Botanizing in Hawaii
It's all-Kauai all week on Talking Plants where the subject is Hawaiian native plants. So get comfy and start streaming Kaua'i Community Radio (it plays Hawaiian music all morning, though some dj's are decidedly better than others) and let me say, Mahalo! for listening.
I'm just back from a week botanizing on Kaua'i with a pretty remarkable cast of characters, whose stories I'll be telling later this year on Morning Edition. No reason for you guys to wait, though, since these are plant people you're gonna want to meet.
First up, the guy below in the orange cap, Ken Wood, who climbs mountains, jumps from helicoptors and dangles thousands of feet in the air to save plants from extinction. His story, tomorrow.
You'll have to hustle to keep pace with him, but you'd be hard-pressed to hike with a better Kauai field guide than Ken Wood, research biologist with the National Tropical Botanical Garden.
photo credit: Ketzel Levine, NPR
3:05 PM ET | 10- 1-2007 | permalink
