Restoring Paradise: Rethinking and Rebuilding Nature in Hawaii 9780824839079

Three quarters of the U.S.’s bird and plant extinctions have occurred in Hawai‘i, and one third of the country’s threate

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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Maps
Introduction: Restoring a Rainbow
Part 1. If You Plant It, Will They Come?
1. Journey to Hakalau
2. Place of Many Perches and Hooves
3. Science to the Rescue?
4. Laulima
5. Place of Many New Perches and Fewer Hooves
Part 2. Restoration Roundup
6. Kill and Restore: Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park
7. The Pū‘olē‘olē Blows: Dry Forest Restoration at Auwahi, Maui
8. Turning Hands: Limahuli Botanical Garden, Kaua‘i
Part 3. Herding Cats with Leaf Blowers
9. Multiple Perspectives
10. Nature Is Dead. Long Live Nature!
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

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