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LIHUE, Hawaii (AP) - Kauai conservationalists and officials plan to attack the growing numbers Australian tree ferns that have invaded the heart of the island, which is pushing out native plants and endangering the area's fragile watershed.
"We're going to hit it with everything we've got — ground crews, helicopter control, plant nurseries and help from individuals — but it's going to take everyone," said Chipper Wichman, director of the National Tropical Botanical Garden.
The garden is a member of the Kauai Watershed Alliance, a consortium of forest landowners and the Kauai Water Department, that has contracted the Nature Conservancy of Hawaii to coordinate a response to the foreign plant.
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