News & Announcements
News & Announcements
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DLNR Forestry & Wildlife News Releases
- 1/28/26 – PRIVATE LANDOWNERS ON MAUI NUI SOUGHT TO ASSIST AXIS DEER CONTROL
- 1/23/26 – NEW LEASE APPROVED FOR KAHEAWA WIND POWER I
- 1/22/26 – INVASIVE INSECT TARGETING MĀMAKI DETECTED ON KAUAʻI
- 1/15/26 – KEANAKOLU BUNKHOUSE AND RANGER CABINS REOPEN FOR CAMPING
- 1/13/26 – Avian Influenza Case Confirmed; No Additional Detections in Hawaiʻi
- 1/9/26 – 2026 PROCLAIMED AS THE YEAR OF OUR COASTAL KULEANA
- 12/11/25 – STATE AGENCIES RESPOND TO THIRD POSSIBLE CASE OF HIGHLY PATHOGENIC AVIAN INFLUENZA IN HAWAIʻI
- 12/10/25 – NEW PROTECTIONS GIVE NĒNĒ ANOTHER CHANCE TO NEST IN LILI‘UOKALANI GARDENS
- 11/26/25 – TWO ʻALALĀ ADDED TO WILD FLOCK ON MAUI
- 11/17/25 – HAWAI‘I WILDLIFE CONSERVATION/GAME BIRD STAMP CONTEST OPENS
Statewide Forestry & Wildlife Announcements
- Kauaʻi Island Utility Cooperative (KIUC) second draft Habitat Conservation Plan Public Hearing on 02/11/2026
- Road Closure- Makiki Baseyard, 10/15/25
- Kaheawa Wind Power I Draft Habitat Conservation Plan- Public meeting on 9/18/25
- Updates: Mosquito control efforts in Alakaʻi Wilderness
- Hawaiʻi Island Forest Users has a new home
- Update: Loop Road / Wailua Forest Management Road Now Open
- Maui Forest Users website has a new home
- Oʻahu Forest Users has a new home online
- January 17 Public Hearing – Proposed Draft Safe Harbor Agreement for the Introduction of Endangered Orangeblack Hawaiian Damselfly (Megalagrion xanthomelas) to a Conservation Area on the Island of Lānaʻi
- Update: Loop Road/Queensland Crossing Project
Announcements from our Island Branches
Kauaʻi
- Kauaʻi Island Utility Cooperative (KIUC) second draft Habitat Conservation Plan Public Hearing on 02/11/2026
- Updates: Mosquito control efforts in Alakaʻi Wilderness
- Update: Loop Road / Wailua Forest Management Road Now Open
- Update: Loop Road/Queensland Crossing Project
- Success! Lehua Island is rat free
- Honopu