Kauaʻi record · KCA-PMA-0029
Alakaʻi Wilderness Preserve
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About Alakaʻi Wilderness Preserve
Hawaiʻi’s only wilderness preserve; a high-elevation wet-forest and bog landscape containing headwaters and habitat for rare forest birds, plants and invertebrates.
Ecological and management significance
Water-resource protection, high-elevation native ecosystems and critically imperiled forest-bird habitat.
Names and classification
- Other names
- Alakai Wilderness Preserve
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Evidence date
- 2026-09-25
Management and access
- Manager or authority
- Hawaiʻi DLNR Division of Forestry and Wildlife
- Jurisdiction
- State of Hawaiʻi
- Significance
- Water-resource protection, high-elevation native ecosystems and critically imperiled forest-bird habitat.
- Access status
- varies
- Operational status
- active
- Geometry basis
- authoritative_reference_only
- Geometry confidence
- source_reference
Sources and further reading
Connected Atlas records
- Alakaʻi Swamp · Places & Management Areas
- Kōkeʻe uplands · Places & Management Areas