Kūkulu
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Knowledge exchange
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.
What you’re fighting.
What you’re building.
The practical index. Some of this is fireshed work and some is seed work — the colour bar on each topic says which. Topics still in development are marked rather than linked, so nothing here opens an empty page.
Threats
What we manage against.
Invasive plants
In developmentIdentifying and controlling weeds — mechanical, chemical, and biological.
Predators
In developmentRats, mongoose, and cats — trapping, monitoring, and protecting nesting sites.
Ungulates
In developmentPigs, goats, deer, and sheep — fencing, removal, and exclosure monitoring.
Wildfire
Fuels, fire behaviour, and landscape-scale mitigation across the fireshed.
Climate change
In developmentShifting rainfall and temperature, and what it means for restoration planning.
Pests
In developmentInvertebrate pests of native plants — detection and control.
Disease and pathogens
In developmentRapid ʻŌhiʻa Death and other pathogens — sanitation and reporting.
Restoration
What we put back.
Seed collection
When and how to collect — with a fruiting calendar built from real observations.
Nursery
In developmentPropagation, seed storage, and growing out for outplanting.
Species selection
In developmentMatching species to site — moisture zone, elevation, and provenance.
Site prep
In developmentClearing, weed knockdown, and preparing ground before planting.
Outplanting
In developmentPlanting technique, timing, aftercare, and survival monitoring.
Windward and upland.
The wet windward and upland zones hold the most intact native forest — and the longest continuous record of people working in it. Most of what the archive gathers was learned here.
Moisture zones after Price, Jacobi et al. 2012 (USGS OFR 2012-1192). Basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Practice, written down.
Most of what a conservation crew knows lives in the crew. When people move on, the knowledge goes with them, and the next team rediscovers it at their own cost.
Extension is the work of catching that knowledge before it leaves — writing it down, attributing it, and putting it back into circulation as something the whole community can rely on. Every record here carries its source.
The partner directory lists the organizations doing this work alongside us.