HAWAII FORESTRY EXTENSION

Dr. J. B. Friday
CTAHR/ University of Hawai`i
Cooperative Extension Service
875 Komohana Street
Hilo, HI 96720
Telephone: (808) 981-5199
Fax: (808) 981-5211
Email: jbfriday@hawaii.edu

 

 

Koa field day at TNC, Kona Hema Preserve, Feb 5 2009

Koa Field Day at TNC-Hawaii's Kona Hema Preserve

February 5, 2009

Presenters

The Nature Conservancy

Laura Nelson, TNC Natural Resources Manager, laura_nelson@tnc.org, 443-5401

Mel Johansen, Kona Hema Field Coordinator, mjohansen@tnc.org, 938-1446

Chris Dunham (TNC Forester-Minnesota)

http://www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/hawaii/preserves/art2359.html

University of Hawai‘i at Manoa
College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources

J. B. Friday, Extension Forestry, jbfriday@hawaii.edu, 981-5199, www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/forestry

James Leary, Invasive Plant Management, leary@hawaii.edu, http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/LearyJ/, http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/invweed/

Travis Idol, Forestry and Agroforestry, idol@hawaii.edu

Rodolfo Martinez-Morales, PhD student

Dean Meason, PhD student

USDA Forest Service Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry

Paul Scowcroft, pscowcroft@fs.fed.us

Jack Ewel, jackewel@ufl.edu

Monash University, Australia

Patrick Baker, Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, Patrick.Baker@sci.monash.edu.au

Handouts from the field day (all files in pdf format acrobat reader icon)

Video Virtual Field Days

References for further reading

Ares, A, JH Fownes, and P Simmons. 2008. Wood production and native vegetation conservation in Hawaii’s uplands. West. J. Appl. For. 23 (3): 177-182.

Ares, A and JH Fownes. 1999. Water supply regulates structure, productivity, and water use efficiency of Acacia koa forest in Hawaii. Oecologia 121: 458-466.

Ares, A, JH Fownes, and WG Sun. 2000. Genetic differentiation of intrinsic water-use efficiency in the Hawaiian native Acacia koa. Int. J. Plant Sci. 161(6): 909-915.

Baker, PJ, AP Robinson, and JJ Ewel. 2008. Sudden and sustained response of Acacia koa crop trees to crown release in stagnant stands. Can. J. of For. Res. 38: 656-666.

Baker, PJ, and PG Scowcroft. 2005. Stocking guidelines for the endemic Hawaiian hardwood Acacia koa. Journal of Tropical Forest Science 17(4): 610-624.

Baker, P, P Scowcroft, and J Ewel. 2009. Koa (Acacia koa) Ecology and Silviculture, USDA Forest Service, General Technical Report PSW-GTR-211.

Friday, JB, PG Scowcroft, and A Ares. 2008. Responses of native and invasive plant species to selective logging in an Acacia koa-Metrosideros polymorpha forest in Hawai‘i. Applied Vegetation Science 11: 471-482. doi: 10.3170/2008-7-18538

Goldstein, JH, GC Daily, JB Friday, PA Matson, RL Naylor, and P Vitousek. 2006. Business strategies for conservation on private lands: Koa forestry as a case study. PNAS 103(26): 10140-10145.

Idol, TW, PJ Baker, and D Meason. 2007. Indicators of forest ecosystem productivity and nutrient status across precipitation and temperature gradients in Hawaii. Journal of Tropical Ecology 23: 693-704.

Leary J, Singleton PW and Borthakur D. 2004. Canopy nodulation of the endemic tree legume Acacia koa in the mesic forests of Hawaii. Ecology 85:3151-3157.

Pejchar, L, and D Press. 2006. Achieving conservation objectives through production forestry: the case of Acacia koa on Hawaii Island. Environmental Science and Policy Vol 9, Issue 5. 439-447. Available at Science Direct.

Scowcroft, PG, JE Haraguchi, and D Fujii. 2008. Understory structure in a 23-year-old Acacia koa forest and 2-year growth responses to silvicultural treatments. For. Ecol. Manage. 255: 1604 – 1617.

Scowcroft, PG, JB Friday, T Idol, N Dudley, J Haraguchi, and D Meason. 2007. Growth response of Acacia koa trees to thinning, grass control, and phosphorus fertilization in a secondary stand in Hawai‘i. Forest Ecology and Management 239: 69-80.

Scowcroft, PG and JA Silva 2005. Effects of phosphorus fertilization, seed source, and soil type on growth of Acacia koa. Journal of Plant Nutrition 28: 1581-1603.