HAWAIʻI PARKS 101
This is the number of NPS park units in Hawaiʻi.
What is “nine”?
[Fun fact: includes a National Historic Trail, a National Historic Site, a National Monument.]
This food crop was grown on the peninsula and traded with Whaling Ships during the Gold Rush era.
What is sweet potato [uala]?
This building houses the curatorial facility and where you'll find Emma and Katie working.
What is Hale Mālama?
This monk seal put Kalaupapa on the map in 1997 by being the first documented seal to give birth at Kalaupapa. (Name, not tag number)
Who is Mama Eve (#R006)?
This designation was given to Kalaupapa in January 1976.
What is a National Historic Landmark District or NHL?
This newest park unit was added in 2019 to Hawaiʻi parks.
What is Honouliuli National Historic Site?
Fun fact: Honouliuli was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012, designated a national monument in 2015, and redesignated as a national historic site in 2019.
Name the middle ahupuaʻa (land division) on the peninsula.
What is Waiʻaleʻia?
Name one type of collection that you would find in Kalaupapa's museum collection.
A2: What is ... archeology, archives, art, architecture fragments, manuscript collections, oral histories, personal papers of patients, textiles and clothing, etc.
Hoary bats use ______ to find its prey.
What is echolocation?
This is the period of significance for Kalaupapa NHP.
What is 1866-1969?
Q3. This park gets the most visitors annually.
What is Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park? (HAVO)
Name two examples of a discipline in cultural resources management.
What is ... anthropology, archeology, architectural history, cultural landscapes, ethnography, ethnohistory, museum collections, sociology, social and cultural geography, and other fields in the social sciences.
Name this object in the KALA collection.
(Show photo #1)
What is a "button hook"?
Name the tallest geological resource in the park.
What are the north shore cliffs?
In 1980, Public Law 96-565 was significant for this reason.
What is the establishment of Kalaupapa National Historical Park? OR What is our enabling legislation?
In the Oct. 2024 issue of Travel and Leisure magazine, this Hawaiʻi park was rated #14 out of 20 best national parks that everyone should visit at least once.
What is Haleakalā National Park?
[Fun fact: HAVO was rated #8]
This is the appearance of a traditional Hawaiian cultural deposit in the ground when it is exposed, and it often contains marine shell and charcoal.
What is dark brown or black soil?
This patient was known for making this useful tool.
(Show photo #2)
Who was Kenso Seki?
[Used to open the tab on a beer or soda can.]
The number of monk seal pups born at Kalaupapa since 1997.
What is 174?
This tool is used to determine wildland and forest fire potential.
What is the Keetch-Byram Drought Index? (KBDI)
From most to least, name the three national parks that have the most endangered and threatened species.
What are Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, Kalaupapa National Historical Park and Haleakalā National Park?
There are approximately 1200 of this historic resource at Kalaupapa.
What are grave markers (or marked graves)?
This museum document is used to help determine what the museum will and can collect.
What is the Scope of Collection Statement (SOCS)?
Waikolu contains the park’s only _____ ______.
What is a perennial stream?
This basic planning document defines the overall vision and long-term (five to ten years) goals of the park for interpretation, education and visitor experience opportunities.
What is the Long-Range Interpretive Plan or LRIP?