Restoration, wildfire risk reduction, and native seed systems for Hawaiʻi and the Pacific — built on a living archive of what practitioners have learned, tried, and passed forward. Every record carries its source.
Abundant, thriving landscapes sustained by mutual relationships between people and place.
The University of Hawaiʻi Ecosystems and Landcare Program connects people to information on restoration, plans for wildfire risk reduction, and develops seed production systems to support thriving landscapes across Hawaiʻi and the Pacific.
Every fact is tagged by origin. Where two sources agree, we mark it corroborated; where they diverge, we show both.
Protecting, cultivating, and planning for rich, fertile, abundant land — multi-faceted, multigenerational, and centered in local knowledge and governance.
We work with large landowners to plan at scale — improving access to water, roads, and firefighting infrastructure while reducing fire-prone vegetation through greenbreaks, fire breaks, and fuel breaks across the fireshed.
Fireshed planning →Scarce native seed prevents re-establishment after fire. We support seed collectors, propagators, and researchers to build bulk wild collections of ʻworkhorseʼ species — testing how to raise seed production and viability while holding genetic diversity.
Moku Māhuahua →We gather field-based knowledge from conservation workers on invasive species control, pesticide use, and restoration — and disseminate it as standard practice, in digital platforms and in-person workshops among peers.
Open the archive →The purpose is to cultivate and retain a skilled, knowledgeable, ʻāina-based workforce with equitable compensation.
727 ahupuaʻa, each shaded by the species documented within it. Green is presence; ember is a hotspot. Hover to explore, click to open.
What this map is: occurrence records from two aggregators, spatially joined into ahupuaʻa. What it is not: a species inventory. Pale does not mean absent — it may mean unsurveyed, or surveyed by someone who never published to these aggregators. Both sources carry collection bias: iNaturalist toward the accessible, GBIF toward the historically collected. Where they disagree, we show both rather than averaging them.
UHELP is a Clarifico Node. Our data stays on our infrastructure. The Laukahi network queries us through a documented manifest — nothing more, nothing less. Federated, not centralized.
/api/manifest →Occurrences from iNaturalist and GBIF, boundaries from the Hawaiʻi Statewide GIS, descriptions from Wikipedia, treatments from practitioners — each labeled by where it came from.
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