How to Use This Website

by Ron June 2, 2009 Announcements

Welcome to the website for the Hawaii State-wide Assessment of Forest Conditions and State-wide Resource Strategy, otherwise known as SWARS. What is SWARS? you may ask yourself. For a brief write up, please visit the What is This State Assessment page. If you prefer to learn by hearing, we have produced a narrated slide show [...]

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Report From the Pacific Islands Comimmittee (PIC) Meeting

by Ron June 2, 2009 Agendas/Minutes

A quick report from this year’s Pacific Islands Committee meeting.

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Off to the Urban Forestry Quarterly Meeting

by Ron May 29, 2009 Announcements

At Wahiawa Botanical Garden

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NARS Commission Briefed on SWARS

by Ron May 27, 2009 Announcements

At the Tuesday, May 26 meeting of the Natural Areas Reserve Commission, Sheri Mann gave a presentation on the current status of the Hawaii SWARS project.

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Urban &. Community Forestry Meets

by Ron April 23, 2009 Announcements

The Urban & Community Forestry group is up and running. They met at UH on Weds April 22 to refine their Critical Issue mapping as per the Oklahoma Process (see links for that document).

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Watershed Management Groups Come Together

by Ron April 23, 2009 Ahupua'a

It was a small but significant meeting; on Friday April 17 representatives from three of the major agencies with ongoing watershed planning projects met together for the first time at the DOFAW administrative office in Honolulu. We had representatives from DOFAW, the Coastal Zone Management Non-point Source Pollution Control Program, the Hawaii Association of Watershed [...]

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Maunalua Bay Stormwater Control Program, but so much more

by Ron April 22, 2009 Ahupua'a

This little video is a test of a product called Camtasia Studio. Camtasia is a powerful little program that records what is being shown on your monitor (such as a Powerpoint presentation, or demonstration of software, or walking someone through a website), with the ability to lay a vocal track over the whole thing. It [...]

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Aloha Coastal Zone Management (CZM) Program

by Ron April 9, 2009 Ahupua'a

Kudos to Jamie Carter from NOAA for bringing together Hawaii SWARS and the Hawaii Coastal Zone Management (CZM) program. This new relationship between DOFAW and CZM will be very beneficial to all of us who love these islands.

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Update Report on Hawaii SWARS

by Ron April 7, 2009 Agendas/Minutes

Well, this has been quite a busy month. So much so that I have not been diligent in reporting on what has been going on behind the scenes. So, here is a quick run down on what we have been doing lately. Kelly Hartman, our GIS intern has been hard at work developing a GIS [...]

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Technical Writers Needed (Volunteers & Interns)

by Ron February 28, 2009 Announcements

DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES DIVISION OF FORESTRY AND WILDLIFE PLANNING & INFORMATION SERVICES February 25, 2009 MEMORANDUM TO:    Jim Henry, Jim Henry, Ph.D. FROM:    Ronald Cannarella, Planning & Information Services Forester SUBJECT:     Potential Technical Writing Projects Hi Jim, I am thrilled about the prospect of working with you and your students on [...]

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