Hawaii Reforestation should be a State Program. Hawaii isn't like mainland states that have economic development as a primary goal. The objective of Hawaii (outside of Oahu) isn't to be covered with skyscrapers, factories, highways, jobs, like New York and Manhattan Island. Do that to any island or chain. Hawaii is covered in junk vegetation, almost all brought in with good intentions. All the vegetation in Hawaii is ultimately introduced but the original vegetation wasn't invasive and ecosystem destroying. What is being called indigenous is referring to the original vegetation that got here by amazing accident, with the few canoe crops the Tahitians brought (Micronesians, Tongans, Samoans landed with few surviving canoe crops). These indigenous species were all coexisting and evolving in symbiosis, sustainable, ended with Western contact. Kamehameha had deep regret in his later years for selling all the sandalwood, for rum. The State should be planting koa and sandalwood, as a goal.