Enjoy images from Three Mountain Alliance and Kohala Watershed Partnership. Click to enlarge any of the images below.
Click on the native forest image below to hear native forest birds such as apapane, ‘elepaio, and ‘ōma‘o.
- Native raspberry or akala, Keauhou area
- Misty Kau forest
- Cyanea shipmanii or haha, endangered species being outplanted by Three Mountain Alliance
- Hapuu ferns in Kau
- Emerging ohia forest on lava, ohia are one of the first plants to colonize new lava
- Ferns are an important part of the understory of forests, Kau
- Kau forest
- Kau forest
- Kau forest Early dawn in the Kau forest
- Kou flower at Kamilo-Waikapuna, Ka’u Coast, Island of Hawaii
- Native forest
- Yellow ohia
- Endemic plant, olomea
- Akala, native raspberry
- View of Kona from Kohala
- Endemic damselfly, Pinao’ula
- Io or Hawaiian hawk, endangered species
- Endemic land snail
- Orange ohia
- Hawai`i `Elepaio
- Wet forest in Kohala
- Clermontia species in Kohala associated with Hawaii legend
- One of many endemic plants found in Kohala
- Rainbow in Kohala, lands in upper areas are being restored from pasture to forest
- Rainy day in Kohala
- Ohelo berry
- Close up of ohia leaves
- Endemic vine
- Mamane flowers
- Endemic plant of Kohala
- Endemic Happy Face Spider
- One of several puus found in Kohala that are home to intact native forests
- Partulina snail, thought to be extinct, but a population was found in Kohala