08/24/16 – Sustainable Healthy Forests For Hawaii’s Communities
DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES
DAVID Y. IGE
GOVERNOR
SUZANNE D. CASE
CHAIRPERSON
MEDIA ADVISORY
SUSTAINABLE HEALTHY FORESTS FOR HAWAII’S COMMUNITIES
WHAT: Experts will discuss the goals and accomplishments of Watershed Partnerships in Hawaii, which are voluntary alliances between public and private landowners in the state. They are working together collaboratively across landscapes and landowner boundaries to achieve watershed protection and help leverage state funding via grant funding and in-kind services to achieve broad scale conservation goals. DLNR is currently going through its annual Request for Proposals process to award $2.5 million in state funding to Watershed Partnerships and other groups engaged in watershed protection and management.
WHEN: Wednesday, August 24, 2016, 11 a.m.
WHERE: DLNR, 1151 Punchbowl Street, Honolulu (first floor makai breezeway)
WHO: Marigold Zoll, DLNR Division of Forestry & Wildlife (DOFAW)
Katie Ersbak, DLNR Division of Forestry & Wildlife (DOFAW)
Tracey Gotthardt, Ko’olau Mountains Watershed Partnership
WHY: This is the third of 19 daily DLNR & YOU news conferences associated with the IUCN World Conservation Congress Hawai’i 2016, Sept. 1st-10th. Complete media packages with HD Video, photographs, and a video news release will be available.
Please RSVP attendance to:
MEDIA CONTACT:
Deborah Ward
Communications Specialist
(808) 587-0320
