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Specialty License Plate Raises More Than $150,000 For Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park

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March 10, 2022

Specialty license plate sales have generated more than $150,000 for Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park

More than $150,000 has been raised for Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park through sales of a speciality license plate honoring the park.

Hawaii’s first specialty license plates, with their lava flows and nēnē geese, were authorized by a 2015 state law to raise funds for resource protection and education projects at Haleakalā and Hawai‘i Volcanoes national parks. The specialty license plate program revenues are distributed by Hawai‘i Pacific Parks Association.

On February 28, the association presented a check to Hawaiʻi Volcanoes Superintendent Rhonda Loh for $153,356. These funds will be dedicated to supporting the ʻIke Hana Noʻeau (Experience the Skillful Work) craft demonstrations and workshops through video. These popular workshops were, in pre-pandemic years, open to visitors on the park lānai for instruction in such Hawaiian arts and crafts as lei making, lauhala weaving, hula, and much more. Now the park hopes to develop ʻIke Hana Noʻeau instructional videos to be available online for everyone, around the world.

Other national parks that currently benefit from specialty license plate programs include the Blue Ridge Parkway, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Rocky Mountain National Park, Yellowstone National Park, Crater Lake National Park, and Yosemite National Park.

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Comments

Submitted by Loui on March 10, 2022 - 9:43am.

Love the park license plates.  I have a Florida Everglades plate.  Every state should have one!  It would be neat to see a compilation of all NPS oriented license plates.


Submitted by CJDillon on March 10, 2022 - 1:08pm.

While this is great for Hawaii Volcanoes, they are wrong for the national parks as a whole. Sure, you can buy a Hawaii Volcanoes license plate, but what about other Hawaii parks like Haleakala or Pu`uhonua o Honaunau? Same in California. Yosemite has a license plate, but Sequoia, Pinnacles, Cabrillo, Lava Beds, etc., do not. Everglades has a plate, but not any other national park in Florida. Is this a good idea? Why should some parks have a plate and others do not? Should there be a plate for each park? Maybe it would be better if states had a single national park support plate and the revenue was shared between the parks.


Submitted by Rick B. on March 11, 2022 - 5:35pm.

"Maybe it would be better if states had a single national park support plate and the revenue was shared between the parks."

 

Makes sense and just about what I was getting ready to suggest.

 


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