Five months after flames tore through Lahaina, the burn zone looked eerily similar to the first time I saw it, in the immediate aftermath of the August disaster...
The fire had disrupted the pumping operations that once turned the town into a tinderbox, and now its historic wetlands were showing signs of returning all on their own...
Intrigued, Post photographer Sarah L. Voisin and I traveled to the burn zone to report on the phenomenon and the ambitious plan to seize this chance...
The answer, Kapu believes, is to bring the water back to Lahaina, especially to a long-buried island called Moku'ula and the 17-acre fishpond that surrounded it, Mokuhinia, home to royalty and deity...
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