About Us

As part of a comprehensive strategy for meeting National Park Service resource stewardship responsibilities, park managers and superintendents need to have solid natural resource information at their disposal. Such information needs include: comprehensive information about the nature and condition of the major biotic and abiotic natural resources placed under their stewardship, knowing how resource conditions change over time, and having reliable scientific information such that corrective actions can be taken before ecosystem integrity is severely degraded or changes become irreversible. These requirements, clearly identified in the 1991 Vail Agenda, the Natural Resource Challenge, and in other policy & legislation led to the establishment of a Natural Resource Inventory and Monitoring Program.

National Park Service units included in the Pacific Island Network are:

• War in the Pacific National Historical Park (WAPA)
• American Memorial Park (AMME)
• National Park of American Samoa (NPSA)
• World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument (VALR)
• Kalaupapa National Historical Park (KALA)
• Haleakala National Park (HALE)
• Ala Kahakai National Historic Trail (ALKA)
• Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park (KAHO)
• Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site (PUHE)
• Puuhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park (PUHO)
• Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (HAVO)