The Hawaiian Islands Land Trust and Hawaiian Legacy Hardwoods have formed a new partnership in an effort to restore native forests in Hawaii, including the Aloha State¹s dwindling koa forests.

COURTESY HAWAIIAN LEGACY HARDWOODS Taking koa seeds from saplings to mature trees prized for their grain has not been done in a commercial farm setting in Hawaii. Some major landowners have had ...

It’s the latest venture in sustainability for Hawaiian Legacy Hardwoods, a company that reforests koa trees on the island. In past years, indigenous koa trees were over-harvested in the Hawaiian ...

Hawaiian Legacy Hardwoods said it has planted a total of 200,000 native koa trees on more than 500 acres of former pastureland on the Big Island's Hamakua Coast as part of its goal of 1.3 million ...

Company harvests some trees sustainably to help pay for other permanent forest. Hawaiian Legacy Hardwoods is challenging the view that the only way to make money after planting a tree is by cutting it ...