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Journeys of Discovery: Reintroducing native Hawaiian plants at Big Island resort

Correspondent Tom Wilmer visits with Hilton Waikoloa Village Resort's head gardener, who talks about the many environmental and economic benefits of using native Hawaiian plant species.

When the Hilton resort opened back in 1988, the landscape architects created a 62-acre tropical paradise by planting exotic plants and trees. Today, to maximize the resort’s ecosystem, Hilton head gardener Raymond Keenan is removing exotics and introducing native Hawaiian plants across the resort.

Additionally, Keenan has been enhancing the ecosystem at the resort’s anchialine pond (a landlocked body of water with a subterranean connection to the ocean) by removing invasive fish species and mitigating use of fertilizers in adjacent areas.

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Tom Wilmer produces on-air content for Issues & Ideas airing over KCBX and is producer and host of the six-time Lowell Thomas award-winning NPR podcast Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer. Recorded live on-location across America and around the world, the podcasts feature the arts, culture, music, nature, history, science, wine & spirits, brewpubs, and the culinary arts--everything from baseball to exploring South Pacific atolls to interviewing the real Santa Claus in the Arctic.
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