We're focusing on our natural world and rare habitats in Hawaiʻi and some of the people who have cared for them at Haleakalā National Park. UH ethnic studies professor Ty Kāwika Tengan introduces Eric Andersen and Patti Welton.
Savannah Harriman-Pote rejoined The Conversation in 2021 after interning for Hawaiʻi Public Radio in the summers of 2018 and 2019. She also produces HPR's podcast Manu Minute in collaboration with The University of Hawaii at Hilo. She was born and raised on the Big Island, and she collects public radio mugs.
Patti Welton had dreamed of a career in conservation since she was in high school, but she never expected that she would end up as a botanist for the Haleakalā National Park on Maui. She just retired after 30 years with the park, and in that time, she’s watched both the environment and the conservation movement change.