehameha Schools. Mr. Chun is also a founding member of Brian has insperied several generations of Kaua`is youth to pursue careers in “Na Kalai Wa‘a O Kaua’i” an organization that perpetuates Polynesian seafaring skills and knowledge, agriculture and conservation. He’s hosted dozens of groups of students from Japan, and member of a voyaging organization “’Ohana Wa’a” striving to perpetuate and support Polynesian and is active in the community. voyaging traditions throughout the State of Hawai‘i and the Pacific. He has served as a crewmember

and leader for the voyaging canoe Hōkūle‘a since 1980, and is co-founder of an international program that integrates Hawaiian culture, science, and history with students from different cultures. Makaala Kaaumoana, ED Hanalei Watershed Hui Barbara “Makaala” Kaaumoana was born in Kaneohe, Hawaii in 1948. Educated throughout the Pacific and California she pursued careers in both nursing and Helen A. Cox, Ph.D. has been the Chancellor at Kauai Community College since August public school teaching before returning “home” in 1989. 2008. She has made sustainability a major initiative at the College and sees partnership with the community Always active in environmental education and conservation organizations and as essential in that work. Prior to her appointment at Kaua‘i CC, she served in both faculty and activities, she soon became involved in local projects supporting community administrative roles at Salt Lake Community College where she also led the sustainability initiative. management of cultural and environmental resources. In 1999 she was elected by the Hanalei Helen received her Ph.D. in English-American studies from the University of Utah, where she also did community to head the newly formed Hanalei River Hui. her master’s work. She holds a bachelor’s in English literature from Harvard University. Makaala believes in community participation and transparent process and has continued to guide this organization through the founding of the nonprofit, Hanalei Watershed Hui, and the development and implementation of the Hanalei Watershed Action Plan, the Targeted Watershed Initiative project, the Sharad P. Marahatta, Ph.D. is the full-time agriculture faculty and Director of the USDA Hanalei Makai Watch Program, Hanalei Watershed Management Plan, and the Hanalei to Ha’ena project at Kaua‘i CC. Disaster Resilience Plan. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, College of Agriculture and Human Makaala is active in the community, belonging to several civic and cultural organizations and serving on Resources (CTAHR), in the field of Tropical Plant Pathology. Currently, he is teaching agriculture the Boards of Directors for statewide organizations including the Conservation Council for Hawaii, Kua science related courses such as Introduction to Horticulture, Integrated Pest Management, General Āina Ulu ʻAuamo and was reappointed to the conservation seat for the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Botany, Crop Improvement and Plant Bioscience Intern. Sharad also serves as a Campus Coordinator Whale National marine Sanctuary Advisory Council. Makaala and her husband, a native Hawaiian, live for Hawaii Statewide Research and Education Partnership (HSREP) / IDeA Network for Biomedical on the north shore of Kaua`i and have a second home in Hanalei. They have a small banana farm and Research Excellence (INBRE) and Program Coordinator for Plant Biology and Tropical Agriculture enjoy fishing and family time. (PBT) Associate in Science (AS) degree, and Academic Subject Certificate (ASC).

Georgeanne Purvinis, Ph.D Completed her doctorate at University of Texas Arlington in Electrical Engineering, and a Masters Yumi Yasutake, Kauai Outreach Program Coordinator, Papahānaumokuākea Marine and B.S. from the University of Central Florida in Electrical Engineering. At Kaua‘i CC Georgeanne National Monument teaches electronics, optics, networking, programming, and is also an Associate Director of the Hawaii Space Grant Consortium. Georgeanne is PI for the NOAA Low Cost Underwater Observatory Project Anne Walton, Program Manager, NOAA/ONMS International MPA Capacity Building and the Dept. of Agriculture’s “Kauai honey bee stock improvement” project. Program

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22 23 DAY 3: CHANGE THROUGH TIME FIELD EXCURSIONS Michael J. DeMotta - Curator of Living Collections and Horticulture Kāwika Winter - Director of Limahuli Garden and Preserve Michael (Mike) DeMotta has served as Assistant Director of Living Collections and Horticulture for the NTBG organization since the latter part of 2006. He previously Kāwika Winter joined the NTBG in 2005 as the Director of Limahuli Garden and Preserve. Born and served as Horticulturist and then Manager of Living Collections at NTBG’s raised in the ahupua‘a of Wai‘alae, Kona, O‘ahu, Kāwika grew up in the islands with the mountains Limahuli Garden and Preserve. Mr. DeMotta was born and raised in Honolulu and and the ocean as his playground. Dr. Winter received his Ph.D. from University of Hawaiì in Mānoa attended the University of Hawaiì. His interest in horticulture was inherited from in botany, and his Ph.D. dissertation focused on the reciprocal influences that cultures and plants have his family, and he began growing orchids and ferns at the age of 12. His exposure in school to Hawaiian on each other’s evolutionary trajectories. His current research focus is in social-ecological systems theory. studies and the art of hula led to a keen interest in native Hawaiian plants, which he began growing in He utilizes his positions as the director of Limahuli Garden and Preserve, as the Coordinator of Makai earnest in 1997. During this time he developed many of his own techniques to germinate plants from Watch in Hāèna, and as a member of the Hawaiì Conservation Alliance steering committee to have seeds and cuttings which were otherwise difficult to grow. Hāèna stand as a model for biocultural conservation efforts in Hawaiì.

Merlin Edmonds Dr. David Burney Merlin is the Botanical Coordinator at Limahuli Preserve, and is on the front lines in the battle to Shares with visitors a quarter-century of exciting scientific discoveries at prevent extinction. He has extensive experience in remote field work, and is one of the best botanical Makauwahi Cave. His research publications have focused on endangered species, collectors in Hawaiì. He is also very knowledgeable about habitat restoration of mesic forests, including paleoenvironmental studies, and causes of extinction. His research sites have ranged the propagation and out-planting of the rare Hawaiian plants. from Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands to the West Indies and Hawaii. He also has over 40 years of practical experience in conservation, including serving as a technical consultant for many conservation organizations and government agencies. Prior to moving to Angela M. Anderson, Esq.--Kauai Island Director, Hawaiian Islands Land Trust (HILT) Kauaì in 2004 to become Director of Conservation at the National Tropical Botanical Garden, he was a Professor at Fordham University in New York. In 2006 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to Ms. Anderson joined HILT as the Kauai Island Director in June 2015, prior to which she served on write a book on his work at Makauwahi Cave on Kauaì (Back to the Future in the Caves of Kauaì: A HILT’s Kauai Island Council. Ms. Anderson received her B.A. from Columbia University, where she Scientist’s Adventures in the Dark. Yale University Press). His research has been featured on National designed an individualized dual major in Environmental Science and Economics. In 2004/05, she Geographic Television, Discovery Channel, Hawaii Public Television, NOVA, and NPR. As a National received her Juris Doctorate from the University of Hawai‘i’s William S. Richardson School of Law with Geographic Explorer, he has participated in planning exercises with global programs concerned with Graduate Certificates in Environmental Law and Conflict Resolution. After serving as Law Clerk to rewilding, de-extinction, and conservation paleobiology. the Honorable Judge Kathleen Watanabe of the Fifth Circuit Court, Ms. Anderson worked in private practice on Kauaì specializing in land use and real estate matters. In 2012, Ms. Anderson started Lida Pigott Burney her own law firm, the Law Office of Angela M. Anderson LLLC, offering alternative estate planning provides oversight to the programs at Makauwahi Cave Reserve. Her technical solutions. She has integrated her deep commitment to conservation within her law practice and public expertise includes palynology, aerobiology, sediment coring, excavation, and service on Kaua‘i, including serving in the Environmental seat on the County of Kauaì Planning rare plant conservation. She is the author of numerous publications on the Commission (2013-2015) and Marine and Coastal Zone Advocacy Council (2016). effects of human activities on prehistoric environments, causes of extinction and environmental change, and conservation. Her work at Makauwahi Cave, with scientific collaborators, college students, and dedicated volunteers, provides educational opportunities Sabra Kauka for thousands of school children and cave visitors every year. She organizes special events and volunteer Hawaiian Studies teacher and cultural practitioner, is president of Na Pali Coast Ohana, caretakers of opportunities for the local community and visitors to the island. She also created a jobs program Nualolo Kai State Park. Kauka first traveled to Nualolo Kai in 1992 to return ancestral remains to their at Makauwahi Cave that trains unemployed native Hawaiians of Niìhau descent in conservation place of origin. In 2008 the Ohana partnered with the National Tropical Botanical Garden to establish techniques and produces native plant seeds and nursery stock for other restoration projects. a botanical demonstration garden in Nuʻalolo Kai supported by a Hawaii Tourism Authority grant. Participants on this field trip will see that garden and be immersed in the stories of these plants and this beautiful place. See http://www.napali.org

24 25 Joe Kanahele Michael Mitchell, Acting Project Leader, Kaua‘i National Wildlife Grew up on Kauaì’s remote neighbor island, Niìhau. As a “100% Hawaiian” who grew up speaking Refuge Complex Hawaiian as a first language, he offers visitors a chance to learn Hawaiian agricultural lore first-hand. Raised to appreciate the wonders of coastal sage scrub habitat of southern Joe is a very experienced reef diver, fisherman, and pig-hunter who enjoys sharing his colorful stories California, I graduated from University of California, San Diego in 1992 with a (and green coconut drinks) with visitors. bachelor’s of science in biology. In 1994 I was hired by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s San Diego National Wildlife Refuge Complex as their biologist and in 1997 I converted to the refuge management series. For the past 18 years, I have been fortunate to manage 8 different national wildlife refuges in California, Virginia, Florida, and Hawai‘i. With my wife and two Billie Louise Dawson teenage boys, I reside in Hanalei Princeville on the island of Kaua‘i. When not helping to protect and Senior Plant Specialist at Makauwahi Cave Reserve, and an expert on propagation and translocation of restore wetland habitat for endangered Hawaiian waterbirds, I’m passionate about scuba diving and native plants. A certified Master Gardener and dedicated volunteer at the National Tropical Botanical gardening. http://www.fws.gov/refuge/kilauea_point/ Garden, Billie was a recipient of the 2013 President’s Volunteer Service Award. She is always happy to share her expertise with visitors, and show them the Reserve’s native plant nursery facilities and Charles “Chuck” Blay Ph.D. restoration projects. Prior to establishing residence on Kauai in 1995, he accumulated over 25 years of teaching, research and consulting as a sedimentary geologist. He has been a Dr. Carl J. Berg, Jr. professor of geology at Indiana University, the University of New Mexico and the Professional ecologist, environmental educator and wildlife tour leader. He was awarded a Ph.D. in University of Wyoming as well as Senior Research Geologist with Cities Service zoology from the University of Hawaii (1971) and was a university professor (City College of New York) Oil Company in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Since 1980, he has worked as an independent and research scientist (Harvard University, Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, and Florida consultant, initiating and managing several successful businesses, including Sedimentology Inc. and Marine Research Inst.) before returning to Hawaii in 1990. He was an Environmental Health Specialist Alaska Research Associates out of Boulder, Colorado; the Sedimentology Division of P.T. Geoservices IV for the Hawaii Dept. of Health, monitoring water quality in the ocean and streams from 1991 in Jakarta, Indonesia; and Sedimentary Geology, Quito, Ecuador. Since 1996, within his company to1993. He is currently finishing working on a USFWS grant for fish habitat restoration, a grant from TEOK (The Edge of Kauai) Investigations, his emphasis has been on the investigation of the natural Hawaii Community Foundation for mangrove removal in Niumalu, an EPA/DOH grant to monitor environments and sedimentology of the Hawaiian Islands, specifically Kauai and Hawaii. He currently pollution discharge from all streams entering Hanalei Bay and a DOH/NOAA/DLNR grant to also holds the position of affiliate professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of monitor and remove Japanese tsunami marine debris. Through Surfrider Foundation’s Blue Water Task Hawaii in Honolulu, and is a charter board member of the recently formed Hawaii Shore and Beach Force volunteers he monitors water quality at beaches and streams throughout Kauai. Protection Association (HSBPA). At present, Blay is active in the presentation of lectures, field seminars and educational tours on various aspects of the geology, ecology and cultural history of Kauai, the Big Island of Hawaii, and the other islands of the Hawaii Archipelago. He, along with his son, Robert Sara Bowen Executive Director of Mālama Hulē‘ia Siemers, has published, since 1998, a book on Kauai’s Geologic History, now in its fifth version. Related Sara has worked in the conservation and agricultural fields on Kauai since 2007. She received a B.S. interests include the nearshore reef and shore environments, the origin of beach sediments, water safety in Environmental Science; Minor Geology with emphasis in Hydrology from Western Washington and drowning prevention, and the archaeological/anthropological history of the Hawaiian Islands. University, Huxley College of the Environment, Bellingham WA in 2003. In Washington, she worked Current research involves the fluctuation in the character of sandy beaches around the island of Kauai with Whatcom County River & Flood Public Works doing mapping and culvert inventory for salmon in response to both long-term sea level rise and short-term variation in wave systems that impact the restoration, managed the Water Resources programs of a Native American Tribal Natural Resource island on a seasonal basis. Department, and started a wetlands consulting business. Since being on Kauai she has worked for Charles T. Blay: TEOK Investigations, 5162 Lawaì Rd (PO Box 549), Koloa, HI the Kauai Soil and Water Conservation Districts, managed Senator Inouye’s Kauai Agricultural Development Program at Garden Island Resource Conservation & Development, and was an Extension [email protected]; 808-742-8305, 808-639-6436. Agent for CTAHR’s Hawaiian Home Lands program. She has worked on various agricultural economic development projects funded by the Kauai Economic Development Program, volunteered on a committee for State designation of the Holo Holo Kōloa Scenic Byway, and is a member of the Kauai Island Council of the Hawaii Islands Land Trust working on land conservation and preservation throughout the island. malamahuleia.org/

26 27 KCEE Reservations Directions and Accommodations

REGISTER FOR IUCN WCC SPECIAL EXCURSIONS ONLINE KCEE TRANSPORTATION http://hawaii.iucnworldconservationcongress.org/special-excursions/ Transportation to and from the Lihue Airport and KCEE Hotels will be provided The Kauaì Conservation Expo and Expeditions Event (KCEE) is classified as IUCN WCC Special Insert description here.... Congress Excursion and registration is available on the IUCN WCC website. This one-of-a-kind event on the island of Kauaì will take place September 7 - 9, 2016 and will be led by local conservation professionals and cultural practitioners. KCEE HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS Recommended hotels on the south and east shores of Kauaì KCEE participants are encouraged to attend all three days of the event, however, three-day participation is not mandatory. Participants that are unable to attend for the entire three-day event are encouraged Insert description here.... to prioritize participation in Day One - the Conservation Expo and Marketplace of Ideas at National Tropical Botanical Garden. Day One activities are designed to give participants with limited time the DIRECTIONS best overview of conservation activity and one-on-one time with the resources focused on Kauaì. Additional directions we want to include? KCEE participants able to participate in Day Two and Day Three excurions must select one (1) all-day excursion for each day. Participants must register for Day One, Two, and Three activities individually. Insert description here.... To register, please visit the IUCN WCC website and follow these steps: • Step 1: Register to attend the IUCN World Conservation Congress at http://www. iucnworldconservationcongress.org/take-part/register • Step 2: Review the Special Congress Excursions at http://hawaii. iucnworldconservationcongress.org/special-excursions/ • Register for the KCEE days/excursions of your choice individually. Excursions are listed by island, and by title. Cost is per excursion/per day and listed on the reservation website at http://hawaii.iucnworldconservationcongress.org/special-excursions/ • Step 4: Research your travel arrangements and book your flight from Honolulu to Lihue, Kauaì. • Step 5: Select a participating KCEE hotel and make a reservation. (participating hotels listed on next page)

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