Natural resources management plan and environmental assessment: Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii
National Park Service, Department of the Interior. 1985. Natural resources management plan and environmental assessment: Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii. Revised January 1985
The main objective of any Park resources management and research program is to protect native ecosystems and the ecological processes which support them. In Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, introductions and spread of non-native animals and plants since the arrival of human colonizers have disrupted native ecological processes and severely degraded native plant and animal communities. This process began with the arrival of Polynesians in 500-800 A.D., but has accelerated with the arrival of Europeans since the late eighteenth century. The suppression and/or removal of the most disruptive plant and animal introductions is the primary resources management objective.