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East Moloka`i Watershed Partnership
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From mauka to makai - upper native forest systems to denuded middle zone to adjoining fringing reefs.
The East Moloka`i Watershed Partnership was formed in November 1999, to protect the best remaining native forest watershed areas on the East Moloka`i Mountains.

A grassroots community effort which eventually led to Moloka`i being designated an USDA “Enterprise Community (EC)” designation, played a key role in the formation of the partnership.
The EC, also called, “Ke Aupuni Lokahi (KAL) helped kick off the partnership’s first project, the Kamalo/Kapualei Watershed Project. The Nature Conservancy’s Moloka`i Program is the coordinator of the EMoWP.
Our Approach Intact native upper forest systems.
The partnership uses the traditional Hawaiian land division, or ahupua`a, approach to protecting the EMoWP watershed landscapes, with the upper native forests systems as the highest priority. Such an approach tries to protect watershed areas from the mountain top to the sea.
Controlling threats such as hoofed animals and invasive weeds are key strategies to protecting the best remaining native forest areas and to increase vegetation to the highly denuded, eroding mid-elevation slopes and thus reducing the sedimentation rate that severely impacts the adjoining fringing reefs.

Key Strategies
Land-Based Partners
Agency Partners

Contact: The Nature Conservancy Moloka`i Program, (808) 553-5236, emisaki@tnc.org
Key Plans: EMoWP 2015 South Slope Management Plan; EMoWP 2015 Weed Control Plan; Pelekunu and Kamakou Preserves Long-Range Management Plans.
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