Community service project at Ulupo Heiau, Sat. May 11, 2013
Join us on Saturday May 11, 2013 at Ulupo Heiau to malama this wahi pana (sacred place). At 8:30 am we will begin our Oli Kahea and have an orientation to this mapele heiau. We will be cutting back the hau, weeding in the auwai, cutting weeds in the marsh and preparing lo’i for planting. Bring a cutting or digging tool, water bottles, bug spray and a snack. Wear shorts or long pants, gloves, hat and use sun screen. No slippers or open toed shoes! Wear tabis or footwear when working in the loi and shoes in the land areas. We will be pau by 12:00 pm, perhaps tired, wet and dirty but you will be thinking throughout the week on what you have done to malama this sacred place. Call 263-8008 or email rick_scudder @ yahoo.com for more information or to let us know if you are bringing a group of volunteers.
Native Plants of Kawainui Tour, Sat. May 4, 2013
Ahahui Malama i ka Lokahi will conduct a Native Plants of Kawainui tour on May 4, 2013. We start at 8:30 am. Mark your calendar. The tour will be led by Rick Barboza of Hui Ku Maoli Ola nursery. We’ll car pool between sites. The tour will visit Ulupo Heiau ethnobotanical restoration site, Na Pohaku o Hauwahine native forest and wetland restoration site, Kawainui Park native garden and it time permits, the Hui Ku Maoli Ola nursery in Haiku. Donation of $10 is suggested.
Register early with Ahahui for this popular tour by calling Kaimi Scudder at 263-8008, or emailing “email @ ahahui.net”
Rick Barboza will lead the Native Plants of Kawainui Tour
See the New Free Film on Hawai‘i Explorer – Botanist Joseph Rock (1884-1962): A Founder in Island Natural History and Yunnan China Culture Studies
New Film on Hawai‘i Explorer- Botanist Joseph Rock (1884-1962):
A Founder in Island Natural History and Yunnan China Culture Studies
‘Ahahui Mälama I Ka Lökahi, Sierra Club – Oahu Group and Windward Community College
will screen a recent 52-minute film on the life of Joseph Rock, the “Father
of Hawaiian botany”, who went on to become internationally recognized for his
explorations in China. The free film showing of A King in China: The Life of Joseph
Francis Rock will be introduced by several heirs of the Pohaku legacy on Friday, April
26, at 6:00 p.m. in Akoakoa 103, Windward Community College.
These will include Sam ‘Ohukani’ōhi’a Gon & Steven
Lee Montgomery. Producer Paul Harris of “People and Places” will send a message from
Europe.
The 2013 showing coincides with the 100th anniversary of a foundational book on
Hawaiian plant life, Rock’s 1913 The Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian
Islands, republished by National Tropical Botanical Garden (NTBG) in 1974.
A largely self-taught scholar and explorer, Rock has many Hawaiian species named for
him, including endemic lobelias and asters. His other books covered sandalwoods,
ornamentals and leguminous trees, plus complete reviews of loulu palms, öhi’a lehua,
lobeliads and tree cottons. In the 1920s, Rock traveled to Southeast Asia for the U.S.
Department of Agriculture to collect plants used in treating Hansen’s disease. He is
most known for expeditions led for the National Geographic Society and Harvard in
Chinese and Tibetan border regions, documenting Natural History, then culture and
language of the Naxi people in Yunnan province. He continued work in Asia into the
1950, and then back to Hawai‘i, where he died in 1962.
National Tropical Botanical Garden Director, Chipper Wichman, says “the story of
Rock’s explorations in China is so fantastic it is hard to comprehend in the context of
our modern society. Everyone in Hawaii should know that this internationally
celebrated explorer got his start right here in the Islands, where he taught himself not
only botany but also photography.” This earned him much space in National
Geographic Magazine.
An early enthusiastic backer was former Governor George R. Carter, who shared a
desire “to give the public a volume on the native trees of Hawaii, giving popular as
well as technical descriptions of the trees peculiar to Hawaiian soil.” It gives details of
all the floral regions embracing the whole plant covering. Rock essentially adopted the
earth’s most distinctive flora, and shined such a revealing and reverent light upon an
archipelago so isolated from all continents that his works became durable foundations
and inspirations. He advised the Marks family on building a superb Botanical Library,
now in use at Kauai’s NTBG.
Partnerships are expanding to tell his story to share his scholarly and ecological ethics
to benefit Hawaii’s environment. To celebrate “The Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian
Islands” (issued June 26, 1913) the first of Rock’s six books, a symposium, expanded
film, book and photo exhibition are planned on this classic explorer- plant hunter,
who arrived in Honolulu in 1905. He became Territorial Botanist, worked in Burma,
lived 27 years in western China collecting plants, birds, photographs and filming for
USDA, National Geographic Society, and Harvard University’s Arboretum. Paul Harris
will film an extension of his documentary, “A King in China,” with new material on
Hawaii’s indigenous forests. A Harris book is planned about the Austrian-American
botanist and ethnologist, with 250 photographs and writings from National Geographic
and diaries from formative years in Vienna and Hawaii, to life in China, closing with
pioneering work on the beautiful pictographic script of the Naxi people.
For information on the co-host institutions, visit websites http://www.ntbg.org
Contact: Steven Lee Montgomery, Ph. D., Board Member; ‘Ahahui Mälama I Ka Lökahi
(808) 676-4974 cell 342 6244
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‘Ahahui Mälama I Ka Lökahi
Hawaiians for the Conservation of Native Ecosystems
P.O. Box 720
Kailua, HI 96734
http://www.ahahui.net/” www.ahahui.wordpress.com
Join us at our Community Service Project at Na Pohaku o Hauwahine on Sat., April 20, 2013
Please join with us on Saturday Apr. 20th from 8:30 am – 12:00 pm to malama Na Pohaku o Hauwahine located along Kapa’a Quarry Rd. in Kawainui Marsh, Kailua. Our restoration efforts at this site are to remove alien plants and replant with endemic natives. We are also maintaining a native wetland bird habitat in the marsh where we remove alien weeds. We will be primarily concerned with weeding and cleaning up areas and possibly do some new native plantings. If you love native plants, this is the place to volunteer. Wear work clothes, shoes, (no slippers!) bring your gloves, weeding or cutting tool, water and snack. Contact Kaimi Scudder at 263-8008 or email: email @ ahahui.net if you’re coming, and for more information. Also, see Ahahui Malama I ka Lokahi’s website at: http://www.ahahui.net
Community Service Project at Ulupo Heiau, Sat. Apr. 13, 2013
Join us on Saturday Apr. 13, 2013 at Ulupo Heiau to malama this wahi pana (sacred place). At 8:30 am we will begin our Oli Kahea and have an orientation to this mapele heiau. We will be cutting back the hau, weeding in the auwai, cutting weeds in the marsh and preparing lo’i for planting. Bring a cutting or digging tool, water bottles, bug spray and a snack. Wear shorts or long pants, gloves, hat and use sun screen. No slippers or open toed shoes! Wear tabis or footwear when working in the loi and shoes in the land areas. We will be pau by 12:00 pm, perhaps tired, wet and dirty but you will be thinking throughout the week on what you have done to malama this sacred place. Call 263-8008 or email rick_scudder @ yahoo.com for more information or to let us know if you are bringing a group of volunteers.
Help restore the Lo’i kalo at Ulupo Heiau.
Archaeology and History Tour of old Kailua and Maunawili Valley on Sat., April 6th
Dr. Paul Brennan and Dr. Chuck Burrows will lead an archaeological and historical sites tour on April 6th from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm. We will see Ulupo Heiau then car pool to “old Kailua”, Liliuokalani’s Retreat and Kukapoki Heiau in upper Maunawili Valley. Participants will learn how the early Hawaiians managed the natural resources of the Kailua ahupua’a and how Chinese and Japanese farmers grew their rice crops and engaged in truck farming in Kawainui and Maunawili. The tour is sponsored by Ahahui Malama I ka Lokahi, the Kailua Historical Society and the Kailua Hawaiian Civic Club. A donation of $10 is suggested and reservations will be limited to 30 persons. We will car pool between sites. Participants should have good footwear and bring bug spray, water and snacks.
The tour has filled up, but you can get on the standby list by calling Ahahui Malama I ka Lokahi at 263-8008 or email AML at <email @ ahahui.net>.
Join us to Malama Na Pohaku o Hauwahine, March 16, 2013 – Community Service Project
Please join with us on Saturday Mar. 16th from 8:30 am – 12:00 pm to malama Na Pohaku o Hauwahine located along Kapa’a Quarry Rd. in Kawainui Marsh, Kailua. Our restoration efforts at this site are to remove alien plants and replant with endemic natives. We are also maintaining a native wetland bird habitat in the marsh where we remove alien weeds. We will be primarily concerned with weeding and cleaning up areas and possibly do some new native plantings. If you love native plants, this is the place to volunteer. Wear work clothes, shoes, (no slippers!) bring your gloves, weeding or cutting tool, water and snack. Contact Kaimi Scudder at 263-8008 or email: email @ ahahui.net if you’re coming, and for more information. Also, see Ahahui Malama I ka Lokahi’s website at: http://www.ahahui.net
