Students in action: Koa trees planted at Honua’ula Forest Reserve

A student prepares the ground for a koa seedling at Honua’ula Forest Reserve in North Kona on Friday. (Aki Imai/Special to West Hawaii Today)

Dr. Richard Steven talks to students in his History 274 Writing Personal History class at UH Center at West Hawaii-Palamanui, who planted koa trees on Arbor Day. (Aki Imai/Special to West Hawaii Today)

Student head out to plant koa seedlings at Honua’ula Forest Reserve in North Kona on Friday. (Aki Imai/Special to West Hawaii Today)

Honua’ula Forest Reserve in North Kona is seen on Friday. (Aki Imai/Special to West Hawaii Today)

The students of Dr. Richard Steven’s History 274 Writing Personal History class at UH Center at West Hawaii-Palamanui highlighted their crowning achievement with the planting of koa trees on Arbor Day. (Aki Imai/Special to West Hawaii Today)

Dr. Richard Steven prepares a koa seedling for planting at Honua’ula Forest Reserve in North Kona on Friday. (Aki Imai/Special to West Hawaii Today).

A student prepares a koa seedling for planting at Honua’ula Forest Reserve in North Kona on Friday. (Aki Imai/Special to West Hawaii Today)

College students celebrated the near-completion of their ready-to-publish books by planting koa trees Friday in the Honua’ula Forest Reserve in North Kona.