Since our work began in September 2023, KCWA has successfully completed ecologically responsible fuels reduction across 58 acres of the Kula Fire burn scar and adjacent areas of Pōhakuokala in the Waiakoa watershed.
Our organization is aware that the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and their Emergency Watershed Protection Program has approved funding to cover fuels reduction and weed removal in fire-impacted areas. With the Central Maui Soil & Water Conservation District as the sponsor of those funds, landowner agreements have been signed and professional contractors began work in the gulch in April 2025.
With that tremendous resource moving itʻs way through, KCWA’s advisors and site visit teams have determined there is still need for fire fuels reduction due to the agressive regrowth of black wattle trees. We have partnered with the U.S. Forest Service Wildland-Urban Interface program, the Hawaiʻi Wildfire Management Organization, and the team at Hydroflask to finish the work.
