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I didn’t realize how different the islands of Kaua‘i and Hawai‘i were until I flew back to Kaua‘i after that first trip to the Ka‘upulehu Dry Forest Preserve. While both have substantial ecological and cultural intra-island variation, as a whole they are literally, and in many ways figuratively, at opposite ends of the chain of major Hawaiian islands. For example, with its vast unsettled forests (if you don’t count the scattered bands of off-the-grid squatters living on mangoes and marijuana), extensive molten red and jagged black lava, and local politicians openly packing illegal firearms while trolling for votes along the highway, much of the Big Island has a frontier, Wild West feel. Conversely, most of the inhabited, accessible parts of Kaua‘i (the “Garden Isle”) are relatively soft and lush and are overrun with highly domesticated, fanny-pack-toting tourists.
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Cabin, R.J. (2011). Let’s See Action! Planning and Implementing a Research and Restoration Program. In: Intelligent Tinkering. The Science and Practice of Ecological Restoration. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-040-8_2
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