This project will revegetate Lahaina with native plants, canoe plants and culturally appropriate plants to restore the burned landscape, increase resilience, beautify the town, increase storm water infiltration and groundwater recharge, and provide food and material sources for the community. It will educate the community about native plants and resilient landscaping. Reforesting Lahaina (beyond the town) and Kula with native plants will restore the native landscape, reduce invasive plant fuel loads, increase fire and hazard resilience, increase  groundwater recharge, and provide food and material sources for the community.  This project includes key efforts such as:

• Create a Maui Native Nursery Network of existing nurseries around the island to establish partnerships and increase operations to provide plants to Lahaina, Kula, Pūlehu, and Olinda
• Establish new nurseries in Lahaina moku to grow plants to revegetate the town
• Establish biosecurity protocols and quarantine areas in new nurseries
• Establish and expand composting facilities in Lahaina for waste diversion and generation of mulch for revegetation, soil restoration, and erosion control
• Reforest the middle watershed area surrounding Lahaina town to turn the unproductive invasive grasslands into thriving forested and agriculture areas; Reforest the DLNR lands in upper mauka Lahaina
• Implement other reforestation projects led by organizations across Lahaina, Kula, Olinda, and Pūlehu.

A major challenge is creating partnerships between private landowners, government agencies and community groups. Litigation against the landowners around Lahaina also pose barriers to working together and taking action to restore the landscape. Funding for revegetation and reforestation projects and long-term maintenance of lands are also challenges. The County currently does not have policies to require the management of fallow lands.

This project will revegetate Lahaina with native plants, canoe plants and culturally appropriate plants to restore the burned landscape, increase resilience, beautify the town, increase storm water infiltration and groundwater recharge, and provide food and material sources for the community. It will educate the community about native plants and resilient landscaping. Reforesting Lahaina (beyond the town) and Kula with native plants will restore the native landscape, reduce invasive plant fuel loads, increase fire and hazard resilience, increase  groundwater recharge, and provide food and material sources for the community.  This project includes key efforts such as:

• Create a Maui Native Nursery Network of existing nurseries around the island to establish partnerships and increase operations to provide plants to Lahaina, Kula, Pūlehu, and Olinda
• Establish new nurseries in Lahaina moku to grow plants to revegetate the town
• Establish biosecurity protocols and quarantine areas in new nurseries
• Establish and expand composting facilities in Lahaina for waste diversion and generation of mulch for revegetation, soil restoration, and erosion control
• Reforest the middle watershed area surrounding Lahaina town to turn the unproductive invasive grasslands into thriving forested and agriculture areas; Reforest the DLNR lands in upper mauka Lahaina
• Implement other reforestation projects led by organizations across Lahaina, Kula, Olinda, and Pūlehu.

A major challenge is creating partnerships between private landowners, government agencies and community groups. Litigation against the landowners around Lahaina also pose barriers to working together and taking action to restore the landscape. Funding for revegetation and reforestation projects and long-term maintenance of lands are also challenges. The County currently does not have policies to require the management of fallow lands.