The Lahaina impact zone needs to be revegetated with appropriate fire-resilient native plants and canoe plants to reduce fire risk and erosion. Community members want to revegetate their homes and public properties such as street medians and open spaces. Surrounding Lahaina, invasive buffelgrass has regrown in the impact zone on private lands and increases fire risks for the town. For the safety and environmental well-being of Lahaina, it is essential to form multiagency partnerships to manage the private lands surrounding the town, by removing invasive fuel loads, replanting with native plants to reduce fire and wind risk, restoring the native landscape, and creating new agriculture and agroforestry industry areas.

This project will revegetate Lahaina with native plants and culturally appropriate plants to restore the burned landscape, increase resilience, beautify the town, increase storm water infiltration and groundwater recharge, and provide food and material sources for the community. It will educate the community about native plants and resilient landscaping. This project includes key efforts such as:

• Establish new nurseries in Lahaina moku to grow plants to revegetate the town
• Establish biosecurity protocols and quarantine areas in new nurseries
• Establish and expand composting facilities in Lahaina for waste diversion and generation of mulch for revegetation, soil restoration, and erosion control
• Reforest the middle watershed area surrounding Lahaina to turn the unproductive invasive grasslands into thriving forested and agriculture areas; Reforest the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) lands in upper mauka Lahaina
• Implement other reforestation projects led by organizations across Lahaina, Kula, Olinda, and Pūlehu.

• Support local nurseries and nonprofit organizations engaged in seedbanking, growing plants and landscape restoration
• Develop a native plant giveaway program to provide no cost or reduced cost plants to fire-affected residents
• Replant with native plants and canoe plants on public lands in Lahaina such as street medians and open spaces
• Incentivize and support use of native plants and canoe plants in commercial areas
• Establish partnerships to manage and reforest lands surrounding Lahaina
• Reforest mauka of Lahaina