Koʻolau Mountains Watershed Partnership manager, JC Watson, shares how to identify Albizia (Falcataria moluccana), a highly invasive species in Hawai’i and the fastest growing tree in the world, in the following video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJqW96rK-3I For more information and resources, go to koolauwatershed.org/albizia
By Thalya DeMott The White Tern is often referred to as “Fairy Tern,” which is the common name of a black-crested tern not found in Hawaiʻi, but in the southwestern Pacific including Australia and New Zealand.Manu-o-Kū, or bird of Kū, the god of war, is the more accurate name for our indigenous Hawaiʻi subspecies, Gygis …
Phyllis offering an invitation to forest bathing participants, 2019. Credit: Elyse Butler/Hana Hou! Magazine by Phyllis Look For those of us who call Mānoa home, we know when we’ve crossed that invisible threshold on our return mauka. Immediately, we feel the Valley’s cool, green embrace, we breathe easier, our hearts lighten. You’ve just experienced a …
by Dale Moana Gilmartin Less than three and a half miles, as the mynah flies, from downtown Honolulu is a place that could have been forgotten by time. Harold L. Lyon Arboretum, 194 acres nestled deep in the back of Mānoa Valley, is a nearly primeval setting. Majestic trees canopy the lush forest floor and …
2017 Lanihuli Drive By Lowell Angell Two houses in Mānoa have been added to the Hawai’i Register of Historic Places. Here’s a summary of them. The complete Register nominations are on the Historic Hawai’i Foundation website at the links indicated. 2017 Lanihuli Drive. Built in 1925, this house is a blend of Colonial Revival and …
A rendering of the UH Atherton complex reimagined as “The Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship” (printed with permission by Michael Lam of Hunt Companies by Vanessa Distajo Growing up in Lower Mānoa, generations of children have been taught to find their way home using the pink Atherton building as their guide. Located on the corner …
To learn more about this house, visit the Historic Hawaii Foundation listing.
