Green Avenger: Botanical Guardian Assaults Alien Flora

The Kauai watershed is the world’s most extreme botanical garden, a 144,000-acre cloud forest along jagged cliffs that can spike 3,000 feet in elevation over just a quarter of a mile. So when Nature Conservancy of Hawaii project director Trae Menard observed that the area had been invaded by millions of water- sucking, plant-strangling Australian […]