'Ohe mauka (Polyscias bisattenuata) is one of the rarest trees on Earth. Only about 30 mature trees remain in the wild, all on Kaua'i. While a botanist at the National Tropical Botanical Garden, I started the translocation project published this year (Douglas et al. 2026, Biological Conservation) and led the original outplantings of thousands of nursery-grown saplings across 11 sites, to learn where this species can survive as the climate shifts. Then Hurricane Lowell hit, and right now, nobody knows which young populations survived. That knowledge is perishable: every week the forest recovers, damaged stems resprout or rot, and the evidence of what the storm did disappears. Working with the study's lead scientist, Dr. Julia Douglas (UH Mānoa), I need to get back in NOW: re-surveying survivors at Haupu, Kahili, and Puukolu, measuring every living tree before the signal is lost. I collected the seed for these trees and oversaw their outplanting. They grow on steep private land outside DOFAW and agency conservation programs, but the landowners and site managers have given their permission and full support. If we don't go, no one will, and a once-in-a-generation natural experiment goes unrecorded. The data will directly guide where Hawai'i plants this species next and deepen our understanding of rare species recovery. The findings will be written up for publication, so the impact extends well beyond the fieldwork. It also powers my graduate final project in experimental design.