Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 33, Number 4, 1 April 2016 — UH Mānoa campus named on arboretum [ARTICLE]

UH Mānoa campus named on arboretum

The University of Hawai'i-

Mānoa Campus has heeome Hawai'i's second accredited arboretum. The recognition from Morton Arboretum's ArbNet accreditation program puts the lush Mānoa campus in the company of UH's Harold L. Lyon Arboretum, along with another 37 universities and colleges including the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and American University in Washington, D.C. There are more than 4,000 trees - and 500 species - on UH Mānoa's 320-acre campus. "We look at it as giving us an opportunity to show off our campus," said Richard Criley, UH Mānoa emeritus professor of horticulture. "It gives us a little clout. There are not many universities that have arboreta that are accredited by ArbNet.