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Pacific Southwest
Research Station 800 Buchanan Street Albany, CA 94710-0011 (510) 883-8830 ![]() |
Experimental Forests, Ranges, and WatershedsHawaiʻi Experimental Tropical Forest![]() Hawaiʻi Experimental Tropical Forest, Laupāhoehoe, Island of Hawaiʻi.
(U.S. Forest Service) The Hawaiʻi Experimental Forest provides an opportunity to study how the land responds to challenges and helps to develop methods for land managers to help sustain Hawaiʻi's unique ecosystems as well as their ecological functions, for future generations. The Hawaiʻi Experimental Forest has four main goals:
HETF Unit LocationsThe HETF covers about 51,000 acres on Hawaiʻi Island, is part of the U.S. Forest Service's experimental forest and range network, and is co-managed in partnership with Hawaiʻi's Department of Land and Natural Resources' Division of Forestry and Wildlife. The experimental forest is comprised of two "units" on opposite sides of Hawaiʻi Island, which epitomize both wet and dry forest tropical ecosystem conditions. The Laupāhoehoe Unit (wet forest) encompasses about 12,000 acres of tropical rain forest on the island's eastern Hamakua Coast, and the Puʻu Waʻawaʻa Unit (dry forest) is comprised of about 39,000 acres, near North Kona on the west side of Hawaiʻi Island. Each unit represents a unique and diverse tropical ecosystem with distinctive:
For more information about our partners, visit the State of Hawaii, Department of Land and Natural Resources' Division of Forestry and Wildlife. Approximate Reference Locations for the HETFLaupāhoehoe Unit, Lat. 19.80528 N, Long. 155.26917 W Contact InformationPacific Southwest Research Station Susan Cordell, Ph.D. |
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