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JIM ROE MUSEUM PLANNING | BIG ISLAND NATURE PARK CONCEPT PLAN | APRIL 15, 2021 12 <br />Ex <br />c <br />e <br />l <br />s <br />i <br />o <br />r <br />- <br />L <br />a <br />k <br />e <br /> <br />M <br />i <br />n <br />n <br />e <br />t <br />o <br />n <br />k <br />a <br /> <br />H <br />i <br />s <br />t <br />o <br />r <br />i <br />c <br />a <br />l <br /> <br />S <br />o <br />c <br />i <br />e <br />t <br />y <br />Theme 5: <br />NATURE RECLAIMS THE ISLAND: <br />ECOLOGY PAST AND PRESENT <br />Potential Stories— <br />Sentinel Maples. Generations of the island’s sugar maples provide a connecting <br />thread back through time and into the future. What changes have the island’s <br />oldest trees witnessed over time? <br />Picnic Lawns. More than 1,000 tons of cord wood were cut from the future site <br />of the Big Island Amusement Park, clearing the dense hardwood forest into a <br />“sylvan dale,” with perfectly spaced trees and rolling lawns in between. Today, <br />a new succession of trees and underbrush has filled in the grassy expanses for <br />which the island was once known.