A 1,200-acre koa forest on Hawaii island is almost ready to be harvested for the first time in nearly two decades. The Kapapala Canoe Forest was set aside in 2005 within the Kau Forest Reserve to ...

They were experimenting replanting with koa in 1931 in Hōnaunau forest (in South Kona),” he says. “There were several trustees who were strong advocates. Then in 1976 the first koa restoration ...

At Hawaiian Koa Furniture in Honolulu, a 54-inch round koa table sells for $8,000. The bulk of the koa market is driven by Hawaii residents, who are the world's biggest consumers of richly ...

Once reserved only for royalty, koa trees grow nowhere else on earth. So far, HLH has planted more than 200,000 trees. Most are koa, but other plantings include native Hawaiian trees and shrubs ...

Rare honey is creating a big buzz on the Big Island of Hawaii. The first-of-its-kind honey comes from the nectar of native koa trees along Hawaii Island’s Hamakua Coast, north of Hilo. Hawaiian ...

Koa forest restoration wasn’t their original business plan. When the couple left their executive corporate jobs in Los Angeles to move to Hawaii, they had planned to follow in the footsteps of ...

Company behind handcrafted guitars is helping to repopulate koa forests in Hawaii Siglo has planted about 10,000 koa trees since the partnership began in 2015. By Jim Mendoza ...

About 34 miles north of Hilo, the 1,200-acre Hawaiian Legacy Forest sits on hallowed ground. It used to be a koa forest owned by Kamehameha I, Hawaii’s first king.

Taylor Guitars has shifted the body construction of its 700 Series to all-Hawaiian koa. In order to accomplish this, Taylor created an innovative Hawaii-based forest stewardship program. CFO ...

Located on the slopes of the dormant Mauna Kea volcano and about five miles northwest of Hilo town, the sale by one of the state’s largest banks is an effort to get rid of its non-core assets.

The koa home, Mana Hale, was built by the ranch’s founder, John Palmer Parker, in about 1855 and was relocated to its current location in 1987. In Hawaii, it’s pretty common to see koa bowls ...

You can help the environment and get stunning views at the same time, thanks to a new eco-tour on Hawaii’s Big Island. Hawaiian Legacy Hardwoods has begun offering daily off-road tours to the ...