\u2022\t\u201c\u2026 the triangular island\u2019s southern half\u2026\u201d (p. 3). Was Walters really on the Big Island at all? In what geometric system is it triangular? (A Big Island map does appear as an illustration on page 9 of the book, but it is practically useless for illustrating Walters\u2019 story. The map has cross-hatching scattered across the island, from Kohala in the North, where it seems to indicate valleys, to Puna and Ka`u, where their meaning is unclear \u2013 perhaps lava flows? Superimposed on these cross-hatches are diagonal lines covering part of Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park and parts of South Kona as well. \u201cKa`u\u201d is spelled out in large letters, but no boundary line is given, nor is any other district name similarly given. Pu`u Wa`awa`a shows up as a dot on the map instead of the 100,000-acre-plus land division extending from the mountain to the coast.)<\/p>\n
\u2022\t\u201c\u2026 Roger Tory Peterson \u2026 was with a party blessed with the rare experience of witnessing four `alala at once, near the rim of Kilauea Crater\u2026\u201d (p. 65). No. Walters himself contradicts this statement with a quote from an article in `Elepaio recounting the visit of Peterson. The article couldn\u2019t be clearer that Peterson\u2019s view of the `alala occurred at Dillingham Ranch, nowhere near Kilauea Crater.<\/p>\n
\u2022\t\u201cThis is `opala, a member of the ginseng family\u2026\u201d (p. 76). Walters here is quoting Peter Harrity, an employee of The Peregrine Fund. Earlier, Harrity is reported to have said, \u201cI eat all the fruit the crows eat.\u201d One can only hope he eats the fruit of the `olapa tree (Cheirodendron spp.), and not rubbish.<\/p>\n
\u2022\t\u201c\u2026 Banko\u2019s son Paul, who had just begun high school\u2026\u201d (p. 83). Actually, Paul Banko had just graduated from college when he began helping his father.<\/p>\n
\u2022\t\u201c\u2026 Pohakuloa, in northeastern Hawai`i Island\u2026\u201d (p. 87). Northeastern is Laupahoehoe. Pohakuloa is about as dead-center as you can get.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tIn 1975, \u201cfewer than 15 birds existed in the wild\u201d (p. 19). In 1980, \u201cby the time the study [of Stanley Temple] ended, fewer than two dozen `alala remained in the wild\u201d (p. 136). In 1984, \u201cfewer than thirty `alala were believed to remain in the wild\u201d (p. 117). So their numbers doubled from 1975 to 1984? Or were the researchers just guessing? In any case, Walters throws out the numbers but doesn\u2019t tell us their source or whether the numbers are credible. The fluctuation remains unaddressed.<\/p>\n
\u2022\t\u201cIn late 1976, \u2026 in her thirties, Barbara \u2026 came to the front entrance of the facility \u2026 [H]er first husband had been killed in the Korean War, and she had spent the next twenty years \u2026 raising their two children\u201d (pp. 105-106). If Barbara Churchill (later Lee) had married, given birth two children and been widowed by the end of the Korean War in 1952, and by 1976 was still in her thirties, she was precocious indeed.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tJon Giffin of the Division of Forestry and Wildlife had \u201cshot two wild sheep at Pu`u Wa`awa`a Ranch without the lessee\u2019s permission\u2026\u201d (p. 126). The problem Walters refers to wasn\u2019t that Giffin hunted without the lessee\u2019s permission (Pu`u Wa`awa`a is, after all, a prime hunting area on the Big Island), but that he did so on state time.<\/p>\n
\u2022\t\u201c\u2026 the recently appointed head of the Hawai`i Audubon Society \u2026 Dana Kokubun\u2026\u201d (p. 143). Kokubun headed up the National Audubon Society\u2019s office in Honolulu; as any HAS member will be quick to point out, the two organizations are separate.<\/p>\n
— Patricia Tummons<\/p>\n
Volume 17, Number 1 July 2006<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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