Requiem for a Bird …

Samuel Clemens, perhaps better known by the pen name of Mark Twain, once described Hawai’i as the “loveliest fleet of islands ever anchored in any ocean.” I concur in his judgement and recognize how fortunate I am to call this place home. But even paradise has its problems, and that is certainly true of our 50th state. In late September, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released a list of 23 species that were once rare and are now officially…