Kia'i Moku Column

Research informs the efforts to stop Rapid ʻŌhiʻa Death (ROD)

March 16, 2021 by Lissa Strohecker

ʻŌhiʻa are the pioneers – the first trees to grow on bare lava. ʻŌhiʻa are also adaptable – they grow…
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January 19, 2021 by Lissa Strohecker

“At one time there were so many seabirds in Hawaiʻi they blackened the sky” says Jay Penniman, manager of the…
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November 23, 2020 by Lissa Strohecker

The adage “the more you look, the more you see“ is the basis for the “Pollinators in Paradise” project, a…
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November 23, 2020 by Lissa Strohecker

Back in 2009, a father and his two kids, still wet from the beach, walked into the office of the…
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November 23, 2020 by Lissa Strohecker

ʻŌhiʻa is both a pioneer – the first to grow on new lava– and a protector—hosting and sustaining birds, insects,…
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September 15, 2020 by Lissa Strohecker

Since Polynesian times, people have unwittingly carried plants and animals with them as they traveled to Hawaiʻi. Ants and skinks…
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