{"id":7116,"date":"2015-01-30T22:35:58","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T22:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/?p=7116"},"modified":"2015-01-30T22:35:58","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T22:35:58","slug":"haleakala-silverswords-in-drastic-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=7116","title":{"rendered":"Haleakala Silverswords In &#8216;Drastic Decline&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Posted\u00a0<\/strong><b>10\/28\/2011<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/silverswordrosette.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7117\" src=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/silverswordrosette-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"silverswordrosette\" width=\"940\" height=\"626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/silverswordrosette-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/silverswordrosette-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/silverswordrosette.jpg 1857w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The iconic Haleakala silversword, or <i>hinahina,<\/i> is in &#8216;drastic decline,&#8217; report two scientists who have been regularly monitoring the plant. This year, 565 plants were in bloom, a &#8220;medium-flowering&#8221; year, write Forest Starr and Kim Starr. But in the 11 plots that have been monitored annually since 1982, the number of live silverswords declined by more than 5 percent, all without flowering.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The total number of live silverswords in the plots has dropped by 80 percent since 1982, from 437 to 86,&#8221; they write. &#8220;This steep decline has occurred since an all-time high of 488 silverswords in 1989, with 17 of the last 18 years showing decline.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition, no new seedlings were recorded in any of the plots this year, nor in the previous four years.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s census was conducted by the Starrs and Paul Kruschelnycky. To read the report, click here: <a href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/images\/uploads\/starrsilversword.pdf\"><b>Silversword Report<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Photo: Forest and Kim Starr)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted&nbsp;10\/28\/2011 The iconic Haleakala silversword, or hinahina, is in &lsquo;drastic decline,&rsquo; report two scientists who have been regularly monitoring the plant. This year, 565 plants were in bloom, a &ldquo;medium-flowering&rdquo; year, write Forest Starr and Kim Starr. But in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=7116\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[351],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-7116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eh-xtra","tag-patricia-tummons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}