Limahuli Garden and Preserve - The Garden Club of Honolulu

Costs are for the rebuilding of our irrigation system, roads, stream crossings, visitor parking, and visitor paths in the Garden. In the Lower Limahuli Preserve (LLP) we need to replace the damaged sections of our ungulate fence which protects our rare and endangered plant species. These fence panels have to be flown in by helicopter before they can be installed in the damaged sections. Expenses thus include the fence panels as well as the helicopter time to fly them in. We have also included the cost of 1)produce, 2)out-plant, 3)initially maintain the thousands of native plants needed to reestablish cover on the areas that were scoured bare by landslides. 4) We have also included some costs related to the removal of the invasive shrubs that are beginning to establish in these disturbed areas. We will also experiment with dropping seeds on the remote sections of the landslide areas using drone technology.

NTGB would like to focus this request on the recovery work in the Lower Limahuli Preserve as we feel GCA funding is best suited to growing and protecting the native plants that exist there and nowhere else in the world. Funding would be used to repair the damaged sections of our ungulate fence and purchase propagation supplies used to grow the plants that will be used in the restoration work. NTGB would like to complete the fence repairs this summer when the dry season arrives so this is a short timetable of 3-4 months. The propagating and growing and ultimately out-planting the area scoured bare by the landslides are all activities that will continue through the end of 2019 if funding is secured.