(from left) NRCS biological technician Nancy Bauman shows NRCS Director of Legislative and Public Affairs Doug McKalip and Chief Lancaster native Hawaiian plants being grown at the Hoolehua PMC (NRCS photo — click to enlarge)

(from left) in celebration of Earth Day, land owner and Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program participant Richard Stevens, Doug McKalip, Chief Lancaster, and Hawaii NRCS Director for the Pacific Islands Area Larry Yamamoto planted native Hawaiian trees (NRCS photo — click to enlarge)

Chief Lancaster talks with Bob Nelson, a coffee farmer in Kona on the Big Island (NRCS photo — click to enlarge)
 

(foreground) unexploded ordinance on the island of Kahoolawe where NRCS is employing a number of conservation practices — including hay bale placement (in background) — to restore erosion caused by military activities  (NRCS photo — click to enlarge)