Happy Aloha Friday and big Mahalo to today's stellar stewards! Much of today's focus was a class led by Kimeona in lei making! Today's leis will go towards a long combined lei celebrating 20 years of work on a fishpond. In addition, we removed some invasive species on the ocean view drive side...

Mahalo to these awesome folks who dared the rains today to do some work. While I personally am not a big fantastic of working in rain for long periods of times, this group really pushed themselves. The rain is so needed, and it was light enough to still do meaningful work.

Happy Wednesday and big mahalo to today's tremendous team! At first glance, the beach seemed cleaner this week than last but sure enough the volunteers found many piles of rubbish throughout the many hidden spots. The invasive plants team absolutely demolished stands of buffelgrass and kiawe...

Big Mahalo to today's stellar stewards! Awesome progress made today digging out invasive species like buffelgrass. So great to find native plants already in here that will now have room to grow! We had a little bit of rain towards the end and we hope for a lot more in the weeks ahead. Mahalo Nui

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Mahalo to our awesome team for the collective work today in Waimānalo. We focused our time on the increased micro plastics debris that are reaching higher onto the beach following this past high swell. I continued to gather data on the Pōhuehue seeds being impacted by the weevils.

Mahalo nui to our Sunday group! Very appreciative to everyone that came out today despite the very rainy start. Today we had some work on trash removal for a couple hours while others worked on weeding the stream bed and irritating ponds. In our reflections we spoke about types of trash we...

Mahalo nui to our Saturday crew! It was a beautiful day out at Mauliola. We began with introductions and site history as always and it was great to see many new faces. People spread out across the park area searching the grass, rocks, and beach for litter and there was much to be found.

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Happy Aloha Friday and Big Mahalo to today's stellar stewards! Lots of newcomers got a first time look at this park and just in time for the christmas tree lights 🎄 Many of the team went to work removing khaki grass from the lawn with others began new stone stairs at the base of the hill.

It was a hot one today! The crew started slowly and moved into buffel grass removal into the morning. Keeping previously cleared areas free of buffel grass is one of those really important tasks, as much as we want to push ahead, we cannot neglect these spaces that have been outplanted.

Big Mahalo to today's stellar stewards! Things were a bit dirtier today at the beach, so we had plenty of scattered items to pick up and the rubbish was collected and consolidated. Some additional heavy work was done on the invasive plants, and we also took time to level out the dirt mounds...

Happy Tuesday and Big Mahalo to these stellar stewards! Today was all about continuing work on the area closest to the parking zone removing invasive buffelgrass and koa haole. We also took time to walk out and look for our precious native Hawaiian Yellow-Faced Bees who also benefit from the...

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Mahalo Kākou for a great afternoon in Waimānalo. Aloha Lā Hānau (belated) to Joe as well! The team worked to removed more of the guinea and beard grass as well as cut a few more of the koa haole out to make room for several native plants today. We are hoping the wet season continues to...

Mahalo nui to our Sunday group!! It was a beautiful day at the Botanical Garden with tons of new faces. The bulk of the group searched the ground for trash while a small group continued working on creating pond areas within the stream bed. We found quite a few syringes at the park...

The night comes quickly now, and it was awesome to welcome it over us at Kaloko Inlet. We focused on removing buffel grass today followed by a visit around the site and sharing moʻolelo, oral history of the area and those who have found themselves within. Wonderful work gang!

Big Mahalo to today's tremendous team! What a great turnout and hard working crew today! The camps have returned in recent times and additional site pressures with it, that being said the site is still looking on the path of progress. Leroy continues to so awesome daily and weekly work out here...

Happy Aloha Friday and Big Mahalo to today's stellar stewards! Stoneweavers worked on the Koko Head Avenue side, starting a new foundation for the bottom of the hill to mitigate erosion. Plants team did a combination of cutting and digging out invasive plants and also gathering native seeds to...

Mahalo nui to our fantastic group today, making time to serve this place. We were able to clear a great area of koa haole, buffel grass, kiawe and mangrove seedlings. We visited with our native bees and their critical ecosystems. Planted a few plants, and had some haumana uhau humu pōhaku put...

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! 🧡🦃🧡 We are all thankful for everything you do! ☺️ What are YOU thankful for this year? HAVE A VERY HAPPY THANKSGIVING, and mahalo nui for all you do and most of all for being you!

Happy early Thanksgiving to this tremendous team today! 🧡🦃 We had lots of folks joining us thanks to the holiday week and we went right to work cleaning up rubbish and removing invasive plants. So nice to take time and talk story about the native plants and sharing stories on this special space.

Big Mahalo to Krista Jaspers! "I found more than I could carry in just 20 minutes! Unfortunately it’s hard to clean here bc of the fishermen right now - the reef could really use a break!" Today's cleanup was at Tracks/Kahe! Cleaned up a total of: Lead Weight (lbs): 14 Fishing Line (ft): 100

A wonderful Tuesday this week of Thanksgiving! 🦃 We split into rubbish and invasive plants teams and everyone did solid work. Recent rains have woken native plant seeds and have given us a hint of what's to come in newly opened areas. Everyone had fun pulling out the koa haole roots as well.

A breezy afternoon in beautiful Waimānalo at Muliwaiʻōlena. Great group focused on removing microplastic from the sand, and invasive chinese violets from the area. We gathered and spent time in kilo of the Pōhuehue, which are continuing to suffer and die from potential impacts of a type of...

Mahalo nui to our Monday crew! It is so great to spend time in the Inlet as it changes and grows with the season and we enjoyed watching all the plant growth as we watered today. After watering we moved on to snapping newly rooted and floating mangrove seeds that had made their way into the...

Mahalo nui to todays group! It was awesome to have a big group and lots of hands as usual. We split up to do trash removal across the park, weeding of invasive species, and to move rocks and soil around crafting different pond areas within the stream. It is so cool to continue exploring how to...

Mahalo nui to our Saturday crew! It was a beautiful day out at Mauliola and our volunteers scoured the East side of the Recreation Area finding small plastics, shoes, bottles, cigarette butts, fishing line, and much more. It was good to get into some conversation about the history of this...

Mahalo to Papahana O Kaiona for the hard work at the garden today. It was rhe first visit for the school and we are so excited to have the opportunity to share this area with them. We spent the morning introducing them to the site, its history, and its future. We got to work in the stream...

Happy Aloha Friday and Big Mahalo to today's stellar stewards! Teams went down the hill into the crater and did big time invasive species removal as well as some old rubbish removal. Stonewavers began big planning for the Koko Head Ave Hillside as far as mitigating erosion.

What a wonderful day in Kohelepelepe! The elements were on our side of comfort with soft breeze and clouds in the sky. We were able to continue work on removing invasive California grass and Chinese Violets as well as other small shrubs from the area of the rare Koʻoloaʻula...

Happy Wednesday all! Things were looking pretty good today-not too much rubbish, and lots of energy we could focus on invasive species removal. Some of the recent rains have energized the native plants, and we look forward to much more with each square foot we free up. Mahalo to Judi for...

Mahalo to Papahana o Kaiona for continuing to be of service the Kalaeloa Camping Area for community to enjoy. These young people are learning in overtime, how important community and service can be. They are facing many of the difficult moments head on, and still continue to persevere...

It didn't rain on us today like last week! 🌧☺️🌧 Tremendous efforts by all as we continue our push to get invasive plants removed! Every sq ft opened is new real estate for native plants- come join us and be a part of the action! Beach cleaners also did a stellar job and thankfully not as much...

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Mahalo nui to our fantastic team! Joe and I hit the koa haole hard today and finally opened up the site to the edge of the parcel. Emily and Aidan went hard with the guinea grass today and we are super excited to plant some trees in on the next visit! Awesome job everyone.

Mahalo nui loa to our group today! It was a sunny day but still so obvious the whole area is greening up with recent rains. We did our typical watering routine while helping introduce some site history and spoke about invasive species with our new volunteer. After we were finished watering we...

Big Mahalo to Krista Jaspers and Team! Nice conditions but per usual there were a lot of fishermen with live lines that got very agitated if we got close to shore. We stayed on the outskirts and picked up a ton of homemade lead, slide bait tackle and hooks.

Big Mahalo to Jay Lee and Team! "We returned to Palolo Valley District Park for today’s cleanup! There were five volunteers, and we collected 75 lbs. of rubbish and 12 lbs. of recyclables. First, we cleaned up the brushes and the area by the tennis courts. Afterward, we cleaned up along..."

Mahalo nui to everyone that joined us today!! It was a beautiful day and we were lucky to have the stream water level back down to an area we could work in again and the sun shining on us through the trees. The water was noticably clearer today as the rain came and washed much of the...

Mahalo nui to our wonderful team today! We went right into the canal to get that trash out before it hits the beach and open ocean. It was great to see the diversity of life in the canal, which often are negatively seen. The team spread out across the shoreline and roadside collecting trash...

Happy Aloha Friday and Big Mahalo to today's stellar stewards! Much of today's focus was on the crater side, catching up on much needed invasive species removal. We also took time to help seed ʻuhaloa and milo seeds into this space. Stoneweavers also continued alongside the plants team working...

Welcome Hoʻoilo! The recent rains have boosted the growth of so many little ones, native and non native alike. A good sign of life after a rough kauwela. Mahalo to our awesome team for hammering out multiple projects across the site, focusing of course on removing non native buffelgrass and...

A wonderful Wednesday with fantastic folks! This week we had another abandoned camp site with tons of rubbish items left behind, and the whole stretch of beach had an increase in litter since last week. Volunteers made quick work of removing so much today. Invasive plant team went right to...

Happy Veterans Day everyone! Winter is in full effect, and we felt sprinkling rain for almost the entire time. But everyone powered through it and did a great job, removing invasive plants and cleaning up rubbish from the beach. Now we look forward to native sprouts returning with these new rains!

Mahalo nui to our Monday crew! It was a beautiful day at the Inlet and I was grateful to have the extra hands today so we could get some buffel grass removed while continuing to maintain our native plant areas by watering. It was clear that the area got a little bit of rain this past weekend and...

Tuesday, November 11th is Veterans Day, and I want to send a personal thank you to everyone who has served past and present. Mahalo Nui Loa to our veterans, active duty and reserves! Have a great day in honor of these great Americans! 🇺🇸🧡

Mahalo nui to our Sunday group! It was awesome to have everyone out despite the rainy day. We chose a different weeding area today on higher ground given the rising water levels and picked up trash in different areas as well collecting over 400 lbs!! Today brought a lot of reflection about the...

Mahalo nui to our Saturday group! It was great to have many new faces in our group explore the area today. We began with our usual introduction to each other and the history of this place and then spread out searching the park and in the rocks for rubbish. It was great to clean up this part of...

Happy Aloha Friday and Big Mahalo to today's stellar stewards! Madison led the team on a tour while collecting native seeds. Then we all went to work weeding and removing invasive vines and grasses, along with pesky khaki weed and koa haole roots as well. Gorgeous sunset!