Canopy Chronicles – January 2025
Happy new year, Aloha Tree Alliance supporters and friends! As 2025 begins, we reflect with gratitude on everything we accomplished in 2024—thanks to you! This year, we’re reaching for new heights, ready to embrace another transformative journey of growth, connection, and conservation. Join us for monthly community workdays, weekly Aloha Friday watering events, or special […]
Canopy Chronicles – April 2025
Happy Earth Month! As we continue to honor the Year of our Community Forests we’re excited to share a vibrant recap of events that reflect our shared commitment to mālama ʻāina. From a potentially record-breaking Community Work Day on April 19, to Native Hawaiian Plant Month and Volunteer Appreciation Week, this month is a joyful […]
Canopy Chronicles – October 2024
October brings a special kind of magic to Aloha Tree Alliance as we celebrate the start of our 2024-25 planting season! With fresh goals, vibrant seedlings, terrific volunteers and a continued dedication to improving Hawai‘i’s watersheds, we’re ready to dive into another season of transformation and growth. Throughout the next eight months of this planting […]
Canopy Chronicles – July 2024
July marks the end of this year’s planting season, and what a season it has been! Since November 2023, we’ve planted nearly 2,500 native plants in our kīpuka—a significant increase compared to 1,500 plantings in the previous season. Thanks to increased volunteer turnout, steady grant funding, and plentiful rain, we’ve cultivated more native plants than […]
KUPU Americorps Members Hit the Trail
For one week in July, 12 KUPU Youth Conservation Corps interns and staff participated in diverse hands-on, place-based mentorship opportunities through ATA’s second annual Ridge-to-Reef eco summer program. The young adults’ experiences took them 1,800 feet above sea level to the Kuli`ou`ou Ridge Trail summit, down to the shores of Maunalua Bay. In between on […]
Foster-a-Plant Gives Seedlings a Home
ATA team leader Kanoa Nakamura knows that planting seeds takes time and patience. Newly planted seedlings need care like all young, and just the right amount of sunshine and water. What began as a plant propagation project in Kanoa’s back yard blossomed this past spring into ATA’s Foster-a-Plant program. Community members can foster native trees […]
White House Council Chair Tours Kuli’ou’ou Ridge Trail
A surprise visit in May by Chair of White House Council on Environmental Quality, Brenda Mallory, brought attention to a landmark grant that will foster traditional watershed management in modern-day Honolulu. ATA is one of eight groups, led by Malama Maunalua, that was awarded an $8 million NOAA grant to implement traditional, ridge-to-reef ahupua‘a management––native […]
Book Recommendations
We compiled a list of books to immerse yourself in the wisdom and wonder of forests on Earth. Happy reading!
Protect, Preserve, Plant
Protecting and preserving mature native trees is as important as planting new ones for restoration….
Why Trees Matter
In this digital era, it’s crucial for us to mend our bond with trees, acknowledging their vital role in cooling our cities, supplying essentials like oxygen, food, and medicine, and supporting our wellbeing, as our existence is deeply intertwined with the health of forests and the planet.