Haleakala law enforcement rangers observed ... ripped up and taken home by visitors as souvenirs. Today, the shiny silver plants depend on management efforts for survival. Park staff fence out ...

24 from Haleakala National Park’s Integrated Resource Management Division. She spent her career inventorying and monitoring plant species, controlling invasive weeds and restoring native ...

Delicate lichens and wildflowers dot the landscape, along with a bizarre plant found nowhere else on earth called the ahinahina, or Haleakala silversword. The plant grows for up to half a century ...