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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
To learn more about this house, visit the Historic Hawaii Foundation listing.
Over the last eight months, community groups and non-profit organizations (Mālama Mānoa, Be Ready Mānoa, Honolulu Japanese Seventh-day Adventist Church, Mānoa Chinese Cemetery, Mānoa Heritage Center, Mānoa Japanese Language School, Mānoa Lions Club, Mānoa Neighborhood Board, Mānoa Outdoor Circle, Mānoa Valley Church, and Mānoa Valley Theatre) have joined together to […]
Kahalaopuna is surely smiling down on all of us for volunteering this morning to care for the heiau at Kamānele Park. A very warm MAHALO to the dedicated volunteers from Mālama Mānoa, Mānoa Outdoor Circle, Blue Zones Project 4M, UH Wellness Warriors, and OASES for your time and effort to […]
On February 10, 2021, the City & County of Honolulu presented an “Environmental Hero Award” to Mālama Mānoa for our decades of dedicated stewardship of Mānoa Stream. Andrew Garrett, our 1st VP and current Chair of the Mānoa Stream Clean-up Committee, accepted this honor on our behalf. If you’re interested […]
