Over five installments of the History of Hawaiʻi's Deer, we've traced the journey of a tiny herd of seven animals in 1868—from far-flung India to Honolulu (part I), from Molokaʻi to Lānaʻi (parts II and III), to the island of Maui (parts IV and V)—to the runaway deer numbers across Maui County in early 2021.
At the county and state levels, the last four and a half years of deer history have continued to be animated—a prolonged drought caused a historic die-off of Molokaʻi herds, deer began to endanger the safety of the Kahului Airport runway, a new Maui Axis Deer Task Force was formed, and over ten emergency proclamations were issued by Governor Ige and then Governor Green to address growing deer impacts.
Rather than dig into all of that, we decided our last installment of deer history would be our very own chapter of what we've built, what we've learned and what we imagine is still ahead, told by our CEO and Co-Founder, Jake, in his own words.
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