For the final project in the school year for the Hilo High School club Jr. Greenpeace, we decided to undertake one of the most rewarding activities: planting trees. So, once again, we all boarded a car heading along the winding Saddle Road of the Big Island, climbing up between the two giants of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa. Through the bumpy Mana Road we went, past miles of desolate, cattle-grazed grasslands and around stark, dusty cinder cones until we arrived at the Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge on the eastern flank of Mauna Kea.