National Park Service Oral Histories

These projects were funded by the National Park Service through a collaboration between the NPS and the University of Hawaiʻi through the Hawaiʻi-Pacific Islands Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Agreement Number P20AC00973. The oral history interviews were conducted by a team from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Center for Oral History in on-going phases under the direction of Davianna Pōmaikaʻi McGregor, Micah Mizukami and a team of graduate and undergraduate research assistants in cooperation with the National Park Service.


Akāka Wale o Haleakalā: Haleakalā Stands in Full View

In the late 1970s, Haleakalā National Park began building a series of fences around the perimeter of the park to exclude feral ungulates (goats, pigs, deer and cattle), and preserve native habitat, and care for native wildlife.

Browse full transcripts and documents on ScholarSpace, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.