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| 2008 Grants
Completed Grants
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The Monsanto Fund has generously awarded a $10,000 grant to FOFA for Project Health. The award will enable FOFA to remove encroaching wattle trees and transform these once invasive trees into beneficial onsite mulch for the arboretum trees. The funding will also be used to clear a swath of invasive trees in order to install a waterline from a 5,000-gallon water tank to the new shed, restroom and classroom facility.
Hawaii Community Foundation
has awarded $15,000 for native plant preservation. This money will be used for Project Health in tree clearing and chipping as well as special projects in the Arboretum for native plant preservation.
SPECIAL PROJECTS
Rotary Club of Maui – District Grant awarded $1000 to FOFA to purchase Kiawe for 2 functional projects: a Kiawe railing for a steep area in arboretum and an entrance arch. Two 12-foot Kiawe posts will support a 12-foot horizontal Kiawe beam providing a tall archway and sign-holder for the arboretum’s entrance.
Kaunoa Reunion Class of 1957
- Donated $867.86. This money will be used for labor to pay for installation of kiawe railing and entrance sign post.
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Completed Grants
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| Preliminary drawing for the proposed shed / restroom facility at the Fleming Arboretum. |
2006 Completed Grants
FOFA seeks the remaining funds for this $9,000 project. Project Site Mulch will transform invasive wattle trees at Pu`u Mahoe into wood-chip mulch, clearing area for native habitat restoration.
– Shed /Restroom Design and Permitting: $3,500 from Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation.
– Shed /Restroom Construction: $10,000 from Atherton Family Foundation; $10,000 Cooke Foundation; $5,000 from Bank of Hawaii; $2,500 from A&B Foundation. FOFA seeks the remaining funding for this $30,000 project.
– Professional Instructors for Propagation Workshops 2006: from Kaulunani Dept. of Forestry
Click here for Workshop photos
– Upgraded Irrigation System: from Atherton Family Foundation.
– Arboretum Inventory & Computer Database with Arboretum Map by Robert Hobdy:
from Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation
– “Project Mulch” - Mulch purchase and distribution: from Atherton Family, Cooke, and A&B Foundations
Click here for Final Report
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Helene and John Jackson of Haiku work on "Project Mulch" - funded by grants from A&B Foundation, Atherton Family Foundation and Cooke Foundation. This project, important for Arboretum health, continues into 2006.
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ATHERTON FAMILY FOUNDATION - November 2005-2006
$3,000 Total - $2000 Grant for "Project Mulch" & $1000 for Irrigation Automation
Friends of the Fleming Arboretum [FOFA] has received $2000 funding for "Project Mulch" from Atherton Family Foundation to revitalize the soils and upgrade the health of its native species habitat area. Atherton Family Foundation has funded an additional $1000 for new irrigation timers with updated technology capable of running longer durations, allowing watering at night without overlapping stations. The Arboretum faucets and property restroom will have full water pressure during the day, a problem in the past. See
Final Report (click here)
A $2500 Grant helps fund "Project Mulch"
This $9,000 project will transform invasive wattle trees on site into woodchip mulch, providing essential microorganisms and nutrients to over 400 native species, conserving water, creating firebreaks, preventing erosion and weeds and expanding native habitat area. See Final Report (click here)
A&B FOUNDATION - June 2005-2006
A $1,000 Grant for "Project Mulch"
Respected horticulturist expert Ernest Rezents and other plant specialists have advised [FOFA] to make Project Mulch the Arboretum's top priority in 2005, revitalizing soils at this 50-year-old facility. Project Mulch will transform invasive wattle trees on site into woodchip mulch, providing essential microorganisms and nutrients to over 400 native species, conserving water, creating firebreaks, preventing erosion and weeds and expanding native habitat area. FOFA continues to seek funding to reach its $9,000 total budjet needed for Project Mulch. See Final Report (click here)
FRED BALDWIN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION - April 2005-2006
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$3000 grant proposal accepted for Native Plant Inventory & Database
Upgrade
| The Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation has approved $3,000
to fund the D.T.Fleming Arboretum's "Native Plant Inventory & Database
Upgrade." Bob Hobdy native plant botanist and retired chief of the
Maui County's State Divison of Forestry, will be creating an updated professional
inventory and map of all plant species, including exact identity, locations,and
population density, upgrading existing maps of the Arboretum. This
inventory will be the foundation for a comprehensive electronic database
to maintain the updated plant inventory as well as record maintenance and
propagation research of each species. The database will be available for
public information posted on this website. See Final Report (click here) See Arb Inventory (click here) |
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Bob Hobdy, retired head of DLNR for Maui County, and his wife Doreen pose with completed map of the 7-acre Fleming Arboretum, funded by Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation. |
2004 Completed Grants
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Drip irrigation was installed to the 124 new seedlings of Project Plant 2004, and existing irrigation was upgraded on mature trees (funded by Cooke Foundation). |
New 1-inch sclair line was installed to service Arboretum expansion by Gregg Patterson (funded by Cooke Foundation). |
COOKE FOUNDATION - 2004-2005
A $3500 Grant funds Irrigation System Upgrade for Native Plant Habitat Expansion eliminating the labor intensieve weekly hand-watering.This project provides reliable water supply to 159 recently transplanted native specimens. It funds 1600 feet of new irigation lines, including all needed fittings and supplies, to serve plantings over several acres. See Final Report (click here)
HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - July 2005
Travel funds for roundtrip airfare to the 2005 Hawaii Conservation Conference on Oahu
The event dates are July 28 & 29,2005 The theme this year" Hawaii's Restoration Efforts" directly parrallels our Arboretum work. It will be beneficial interacting as a resource manager with the scientific community and obtaining up-to-date information on conservation techniques and experiences in Hawaii. Information learned will help direct FOFA's future restoration activities. See Final Report (click here)
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Out with the old ... |
...In with the new. This custom gate was designed and installed by John Daniels of Ulupalakua. |
USDA WILDLIFE HABITAT PROGRAM (WHIP) - 2003-2005
This grant to the lando owner benefits the Aroretum by funding new fencing and removal of invasive species.The USDA pays 75% - the remaining 25% by in-kinbd volunteer work and equiipment donations.The entire Arboretum is now refenced, including an additional acre for Arboretun expansion.
A&B FOUNDATION 2004
The A&B Foundation has donated $1000 to "progressive
maintenance" - Arboretum care beyond basic maintenance.
Friends of DT Fleming Arboretum was created
to give the Arboretum more than just basic maintenance for preservation
of the Arboretum and its species. With the extra support these last 2
years, the health of the Arboretum has improved. Seeds are more viable
with a greater percentage of germination. Fruits, once hollow, now have
seeds.
The Arboretum will continue to improve with this extra funding from the
A&B Foundation: Fungicides, insecticides, foliar and ground fertilizers,
pruning, proper irrigation and erosion mitigation.
All these projects, beyond basic maintenance, create healthy trees and
renewed hope for their preservation.
ATHERTON FAMILY FOUNDATION 2004
A $5000 grant for habitat Maintenance Upgrade and
Expansion Project was awarded
This generous grant will support Phase II of Project Plant, as well as
progressive maintnenace of the entire Arboretum. When the Project Plant
expansion project is completed, 21 new species will have been added. The
Arboretum will have a more complete collection of the Auwahi Forest species.
Larger populations of the existing species will increase genetic diversity
and cross-pollination for their propagation and preservation. Click
here to read Final Report.
FRED BALDWIN MEMORIAL
FOUNDATION 2004
A $2000 grant proposal for Project Plant was accepted
The acceptance of Project Plant will fund the profesional planting of
10 new species into the arboretum, making it a more complete collection
of the Auwahi Forest. More existing species will also be planted. The
larger population encourages both cross-pollination and stronger genetics
for more successful propagation. A total of 90 plants, 21 species, will
be planted.
Especially exciting is the planting of 2 Alani seedlings (Melicope knudsenii).
This is the first successful propagation and outplanting of this seedling
from the last viable tree in existence. The strong, one-foot-tall Alani
are now planted in the Arboretum thanks to Proejct Plant and plant professional
Arlene Taus. These new plantings are the hope for preservation of this
species. See Final Report (click
here)
HAWAII
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 2004
Provided travel funds to the Conservation Conference
June 29-30 2004 on Oahu
The theme of the conference was Invasive Species.
It was appropriate that the Fleming Arboretum be represented. Preservation of Hawaii's native species begins with protection from invasive
species...grazing animals, aggressive weeds, insects and soil diseases.
Arlene Taus was chosen to represent the Arboretum.
A $2310 grant from KAULUNANI, an urban forestry program of the DLNR and USDA, funded tree identification with engraved labels on galvanized steel stakes.
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Maui
Garden Club volunteers placed stakes
throughout the Arboretum (L-R) Kathy Collins, Marjorie Bonar, Dwayne
Bower. |
Kihei
Waikea Citizen Beach Patrol volunteers (L-R) Don Schneider,
Nobuo Suda and Jack Crow with post pounders to pound in new tree
label stakes. |
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Label Design |
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Volunteers
Dan Judson and Debbie DeMello worked together crimping
on new labels, financed by this grant. |
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A&B Foundation funded $500 operating expenses that provided species identification
that will help create an updated plant inventory.
 Ted Issacson photo |
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D.T. Fleming Arboretum is planted within the southern
slopes of the Pu'u Mahoe cinder cone, protected from the northeast
and southerly winds. |
FRED BALDWIN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION 2003
A $3500 grant provided funding for Arboretum Health Care
Arlene Taus, a certified arborist, provided pruning services under the grant. Cathy Hobson, Maui Garden Club volunteer, hauls tree prunings to chipper site. The Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation Grant funded tree pruning, along with attention to irrigation and buried roots from erosion.
See Final Report (click here)
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Arlene
Taus, a certified arborist, provided pruning services
under the grant. |
Cathy
Hobson, Maui Garden Club volunteer, hauls tree prunings
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| The Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation Grant funded tree pruning, along with attention to irrigation and buried roots from erosion. |
