Nature reclaiming Lahaina even after 96% of trees lost in fire 

Thank you Duane Sparkman and crew for what you do...keep on saving nature and instilling life into Lahaina. Support local you guys....support and pour in your donations to help Duane plant trees and help his staff.

Praying for you all to find beauty, hope, and healing amidst such devastation. Thankful that this young man found a moment to smile.

Fantastic!!! The power that be protected the cemetery and trees🤙🏼🌺

Perfect example, if you just leave nature alone it has a way to bounce back, when humans "know whats best" it usually ends in disaster

This all brings me to tears.

Awesome! 🌱🌱🌱🌴🌴🌴

Like a Phoenix. Much love to Lahaina.

😭This makes me so happy! Still get chance 🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽

Nature can ReClaim herself ~ We need to be in Harmony with her ReCovery 💜🌱🌴💧🌎

Change the priorities for water recharge!! 21st century good plans.. I lost my entire ranch property 2020 LNU fire CA. I had certain varieties of trees that made it back and others that did not. Walnuts and olives came back. Any stone fruits that I had did not. The olives come from the ground and it sounds like that's what the ulus are doing! It's also important to realize that over time, the trees' gigantic, sophisticated, filtration system will take care of the soil around the trees. It will take time but it will happen. Well done Lahaina! There will be light at the end of this tunnel :-) prayers to you and all of your families, all of your plants and animals and the people that are working hard to recharge your area.

Let Nature take it's course and let her be!

Love how haapy and excited they are about this growth!

Who decides which properties get cleared of fire debris first? Who decided that the grounds are contaminated more than any other fire before? Towns in California burned completely down and the people who lost everything weren't treated as bad as the residents in Lahaina. They werent restricted from cleaning up their properties or businesses. Yes they had to wait until the fire dept cleared the dangers and all that but damn . 😮

The rebuilding of Lahaina MUST include water management systems, reduced water usage toilets, and irrigation through the underground drip system and not sprinkler systems. The sprinkler systems have more runoff and evaporation. Plants should be more native species and less decorative and invasive. The native species are more water efficient for soil and weather patterns. Private homes should not be allowed to have swimming pools in this area, and instead water for each house should have underground storage reservoirs linked to fire sprinklers in each room, homes should be built farther apart, and construction of new homes should be built with more fire resistant materials. Homes should be built on cement pillars above ground to mitigate possible tsunami waves while the lower area can be used for parked cars, alleviating parking on the streets. The water usage of canals must not be diverted away by properties upland. They need to use only runoff over their properties. Like Honolulu shows us, TOO many NEW Condominium towers being built, too many new housing developments and subdivisions only proves two things, DEVELOPERS are making a fortune, they have NO worries about the people who BUY THERE and what THEIR water bills will be in the future, The second reality is how much water is tied up in every pipe, toilet, and sewage system for each project! Add private homes with swimming pools and jacuzzi, toilets, and watering their lawns. Not everyone in Hawaii is rich, and if your water bills are up, you can see why!

A thought:, dry conditions, and drought as a problem: The coastal location networked with an ocean water hydrant system might be helpful.

It is supposed to be there. Let the water stay!

Nothing stops nature.

What was meant for evil can be turned for good 🙏🙏🙏

God 🖤

Take samples of those trees, find out who attacked it and what they used to poison those trees.

hey, nature do/will growth endlessly if human willing to leave them alone

the animals wont eat the fruit over there? that strange i hope it not from chemicals

Interesting about the growth of the plants. The lawsuit on Bishop Estate and the land management of the older plantation fields with the wild grasses. If the grass were managed/cut back/burned as some might feel would have been done, wouldn't that same land have been ripe for soil erosion if nothing were keeping the soil from being blown away? Ground cover for the old plantation fields would be exposed, especially on the leeward/central areas not getting sufficient rainfall. If native forests existed before the plantation days, wouldn't they be subject to wildfires that occur in these days of climate change? I live Leeward Oahu and I remember the days of the lush fields past Waipahu. I remember having blackened ashes flying near my residence on the lanai, which I knew were burning sugar cane fields somewhere. I also remember how much the iron rich soil uncovered from tractors and backhoes blowing over the properties/homes/cars covering them on homes/interiors with windows before air conditioning and staining/getting everywhere. We exchanged the agriculture fields for fallow fields or homes, with little thought about the economics and replacement costs of our actions leaving it for someone else to create solutions for issues that we pretend don't exist, but they do. We just pretend they don't and it's someone else's concern. Who's at greater response, the business, the government or the people pretending it doesn't exist?

I hope these arborists do some technical research as to WHY the birds are NOT eating these fruits (nature KNOWS...birds know what happened).

Isn’t it amazing how things start growing again when the water stops being diverted?! Interestingly, the water company was started by the old plantation after crops weren’t selling. They diverted from from aboriginal native Hawaiians who had (& continue to have) legal rights to water & then after diverting our water away from us for plantation crops, they now sell us our own water that they’re diverting from us, back to us lol. 🙄

the aina truly does find a way. now trong community of hawai'i, lets help it shall we? lets use this to our andvantage to restore what was here that is defined only to these islands. it's a REV-ULU-TION FOLKS. HELP DIS AINA 🤙🤙🤙 and we should figure out what is toxic in the fruits

Yeah, that's Hawaii for you! Americans all know one word in Hawaiian: Aloha -- and that isn't actually a native-based word. (Notice how much it looks and sounds like "Hello"?) I suggest ALL Americans add a real Hawaiian word to their vocabulary: Mahalo -- and turn to God to say thanks for bringing this island land back . . .

Put it all back to When the Kings live Their. Ponds.!!!!

That's what it supposed to do

Praise Jesus!

Just imagine if HUMANS weren't there LMAO

"Nature is able to reclaim itself." "Do not eat fruits for at least 2 years."

FJB

And so is Oprah..reclaiming

THEY'RE NOT REAL PLANTS MAN THEY'RE ROBOTS THEY'RE RECORDING EVERYTHING MAN 😂

Idk man I work out there everyday and that banyan tree is dead. Stop telling lies. I see it EVERYDAY. And it’s black as can be with no life

The natives should be the ones who claim the land back besides Mother Nature.