More than a dozen University of Michigan students are at Ulupo Heiau this morning working in the loi kalo with inmates from the Kailua Women’s Community Correctional Center.

The environmental studies class from Michigan is in Kailua’s Kawai Nui Marsh this week learning how indigenous Hawaiians were able to sustain the ecological and cultural resources of their ecosystems.
They also have been working in the wetland bird habitat at Na Pohaku o Hauwahine in the marsh, will visit Mark Stride’s loi in Maunawili Valley and study with Eric Enos at Kaala Learning Center in Waianae.