Old Lahaina Town Utterly Destroyed - Recovery & Relief Efforts

[oink]

In some places if land has been cleared of natural vegetation the land owner is required to maintain the property, essentially by regular mowing, although I don't know if that applies to ag land. It should.

It seems if they aren't going to restore the former cane and pineapple lands to their natural condition they should put it into pasture. Or put it back into cane or pineapples. But then they would have to bring in guest workers as no locals would work cheap enough to make it pay. Of course all of S. Florida that's still in cane wouldn't be if it wasn't for Fed sugar subsidies. Big Sugar still has a lot of power in Florida. I still get cane ash on my cars every year. Otherwise I think most sugar would be coming from Brazil. I wonder, wasn't Hawaii Sugar getting Fed subsidies also?

As an aside, I used to live smack behind the Lahaina mill. It wasn't the Ritz.