How Centuries of Extractive Agriculture Helped Set the Stage for the Maui Fires
Civil Eats
AUGUST 23, 2023
But colonization, and the extractive agricultural systems that came with it, had a devastating impact on reshaping the landscape ecologically, culturally, and economically—not only depleting soils of fertility but making much of the island more fire-prone. Chinese contract laborers on a sugar plantation in 19th century Hawaii.
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