SPACE, Bellyacres problems

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Originally posted by pahoated

the native Hawaiians cut down ohia," That isn't the point, the native Hawaiians didn't harvest more than what they needed, and here is the point most haole miss, they did it with respect.

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Sometimes the forests were treated with respect, and other times as with the sandalwood trade the trees were cut almost to the point of extinction:

For a brief moment in history, these Islands were known as Tahn Heung Sahn, the Sandalwood Mountains. Forests ran from mountain to sea, populated with four native sandalwood species, including one endemic to Haleakala. Medeiros says the tree’s fleshy seeds were likely spread by large, flightless birds—the marvelous moa nalo.

The Hawaiian sandalwood trade was brief but potent. King Kamehameha bought the brig Columbia for two shiploads of sandalwood in 1817. Nine years later, the Hawaiian kingdom enacted its first written law—a sandalwood tax. To pay off increasing foreign debts, Hawaiian royals required commoners to cut and carry trees to waiting boats. Harvesters were nicknamed “kua leho” (callous back); logs often arrived stained with blood. By 1840, the sandalwood supply was exhausted.

http://www.mauimagazine.net/Maui-Magazin...andalwood/