Right you are I used to live on Oahu and while there I studied the origins of the existing flora and fauna. Everything came there from somewhere else. The Hawaiian islands are, after all, fairly young.
While I don't care much for Ms Midler, she did what she wanted to do with the property that she owned. I own a lot of property with thousands of trees. I will cut all of them down if I so choose. Because they are my trees. Ms Midler did what she wanted to do with her trees. We don't meed some government yoyo making decisions for us about our property.
IF one goes back far enough, there is no such thing as native trees.
I’m with you on every single point.