[Hugin]

"The whole idea with cutting the trees down was with the idea of improving the lot with native species" instead of the nonnative, invasive species that had grown there, Graham said. "It's unfortunate that a mistake was made."

There are no native species in Hawaii. Everything came from somewhere else.

[stormer]

I hate to break it to you, but Hawaii has a number of endemic species - they have evolved in that environment and occur naturally no where else. There used to be more, but chickens, pigs, mongoose, and invasive non-native vegetation have exterminated them.

[Octar]

There are no native species in Hawaii. Everything came from somewhere else.

Right you are I used to live on Oahu and while there I studied the origins of the existing flora and fauna. Everything came there from somewhere else. The Hawaiian islands are, after all, fairly young.

While I don't care much for Ms Midler, she did what she wanted to do with the property that she owned. I own a lot of property with thousands of trees. I will cut all of them down if I so choose. Because they are my trees. Ms Midler did what she wanted to do with her trees. We don't meed some government yoyo making decisions for us about our property.