References

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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

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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
    
    
    

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