Ua hoʻolaha ʻo California ReLeaf i kēia lā e loaʻa i nā hui kaiaulu 25 a puni ka mokuʻāina ka huina o $200,000 ma ke kālā no ka mālama kumu lāʻau a me nā papahana kanu lāʻau ma o ka California ReLeaf 2012 Urban Forestry and Education Grant Program. Loaʻa nā haʻawina pākahi mai $2,700 a i $10,000.
Ke komo nei ka poʻe i loaʻa i ka hāʻawi kālā i nā ʻano hana kanu lāʻau a me ka mālama ʻana i nā kumulāʻau e hoʻonui ai i nā ululāʻau kūlanakauhale ma nā kaiāulu i hoʻohana nui ʻia a ʻaʻole i mālama ʻia a puni ka mokuʻāina. Loaʻa i kēlā me kēia papahana kekahi ʻāpana hoʻonaʻauao kaiapuni koʻikoʻi e hoʻonui i ka ʻike i ke ʻano o kēia mau papahana i mea koʻikoʻi i ke kākoʻo ʻana i ka ea maʻemaʻe, ka wai maʻemaʻe, a me nā kaiāulu olakino. "ʻO nā ululāʻau kūlanakauhale ikaika, hoʻomau a me ke kaiāulu e hāʻawi pololei i ke olakino waiwai, pilikanaka a me ke kaiapuni o Kaleponi," wahi a Chuck Mills, Kaleponi ReLeaf Grants Program Manager. "Ma o kā lākou mau noi kālā, hōʻike kēia mau mea hāʻawi kālā he 25 i ka noʻonoʻo a me ka hoʻokō ʻana e hana i ko mākou mokuʻāina i wahi maikaʻi loa e noho ai no kēia hanauna a me nā hanauna e hiki mai ana."
Kākoʻo ʻia ka California ReLeaf Urban Forestry and Education Grant Program ma o nā ʻaelike me ka California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and Region IX o ka Environmental Protection Agency.
"Haʻaheo ʻo ReLeaf i ke ʻano nui o ke kūkulu ʻana i ke kaiāulu ma o ka mālama lāʻau, ke kanu lāʻau a me nā papahana hoʻonaʻauao kaiapuni ma Kaleponi," wahi a ka Luna Hoʻokele ʻo Joe Liszewski. "Mai ka makahiki 1992, ua hoʻolilo mākou i ʻoi aku ma mua o $ 9 miliona i nā hana ulu lāʻau kūlanakauhale i hoʻolaʻa ʻia i ka ʻōmaʻomaʻo i kā mākou Golden State."
ʻO kā California ReLeaf ka manaʻo e hoʻoikaika i nā hana o ka ʻāina a kūkulu i nā hui hoʻolālā e mālama, pale a hoʻomaikaʻi i nā ululāʻau kūlanakauhale a me nā kaiāulu o Kaleponi. Ke hana nei ma ka moku'āina holoʻokoʻa, hoʻolaha mākou i nā kuʻikahi ma waena o nā hui kaiaulu, nā kānaka, nā ʻoihana, a me nā keʻena aupuni, e paipai ana i kēlā me kēia e kōkua i ka noho ʻana o nā kūlanakauhale a me ka pale o ko mākou kaiapuni ma ke kanu ʻana a me ka mālama ʻana i nā kumulāʻau.