University of Hawaiʻi Launches $2.8 Million Pacific Forest Resilience Program Funding Five Extension Agents
The University of Hawaiʻi announced on November 8 that the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa has entered a $2.8 million partnership with the U.S. Forest Service to help Pacific Island landowners protect forests and prepare for wildfire, drought, and severe storms.
The Pacific Forest Resilience Program will fund five new Forest Service-affiliated junior extension agents through Mānoa's College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience (CTAHR). The agents will be stationed in American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau.
Applications for all five positions open November 9, the agents are expected to begin work by May 2027, and an informational webinar will be held on November 18 at 2 p.m. Hawaiʻi time. The university said Pacific Island forests face mounting pressure from climate change and invasive species, and the locally based agents will serve island communities directly, bringing forest protection and disaster-preparedness knowledge to the front line.
Source: University of Hawaiʻi
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Photo: 图：夏威夷欧胡岛卡阿拉山原生林地。公共领域，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Native forest on Oahu, Hawaii. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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