- Hawaii Plant Health Emergency Response Plan Final 12-30-2013 (PHERP): The basic purpose of the Plant Health Emergency Response Plan (PHERP) and Reference Manual is to facilitate a successful collaborative interagency rapid response to a newly-discovered serious plant pest in Hawai‘i, to prevent it from becoming established in the state or on a new island within the state.
- Hawaii Plant Health Emergency Response Plan Appendices 12-30-2013 offers additional references and materials that were used to develop the PHERP.
- Plant Health Emergency Response Tabletop Exercise After Action Report/Improvement Plan The PHERP was tested in a “tabletop exercise”, a discussion-based exercise that used a fictitious plant health emergency scenario for the participants to talk through. The tabletop was evaluated and this After Action Report lists the strengths and areas for improvement. Coincidentally, the fictitious scenario was the “discovery” of coconut rhinoceros beetle (CRB) in Waimanalo, on the edge of Bellows Air Field. The Tabletop exercise was completed in November 2013. In December 2013, CRB was newly detected in Hawai‘i.