How winds fanned the flames across abandoned plantation land and caused catastrophic destruction to Lahaina.
But warmer temperatures weren’t the driving factor in Maui, which saw only “a small background signal of climate change,” said the climatologist Frazier.A new fuel
During this time, wildfires were less common — and those that occurred were often sparked by lightning or lava and burning ash spewed from volcanic eruptions. And so African grasses took over, including buffel grass and guinea grass, which had been introduced to the islands as pasture for livestock. Today, over 90% of Hawaii’s native dry forests have disappeared, and non-native grasses cover roughly a quarter of the state, according to scientists.
A map that shows the habitat status of land around Maui. The three categories include heavily developed land, native and non-native mix, and native dominated.
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