Invasive species have created a cycle of wildfire in Hawaiʻi. Can Maui break it?

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By Zoya TeirsteinAug 30, 2023, 8:30 am291 pts
In April 2016, a wildfire burned 2,000 acres of Minnewaska State Park, a nature preserve in New York’s Hudson Valley. The blaze, the largest and most destructive to hit the park in more than half a century, turned a verdant forest into a blackened wasteland. But by summer, the scorched land was regenerating.…

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