Qualla: Hosmer's Grove https://qualla.com/hosmer-s-grove en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:09 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/8/e/8/y/hosmer-s-grove-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Hosmer's Grove https://qualla.com/hosmer-s-grove Hosmer's Grove: Introduction https://qualla.com/hosmer-s-grove/ Photo credit Douglas Knisely from USA, CC BY-SA 2.0. Only 20 of the 86 tree species survived. That single fact tells the story of Hosmer's Grove better than anything else: a well-intentioned experiment that partly failed, partly succeeded in ways nobody wanted, and left behind a living lesson in the unintended consequences of reshaping a landscape. In 1927, Ralph Hosmer, Hawaiʻi's first territorial forester, planted stands of pine, spruce, cedar, and eucalyptus on the slopes of Haleakalā in Maui, hoping to launch a timber industry. Nearly a century later, some of those imported trees have become aggressive invaders threatening the very native ecosystems Haleakalā National Park was created to protect.

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]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/8/e/8/y/hosmer-s-grove-wp/8e8y-hosmers-grove-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Hosmer's Grove: The Forester's Gamble https://qualla.com/hosmer-s-grove/ Photo credit Douglas Knisely from USA, CC BY-SA 2.0. By the early 1900s, decades of clearing land for cattle ranching and sugarcane cultivation had stripped much of Maui's native forest. Erosion worsened. Watersheds dried up. Ralph Hosmer established forest reserves across the islands and began experimenting with imported species, ...

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]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/8/e/8/y/hosmer-s-grove-wp/8e8y-hosmers-grove-the-foresters-gamble.mp3 0:06 2 full Hosmer's Grove: A Battleground in Half a Mile https://qualla.com/hosmer-s-grove/ Photo credit Douglas Knisely from USA, CC BY-SA 2.0. Today, a half-mile loop trail through Hosmer's Grove walks visitors through one of the most vivid ecological conflicts in the National Park system. The trail begins in the shade of Hosmer's alien forest — towering Norway spruce and eucalyptus that block sunlight so completely tha...

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]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/8/e/8/y/hosmer-s-grove-wp/8e8y-hosmers-grove-a-battleground-in-half-a-mile.mp3 0:06 3 full Hosmer's Grove: The Honeycreepers' Last Stand https://qualla.com/hosmer-s-grove/ Photo credit Douglas Knisely from USA, CC BY-SA 2.0. Birdwatchers come to Hosmer's Grove for the honeycreepers. The ʻiʻiwi, with its scarlet feathers and curved salmon-pink bill, feeds on ʻōhia nectar. The ʻapapane, also crimson but with white undertail feathers, works the same blossoms. The Hawaiʻi ʻamakihi and the Maui ʻalauahio ...

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]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/8/e/8/y/hosmer-s-grove-wp/8e8y-hosmers-grove-the-honeycreepers-last-stand.mp3 0:06 4 full Hosmer's Grove: Plants That Forgot How to Fight https://qualla.com/hosmer-s-grove/ Photo credit Douglas Knisely from USA, CC BY-SA 2.0. Along the trail, the native ʻakala — Hawaiian raspberry — grows beneath the alien canopy. Pick up a branch and you will notice something odd: the thorns are tiny, almost hair-like, offering no real defense. When the ancestors of ʻakala arrived in Hawaiʻi millennia ago, there were...

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