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26 images Created 24 Sep 2013

Scenic outtakes from a feature story shot for Nature Conservancy Magazine:

"Pacific Invasion - New technologies combat super weeds that threaten Kauai's forests"
http://magazine.nature.org/features/pacific-invasion.xml

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  • The Higashi sisters (l-r) Rachele, Josie, and Leilani, from Kekaha, enjoy the sunset from their mother's pickup truck parked over the beach at Waimea, Kauai, Hawaii.
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  • Wailua Falls on the Wailua River, Kauai, Hawaii.
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  • Rain falling on the summit of Kauai, Hawaii, one of the wettest places on Earth, falls over 900 meters (3000 feet) into the Blue Hole, a deep box canyon formed by erosion below Mount Waialeale.
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  • Hinalele Falls (right) and other waterfalls at the head of Wainiha Valley, Kauai, Hawaii.
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  • A tour boat is dwarfed by the fluted cliffs of the Na Pali Coast, Kauai, Hawaii.
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  • A tour boat is dwarfed by the fluted cliffs of the Na Pali Coast, Kauai, Hawaii.
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  • The fluted cliffs of the Na Pali Coast at sunset, Kauai, Hawaii.
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  • Naturalized kukui (Candlenut tree, Aleurites moluccana) grow between the fluted cliffs of the Na Pali Coast on Kauai, Hawaii. According to Katie Cassel, famed "weed warrior" and director of the Kokee Resource Conservation Program, "they seeded it out of B-51 bombers in the re-forestation projects in the 60's, so it filled valleys to the top where the seeds find the first soil and level ground to grow; otherwise it wouldn't have gotten way up there because the seeds are too big to be carried by birds."
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  • A patch of invasive yellow ginger (Hedychium flavescens) kept in check on the mowed lawn of Canen Hookano's cabin in Kokee State Park, Kauai, Hawaii.
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  • Non-native (possibly invasive) blue trumpet vine (Thunbergia laurifolia) smothers trees in a manmade clearing along the Kaumualii Highway west of Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii.
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  • An endemic ohia lehua tree (Metrosideros polymorpha) grows on the steep, eroding slopes of reddish volcanic rock below the rim of Waimea Canyon, Waimea Canyon State Park, Kauai, Hawaii. According to Nicolai Barca, Field Technician for The Nature Conservancy on Kauai, "accelerated erosion was sparked by over browsing by goats. Now sun, heat, wind, water, the lack of water, continued grazing, and smothering by soil are factors leading to desertification."
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  • A woman hikes the Pihea Trail on the north rim of the Alakai Plateau in Kokee State Park, Kauai, Hawaii.
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  • Unfurling frond of an endemic amau fern (Sadleria cyatheoides or pallida) along the Pihea Trail, Kokee State Park, Kauai, Hawaii.
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  • The flower of an invasive kahili ginger (Hedychium gardnerianum) along the Pihea Trail, Kokee State Park, Kauai, Hawaii.
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  • Robert Kuzy stands on the highpoint of the Pihea Trail looking down into Kalalau Valley, Kokee State Park, Kauai, Hawaii.
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  • View at sunset of the Na Pali Coast's dramatically eroded Kalalau Valley from the Pihea Trail, Kokee State Park, Kauai, Hawaii.
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  • View at sunset of the Na Pali Coast's dramatically eroded Kalalau Valley from the Pihea Trail, Kokee State Park, Kauai, Hawaii.
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  • Silhouette of an endemic amau fern (Sadleria sp.) along the Pihea Trail, Kokee State Park, Kauai, Hawaii.
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  • Endemic koa trees (Acacia koa) at night in Kokee State Park, Kauai, Hawaii. The tree with sword shaped leaves in the bottom-left is the endemic hala pepe (Pleomele aurea). The unusual branching on the koa tree is, according to Nicolai Barca, Field Technician for The Nature Conservancy on Kauai, sucker growth "in response to a light gap."
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  • Leaves of the endemic ohia lehua (Metrosideros polymorpha) along the Pihea Trail, Kokee State Park, Kauai, Hawaii.
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  • Endemic hoi kuahiwi (Smilax melastomifolia) along the Pihea Trail, Kokee State Park, Kauai, Hawaii.
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  • Tree covered in epiphytes, especially native Elaphoglossum ferns (Elaphoglossum sp.), along the Pihea Trail, Kokee State Park, Kauai, Hawaii.
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  • Endemic alaala wai nui (Peperomia hesperomania) along the Pihea Trail, Kokee State Park, Kauai, Hawaii.
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  • View into Waimea Canyon from the Waimea Canyon Lookout, Waimea Canyon State Park, Kauai, Hawaii.
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  • Locals gather for a bonfire and tailgate party on the beach in Waimea, Kauai, Hawaii.
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  • A man holds a fishing net as he steps out into the ocean on the beach at Waimea, Kauai, Hawaii.
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