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References

3 May

Want to learn more about Hawaiʻi?
Hereʻs some awesome resources to get started!
Click on the links below to jump to each section or keep scrolling for more information.

Online Resources
Reference Books
PDF Downloads


Online Resources

  • Conservation Connections
    Find conservation sites across Hawaiʻi to volunteer, intern, work, and learn

  • Hahai nō ka ua i ka ululāʻau – The Rain Follows the Forest
    Hawaiʻi DLNR watershed plan, documentary, and PSA about where we get our freshwater.

  • Native Hawaiian Plants
    A list of sites compiled by UH Mānoa

  • Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk
    Check here to see if your subject is native or not and check out great photos of many native species

  • Hawai’i State Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Forestry & Wildlife
    Resources for teachers, parents, and students

  • Hawai‘i State Natural Area Reserves System
    Information about the Natural Area Reserves System

  • Mālama Hawaiʻi
    A hui of over 70 organization dedicated to the care and protection of Hawaiʻi.

  • Hawaii Association of Watershed Partnerships (HAWP)
    Find out more about the partnerships of private, state, and federal landowners working together to protect our natural resources

  • Mauna Kea Forest Restoration Project
    High up on the slopes of Mauna Kea is a unique and fragile forest home of the palila. Restoration efforts are underway to protect this famous bird.

  • The Nature Conservancy
    Last Stand: The Vanishing Hawaiian Forest

  • Bishop Museum
    Hawaiʻi State Museum of Natural and Cultural History

  • Ka Leo o ka Uluau
    A podcast to hoʻokamaʻāina or acquaint listeners to the island of Hawaiʻi.

  • Liko Nā Pilina
    A long-term research project on Hawaiʻi Island focusing on creating hybrid plant communities to restore degraded Hawaiian lowland wet forests.

  • Hawaiʻi Island Ahupuaʻa Map
    Colored ahupuaʻa map of the Island of Hawaii. December 1928.

  • Stream Maps of Hawaiʻi Island
    Topographic stream maps.

  • Geologic Maps of the Island of Hawaiʻi
    • Hilo – Puna (+ geologic map key)
    • Kohala – North Kona
    • South Kona – Kaʻū

Reference Books

Check out the Hawaiʻi section of your library or local bookstore or browse online to find the following titles about native species of Hawaiʻi.

  • Natural History
    • Hawaiian Natural History, Ecology and Evolution
       By Alan C. Ziegler

  • Plants & Fungi
    • An Identification Guide to Mushrooms of Hawai‘i
      By Don E. Hemmes, Ph.D. and Dennis E. Desjardin, Ph. D.

    • A Pocket Guide to Hawai‘iʻs Trees and Shrubs
      By Douglas Pratt

    • Hawaiian Forest Plants
      By Mark Merlin

    • Hawai‘iʻs Plants and Animals: Biological Sketches of Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park
      By Charles P. Stone and Linda W. Pratt

    • Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawai‘i
      By Warren L. Wagner, Derral R. Herbst and S.H. Sohmer

    • Plants and Flowers of Hawai‘i 
      By S.H. Sohmer and R. Gustafson

  • Birds
    • A Pocket Guide to Hawai‘iʻs Birds
      By Douglas Pratt

    • The Birds of Hawai‘i and the Tropical Pacific
      By Douglas Pratt, Phillip L. Bruner and Delwyn G. Berrett

  • Insects
    • Hawaiian Insects and their Kin
      By F.G. Howarth and W.P Mull



PDF Downloads

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TMA Management Plan

TMA Weed Management Plan

Wai Magazine

How we get our freshwater Infographic

Natural History of Hawaiʻi Infographic

ʻAʻaliʻi with leaf litter

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Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park, HI 96718
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