December 2008
Status Report
for the Mākua Implementation Plan
11 MB
Prepared by: United States Army
Garrison, Hawai'i Directorate of Public Works Environmental Division
Schofield Barracks, Hawai'i 96857.
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Executive summary excerpt:
The O'ahu Army Natural Resources Program (OANRP) has
just completed implementing its fourth year of the Mākua
Implementation Plan Addendum (2005) and the first year of the O'ahu
Implementation Plan (OIP) (Draft OIP 2005, Final OIP 2008). The
Mākua Implementation Plan (MIP) was finalized in May 2003. In
January 2005, the Army completed an Addendum which emphasized
management of three population units (PUs) per plant taxon in the
most intact habitat and 300 individuals of Achatinella mustelina
in each genetically identified Evolutionarily Significant Unit (ESU).
The 2007 Makua Biological Opinion (BO) issued by the US Fish and
Wildlife Service (USFWS) required that the Army provide threat
control for all O'ahu Elepaio pairs in the Mākua action area (AA)
and that some species be stabilized on an expedited timeline in
order to utilize certain munnitions. Expedited stabilization has not
begun at this time due to a lack of additional funding for this
effort. An amended BO was issued in 2008 that covers additional
minimizations measures necessary as a result of the 2007 Waialua
fire that destroyed individuals and habitat for Hibiscus
brackenridgei subsp. mokueleianus. This report serves as
the annual status report to the Mākua Implementation Team (MIT), and
participating landowners on the MIP Year-4 actions that occurred
between 1 September 2007 and 31 August 2008.
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