Appendix:
Maui Strategies

1998 ERP Strategic Summary

The 1998 ERP summarized strategies for the specific needs of each of the conservation areas defined by the large native landscapes of each major island. The directives established then have largely been realized and continue to evolve. In 1998, the Maui Program, along with Moloka‘i the most mature in the state, was comprised of three preserves (Waikamoi, Kapunakea, and Maui Lava Tubes). The ERP recommended the following for Maui::

• Our expectation is that a West Maui Watershed Partnership will be established which will match the effectiveness of the East Maui partnership in pooling expertise and fundraising to generate major new stewardship impact and political support on the island.  
• The East Maui partnership should be expanded to include leeward native areas in Kahikinui and Polipoli. 
• The island-wide, multi-agency program to prevent new pests from arriving via traveler education and improved quarantine inspections, and to detect and contain or eradicate new infestations before they become widespread is an essential strategy, and a model for the state. 
• TNC believes Maui is also an excellent place to link biodiversity conservation more fully with the native Hawaiian community, in preparation for the expanding role that native people will play as stewards of conservation lands in the future as ceded lands and other sovereignty issues are settled.
  
  

 

2006 Strategic Update

By the end of 2005, both The East Maui Watershed Partnership (est. 1991) and West Maui Mountains Watershed Partnership (est. 1998) were implementing their management plans, which calls for major fencing and ungulate control projects according to management planning priorities. The Leeward Haleakalā Watershed Restoration Partnership (2003) was formed, expanding conservation and restoration efforts to the leeward native areas of the East Maui Conservation Area. 

In 2002 the Maui Invasive Species Committee (MISC), grew out of the Maui-based  Melastome Action Committee, to deal with prevention and early treatment of incipient pest species (such as Miconia). A close relationship of MISC staff with the TNC Maui Office has maximized alignment of our alien species prevention goals and actions.

The Maui Program continues to manage Kapunakea Preserve (1,264 acres) as part of the West Maui Conservation Area, Waikamoi Preserve (5,230 acres) in East Maui (Haleakalā), and The Maui Lava Tube Preserve (location and other details protected) in addition to being active participants in the partnerships described above.

Largely through the watershed partnerships, our efforts on Maui have resulted in some of the largest strides toward rendering large areas ungulate-free. Current plans are to pursue this leadership further, rendering new regions ungulate-free and exploring more effective ungulate control and preventation measures on Maui.

Clermontia samuelii is an endemic Hawaiian lobelioid from the Montane Wet Ecological System; Hāna District, East Maui Conservation Area.